Wired UKChina China is trolling and hacking Uighur exiles across the world Wired UK - Morgan Meaker It’s Tuesday, April 9, 2019. Wearing a lime-green jacket, the activist Rushan Abbas stands out from a crowd of grey and black suits as she gives …
Wired UKDemocracy Taiwan is making democracy work again. It's time we paid attention Wired UK - Carl Miller On March 18, 2014, a large crowd seethed around Taiwan’s parliament. Protestors fought off guards and kicked the doors of the building open, …
Wired UKAlibaba Group Inside the startling, chaotic rise of Alibaba’s Singles’ Day bonanza Wired UK - Barclay Bram In 2009, on an unseasonably cold November night, Daniel Zhang, the head of Alibaba’s fledgling Taobao Mall business, was eating hot pot in Beijing. …
Wired UK A global group is building a masterplan to make AI fair for all Wired UK - Gian Volpicelli Terah Lyons’s job is making sure that AI behaves itself. In October 2017 Lyons, a former White House advisor on technology and machine intelligence, …
Wired UK 8 numbers that explain why Apple is kowtowing to China Wired UK - Alex Lee Apple needs to be big in China. And like so many companies desperate for access to one of the world’s largest consumer markets, it’s having to play …
Wired UK Blizzard and esports can't win the battle against Chinese censors Wired UK - Lu-Hai Liang Sport has always had moments when politics has suddenly invaded the athletic spectacle, and now the same thing is happening in esports, in what could …
Wired UK China's social credit system is coming for businesses too Wired UK - Barclay Shoemaker Corporate social credit “could mean life or death” for foreign companies in China, says Jörg Wuttke, president of the European Union Chamber of …
Wired UK China's private space industry is rapidly gaining ground on SpaceX Wired UK - Abigail Beall In early August, a rocket took off on its third-ever test, reaching a height of around 300 metres and hovering there for a minute before returning to …
Wired UK China's hackers are ransacking databases for your health data Wired UK - Matt Burgess In May 2017, the WannaCry ransomware spread around the globe. As the worm locked Windows PCs, the UK's National Health Service quickly ground to a …
Wired UK Why on Earth would Donald Trump want to buy Greenland? Wired UK - Gian Volpicelli Donald Trump, the real estate tycoon, loved to buy stuff: brownfield lots; skyscrapers; casinos. Donald Trump, the US president, apparently loves to …
Wired UK On Chinese Wikipedia, a bitter battle rages to define the Hong Kong protests Wired UK - Omer Benjakob “Hong Kong is not a part of China. Hong Kong is not China,” a defiant Chinese Wikipedia user from Hong Kong wrote on the main Wikipedia article for …
Wired UK Thursday briefing: China could cut off US access to rare earth metals if trade war escalates Wired UK - WIRED Get WIRED's daily briefing in your inbox. Sign up here China could cut off US access to rare earth metals if trade war escalates China is the world's …
Wired UK Thursday briefing: US Secretary of State publicly scolds British government over Huawei Wired UK - WIRED Get WIRED's daily briefing in your inbox. Sign up here US Secretary of State publicly scolds British government over Huawei US Secretary of State Mike …
Wired UK The odd reality of life under China's Orwellian propaganda app Wired UK - Amy Hawkins Labelling China Orwellian is often a blunt attack, one that misses the diversity and dissent of its 1.4 billion population. But when the state …
Wired UK In China, bitcoin mining moguls are scrambling to survive Wired UK - Barclay Bram Mr Gao tells me, “Just because something is not illegal in China, doesn’t make it legal.” He takes a slight pause, a short breath, before leaning …
Wired UK How elderly, sickly farmers are quenching China's thirst for data Wired UK - Amy Hawkins On a drizzly Saturday morning in rural Henan, a province in northern China, Mr Liu, 68, is in high spirits. The ruddy-skinned farmer has come to his …
Wired UK UK authorities raise security alarm over ‘defects’ in Huawei tech Wired UK - James Temperton A UK government-led report into Huawei has concluded the firm’s equipment poses a “significant” risk to the nation’s critical network …
Wired UK China and the US are locked in a crucial battle for space domination Wired UK - Amy Hawkins Fifty years after the first moon landing, an American triumph that gripped the world, China marked the start of 2019 with its own lunar achievement. …
Wired UK Tuesday briefing: Exposed Chinese database listed 1.8 million single women Wired UK - WIRED Get WIRED's daily briefing in your inbox. Sign up here Security researcher Victor Gevers discovered an unsecured database listing 1.8 million Chinese …
Wired UK Thursday briefing: Huawei is suing the US government Wired UK Get WIRED's daily briefing in your inbox. Sign up here Huawei has taken legal action against the US government with a suit claiming that Section 889 …
Wired UK These are the Chinese car firms competing for Tesla's crown Wired UK - Amit Katwala The huge Tesla factory being built on the outskirts of Shanghai will be an important landmark for the electric vehicle industry. But Elon Musk’s …
Wired UK Here's how GCHQ scours Huawei hardware for malicious code Wired UK - Amit Katwala A nondescript business park on the outskirts of Banbury could play a hugely important role in the UK’s future security. Since 2010, the humdrum …
Wired UK “They’re more attractive than real boyfriends.” Inside the weird world of Chinese romance video games Wired UK - Lu-Hai Liang Imagine that four handsome, successful men are romantically pursuing you. There’s Li Zeyan, a strong but cold CEO; Zhou Qiluo, a sunny boy band-type; …
Wired UK In China, the prestige of online shopping is fuelling a debt crisis Wired UK - Abigail Beall In ancient China, officials accused of wrongdoing would go to trial in secret. This secrecy was important because, even if the officials were found …
Wired UK Meet the Chinese phone brands vying to be the next OnePlus Wired UK - Sophie Charara 2019 could be the year that the world’s biggest smartphone maker is not Samsung, not Apple, but a Chinese company named BBK Electronics. In November, …
Wired UK Is China really using Huawei to hack the world's communications? Wired UK - Matt Burgess Huawei has ambitions of becoming the world's biggest smartphone manufacturer in 2019. The only problem? Pretty much the entire world has it in for …
Wired UK Chinese officials circle as a second CRISPR pregnancy is confirmed Wired UK - Jonathan O'Callaghan The last two months have not gone how He Jiankui thought they would. In November, he revealed he had implanted a gene-edited embryo for the first …
Wired UK Monday briefing: China reports slowest economic growth since 1990 Wired UK - WIRED Get WIRED's daily briefing in your inbox. Sign up here China's economy grew by 6.6 per cent in 2018 – faster than most nations, but the slowest growth …
Wired UK The complicated truth about China's social credit system Wired UK - Nicole Kobie China's social credit system has been compared to Black Mirror, Big Brother and every other dystopian future sci-fi writers can think up. The reality …
