TOKYO—Apple Inc. said on Tuesday it had invested more than $100 billion in its Japanese supply network over the last five years, as its Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook visited the epicenter of the country’s semiconductor industry. Cook said in a Monday tweet he visited Kumamoto prefecture in southwestern Japan, home to factories of many…
Apple’s Japan Investment Crosses $100 Billion, CEO Cook Visits Chip Epicentre
Gan Jing World: Tech Platform Offers Clean Content Free of Communism
December 13, 2022
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In the spring of 1989, James Qiu was one of the thousands of students on the streets daily in the Chinese metropolis Shanghai, hoping, like his peers nationwide, that their activism could change his country into a freer land equal to the West. Their dreams were shattered that June, when the Chinese Communist Party’s tanks rolled…
Nuclear Fusion ‘Breakthrough’ Touted by White House, Drawing Praise and Some Skepticism
December 13, 2022
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It was 1:03 a.m. on Dec. 5 that experimental physicist Alex Zylstra first spotted it: for the first time, a target yielded more energy from a fusion reaction than a laser put into it—though that’s not counting the much greater input energy that was needed to power the laser in the first place. “One of…
Musk Says Twitter Basic Blue to Slash Ads by Half
Twitter owner Elon Musk said in a tweet on Monday that Twitter’s Basic blue tick will have half the number of advertisements and the social media platform will offer a higher tier with no advertisements by next year. Musk did not elaborate further on the details. The company re-enabled the Twitter Blue sign earlier in…
UK Security Minister Tom Tugendhat Warns of CCP’s Influence on Youth Through TikTok
December 13, 2022
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Britain’s Security Minister Tom Tugendhat has warned that in the run-up to the next general election large numbers of young voters will be getting their news from TikTok whose editorial board, he said, is comprised of members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Giving a speech at the Policy Exchange think tank in London on…
Dorsey and Musk Spar Over Claim Twitter Ignored Child Exploitation for Years
December 13, 2022
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Billionaires Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey publicly disagreed about Twitter’s handling of child exploitation in a series of tweets over the weekend. Musk, who took over the company in October, took to the social media platform on Friday where he blasted former Twitter executives, stating that it “is a crime that they refused to take action on…
Utah, Alabama Ban TikTok From Government Devices, Joining Growing Number of US States
December 13, 2022
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Utah and Alabama on Monday joined a growing number of Republican states in banning video-sharing app TikTok from government devices, amid concerns of threats to the states’ cybersecurity. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, issued an executive order (pdf) to prohibit TikTok use on all state-owned electronic devices. “China’s access to data collected by TikTok…
Google Rejects Hong Kong’s Request to Remove Protest Anthem From Top Search Results: HK Official
Hong Kong requested that Google remove a protest song from its top search results for Hong Kong’s national anthem and replace it with China’s national anthem, but the request was denied, the city’s security chief said Monday. Hong Kong’s security secretary, Chris Tang, said that Google refused to change the top search results for Hong…
US Finalizes $2.5 Billion Loan to GM, LG Battery Joint Venture
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Energy Department said on Monday it had finalized a $2.5 billion low-cost loan to a joint venture of General Motors Co. and LG Energy Solution to help pay for three new lithium-ion battery cell manufacturing facilities. Reuters first reported in July the planned loan to Ultium Cells LLC from the government’s Advanced Technology…
Twitter’s New Head of Trust and Safety Reveals Plans After Previous Chief Departs
The new head of Twitter’s Trust and Safety division revealed that the social media platform is moving quickly on addressing possibly problematic posts under new owner Elon Musk. “For now, I think we are biasing towards moving quickly and figuring out the details in some of these areas after,” said Ella Irwin, the Twitter official,…
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