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Chinese national flag flies in front of the China Construction
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China Imposes Restrictions on Investments Abroad

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 21, 2017 | Business

London- China has imposed new restrictions on Chinese companies’ overseas investments, preventing them from working in many sectors, such as sports clubs, hotels, cinemas, real estate and entertainment. After it long motivated its companies’ overseas...

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Are we losing his equilibrium? Photographer: Aaron Tam/AFP/Getty Images

How Technology Might Get Out of Control

by Mark Buchanan | Aug 17, 2017 | Opinion

Humanity has a method for trying to prevent new technologies from getting out of hand: explore the possible negative consequences, involving all parties affected, and come to some agreement on ways to mitigate them. New research, though, suggests that the accelerating...

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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S. October 31, 2016.

Information, Technology Shares Rise to Unprecedented Levels

by Mutlaq Muneer | Aug 5, 2017 | Business

London- Prices of information and technology shares stabilized this week, following seven trading sessions that witnessed consecutive rise by which the index sector reached a new historic level. S&P index of this sector recorded an unprecedented level of 995...

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A still from a video shows gene-editing chemicals being injected into a human egg at the moment of fertilization. OHSU

First Editing of Human Embryos in the US

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jul 28, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture

London- Technology that allows alteration of genes in a human embryo has been used for the first time in the United States, according to Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) in Portland, which carried out the research. The OHSU research is believed to have...

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Google’s reverse image-search feature, left, can be used in several ways on tablets and smartphones in the Chrome app, including by switching to the desktop site and then choosing a file to upload, center, which will generate search results, right. Credit The New York Times

How to Use Google Image Search on the Go

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 11, 2017 | Technology

Q. On a computer, you can use Google’s reverse image search feature in several ways, like dragging and dropping an image file in the search box or right-clicking on an image file on a web page. But how can you do reverse searches for pictures using a mobile device? A....