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  • OPINION

    Google trial's secrecy seen as dangerous

    Oped, Published on 08/12/2023

    » The largest antitrust trial of the modern internet era, which wrapped up last month, has pitted the world's most popular search engine, Google, against the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). The case hearkens back to the DOJ's landmark lawsuit against Microsoft in the 1990s but with a critical difference: most of it was held behind closed doors. This unprecedented secrecy meant that only journalists and observers who were physically in the courtroom had access -- albeit limited -- to the proceedings.

  • BUSINESS

    Restoring respect

    Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 07/06/2021

    » Patama Chantaruck still remembers an unsettling encounter she experienced during her early days of living in the United States 28 years ago.

  • WORLD

    Trump slams EU over massive Google fine

    AFP, Published on 20/07/2018

    » WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump lashed out Thursday after Brussels hit US tech giant Google with a record fine, and warned he would no longer allow Europe to take "advantage" of the United States.

  • BUSINESS

    Gates Questions Musk's Goals for Twitter, Approach to Misinformation

    Business, Published on 06/05/2022

    » Bill Gates said that he isn't sure of Elon Musk's motives in buying Twitter Inc. and that social media must play a role in curbing the spread of misinformation.

  • TECH

    Beware of TikTok snooping on your phone's data

    Life, James Hein, Published on 02/03/2022

    » If you didn't already know, TikTok is potentially dangerous. The app bypasses both Apple and Google protections and is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. According to reports, the app passes all your data back to servers in China, including unposted information and the contents of your phone. The app also has many security vulnerabilities allowing hackers to take over your phone. This is in addition to the expansion of your digital footprint across the planet. In China, people are rewarded for posting serious videos like those showing them using a chemistry set. Those outside China are rewarded for the dumbest presentations. I'll let the readers work this last one out for themselves.

  • WORLD

    Korea adds 505 cases, deaths top 2,800: Virus update

    Published on 27/02/2020

    » Saudi Arabia halted religious visits that draw millions to cities including Mecca and Medina, while Japan asked for all schools to shut from March 2. More new cases were reported outside China than within the country for the first time, highlighting the spread of the epidemic.

  • TECH

    Google lays claim to 'quantum supremacy'

    Business, Reuters, Published on 25/10/2019

    » BERLIN/SAN FRANCISCO: Alphabet Inc's Google says it has achieved a breakthrough in computing research by using a quantum computer to solve in minutes a complex problem that would take today's most powerful supercomputer thousands of years to crack.

  • BUSINESS

    Taste of Taiwan

    Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 12/11/2018

    » Nam Linh, a professional MC from Hanoi, has made it his life's goal to visit one foreign country each year. He added Taiwan to his list in mid-October. South Korea was his first overseas experience when he want there as an exchange student at age 15. Since then he has travelled to Laos, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and last year to China.

  • OPINION

    Three new maxims for surviving the next era of tech

    News, Farhad Manjoo, Published on 30/11/2018

    » Nearly five years ago, in my very first "State of the Art" column, I offered a straightforward plan for how to survive what was shaping up to be a turbulent time in the tech world.

  • BUSINESS

    The US vs Apple and Microsoft: makings of a perfect storm

    Business, Tilleke & Gibbins International Ltd, Published on 01/04/2016

    » In February, a US court in California issued an order to Apple that was equivalent to a magnitude 9 earthquake striking Silicon Valley. It told Apple to write code to bypass a security feature to allow a brute-force password attack by the FBI to unlock an iPhone used by one of the terrorists killed by police after the San Bernardino attack in December 2015.

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