Welcome to another episode of China regulating technology, and today’s news is about gaming restrictions. In a set of new rules, the country has restricted children to only three hours of online gaming per week. If you think this means kids can play games for three hours any time of the week, you’re wrong. The administration has allowed online gaming from 8PM to 9PM on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and public holidays....
The Chinese governmenthas recently taken actionagainst what it calls “sissy men” – males, often celebrities, deemed too effeminate. On Sept. 2，2021, governmentregulators banned their appearanceon both television and video streaming sites. Using the Chinese derogatory slur “niang pao” – literally, “girlie guns” – Chinese cultural authoritiesexplained that they were rolling out a ruleto purge “morally flawed celebrities” in order to “correct aesthetics” in “performing styles” and “wardrobes and makeups.” Technically this is a rule, not a law....
How climate change made Venus impossible to inhabit Evidence of change This hypothesis from the climate modelers inspired Sara Khawja, a master’s student in my group (co-supervised with geoscientist Claire Samson), to look forevidence in Venusian rocks for this proposed climatic change event. Since the early 1990s, my Carleton University research team — and more recently my Siberian team at Tomsk State University — have been mapping and interpreting the geological and tectonic history of Earth’s remarkable sister planet....
Amazon’s Echo Dot is on its fourth generation. And within each of those generations there are myriad iterations and variations on the basic design. And that’s just the Dot. In all, there are dozens of different “Echo” devices. And each one is either a newly-introduced product or an iteration of a previous generation. And there will be more next year and more the year after that. That’s what the status quo looks like in smart gadgets....
How coronavirus could revolutionize work opportunities for people with disabilities Workplace challenges Employer audit studies thatweandothershave conducted show that employers are less likely to express interest in job applications from people with disabilities even when their resumes are identical and the disabilities are irrelevant to job performance. Other studies have shown that once hired, many workers with disabilities mustcontend with negative stereotypes and attitudesfrom supervisors and co-workers that limit their career growth and the quality of their work life....
