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Apple Won’t Budge On Its New Privacy Updates, Even in China
Earlier this week, stories emerged that some China-based advertising groups were coming up with their own clever workarounds for the new anti-tracking tech that Apple’s including with upcoming versions of iOS 14. Now it looks like Apple’s fighting back.
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Baidu’s Testing A Self-Driving Car And Samsung Is Building Autonomous Car Parts
Asian tech giants are scrabbling to join the autonomous car race. A pair of new announcements reveal that Baidu has successfully tested a self-driving BMW in China, while Samsung has decided to begin producing components for use in autonomous vehicles.
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Smart Chopsticks That Test Your Food For Contamination
Recently, Stephen Colbert lampooned gadgets that track what you drink and other seemingly inane metrics. But the trend may have just found its ideal market. The Chinese search giant Baidu just introduced a pair of “smart chopsticks” designed to alert users to the presence of “gutter oil”, or the illegal use of oil dredged up…
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China Won SimCity With Censorship-Bypassing 3D Baidu Maps
China has repeatedly prevented Google Maps from providing maps of China because the government would like the right to censor landmarks and locations. That means people miss out on cool features, like Google’s 3D view for Android. So what does China do instead? Have Baidu – the most popular search engine there – provide a…