Showing 1 - 6 of 6
Google stops AI from creating human images
New York Times, Published on 29/02/2024
» SAN FRANCISCO — Images showing people of colour in German military uniforms from World War II that were created with Google’s Gemini chatbot have amplified concerns that artificial intelligence (AI) could add to the internet's already vast pools of misinformation as the technology struggles with issues around race.
Cambodia internet soon to be like China
New York Times, Published on 15/01/2022
» PHNOM PENH: The day Kea Sokun was arrested in Cambodia, four men in plainclothes showed up at his photography shop near Angkor Wat and carted him off to the police station. Kea Sokun, who is also a popular rapper, had released two songs on YouTube, and the men said they needed to know why he had written them.
Virus fuels anti-Chinese sentiment overseas
New York Times, Published on 31/01/2020
» In Japan, the hashtag #ChineseDon’tComeToJapan has been trending on Twitter. In Singapore, tens of thousands of residents have signed a petition calling for the government to ban Chinese nationals from entering the country.
Typhoon Mangkhut slams Hong Kong and southern China
New York Times, Published on 17/09/2018
» HONG KONG: - Typhoon Mangkhut battered Hong Kong and Macau on Sunday with 160kph wind gusts, drenching rains and 3-metre surges of seawater that inundated the first urban area of Asia to face the wrath of the year's mightiest storm.
Joshua Wong, 2 others jailed for Hong Kong pro-democracy protest
New York Times, Published on 18/08/2017
» HONG KONG - Three prominent young leaders of Hong Kong's democracy movement were sentenced Thursday to six to eight months in prison, a severe setback for the technically semi-autonomous Chinese city in its struggle for greater political freedom under Communist Party rule.
In reversal, Chinese lawyer confesses
New York Times, Published on 09/05/2017
» BEIJING -- Before the Chinese human rights lawyer stood trial for subversion, he wrote a letter saying he would confess to such charges only if he was tortured.