Zhengzhou

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Diners take pictures of the robot waiter at Robot Magic Restaurant in Shanghai, June 27, 2018. Photograph: Yuyang Liu/The New York Times
So mad about tech, China even loves its robot waiters that can’t serve

The mind-reading headsets won’t read minds. The fire-detecting machine has been declared a safety hazard. The robot waiter can’t be trusted with the s(...)

A security sign in a Berlin train station warns passers-by about an automatic face-recognition system. Photograph: Michele Tantussi/Getty Images
Chris Horn: GDPR reminds us technology has an impact on our values

I once thought that I was in serious trouble with the German police. As a young PhD student in the 1980s, I was speaking at a conference on distribut(...)

Drivers at a rest area between Zhengzhou and Shanghai in China. Unmarked trucks carry loads of iPhones destined for New York, London and other places around the world. Photograph: The New York Times
Inside China’s ‘iPhone City’, the land of sweeteners and perks

A vast, boxy customs centre acts as a busy island of commerce deep in central China. Government officers, in sharply pressed uniforms, race around a m(...)