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3 companies helping make China a global hub for IoT technology.
To talk about the Internet of Things in China is to talk about manufacturing. 

Manufacturing spending on IoT technologies in China is estimated to rise to $127.5 billion by 2020. Since China currently produces a large chunk of the world's electronics (including technologies like sensors and microchips that are fundamental to the IoT), the country is well positioned to shape the backbone of connected homes, IoT-integrated infrastructure, and smart cities around the world.

The Made in China 2025 initiative, for example, focuses on comprehensively upgrading the country's industries and IoT infrastructure. In addition to country-wide initiatives like this, several China-based startups are helping shape the rapidly growing IoT industry in this region of the world and beyond. Their efforts are being fueled largely by advancements in AI and big data. 

"AI is the engine of the rocket that takes us to the next frontier, but data is the fuel that powers the engine," says Sundeep Gantori, UBS Equity Analyst at UBS Wealth Management. "That’s something the Chinese AI-based engines have much more of than what we see in Western societies. We think that today China is in a far better position than in any of the previous industrial revolutions."

TRAI’s views on ICT solutions for differently-abled by June.
Regulator TRAI will by the middle of this year recommend measures to make telecom and broadcasting services more accessible for the differently-abled, its Chairman R S Sharma has said. Sharma said service providers and other stakeholders must respond to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) recent discussion paper on the issue with constructive suggestions to brainstorm solutions, aids and assistive devices that would make telecom and broadcasting services more ‘inclusive’.

“We should be able to come out with the recommendations on this consultation paper by May or June this year. By March, hopefully, we will have an open house discussion with stakeholders,” Sharma told PTI. Sharma said finding solutions that would make information and communications technology (ICT) accessible for the differently-abled was of utmost importance given the fact that mobile phones and devices have become ‘ubiquitous and universal’.

“The percentage of Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) in the total population has grown to 2.21 per cent in 2011, with 2.68 crore PwDs in the country,” the TRAI chief said. Last month, the regulator, through a new consultation paper began a dialogue on making ICT accessible for the differently-abled, saying more policy interventions were needed in this area where benefits of technology have not been fully realised.

It has sought industry views on whether handset makers should be mandated to manufacture at least one model for such individuals with assistive technology features such as hearing, visual aids and emergency buttons. TRAI had also asked if information on billing and pricing needs to be provided in a more accessible form for them. The consultation paper has also sought the industry’s comments on disabilities that need to be included in the enabling framework, reasons for benefits not reaching PwDs and corrective measures that need to be undertaken.

Former Breitbart reporter sues Twitter for banning him.
Twitter has been praised by many for promoting free speech, but not by Charles C. Johnson. 

On Monday, the right-wing activist sued Twitter, alleging the company violated his right to free speech by banning him from the platform.

SEE ALSO: Twitter attempts to explain why it won’t ban Trump

Of course, that's a hard argument to make given that Twitter is also protected by the first amendment and as an internet publisher can choose to terminate accounts. Twitter is protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

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