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China convenes Huawei, Tencent, Baidu to draft metaverse standards in bid to become global technology leader

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China convenes Huawei, Tencent, Baidu to draft metaverse standards in bid to become global technology leader

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has assembled 60 experts, including some from the country’s largest technology firms, to form a new working group to establish standards for the metaverse sector. Representatives from telecoms equipment giant Huawei Technologies, video gaming titans Tencent Holdings and NetEase, web search and artificial intelligence champion Baidu, financial … Read more

Are We Sleepwalking Into Dictatorship?

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Are We Sleepwalking Into Dictatorship?

Betrayal, vengeance, invective, and apostasy: these are constants in the turmoil and carnival of American political history. Aaron Burr was accused of launching a strange and semi-farcical attempt to establish a separate country on four hundred thousand acres of farmland in what is now Louisiana. His leading accuser was Thomas Jefferson, whom he had recently … Read more