Novelist Ning Ken’s history of Beijing’s Zhongguancun district shows how two generations of professors and tech…
Author: Jennifer Conrad
The Overlooked Upsides of Algorithms in the Workplace
Author and labor lawyer Orly Lobel says AI can help mitigate human biases in hiring and…
How Chinese Netizens Swamped China’s Internet Controls
The government regained control of streets and social networks, but citizens protesting zero-Covid policies proved smartphones…
China’s Digital Yuan Works Just Like Cash—With Added Surveillance
Government officials are urging citizens to adopt the official digital currency in a bid to gain…
How Retail App Temu Lures US Shoppers With Mind-Bending Prices
The new ecommerce platform can beat Amazon on price by shipping direct from China. It’s already…
China’s WeChat Is a Hot New Venue for US Election Misinformation
Ahead of US midterms, activists are fighting falsehoods circulating in Chinese-language communities that they fear will…
The US and EU are Teaming Up to Contain Big Tech
The EU’s chief antitrust enforcer Margrethe Vestager says that US tech companies are changing their behavior…
The Russian Spy in My Econ Class
Johns Hopkins' long history with student-spies suggests this most recent incident will not lead to much…
How GPT-3 Wrote a Movie About a Cockroach-AI Love Story
Artist Miao Ying says Surplus Intelligence depicts humanity's conflicted relationship with the algorithms that control people's…
China Is Racing to Electrify Its Future
The country wants electric vehicles to make up 40 percent of new cars sold by 2030—but…