Japan assembles superteam of aircraft component manufacturers to build supersonic passenger plane
Japan Supersonic Research wants to be in the air by 2030
17 Jun 2021 | 51
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South Korea has a huge problem with digital sex crimes against women says Human Rights Watch
Big tech and local authorities are both far from helpful when victims try to delete unauthorised images or prosecute creeps
17 Jun 2021 | 6
China's latest online crackdown targets mean girl online fan clubs that turn toxic
China’s fan economy is the new business model for artists and brands - and it sometimes gets ugly
16 Jun 2021 | 23
Western Australia rushes out legislation after cops access contact-tracing data to investigate serious crimes
Officials fear if info is misappropriated, community will lose confidence in app
15 Jun 2021 | 41
NATO summit communiqué compares repeat cyberattacks to armed attacks – and stops short of saying 'one-in, all-in' rule will always apply
China lashed for ignoring norms, retorts that Western clique isn't playing fair
15 Jun 2021 | 18
Law prof: New Chinese data regulations make it 'very hard for foreign firms to comply'
Fines for sending 'core' and 'important' info overseas, although what qualifies remains undefined
14 Jun 2021 | 12
Honda links arms with JAXA to prepare humans for life in outer space with 'circulative renewable energy system'
Car maker to draw upon its investments in hydrogen fuel tech
14 Jun 2021 | 8
Inventor of the graphite anode – key Li-ion battery tech – says he can now charge an electric car in 10 minutes
Feature Dr Rachid Yazami shares his predictions for EV batteries with The Register
14 Jun 2021 | 140
Amazon to bring a full region to Israel, land of large government contracts
Three availability zones prophesied to open in the first half of 2023
11 Jun 2021 | 4
Mounties messed up by using Clearview AI, says Canadian Privacy Commissioner
RCMP said it only used technology to rescue children, but regulator says that's wrong and Privacy Act was breached
11 Jun 2021 | 6
Network managers think you're coming back to the office. Why else did they go on a Wi-Fi 6 buying spree?
Q1 WLAN sales rose by 16.7 per cent year-on-year
10 Jun 2021 | 8
South Korea’s data watchdog barks warnings at Microsoft and five local firms
Fines, fines, everywhere there's fines
10 Jun 2021 | 2
'Condolences on the death of your conscience' says card from Indonesian delivery drivers to local Uber clone after payments slashed
Also sent lovely flowers as US$22bn GoTo Group cut driver bonuses
10 Jun 2021 | 17
Indian Finance Minister throws Infosys under the bus as new e-tax portal fails on first day
Minister moved from celebrating new facility to complaining about it in a handful of hours
09 Jun 2021 | 11
Generous Alibaba to scatter 0.9% of annual revenue over Southeast Asia to develop tech talent and infrastructure
Also announces buttload of new products at Cloud Summit event
08 Jun 2021 | 8
Chinese app binned by Beijing after asking what day it is on anniversary of Tiananmen Square massacre
Hybrid Instagram/Amazon app Xiaohongshu may just have been making mirthful TGIF post
08 Jun 2021 | 24
Remember Anonymous? It/they might be back, and it/they are angry with Elon Musk
Has the hacktivist group had enough of Musk's manipulative crypto-Tweets, or has someone just donned the mask to protest their crashed Bitcoin balance?
07 Jun 2021 | 58
Taiwan’s top chip tester, King Yuan, shuts down production and quarantines workers
Taiwan was COVID-free for almost a year. Now the virus is out and edging towards major silicon production centres
07 Jun 2021 | 19
Biden expands Chinese tech and military blocklist to 59 companies
US president calls China’s military-industrial complex 'a threat' and condemns surveillance technology for human rights abuse
04 Jun 2021 | 30
Beijing gives Ant Group the blessing to operate a consumer finance company
After some heated exchanges, tensions seem to have cooled (for now) between Chinese government and Jack Ma’s empire
04 Jun 2021 |
NASA doubles down on Venus missions, asking what made the planet uninhabitable
VERITAS and DAVINCI+ chosen and funded as part of agency's concept selection
03 Jun 2021 | 17
US slaps tariffs on countries that hit Big Tech with digital services taxes ... then pauses them immediately
Applies pressure as negotiations on harmonized global web levies near conclusion
03 Jun 2021 | 42
South Korea's first fully indigenous rocket now on launch pad, ready for tests
Plans test launch this year, satellite-lifting in 2022 and moonshot not long after
02 Jun 2021 | 12
South Korea rounds up chipmakers and hyperscalers to build AI and server processors
Data center companies and chipmakers have signed an agreement as the government seeks to deglobalize their supply chain
02 Jun 2021 | 4
