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The Wall Street Journal reported over the weekend about Communist China’s persistent efforts to poach talented employees and steal data from Taiwanese tech companies, beginning with the case of an engineer who was offered a lucrative senior position he wasn’t remotely qualified for, apparently because Beijing valued his access to sensitive records.

President Donald Trump defended his upcoming effort to protect Silicon Valley products from foreign countries copying their technology.

The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) has published a study suggesting environmental factors may be playing a part in the decline of intelligence scores.

Politico published the results of a six-month investigation on Tuesday that concluded the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is not doing enough to protect American technology from foreign governments, especially China.

If President Donald Trump is looking for a way to clip Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s wings, blocking a massive contract with the Pentagon could be one way to do it.

National Economic Advisor Larry Kudlow revealed Friday afternoon that the Trump administration is mulling over creating and providing to China a list of suggestions that the United States would like to see come out of negotiations over trade practices and tariffs with the country.

Jonathan Neumann deconstructs the Jewish left’s notion of “tikkun olam,” while Avi Jorisch puts the phrase to use in describing Israeli innovations.

Herbert London, president of the London Center for Policy Research and former president of the Hudson Institute, warned of threats posed to the U.S. by China’s ascendance in the realm of technological innovation. 

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has warned major technology companies such as Facebook and Twitter to do more on the issue of “hate speech,” or face fines and greater regulation.

Gordon Chang, an expert on China and columnist at The Daily Beast, called on the Trump administration to block Broadcom’s hostile takeover attempt of Qualcomm in the interest of national security.

On Tuesday afternoon, freelance writer Quinn Norton was hired by the far-left New York Times as its “lead opinion writer on the power, culture and consequences of technology.” About six hours later, she was fired after it was discovered that she considers a Nazi a “friend” and has lashed out at people by calling them “faggots.”

The largest city in the Philippines will implement an Israeli education model in one of its public high schools, it was announced this week.

The European Union (EU) has threatened tech companies with further regulation unless they crack down on “extremist content” faster, according to a report.

Various media outlets in India are reporting that police in Hyderabad are arresting hundreds of “beggars” and placing them in rehab centers (also referred to as ashrams) so that first daughter Ivanka Trump will not have an uncomfortable experience witnessing the city’s destitute during her visit for next week’s Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES).

President Donald Trump praised Chinese business leaders during his state visit to China, pointing out frankly that he didn’t blame them for the massive trade deficit with the United States.

President Donald Trump met with students at the White House on Monday, during a signing ceremony for a memorandum directing more federal spending on science and technology education.

Chinese mercantilism is a threat to trade everywhere, U.S. Trade Representative Robert LIghthizer said on Monday.

The first images from Venus – the research satellite of the Science and Technology Ministry’s Israel Space Agency that was launched at the beginning of this month – have been received, including a photo of the Jerusalem area.

The Department of Energy announced last week that American taxpayers are providing millions of dollars to develop solar power projects across the country, including funding for seven companies in California and $2 million to a solar business in Texas, home of Energy Secretary and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner will attend the Sun Valley technology conference hosted by Allen & Co, giving them the chance to mingle with technology and media executives as well as world leaders, according to a report from Variety.

On Monday, President Donald Trump welcomed India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi for their first official, in-person meeting, in which both leaders agreed that their “top priority” is to “destroy radical Islamic terrorism” and ending terrorist “safe shelters, sanctuaries, and safe havens.”

A collaborative effort between researchers from Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has resulted in the development of a new method for filtering viruses from treated municipal wastewater used for drinking.

Evan Swarztrauber, communications director of TechFreedom, spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Friday about the FCC, net neutrality, and several other tech-related topics under the Trump administration, as opposed to the Obama era.

Los Angeles officially has the worst traffic in the world, as drivers spent an average of 104 hours stuck in traffic in 2016.

Last week, tech employees mounted protests at Palantir, the Silicon Valley security company connected to Peter Thiel, a prominent supporter of President Donald Trump, claiming the company would be responsible for Trump’s “Muslim registry.”

TEL AVIV – An Iranian Grand Ayatollah recently said that the Mahdi – the Shi’ite version of the messiah – will arrive in a “super-modern vessel like a spaceship” and that until that time there will be no “peace, security or decency” on earth.

Techies are in Israel ahead of a Wednesday event to participate in the TechCrunch Meetup and Pitch Off in Tel Aviv, where some of the best technological minds from Silicon Valley will merge their brainpower with one of the world’s leading nations in innovation and tech.

In an exceptionally ambitious program inspired by movies such as The Matrix, Chinese technology giant Huawei is pursuing the human dream of immortality through a greater interaction between the brain and state-of-the-art electronics.

A new app inspired by an illegal immigrant who couldn’t afford college tuition in the United States is intended to help other illegals find and win at least 10,000 college scholarships per year.

The Guardian reports:  Two Israeli soldiers sparked an hour-long deadly battle in a Palestinian refugee camp which they entered, apparently by mistake, while following the popular online navigation app Waze. In the course of a rescue operation, during which helicopters

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban has declared presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to be “technologically illiterate” in a new interview with WABC.

Saudi Arabia’s discriminatory automotive policies against women have allowed for the ride-sharing app Uber to achieve great success, due to females’ having limited transportation options.

He also believes that politicians have been given too much authority to govern medicine and technology without understanding either.

Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated, “I don’t know enough about the technology” during an answer on encryption during Saturday’s Democratic presidential debate on ABC. Hillary said that she didn’t want to force tech companies to

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is responsible for some of the world’s most significant scientific and technological breakthroughs.

Where there is no family meal together, there is no family, Pope Francis told the thousands gathered in Saint Peter’s Square Wednesday, urging his hearers to put away their cell phones and protect family dinners as a precious way to bind the family together.