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The world's largest video surveillance company Hikvision is currently listed as a threat to U.S. national security. The ...

Commentary A soldier, kneeling on a mountainside, tests a Hikvision drone-jamming rifle in March. Hikvision’s website carried a ...

UCLA Scientists Successfully 'Jump-Start' the Brains of People in a Coma-Like State Photo: Fred Dufour/AFP (Getty Images) Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles are continuing to find success using ultrasound to “jump-start” the brains of people stuck in a minimally conscious state. In a report out this month, they detail two patients with chronic and severe brain injuries who experienced improvements in their awareness of the outside world after undergoing the treatment. The scientists are now more hopeful about the future of ultrasound for these difficult cases. Adver...

The Arab Spring was meant to drive out dictators. Instead, it empowered them. Matt Bradley and Ben Trachtenberg and Paul Goldman and Bill O'Reilly When 26-year-old fruit seller Mohammed Bouazizi set himself on fire 10 years ago this week, he couldn’t have known that his suicide in Tunisia would ignite the entire Middle East and North Africa, with millions demanding change from the sclerotic regimes that have long dominated the region. A decade later, Tunisia enjoys relative security and freedom, but every other country scorched by the Arab Spring’s fires have suffered inst...

UK and China: how the love affair faded Patrick Wintour Diplomatic Editor © Provided by The Guardian David Cameron and George Osborne visit the Forbidden City in Beijing in 2015. Photograph: Andrew Parsons/Press Association In 2003, the Cabinet Office decided to allow the Chinese state-backed Huawei telecommunications network to start supplying BT for the first time. Nobody bothered to put a note on the security implications into the red box of the then business secretary, Patrica Hewitt. A minor discussion, solely on the competition implications, did take place. The then h...