Tag: technology

Apple Removes Decentralized Twitter-Like App Damus From Chinese App Store

Apple has reportedly removed Damus, a Twitter-like social media app backed by the nostr protocol, from its Chinese app store owing to content deemed “illegal” by the Chinese communist regime. Damus shared on Feb. 3 a screenshot of an Apple notification, stating that the app failed a security assessment of “information services with attribute of…


The Future of Tech: Part 2

Commentary Part I discussed tech opportunities in areas like 5-G, cloud computing, healthcare, and finance, especially in insurance. This article examines opportunities for tech in meeting two huge issues facing the world’s economies. One is the growing number of older retirees in populations, and the other is the ever-present anxiety over climate change. Whether all the…


Sen. Warner Expresses Grave Concerns Over TikTok’s National Security Risk

TikTok, the popular video-sharing app owned by the Chinese firm ByteDance, whose users are now estimated to exceed 1.5 billion worldwide, has come under harsh criticism from Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who said during a Feb. 2 interview with Fox Business that his “patience is running thin” over the…


Communist China Seeks to ‘Replace’ US as World Tech Leader: Rep. Rodgers

Communist China is seeking to replace the United States as the world’s economic and technological leader, according to one Congresswoman. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) said the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was aiming to undermine and eventually displace the United States as a world power, during a Feb. 1 hearing of the Innovation, Data, and…


US Firms Investing Billions in China’s AI Sector: Report

U.S. companies were involved in at least 37 percent of the total investment transactions in China’s artificial intelligence (AI) sector between 2015 and 2021, according to a new report. The report (pdf), published by the Georgetown University Center for Security and Emerging Technology, found that $40.2 billion in investment transactions into Chinese AI companies had…


US Firms Investing Billions of Dollars in China’s AI Sector: Report

U.S. companies were involved in at least 37 percent of the total investment transactions in China’s artificial intelligence (AI) sector between 2015 and 2021, according to a new report. The report (pdf), published by the Georgetown University Center for Security and Emerging Technology, found that $40.2 billion in investment transactions into Chinese AI companies had…


Apple and Google Asked to Ban TikTok From App Stores

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) has called on Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their respective app stores, arguing that no company subject to “dictates” by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) should be allowed such broad access to American audiences or harvest their data. Bennet made the appeal in a Feb. 1 letter to Google…


Sen. Bennet Asks Apple and Google to Ban TikTok From App Stores

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) has called on Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their respective app stores, arguing that no company subject to “dictates” by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) should be allowed such broad access to American audiences or harvest their data. Bennet made the appeal in a Feb. 1 letter to Google…


House Committees Hold Hearing on Preventing CCP Dominating in Tech

The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee and the incoming Innovation, Data, and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a hearing at 10:30 a.m. ET on Feb. 1, on enhancing American global technology leadership to counter competition from China and preventing the Chinese Communist Party from deciding the economic future. The Epoch Times will livestream the event….


LIVE NOW: House Committees Hold Hearing on Preventing CCP Dominating in Tech

The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee and the incoming Innovation, Data, and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a hearing at 10:30 a.m. ET on Feb. 1, on enhancing American global technology leadership to counter competition from China and preventing the Chinese Communist Party from deciding the economic future. The Epoch Times will livestream the event….