Look right, but Waymo looks left

Google's subsidiary Waymo has set up a company in Shanghai in the wake of controversy over its attempt to introduce a censorious version of its search engine in China.

America getting less great again

Beancounters at Deloitte have added up some numbers and divided by them by their shoe size and worked out that the United States is being outspent by China in the 5G  race and it risks losing out on the potential economic benefits.

More mileage on the path to evil

King of Search engines Google has decided that if it wants any impact in China it will have to produce a search engine which censors anything the government there does not want.

Tsinghua Unigroup writes 2.2 billion euro cheque  

Chinese chipmaker Tsinghua Unigroup has written a 2.2 billion euro cheque for the French smart chip components maker Linxens.

Wednesday is D-Day

Qualcomm's long term bid to buy Philips spin-off NXP has until Wednesday to be finalised – and the US-Chinese trade wars haven't made things as clear as mud can be.

And it is pretty obvious

A global anti-censorship network AdVox claims that Chinese mobile phones are overtly spying on their users.

Problems with the politics of desperation

Dedicated followers of the fruity cargo cult Apple are paying for their company's decision to prop up its Chinese market by censoring iPhone Apps. 

Cars for everyone

The tariffs imposed on US imports of cars caused prices of Tesla vehicles to rise by 20 percent over the weekend in China.

But it should not do too much harm

Micron played down the likely impact on its business of a temporary Chinese ban on some chip sales but said it was unfair and would appeal.

18 qubits with no dead cats

Boffins at the Chinese University of Science and Technology have demonstrated stable quantum entanglement with 18 qubits.