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A fascinating display of the Japanese artificial-intelligence sector is now open at Tokyo Big Sight.
At the three-day AI World exhibition, 15 companies exhibited cutting-edge AI technology to try to build a society in which AI will make entertainment and business more interactive and efficient.
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This Bloomberg video looks at why Brexit might not happen. Please hit this link.
Leaders of the European Union seem united in their disinclination to make concessions that would enable the post-Brexit United Kingdom to have many of the benefits of E.U. membership without having to accede to such requirements as free movement in and out of Britain of people with E.U. passports.
And after Brexit won in Britain’s June 23 referendum, the leaders are trying to discourage more disruptive votes in nations such as France and Spain with large numbers of voters who don’t want their nations to stay in the E.U.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has named Xu Lin to become the government’s new head Internet regulator, succeeding Lu Wei.
Mr. Xu has vowed to maintain the ruling Communist Party’s tight grip over cyberspace, which is overseen by the Cyberspace Administration of China.
The Chinese government has long imposed controls over the Internet, in part to stifle political dissent, and is codifying that policy in law. Officials assert that such restrictions are needed to ensure security in the face of such rising threats as terrorism. However, most of China’s crackdown seems directed against speech that, however carefully, criticizes the Communist dictatorship.
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The U.S. government wants to make social-media accounts part of the visa-screening process for entry into America.
The proposed change would add a line on both the online and paper forms of the visa application form that foreign visitors must fill out if they do not have a visa and plan to stay for up to 90 days.
The following question would be added to both the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (Esta) and I-94W forms: “Please enter information associated with your online presence—Provider/Platform—Social media identifier.”
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