BTC.com, a significant mining pool said to be the world’s fifth-largest, has shifted its first batch of 320 mining machines to Kazakhstan from their earlier location in western Sichuan province in China following a withdrawal of power supply by the grid.
At Canon Innovation Technology’s Beijing office, the workplace management system relies on AI-powered facial recognition instead of key cards. Last year, the Japanese tech giant incorporated a “smiling face technology” into the system that makes it mandatory for employees to smile into the camera to qualify for entry. Canon Innovation is a subsidiary of Canon, Inc (TYO: 7751).
In a shocking revelation, a software engineer revealed to the BBC that an elaborate, AI-based system using facial recognition was being used on Uighurs in the Xinjiang province of China for detecting states of emotion on their faces.
China’s phobia of social unrest following financial market upheavals has led its regulators to go hammer and tongs at cryptos. Their dire reminders earlier this week of the regulatory position on cryptocurrencies played a not insignificant role in the great bitcoin crash on Thursday. But there were more grim pronouncements regarding bitcoin from China today.
China’s huge censorship machinery could get a dramatic leg up from new research that has developed an AI-powered text censor to delete objectionable material on the Internet with very high accuracy.