China Stories for 2017

Construction Workers Find 30 Perfectly Preserved Dinosaur Eggs 65
Human Go Champion Backtracks On Vow To Never Face An AI Opponent Again 31
WeChat To Become China's Official Electronic ID System 54
China's Shanghai Sets Population at 25 Million To Avoid 'Big City Disease' 83
China Closes More Than 13,000 Websites in Past Three Years 73
12 Days In Xinjiang - China's Surveillance State 132
China Is Building a Solar Power Highway 131
Man in China Sentenced To Five Years' Jail For Running VPN 42
Chinese Backdoor Still Active on Many Android Devices 30
China Blocks Foreign Companies From Mapping Its Roads for Self-Driving Cars 110
Opera Software Changes Name To Otello Corporation 55
Facial Recognition Algorithms -- Plus 1.8 Billion Photos -- Leads to 567 Arrests in China 168
China Will Spend $3.3 Billion to Research Molten Salt Nuclear-Powered Drones 194
China's Top Phone Makers Huawei and Xiaomi In Talks With Carriers To Expand To US Market 44
Google To Open AI Center In China Despite Search Ban 38
German Intelligence Warns of Increased Chinese Cyberspying 75
China Has Launched the World's First All-Electric Cargo Ship 150
Inside Baidu's Bid To Lead the AI Revolution 12
Tencent Says There Are Only 300,000 AI Engineers Worldwide, But Millions Are Needed 116
Apple, Google CEOs Bring Star Power as China Promotes Censorship 38
China's Dark Matter Probe Detects Tantalizing Signal 37
Homeland Security Claims DJI Drones Are Spying For China 82
Russia Wants To Launch Backup DNS System By August 1, 2018 160
Apple's New iPhone Built With Illegal Overtime Teen Labor 157
Skype Vanishes From App Stores in China 37
China Builds World's Fastest Hypersonic Wind Tunnel To Simulate Flight At 27,000 MPH 63
China Cyber Watchdog Rejects Censorship Critics, Says Internet Must Be 'Orderly' 78
UC Browser Mobile App Disappears From Google Play Store 34
All 500 of the World's Top 500 Supercomputers Are Running Linux 288
China Overtakes US In Latest Top 500 Supercomputer List 110
China Says Foreign Firms Won't Be Forced To Turn Over Technology 40
Here Comes the World's Biggest Shopping Spree -- Again 38
China Spreads Propaganda to U.S. on Facebook, a Platform it Bans at Home 103
China is Finally Going After Click Farms and Fake Online Sales 20
China Plans to Also Launch Reusable Spaceplanes by 2020 92
Eric Schmidt and Bob Work: Our AI 'Sputnik Moment' Is Now 174
Google Has a New Plan for China (and It's Not About Search) 59
China Shuts Down Tens Of Thousands Of Factories In Widespread Pollution Crackdown 129
Hong Kong Has No Space Left for the Dead 165
The Factory Where Robots Build Robots 59
Tesla Plans Factory In China, Discounts Insurance For Self-Driving US Cars 104
YouTube Suspends Account of Popular Chinese Dissident 154
Apple Watch's LTE Suspended In China Possibly Due To Government Security Concerns 18
China's Scientists Set New International Record -- For Faked Peer Reviews 75
8.5-Ton Chinese Space Station Will Crash To Earth In a Few Months 104
Why China is Winning the Clean Energy Race 213
Qualcomm Seeks China iPhone Ban, Escalating Apple Legal Fight 36
Chinese State Media Report Bloated Battery in Apple's iPhone 8 36
Beijing Startup Offers Engineers $1M Salary Plus Options in Battle For Talent 119
North Korea Gets Second Route To Internet Via Russia Link 73
South Korea Bans Initial Coin Offerings 45
California Considers Banning Internal Combustion Engines To Meet Emissions Goals 503
China Blocks WhatsApp 104
Court Rules That Imported Solar Panels Are Bad For US Manufacturing 364
John McAfee Said Top Executives From the Major Bitcoin Exchanges Weren't Allowed To Leave China 96
China Arms Upgraded Tianhe-2A Hybrid Supercomputer 23
China Orders Bitcoin Exchanges In Capital City To Close 71
Chinese Scientists Are Developing A Vaccine Against Cavities 120
Trump Blocks China-Backed Takeover of US Chip Maker 'Lattice Semi' 151
Bitcoin Exchange BTCChina Says To Stop Trading, Sparking Further Slide 70
China Joins the Growing Movement To Ban Gasoline, Diesel Cars 126
Bitcoin Price Falls Again On Reports that China is Shutting Down Local Exchanges 115
China Builds World's Largest EV Charging Network With 167,000 Stations 103
Chinese Man Jailed For Helping Net Users Evade State Blocks 47
China Bans Companies From Raising Money Through ICOs 67
Huawei Unveils AI Mobile Chipset Said To Rival A11 Processor In Upcoming iPhones 77
'Pay With Your Face' Technology Tested in a KFC Store In China 59
Chinese Agency Linked To Cyber-Espionage Operations Will Review Source Code of Foreign Firms 62
China Plans 600 MPH Train To Rival Elon Musk's Hyperloop 159
China Regulator To Review Apple Antitrust Complaint 30
China Orders Internet Comments Linked To Real Identities 251
China Plans To Launch the World's First 'Unhackable' Quantum Communication Network 72
China Relaunches World's Fastest Train 118
Leading Chinese Bitcoin Miner Wants To Cash In On AI 23
China Cracks Down on VPN Vendors 40
Australia Joins China and Japan in Trying To Regulate Digital Currency Exchanges 63
US Army Walks Back Decision To Ban DJI Drones Ever So Slightly 27
Developers File Antitrust Complaint Against Apple in China 27
China Working On 'Repression Network' Which Lets Cameras Identify Cars With Unprecedented Accuracy 80
China's VPN Developers Face Crackdown 55
Microsoft Dumps Notorious Chinese Secure Certificate Vendor 57
China Built the World's Largest Telescope, But Has No One To Run It 122
BLU Claims Innocence, Gets Phones Reinstated On Amazon 43
US Army Calls Halt On Use of Chinese-Made Drones By DJI 45
Chinese Chatbots Apparently Re-educated After Political Faux Pas 80
China Is Perfecting a New Method For Suppressing Dissent On the Internet 151
Joining Apple, Amazon's China Cloud Service Bows To Censors 51
Amazon Suspends Sales of Blu Android Phones Due To Privacy Concerns 66
Apple Pulls Anti-Censorship Apps from China's App Store 108
Some Low-Cost Android Phones Come at a Price -- Your Privacy 89
China Forces Muslim Minority To Install Spyware On Their Phones 389
The US And Australia Are Testing Hypersonic Missiles 100
Beijing Wants AI To Be Made In China By 2030 170
Microsoft's Wilsonville Jobs Are Going To China, Underscoring Travails of Domestic Tech Manufacturing 149
China's Censors Can Now Erase Images Mid-Transmission 90
Uber Backers Discuss Stock Sale to SoftBank, Others 25
Automakers Are Asking China To Slow Down Electric Car Quotas 304
Apple Sets Up China Data Center To Meet New Cybersecurity Rules 61
Ask Slashdot: Is There a Way To Experience the Chinese Internet From Outside? 93
China Tells Carriers To Block Access to Personal VPNs By February 173
Umbrella-sharing Startup Loses Nearly All of Its 300,000 Umbrellas In a Matter of Weeks 159
Reality Bytes: A Highflying Tech Entrepreneur Crashes Back To Earth 64
Chinese Court Seizes Millions in Assets of LeEco Founder as Conglomerate's Troubles Grow 27
China Suspects Its 'Car-Eating,' Traffic-Straddling Bus Is a Total Scam 59
China's Rocket Fails After Liftoff 114
New Fidget Spinners Are Catching On Fire 110
China's All-Seeing Surveillance State Is Reading Its Citizens' Faces 105
China, Canada Vow Not To Conduct Cyberattacks On Private Sector 52
Tesla Is 'In Talks' To Build a Factory In China 55
Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, not Engaged Argument 69
Swiss Supercomputer Edges US Out of Top Spot 64
Tableau Software Drops Its 'Twitter Crowd Favorite' Data Viz Contests 21
Chinese Satellite Breaks Distance Record For Quantum-Key Exchange 42
US Weighs Restricting Chinese Investment In Artificial Intelligence 64
US Tech Companies Start To Become Copycats of Chinese Peers 86
China Arrests Apple Distributors Who Made Millions on iPhone Data 9
Chinese 'Fireball' Malware Infects Nearly 250 Million Computers Worldwide 66
China's Unprecedented Cyber Law Signals Its Intent To Protect a Precious Commodity: Data 27
China To Implement Cyber Security Law From Thursday 59
Is China Outsmarting America in AI? 163
Researchers Found Perfect Contraceptives In Traditional Chinese Medicine 144
Chinese Company Offers Free Training For US Coal Miners To Become Wind Farmers 203
Google AI AlphaGo Wins Again, Leaves Humans In the Dust 136
China Censored Google's AlphaGo Match Against World's Best Go Player 93
Chinese Giant Huawei Gets Serious About PC Business, Announces Plans For Global Expansion 53
Microsoft Announces 'Windows 10 China Government Edition', Lets Country Use Its Own Encryption 108
LeEco Said To Lay Off Over 80 Percent of US Workforce 104
Did China Hack The CIA In A Massive Intelligence Breach From 2010 To 2012? 115
A Tip for Apple in China: Your Hunger for Revenue May Cost You 57
China Successfully Mines Gas From Methane Hydrate In Production Run 132
Drone Pilots In China Have to Register With the Government 58
Chinese State Media Says US Should Take Some Blame For Cyberattack 82
Many Nations Pin Climate Hopes On China, India As Hopes For Trump Fade 335
China Is On Track To Fully Phase Out Cash 212
Blocked From US Tech Investing, China Goes To Israel Instead 73
New IoT Malware Targets 100,000 IP Cameras Via Known Flaw 60
Chinese Startup Infervision Emerges From Stealth With An AI Tool For Diagnosing Lung Cancer 45
AMD and Nvidia Silicon Manufacturing Secrets Allegedly Stolen, Sold To China 103
China Makes Quantum Leap In Developing Quantum Computer 70
China is Recruiting 20,000 People To Write Its Own Wikipedia 88
US Space Firms Tell Washington: China Will Take Over the Moon if You're Not Careful 165
Chinese, European Space Agencies In Talks To Build a Moon Base 88
Netflix Is Now In China Via a Deal With iQiyi 18
China To Boost Non-Fossil Fuel Use To 20 Percent By 2030 43
Uber Tried To Hide Its Secret IPhone Fingerprinting From Apple 115
China's First Cargo Spacecraft Launch a 'Crucial Step' To Space Station 20
China To Question Apple About Live-Streaming Apps On App Store That Violate Internet Regulations 31
Baidu Announces New Open Platform To Help Speed Up Development of Self-Driving Cars 27
Chinese Warehouse Cut Labor Costs In Half With a Fleet of Tiny Robots 130
The Surprising Rise of China As IP Powerhouse 150
AI Wins $290,000 in Chinese Poker Competition 81
China's LeEco Calls Off Its $2 Billion Purchase of TV Maker Vizio 25
China Court Orders Samsung Units To Pay $11.6 Million To Huawei Over Patent Case 42
Forget Apple. Xiaomi CEO Now Wants to Be More Like Costco 33
This is Why Australia Hasn't Had a Recession in Over 25 Years 115
App Store Sales For Android To Overtake Apple's iOS, Research Firm Says 53
DJI Proposes New Electronic 'License Plate' For Drones 107
Hong Kong Government Loses Laptops Containing Personal Data of 3.7 Million Voters 19
China's ZTE Removed From US Trade Blacklist 24
Tesla Deal Boosts Chinese Presence in US Auto Tech 80
Microsoft Delivers Secure China-Only Cut of Windows 10 98
China's Police Will Shoot Illegal Drones With Radio-Jamming Rifles 62
America May Miss Out On the Next Industrial Revolution 297
NSA, DOE Say China's Supercomputing Advances Put US At Risk 130
Malware Found Preinstalled On 38 Android Phones Used By 2 Companies 54
Nearly 200,000 Wi-Fi Cameras Are Open To Hacking 46
China Developing Manned Space Mission To the Moon 149
China Expresses Concern at Revelations in Wikileaks Dump of Hacked CIA Data 122
China's ZTE Pleads Guilty, Will Pay $1.19 Billion For Violating US Trade Sanctions 50
Hidden Backdoor Discovered In Chinese IoT Devices 85
Jolla Sailfish Will Build A Google-Free Mobile OS For China 60
Mobile Search Engine Baidu Goes Dark For Nearly 20 Minutes 19
China's Millennials Are Hustling For Part-Time Gigs Instead of Traditional Jobs 147
Around 2.2 Million Deaths in a Year in India and China From Air Pollution 123
How Beer Brewed 5,000 Years Ago In China Tastes Today 109
China Is Now the World's Largest Solar Power Producer 131
'We Need Robots To Take Our Jobs,' Veteran Tech Reporter John Markoff Explains Why 318
China To Add More than 50 Million New Urban Jobs in 2016-2020 56
Cutting H-1Bs Could Mean More Competition From China and India, Says GoDaddy CEO 660
Scientists Find 'Oldest Human Ancestor' -- A Big-Mouthed Sea Creature With No Anus 136
Apple Expands Qualcomm Legal Spat To China 44
China Is Splashing $168 Million To Make It Rain 118
China Unseats US As Global Investment Leader In Financial Technology: Report 120
South Korea Developing 'Near-Supersonic' Train Similar To Hyperloop 122
Foxconn Considers $7 Billion Screen Factory In US, Which Could Create Up To 50,000 Jobs 381
China Cracks Down On International VPN Usage 68
Viral Chinese Selfie App Meitu, Valued at Over $5 Billion, Phones Home With Personal Data 81
China Cancels Over 100 Coal-Fired Power Plants 278
China, Europe Drive Shift To Electric Cars as US Lags 468
China Orders App Stores To Join Register 23
Someone Is Trying to Sell Those Stolen Three-Screen Razer Laptops in China 49
Bitcoin Slides as China's Central Bank Launches Checks On Exchanges 43
WeChat Beats Google in Releasing Apps That Don't Need Downloading or Installing 73
Choked By Smog, Beijing Creates A New Environmental Police Force 95
Nokia Finally Returns To The Smartphone Market (In China) 23
Faraday Future Unveils Super Fast Electric Car 121
China To Plow $361 Billion Into Renewable Fuel By 2020 117
Apple Removes NYTimes App in China, Shows How Far It Is Willing To Go To Please Local Authority 174
Google's AlphaGo AI Secretively Won More Than 50 Straight Games Against World's Top Go Players 139
China Smog: Millions Start New Year Shrouded By Health Alerts and Travel Chaos 77