Tag: Xi Jinping
Tech Digest daily roundup: NHS Covid-19 app future in doubt
There's doubt over the future of the NHS Covid-19 contact tracing app for England and Wales, as the government prepares to relax restrictions in England on 19 July. But one advisor says the app has proved effective and urged the government not to drop it. Among the restrictions that the Prime Minister said would be…
US blacklists five Chinese technology companies
The US is blacklisting five Chinese organisations involved in super computing, calling them national security threats and cutting them off from critical US technology. The move by the Commerce Department could complicate talks next week between President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, aimed at de-escalating a trade dispute between the world’s two…