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Here’s How Much Your Personal Information Is Worth To Cybercriminals – And What They Do With It

Data breaches have become common, and billions of records are stolen worldwide every year. Most of the media coverage of data breaches tends to focus on how the breach happened, how many records were stolen and the financial and legal impact of the incident for organizations and individuals affected by the breach. But what happens to the data that is stolen during these incidents? As a cybersecurity researcher, I track data breaches and the black market in stolen data. The destination of stolen data depends on who is behind a data breach and why they’ve stolen a certain type of…

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CNCF Cloud Native Survey China 2019

Kubernetes is Used in Production by 72% in China At CNCF, we regularly survey our community to better understand the adoption of open source and cloud native technologies. For the third time, we conducted the Cloud Native Survey China in Mandarin to gain deeper insights into the pace of cloud native adoption in China, and how that’s empowering developers and transforming development in this large and growing community. This report builds on the first two China reports, published in March 2018 and November 2018. Key Takeaways of Cloud Native Survey China 49% of respondents use containers in production, with another 32% planning…

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Coronavirus Expected To Impact Tech Industry Shipments

Tech industry shipments are expected to suffer significantly for Q1 2020, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, a comprehensive analysis from TrendForce reveals. Using the COVID-19 data as of 14 February, Trendforce investigated the impact of the outbreak in various tech industries. Here’s what they found. Industries where COVID-19 impacts the most Smartwatch shipments are expected to suffer the most due to the virus outbreak. TrendForce projects the global shipments of smartwatches to decline by around 16 percent for the first quarter of 2020. Another tech product which will suffer greatly would be notebooks, with an expected decline in shipments…

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High-Tech Shortages Loom As Coronavirus Shutdowns Hit Manufacturers

There are now more than 350,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus dubbed COVID-19 by the World Health Organization, and the disease has caused at least 15,000 deaths worldwide (data updated as of March 23, 2020). The impact of the virus is now reaching way beyond public health: China is at the heart of global manufacturing, and as supply chains suffer, panic is beginning to set in. In many provinces across China the government has urged hundreds of millions of workers to stay home to help reduce the spread of the virus. As a result, many factories have stayed closed since…

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Huawei Continues Steep Global Rise

Huawei attained a record-breaking US$122 billion in revenue in 2019, according a message by Huawei’s rotating chairman Eric Xu. This revenue obtained by Huawei is an 18% increase when compared to that of 2018. A total of 240 million Huawei handsets were sold worldwide in 2019, up by 36 million units from 2018. “These figures are lower than our initial projections, yet business remains solid and we stand strong in the face of adversity,” according to Xu. Growth under pressure The trade war between the US and China exerted a large amount of pressure on Huawei. Last year, US…

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When China And Other Big Countries Launch Cryptocurrencies, It Will Kick Off A Global Revolution

One of the hottest topics in cryptocurrencies is the prospect of major economies launching state-backed digital coins. China’s central bank recently accelerated plans for what is currently known as the Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP). It could launch within the next 18 months, while the European Central Bank is looking at something similar. Meanwhile, Russia has been working on a state-backed cryptoruble for several years, and Sweden has its e-krona project. Indeed, several countries have got there already: Senegal and the tiny Marshall Islands now have digital coins that sit alongside their existing currencies, while others such as Venezuela and…

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Who’s On The Lead In The 5G Patent Race?

The full integration of 5G in our technological terrain will open a world of new innovations and services, radically changing the way that we experience the world. With this in mind, who is currently in the lead when it comes to generating 5G-related innovations? Let’s find out. This is according to the data of innovative market intelligence company IPlytics. They collected the number of 5G declared patents owned by companies. Highlights Huawei leads the list when it comes to the number of declared patents, recording a total 3,325 patents filed as of November 2019. This is followed by Samsung (2,846),…

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How Cold War Rivalry Helped Launch The Chinese Computer

It was the summer of 1959, and the United States needed a Cold War win. In 1957, the Soviet bloc scored a major technological victory with Sputnik 1. The next year, China’s Communist leadership launched the sweeping, and ultimately devastating, Great Leap Forward. In the spring of 1959 in Cuba, Fidel Castro’s guerrillas forced president Fulgencio Batista into exile. The US needed to recapture the momentum and demonstrate that it was still at the helm of world affairs. The plan: president Dwight D Eisenhower was to unveil the world’s first Chinese computer. The invention of the first Chinese computer would be a major…

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