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CLAIM: Vice President Kamala Harris accused former President Donald Trump of having “sold us out” to the Chinese government with policies that “ended up selling American chips to China.”

Bloomberg News on Tuesday published an exposé on the relationship between China’s Huawei telecom giant and Optica, a nonprofit scientific foundation based in Washington, DC.

Fast food restaurant McDonald’s is reportedly ending the test of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the eatery’s drive-thru lanes.

China’s state-linked electronics giant Huawei has reportedly been “secretly funding cutting-edge research at American universities” through a Washington-based nonprofit called the Optica Foundation.

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) reported Friday that China is now the research leader in 19 critical high-tech fields, compared to only four for the United States.

Researchers in the United States and Europe this week dashed hopes that a South Korean team had discovered a room-temperature superconductor.

The South Korean Society of Superconductivity and Cryogenics (KSSC) announced on Thursday it will establish a committee to investigate a claim by the Quantum Energy Research Center, a private research institute in Seoul, that it has achieved room-temperature superconductivity.

A paralyzed man from the Netherlands is doing the incredible, thanks to modern technology and a lot of hard work.

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) on Thursday launched a project called the Critical Technology Tracker, which collects and visualizes data representing worldwide progress on “crucial technology fields spanning defense, space, robotics, energy, the environment, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, advanced materials and key quantum technology areas.”

A Chicago-area man is accused of tying up a woman in his mother’s basement and beating her after meeting the woman on a dating app.

A study about the impacts of social media found that three out of four children as young as 12 “dislike their bodies and are embarrassed by the way they look,” the Guardian reported.

On Friday’s broadcast of ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Southwest Airlines CEO Bob Jordan stated that the airline “already had a great plan to invest in tools and technology and processes, as we always do, but there will be a lot

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Evening Edit,” host, Fox News Contributor, and Wall Street Journal Assistant Editorial Page Editor James Freeman noted that Southwest Airlines has spent time “talking about and focusing on the technology of lowering carbon emissions,”

Communist China’s growing use of authoritarian measures within technology, international markets and diplomacy poses a threat to the entire world, the head of UK Intelligence has said.

Sinopharm, a Chinese state-run pharmaceutical company, announced on Monday that it had submitted an application for clinical trials of an “Omicron-specific mRNA COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] vaccine [candidate]” that it allegedly produced, China’s state-run Global Times reported.

A new Japanese economic security law came into effect on Monday, Kyodo News reported, noting that it aims to bolster a stable global supply of crucial technologies such as semiconductors and protect their patents in the face of increasing Chinese interest in such materials.

Australia’s second-largest home appliance chain, The Good Guys, announced on Tuesday plans to temporarily pause a trial of facial recognition software it recently piloted in some stores after a consumer group submitted a formal complaint to Australia’s privacy regulator over the trial, citing privacy concerns, Reuters reported.

Researchers at China’s Nankai University claimed this week that they successfully cloned pigs through an entirely automated process for the first time in March, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Thursday.

The administration of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday expressed intentions to transform India into “a global drone hub by 2030,” the Times of India reported.

Vedanta — an Indian oil, gas, and metals conglomerate — plans to finalize a $20 billion deal with the Taiwanese microchip maker Foxconn by June to produce semiconductors within India starting in 2024, India’s Swarajya magazine reported on Thursday.

Courts across the Malaysian states of Sabah, Sarawak, and the national capital city of Kuala Lumpur have used an Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) system to determine and assign sentences in criminal cases since February 2020, with the pilot program set to end by April 2022, the digital news platform Mashable Southeast Asia reported on Wednesday.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has laid bare reliance on Vladimir Putin’s oil and gas exports but the damage does not stop there. In the invaded country itself, the “breadbasket of Europe,” farming operations have virtually shut down which could drive  global food shortages.

The USFL will break with the tradition of using chains to measure for first downs. Instead, the new league will use a microchipped football, and the yellow line fans have come accustomed to seeing on TV.

Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it restarted all of its domestic plants in Japan following a two-day-long production halt caused by a cyberattack on the computer system of a Toyota parts supplier, Kyodo News reported.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday “urged” El Salvador’s government to rescind the legal tender status it bestowed to Bitcoin, a type of cryptocurrency, in September 2021, indicating that its failure to do so could hinder El Salvador’s intention of securing a future loan from the financial institution.

The IRS will begin requiring taxpayers to use facial recognition to check their account online or get a transcript online.

The Philippines’ Commission on Elections (COMELEC) said Monday it was investigating an allegation its server was “hacked” after the Manila Bulletin published an article making the claim earlier that same day, Yahoo News Philippines reported.

The grocery store chain ShopRite is replacing many of the cashier-run checkout lines in its Delaware stores with self-checkout stations.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a self-described socialist, has remained silent as corporate special interests seek to dramatically shift the nation’s legal immigration system for their benefit.

Police in India’s northeastern Tripura state have launched criminal cases against 102 Twitter account holders for allegedly “spreading fake and distorted information” that police say incited mob attacks on local buildings affiliated with Muslim residents in October, Asian News International (ANI) reported Saturday.

El Salvador’s government will use surplus profits earned from cryptocurrency investments to build 20 new schools across the Central American country, El Salvador’s Diaro La Huella newspaper reported Monday. “I want to announce that with a few million that we

Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday that Facebook’s worldwide service outage earlier that day “answers the question of whether we need our own social networks and internet platforms,” Reuters reported Tuesday.

Google announced on Thursday it is suing the Competition Commission of India (CCI) for allegedly leaking a confidential report detailing the CCI’s ongoing antitrust investigation into the U.S. tech company.

The Davos-based World Economic Forum has predicted that the ‘Great Reseet’ will see countries begin tracking people by their heartbeats.

Ugandan’s government recently announced plans to install GPS tracking systems on all “vehicles, motorcycles, and vessels” in the country, Quartz Africa reported Friday.

The World Economic Forum released a video in which “futurists” predict what human life will look like after the so-called Great Reset.