The Closed Internet World In China

It is understandable to marvel at the rapid technology development of China when you ride a train traveling at a speed of 300 km/h while using a fast 4G connection. But the less marvelous thing is how many parts of the Internet China has been blocking: Facebook, Twitter, Google and more.

Chinese's rapid tech development poses a lot of threats to the West

The Wuzhen World Internet Conference is an annual event that organized by the Chinese government to discuss Internet issues as well as Internet policy. There was a local attendee of the event saying that this event is held in a country that does not connect to the Internet. This year event is located in the beautiful Wuzhen’s village and is going to open on Wednesday.

And that is information that everyone should already know but the other details of this conference are highly secretive. The list of attendee was not revealed until the afternoon before the event opens.

The sponsor and founder of this conference, the former Internet tsar Lu Wei was finally charged with bribery after having been under investigation for a very long time. He fell as a part of a biggest Communist party purge. This conference takes place in a situation where the US and China are having a trade war due to the US’s allegations of Chinese companies stealing US trade secrets, tech and more.

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Telecoms companies in the UK have been warned by the UK’s government to choose their 5G suppliers with high cautions. This is believed to directly target Huawei, one of the biggest telecommunications equipment producer in China that have been pretty much banned from Australia and the US.

The UK and Australia are trying to limit usage of Chinese telecom devices

Google and Facebook have both signed up to new standards of the Internet what was designed by the World Wide Web Tim Berner-Lee who believed that those tech corporations may need to split themselves up to lessen their Internet dominance.

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Taobao e-commerce site of Alibaba has long become a very popular site of selling unusual stuff. But the thing that gets much attention is that big rival of Alibaba - Tencent launched the auction of a stake in WeBank - a private Chinese online lender for around $64m (Rs. 464 crores).

Critical security vulnerabilities have been found by Samsung security Researchers in some popular Samsung and Crucial SSDs (Solid State Driver), which Samsung claims that can allow hackers to bypass the disk encryption feature access the local data without knowing users’ password.

Technologies that are soon available — foldable phone

Samsung Galaxy X - the first folding developed by Samsung

Samsung has been rumored to have been developed a folding smartphone and now it is actually about to be released very soon, probably in late 2018 or early 2019. Reuters reported that this week, Samsung will reveal several details of the key features of its folding smartphone for developers. TechRadar obtained some leaks suggesting that this phone will come with 512GB of storage and it also supports dual-SIM also. But be prepared as this phone will probably be expensive to the many people.