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According to a report from EXPreview, the sudden demand for lower end AMD motherboards in China is causing a supply shortage. The A320 chipset is nearly completely out of stock due to special bundling deals with the A8-9600 APU. The B450 models are in short supply also as motherboard...

AMD has added another console win to their portfolio with the Chinese territory exclusive Subor Z-Plus. The Subor-Z Plus boasts of an AMD Ryzen 4C/8T processor running at 3.0GHz and Vega graphics spec'd at 24 CUs/1300MHz for the GPU in the 14 nm SoC design. In comparison, an AMD Ryzen 2400G...

Doctors in China have started using artificial intelligence (A.I.) as a tool to recognize brain activity in coma patients. Patients that score low on the coma recovery scale, are eligible for disconnection from life support, if the family chooses to do so. In a new study, patients in this...

Jack Ma, founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba and richest man in China, says he's planning to retire soon. At 54 years old, Ma has an estimated net worth of $40 Billion USD, and currently serves as the executive chairman for his company. While The New York Times reported that Ma would retire on...

The Adware Doctor app occupied the front page of the Apple App Store as the #4 highest rated app, but it had a dark secret. Instead of removing viruses and malware from iOS devices, it was collecting all browser history, app store purchases, and more to bundle into an encrypted file to be sent...

Chipmakers are slowing the transition to sub-10nm process nodes as money woes start to affect the foundries. Companies such as Mediatek and Qualcomm are rolling out new 14 1/2nm products while waiting in the wings for 7nm technology to mature for 5G products. As reported earlier...

Conventional car manufacturers are ready to showoff their new electric car models to meet demands in China and greenhouse standards in Europe. Mercedes Benz, Jaguar, Audi, and Porsche all have new cars ready to compete with Tesla in the SUV and luxury categories. These vehicles purportedly can...

Many of us use the shower to excite our senses and snap out of last night's sleep. Now engineers in China have developed a 220V 30A heated shower head that is almost guaranteed to break the sleep cycle; maybe even permanently! Dubbed the "suicide shower" by users in Latin America, the...

As the trade war between the USA and China heats up, many have feared that China will seek to displace the Western countries in technological innovations. Certainly China has made this a focus with their Made in China 2025 initiative. But one lesson that we all know is that throwing money at...

Taiwan based original design manufacturers (ODM) Quanta Computer and Wiwynn are considering a plan to bring back their production lines for server-use motherboards from China. This is because of a potential 10% extra tariff on $200 billion in goods from China due to the US-China trade war...

Last year Reuters published a story that described how foreign defense agencies were given access to source code of software that was also sold to the U.S. military. These agencies were looking for vulnerabilities in the software and this knowledge could be used to hack said software. In...

Apparently this has been going on for a while, but this is the first time I have read about it. While the Chinese government cites illegal content such as gambling apps, industry analysts, that are familiar with the way a communist government thinks, said this needed to be seen as a bigger part...

China has been investing billions in the AI market and this includes Chinese Sex Doll companies. Since 2016 WMDOLL has been building sex dolls that have moving eyes, arms, and torsos. The AI in the doll can answer questions though it can't carry on much of a conversation. Further, these dolls...

An Apple autonomous car engineer has been charged with stealing trade secrets from the Cupertino, CA company after he was detained while boarding a plane to China. Xiaolang Zhang claimed that he was severing ties with Apple to work for Chinese autonomous car startup XMotors, but purchased a...

Chinese venture capital company Danhua Capital has invested in many Silicon Valley startups over the years. Some of these startups are in the areas of drones, AI and cyber security. This company and many other have ties to the Chinese government and the U.S. Congress is working on legislation to...

The U.S. Treasury Department is drafting rules which would stop companies with 25%+ Chinese ownership from purchasing U.S. companies with “industrially significant technology.” It looks as if the 25% number is not written in stone yet, but we should expect an announcement later this week. The...

China insists on living up to 1984 and their latest regulation is for RFID chips to be in every new car (WARNING auto play video) starting in 2019. Of course these chips are just in the cars to help with their huge traffic problems and would never be used to monitor their citizens. However, with...

The Korea Times is reporting that the Korean Government is trying to enhance measures to protect the intellectual property rights of Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. The move comes after Chinese officials are putting increased pressure on the companies to cross-license more of their technology...

The U.S. government has filed a formal protest with the Chinese government after several aircraft have been lased at a military outpost on the Horn of Africa. There have been up to 10 incidents of lasing during flight operations and two U.S. serviceman were slightly injured by military grade...

IGN is reporting that in an their latest Anti-Cheat efforts, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds developer, Bluehole has stated that on April 25th, 15 suspects were arrested for developing and selling hacking/cheating programs for PUBG. It was also confirmed that included in these cheats, was...

AI is without a doubt one of the most exciting (and scary) fields of study in the world today. The Chinese have heavily invested in the technology and are using AI in many ways, but their use of AI to help breed cockroaches (Warning auto play video) has got to be one of the most awful. The...

If you're a wanted man and hang out in a crowd of 70K at a concert you probably think you'll be just fine as long as you keep a good eye out for police. Wrong. In China they are increasing their use of facial recognition and putting up security cameras everywhere. The wanted concert goer felt...

Nikkei Asian Review is reporting that during Tim Cook's fourth appearance in China in a year, that Apple now has 27 China-based suppliers, up from 19 in 2017. Chinese manufacturers account for 13.5% of Apple's total suppliers, and if you add Hong Kong-based suppliers to those numbers, they go to...

Whether or not you like President Trump shouldn't matter when it comes to him stopping China from stealing IP or forcing its transfer. I think all of us here can agree something needs to be done about this and the sooner the better. According to the White House trade adviser, President Trump...

The European Space Agency has been monitoring China's Tiangong-1 space lab, and has issued a new re-entry forecast according to a report from Fox News. The 8.5-ton spacecraft is expected to fall into Earth's atmosphere between March 24th and April 19th, somewhere around Spain or France. Seems a...

Counterfeiters (mainly from China) continue to plague small businesses trying to sell their unique products on Amazon. According to some, Amazon isn't doing enough to prevent counterfeiters from selling bogus products on their site. Amazon has long been criticised for not doing enough and many...

Channel NewsAsia is reporting that a flight from Guangzhou to Shanghai was delayed 3 hours yesterday after a power bank caught fire in an overhead compartment. China South Airlines stated that passengers were boarding flight CZ3539 when smoke and fire was seen coming from a passenger's bag in...

China has begun using facial-recogniton sunglasses connected to an internal database to catch criminals that otherwise might escape detection in crowds. This technology supposedly identifies individuals in a 10K person database in a tenth of a second. Of course we should expect this kind of...

A man in an electronics store in China caused the replacement battery for his iPhone to explode after biting it. It is believed that the man decided to bite on the battery in an attempt to test its authenticity or durability, possibly following the same logic as people testing if an item is made...

Xinhua, a state run Chinese news agency has stated that the Shanghai Consumer Council has sent an inquiry letter to Apple over the slow-down of older iPhones after an iOS update, demanding a reply before Friday. Apple is currently facing over 40 lawsuits from around the world over the slowdown...

Researchers in northern China have built a 328 foot tall air purifier to help combat the nations chronic smog problem. The system works through greenhouses covering about half the size of a soccer field around the base of the tower. Polluted air is sucked into the glasshouses and heated up by...

China has already banned bitcoin and ICO's so now they are going for the kill shot on bitcoin miners. According to a leaked document to the internet-finance regulator, they are requiring local authorities to guide bitcoin miners to exit from the business of mining. Supposedly, this action is...

For the first time since 2003 the US led the world in space launches last year. Previous to this the Russians were the clear leaders year over year and in 2016 the US tied with China for the lead. What this means is that the US is starting to get back to a leadership role in space exploration...

China has stopped foreign car companies from mapping their roads with any kind of detail because they are concerned with spying. Any car company that wants to sell a self-driving car in China is going to have to partner with a domestic company from this point forward if they want to be able to...

Chinese company Nio launched their new EV (WARNING auto play video) this weekend and aim to compete against the Tesla Model X in their market. The ES8 starts at half the price of the Model X and might put a dent in Tesla sales in China. Also, they have a unique subscription that you pay per...

Google has decided to open up an AI research center in Beijing ever though their search engine is banned in China. Evidently they feel the need to join in with China since it has started to invest heavily in AI. I guess this is one of those times where if you can't beat them, join them. Along...

Space debris from multiple space programs is really becoming a problem in earth orbit. To combat this issue the Chinese plan to use some of their left over components to build an IoT orbiting the earth. The plan is to attach tiny chips to most of the major components and use them for...

China launched an all-electric cargo ship that supposedly takes 2 hours to charge and has a range of 50 miles at it's top speed of 8 mph. While this sounds cool the irony of the situation is it's going to be used to haul coal to power generating stations along the Pearl River. It's going to...

It looks like Tencent is going to launch a version of PUBG in China after all. Of course they have to make modifications that are in line with "socialist core values". I wonder what that means? Furthermore, the flood gates are going to open up for rampant cheating (not that it isn't rampant...

A call for research projects from China’s Ministry of Science and Technology posted online last month fills in some detail on the government’s plans. And it puts Silicon Valley chipmaker Nvidia, the leading supplier of silicon for machine-learning projects, in the cross hairs. The Ministry of...