Nope, this isn’t a fake story from the cover of the National Enquirer, it’s a real story about how Chinese teenager Xiao Zheng, has sold one of his kidneys through a broker for the Yuan 20,000 needed to buy an iPhone and an iPad 2. The report on Yahoo! News says that the teenager, who lives [...]

Categories: The Web

The Internet is a fascinating place, especially when countries that don’t embrace the concepts of freedom of expression and freedom of speech are involved. Each of these countries takes it’s own view of what the Internet should be, and they usually follow political conventions in those countries. This could be set to change however. Iran [...]

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Reuters are reporting that traffic for some “highly sensitive” US websites was briefly redirected through China.  In a report by the BBC, the incident, which happened for 18 minutes last April saw China Telecom send out incorrect routing formation. There’s no confirmation on whether this was intentional or not, but it comes at a time [...]

Categories: Hacking, Security

This is a title that bounces back and forwards between countries, but now China has claimed the top spot for the world’s fastest and most powerful supercomputer. The title has gone to the country’s Tianhe-1A supercomputer according to a report by the BBC, that is capable of more than 2.5 thousand trillion calculations a second.  [...]

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The Australian government is delaying the implementation of controversial web-filtering to conduct an independent review of websites that are due to be blocked the BBC has reported. The filter is part of a long-standing plan by the Australian government to block the countries access to dangerous and inappropriate web content, but it has come under [...]

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Google pulled out of China earlier in the year in an argument over censorship that began with rumours that the communist government there had hacked into the GMail accounts of political activists in the country.  The government then, in the ensuing row, went on to censor the search giant until Google eventually had no other [...]

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Chinese company Novo first announced their Coloured Glaze Media Centre PC at CES at the beginning of the year but now it’s approaching release, Engadget China have had a close look at it.  But is a small PC with a transparent plastic block on the front gorgeous or a gimmick, and more importantly, where you are [...]

Categories: Gadgets, Music and Video

China has stepped up its efforts to become the supercomputing power of the world according to the BBC.  It’s Nebulae machine has ranked second in the biannual top 500 supercomputer lists. It’s the first time a Chinese supercomputer has appeared in the list of the top ten fastest machines.

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It took Chinese officials less than two hours to react on Google’s announcement to stop censoring their services in China. Google, two hours before the response, started to redirect their China mainland traffic to their Hong Kong domain serving unfiltered information and services to Chinese users. The official in charge of the Internet bureau under [...]

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