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• Baidu snaps up UTS director to lead quantum computing institute

  ​Chinese tech giant Baidu is establishing a quantum computing institute and has appointed UTS Professor Runyao Duan as its inaugural director.

• Intelligent machines part 3: Big data, machine learning – where’s it all heading?

  For decades we’ve been teaching machines how to classify and determine things in the world, giving them many examples to draw from. But what if they could teach themselves?

• Baidu fires researcher involved in AI contest flap

  Chinese search giant Baidu has fired one of its researchers, after the company found he had deliberately broken the rules of an artificial intelligence contest.

• Future of mobile, IoT driven by speech recognition: Andrew Ng

  Artificial intelligence researcher and chief scientist at Baidu, Andrew Ng, sees speech recognition making a much larger impact in the future of mobile and IoT devices than we imagine today.

• 'Largest DDoS attack' in GitHub's history targets anticensorship projects

  GitHub has been hammered by a continuous DDoS attack for three days. It's the "largest DDoS attack in github.com's history." The attack is aimed at anti-censorship GreatFire and CN-NYTimes projects, but affected all of GitHub; the traffic is coming from China as attackers are reportedly using China's search engine Baidu for the purpose of "HTTP hijacking."

• Baidu ends support for Android platform

  Baidu's efforts to bring its own customized Android ROM to Chinese smartphones appears to be fizzling out as the company shifts resources away from the project.

• With no Google, Chinese app stores soar on high downloads

  Chinese demand for smartphones is leading to a surge in app downloads from the country -- so much so that five of the leading app stores in the world are now from China.

• China works to rein in online comment threads

  Porn, rumors, and anti-government content are all being targeted in China's latest push to filter online public expression.

• One code to rule them all: Dronecode

  Drones have just found their new best friends: coders. On Oct. 13, the Linux Foundation unveiled a nonprofit organization called the Dronecode Project, an open-source development initiative uniting thousands of coders for the purpose of building an aerial operating system for drones. Hopeful that the project will bring order to the chaos that has surrounded software developers as they sprint to carve out a share of the bourgeoning market for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), UAS operators are now asking whether Dronecode will finally provide the horsepower and industry-wide support needed to launch a universal drone operating system.

• Baidu traffic from mobile devices now more than from PCs

  In a sign that more Chinese are relying on their smartphones to go online, local search giant Baidu said its mobile Internet traffic had surpassed traffic from PCs during the third quarter.

• China's Baidu developing an OS for smart bikes

  Chinese search giant Baidu is getting on the smart bike bandwagon with an operating system that lets cyclists track their workouts and routes.

• Smarter algorithms will power our future digital lives

  Researchers are working on a new version of an algorithm that will power better search, autonomous cars, smarter smartphones and the Internet of Things.

• China's Baidu partners with BMW on driverless car research

  Chinese search giant Baidu has entered into a partnership with BMW to jointly research driverless car technologies, with the goal of developing a semi-autonomous vehicle in three years.

• China's Baidu shows off alternative to Google Glass, without optical display

  Chinese search engine Baidu is offering its own answer to Google Glass, but the headmounted device, which can visually scan and identify objects, comes without an optical display to extend battery life.

• Baidu, Tencent help Chinese shopping malls take on Alibaba

  Baidu and Tencent are teaming up with a Chinese shopping mall operator in a joint venture that could steal business away from local e-commerce giant Alibaba Group.