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Rusland verbiedt chatapp WeChat

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Rusland heeft een blokkade ingesteld voor de Chinese app WeChat, die wereldwijd zo'n 900 miljoen gebruikers heeft. Dat meldt de Chinese krant South China Morning Post zaterdag.

WeChat is de grootste chatapp van China en is in handen van het grootste niet-Amerikaanse internetbedrijf ter wereld Tencent. Chinezen kunnen via de app echter ook betalingen verrichten, winkelen en bijvoorbeeld een taxi oproepen.

Volgens Rusland weigert WeChat zich te registreren bij de telecomautoriteiten van dat land. China zelf heeft al enige tijd een blokkade op westerse diensten als Facebook en Twitter.

Rusland verbiedt chatapp WeChat (Foto: BuzzT)

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14 reacties

zaterdag 6 mei 2017, 12:03 uur #1

Nibbly

Nom nom nom

Zitten Russen eigenlijk op Whatsapp of gebruikt men vaker andere chatdiensten zoals Telegram etc.?

zaterdag 6 mei 2017, 12:06 uur #2

ansitermiet

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Op zaterdag 6 mei 2017 @ 12:03 schreef Nibbly het volgende:
Zitten Russen eigenlijk op Whatsapp of gebruikt men vaker andere chatdiensten zoals Telegram etc.?

ik vermoed Telegram ja, en misschien Signal.

zaterdag 6 mei 2017, 12:09 uur #3

Notorious

100% pure hatred

Ik moet al die Russische en Chinese troep niet.

zaterdag 6 mei 2017, 12:21 uur #4

ansitermiet

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Op zaterdag 6 mei 2017 @ 12:09 schreef Notorious het volgende:
Ik moet al die Russische en Chinese troep niet.

dan mag je hopen dat jouw telefoon, kleding etc. uit Korea of Japan komt

zaterdag 6 mei 2017, 12:26 uur #5

Beach

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Op zaterdag 6 mei 2017 @ 12:09 schreef Notorious het volgende:
Ik moet al die Russische en Chinese troep niet.

Lekker spullen gebruiken met een NSA backdoor.

fan van Putin, Baudet, Jorge Lorenzo en Assad

zaterdag 6 mei 2017, 12:27 uur #6

Notorious

100% pure hatred

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Op zaterdag 6 mei 2017 @ 12:26 schreef Beach het volgende:

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Lekker spullen gebruiken met een NSA backdoor.

Liever NSA dan Putin.

Redactie Frontpage

zaterdag 6 mei 2017, 12:30 uur #7

foton

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Verstandig. Wat er naar verluidt allemaal wel niet georganiseerd wordt via dat WeChat..... Zouden ze hier ook beter blokkeren. Of op zijn minst gaan monitoren.

zaterdag 6 mei 2017, 12:34 uur #8

Nibbly

Nom nom nom

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Op zaterdag 6 mei 2017 @ 12:27 schreef Notorious het volgende:

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Liever NSA dan Putin.

Redactie Frontpage

zaterdag 6 mei 2017, 12:44 uur #9

Innisdemon

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Op zaterdag 6 mei 2017 @ 12:03 schreef Nibbly het volgende:
Zitten Russen eigenlijk op Whatsapp of gebruikt men vaker andere chatdiensten zoals Telegram etc.?

ja die gebruiken ook massaal Whatsapp

'Me' is géén bezittelijk voornaamwoord

zaterdag 6 mei 2017, 12:47 uur #10

vaginabeheerder

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Op zaterdag 6 mei 2017 @ 12:26 schreef Beach het volgende:

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Lekker spullen gebruiken met een NSA backdoor.

Ik ben pas geleden gestopt met whatsapp.
Mijn telefoon houd m'n privacy in de gaten en wat whatsapp allemaal wilt weten en constant vraagt slaat nergens op.
Ze maken gewoon een profiel van een persoon.
Ik gebruik nu telegram en tot nu toe heeft die nog geen rare dingen gevraagd.

zondag 7 mei 2017, 04:03 uur #11

Dilmara

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China now has a $300 billion company

China's Tencent has joined the exclusive $300 billion club. Tencent shares closed at a record high of 248.40 Hong Kong dollars (just under $32) on Tuesday, valuing the company at more than $302 billion. (Hong Kong markets are closed Wednesday for a holiday.)

Tencent (TCEHY) joins Apple (AAPL, Tech30) and Google-parent Alphabet (GOOGL, Tech30) in the ranks of the world's biggest firms by market capitalization. It's the only firm outside the U.S. among the world's top 10 most valuable companies, and is now nipping at the heels of JPMorgan (JPM), which is currently worth $309 billion.

Tencent isn't the first Chinese company to achieve the eye-popping number. Alibaba's (BABA, Tech30) value briefly went above $300 billion in November 2014, soon after its New York IPO, according to Chinese financial news publication Caixin. Alibaba is currently worth about $295 billion. Led by its media shy CEO, "Pony" Ma Huateng, Tencent is huge in China, where its messaging platform WeChat is used for everything from texting to booking karaoke sessions. But the company remains relatively unknown in the U.S. For now.

Tencent announced Tuesday that it is setting up an artificial intelligence research lab in Seattle, on Amazon (AMZN, Tech30) and Microsoft's (MSFT, Tech30) home turf. It will be headed by former Microsoft scientist Yu Dong. In March, the tech company ponied up $1.8 billion for a 5% stake in Tesla (TSLA).

Tencent is also China's largest video game developer and publisher, holding a big piece of the global market. It acquired Finnish company Supercell last year, the maker of mobile games Clash of Clans and Clash Royale.

http://money.cnn.com/2017(...)300-billion-company/

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China's Tencent to open first US-based AI laboratory

fotoTencent has chosen Seattle for its new research laboratory

Chinese tech giants race to acquire talent on West Coast. Tencent, China's most valuable technology company, is joining the influx of Chinese tech groups hunting for American talent by opening its first US-based artificial intelligence research laboratory in Seattle. The Seattle AI Lab will be led by Dong Yu, who was recently poached from his role as a principal researcher at Microsoft, Tencent announced on Tuesday.

China's "trinity" of tech titans -- Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent -- see access to global talent as one of their biggest obstacles as they crowd into the field of AI, which has historically been dominated by American companies such as Google and Amazon.

"We hope that [Tencent's] AI Lab will become more than a laboratory, but a connector . . . bringing together the world's leading experts in the field," said Zhang Tong, the executive director of Tencent's main AI Lab, which is based in the southern Chinese tech city of Shenzhen.

Baidu was the first of the Chinese tech giants to open a US-based AI lab in Silicon Valley in 2014. In March, the company opened its second AI lab in Silicon Valley, weeks after China's ride-hailing app Didi Chuxing also opened its first AI lab in the area.

Talent-poaching is rife between the Chinese and American tech worlds. Earlier this year, Baidu, China's dominant search engine, poached one of Microsoft's vice-presidents as its new chief operating officer, while Facebook hired phonemaker Xiaomi's vice-president Hugo Barra. Tencent's Mr Tong was hired from Baidu in March. Tencent's new lab will focus on speech recognition, Mr Yu's area of expertise.

"The new lab head Dong Yu has done important work in the past . . . to improve speech recognition," said Jürgen Schmidhuber, AI pioneer and scientific director of the IDSIA lab. "I am sure his new lab will continue to produce excellent work." Voice input is seen as more convenient for mobile users -- as opposed to tapping on a tiny phone screen. Tencent is the company behind China's most popular mobile app WeChat, which provides everything from messaging to grocery shopping to ordering a taxi.

WeChat's almost 900m monthly active users spend on average 66 minutes a day on the app, according to market research commissioned by Tencent. Tencent established its AI Lab in Shenzhen last April, with 50 computer scientists and 200 engineers working on fundamental research and practical applications of AI.

The company plans to apply its AI research to social media, online games and cloud services as well as "content" -- Tencent runs its own online news platform. Tencent did not disclose the target size for its Seattle lab. By comparison, Baidu has 200 researchers at its first Silicon Valley lab and plans to hire another 150 for its second. "[Silicon Valley] is becoming increasingly important in Baidu's global strategy as a base for attracting world-class talent," Baidu said at the time of establishing its second lab.[/silicon valley][/tencent's]

https://www.ft.com/content/5628724c-2f28-11e7-9555-23ef563ecf9a

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Lenovo plans to invest over $1bn in AI and IoT

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Chinese PC maker Lenovo plans to pour over US$ 1.2 billion into artificial intelligence, Internet of Things and big data in the next four years, as part of its efforts to diversify their operations amid the stalled growth of its PC and smartphone business, local media is reporting (in Chinese).

Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing said the annual investment in the above three areas will represent over one-fifth of the company's total annual R&D expenditure by March 2021. Lenovo remained the top PC vendor in the first quarter of 2017, garnering a 19.9% share in the global market by shipping 12.377 million units, IT research firm Gartner noted. Yet its rival HP has narrowed Lenovo's lead with shipments of 12.118 million.

Among the company's three main lines of business, namely data centers, mobile devices, and PCs and smart devices (PCSD), revenue from PCSD business accounted for around 70% of its total revenue for the three months ended Dec. 31, 2016, according to the firm's Q3 FY 2016/17 results released this February.

As competition with its rivals has become even fiercer and growth in its PC and smartphone business has flatlined, Lenovo has been striving to diversify its revenue source and doubling down on artificial intelligence to explore new growth driver. The company set up its own artificial intelligence lab in March, headed by AI expert Xu Feiyu, who once worked as a principal researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence.

Last November, Lenovo appointed Dr. Yong Rui, former deputy managing director of Microsoft Research Asia, to become its chief technology officer, overseeing the company's corporate research and technology organization, which covers artificial intelligence and big data analytics technologies, among others. Lenovo is not alone in hopping on the bandwagon of artificial intelligence. China's three internet giants Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent all have been stepping up efforts on this research.

Baidu set up Institute of Deep Learning in 2013 and has spent more than RMB 10 billion on its three AI research labs in recent years. Alibaba has introduced its ET program, an "artificial brain" able to tackle complex problems in medicine, urban planning, and the industrial sector. Tencent's artificial intelligence lab, which was established less than one year ago, has also delivered stunning performance. Its artificial intelligence Fine Art (?? in Chinese) won the 10th Computer Go UEC Cup in March.

http://technode.com/2017/(...)r-1bn-in-ai-and-iot/

Tencent: recent nog een Al-lab in de Amerikaanse stad Seattle geopend. In dat lab gaat onderzoek gedaan worden naar kunstmatige intelligentie. Tencent heeft al een Al-lab in de Chinese stad Shenzhen waar 50 computerwetenschappers en 200 enginieers onderzoek doen naar kunstmatige intelligentie. Het werknemersbestand wordt dus uitgebreid in de VS.

Het Chinese internetbedrijf Baidu is ook al met kunstmatige intelligentie bezig. Daarvoor heeft het een kantoor neer laten planten in Silicon Valley en daar nu 200 Al-onderzoekers op de loonlijst. Baidu wil dat dit jaar uitbreiden met nog eens 150 Al-onderzoekers. Eigenaar van Baidu is Robin Li: vermogen 12,7 miljard dollar en gezin van vier kinderen. Eigenaar van Tencent is Ma Huateng: vermogen van 23,9 miljard dollar. Eigenaar van Alibaba is Jack Ma: vermogen van 30,3 miljard dollar. Dat zijn de drie grootste Chinese internetconglomeraten. Alibaba is bekend. Tencent en Baidu hadden hun handen vol aan de thuismarkt dat 1,38 miljard mensen telt. De handen jarenlang vol. Nu pas gaan ze zich een beetje op het buitenland richten.

Ook de Chinese PC-maker Lenovo trekt 1,2 miljard dollar uit voor onderzoek naar kunstmatige intelligentie. Een bedrijf dat vooral bekend is bij het grote publiek van computerhardware en consumentenelektronica. Dat is waar hun kracht ligt maar ze willen hun inkomstenbronnen gaan uitbreiden. De grootste PC-maker ter wereld maar zit geen groei meer in die markt, de rek is uit, dus gooien ze het ook op onderzoek naar kunstmatige intelligentie.

https://www.forbes.com/si(...)-world/#6b989f26388b

[ Bericht gewijzigd door Dilmara op zondag 7 mei 2017 @ 09:08 ]

zondag 7 mei 2017, 05:38 uur #12

Dilmara