China makes first ChatGPT arrest over fake train crash news

The Chinese police have detained a man for allegedly generating fake news of a train crash and disseminating it online using artificial intelligence technology to "concoct information" and post it......

Govt blocks 54 more Chinese apps over security threat, privacy risks

India on Monday blocked 54 more apps with Chinese links, including Tencent Xriver, Nice Video baidu, Viva Video Editor, and gaming app Garena Free Fire Illuminate, citing security and privacy......

COVID-19 may have hit Wuhan in Aug 2019, claims study

China on Tuesday dismissed as "incredibly ridiculous" a Harvard study, which pointed to a surge in traffic outside Wuhan hospitals from August 2019 suggesting that the coronavirus hit the area far......

Staring at an abyss

Do India's laws governing the Internet need revolutionary change, asks Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Some nights nowadays I wake with a nightmare, which is unusual for......

Google Glass gets competition from China's Baidu

Baidu Inc, China's largest search engine, is developing prototype digital eyewear similar to Google Inc's Google Glass that will leverage Baidu's strengths in image search and facial recognition, a......

China's Baidu defeats US lawsuit over censored search results

Chinese Internet company Baidu Inc won the dismissal of a US lawsuit by pro-democracy activists who complained that Baidu illegally suppressed political speech on China's most widely used Internet......

What prompted China's Baidu to buy stake in Uber

Baidu's stake in Uber looks more hype than substance. Strategically, the alliance looks like a coup. The Chinese search engine is behind rivals Alibaba and Tencent in the mobile taxi app business.......

Elon Musk, Meet China's ROBO-01 EV

The Knight Industries Two Thousand -- KITT, the autonomous intelligent talking car that featured in the television series Knight Rider -- is no longer sci-fiction. China's search giant Baidu is......

Federer's security tightened after receiving death threat

World No 1 tennis star Roger Federer has reportedly received death threats from an anonymous blogger on a Chinese website Baidu.com. The blog poster, using the screen name "Blue Cat Polytheistic......