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Facial recognition technology is coming to the Beijing subway system, and not everyone is okay with that. Jeff Ding of the ChinAI Newsletter has translated an essay by Professor LΓ‘o DΕngyΓ n ε³δΈη of Tsinghua University, originally posted to WeChat (in Chinese), in which she argues against the technology.
JD.com founder Richard Liu has emerged more or less unscathed from a rape accusation. His accuser, meanwhile, rarely leaves her apartment, sleeps with pepper spray and a stun gun on her nightstand, and is showing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Pictured above, from left to right: Dawanggang, South Acid Mimi, Chui Wan. (Below image arranged by Derek Zhang.) A challenging decade has made for an...
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Chinese gangsters who are part of βswine stir fry syndicatesβ are using drones to spread African swine fever, according to Chinese state media (and initially...
Last month, the five-person rock band HipersonΒ released its first EP, Four SeasonsΒ (ζ₯ε€η§ε¬ chΕ«n xiΓ qiΕ«dΕng), coming on the back of two full-length albums, 2015βs I...
TheΒ China Sports ColumnΒ is a The China Project weekly feature. Guerschon Yabusele, a French basketball player on the Nanjing Monkey Kings, has been fined 10,000 yuan...
Backlash after actor publicly shames co-star Tang Wei for frequent bathroom visits