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On Thursday, Google chairman Eric Schmidt said that he expects the internet as we know it to "disappear" in the coming years.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this week, Schmidt was asked about his predictions for the future of the web and his response came as a surprise to many. "I will answer very simply that the Internet will disappear," said Schmidt at The Future of the Digital Economy panel.
According to new reports, China is bolstering the "Great Firewall" expanding its censorship to include several virtual private networks.
Reported by the Financial Times, many virtual private networks are either completely unavailable or intermittently available in the country. Users have often turned to VPNs to circumvent the country's strict censorship laws which block many Western sites like Facebook, Google, and Twitter.
HONG KONG – Stocks in China plunged 7.7 percent on Monday, the largest one-day sell-off since the 2008 financial crisis. But China’s top securities regulator, Xiao Gang, showed no sign of concern as he addressed a financial forum here.
After all, the sell-off was largely engineered by Mr. Xiao’s agency. On Friday evening, the China Securities Regulatory Commission cracked down on borrowing to invest in shares by placing a temporary ban on margin financing against three of China’s biggest brokerage firms.
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SANAA, Yemen — Rebel Shiite Houthis battled soldiers near Yemen's presidential palace and elsewhere across the capital Monday, seizing control of the country's state-run media in a move an official called "a step toward a coup."
The fighting near the palace marks the biggest challenge yet to the government of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi by the Houthis, who seized the capital, Sanaa, during their advance in September across parts of Yemen.
