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Indonesian growth slows in third quarter

  AFP Indonesia’s economic growth slowed in the third quarter as government spending and exports fell, official data showed Monday, dimming hopes that Southeast Asia’s top economy will hit its GDP target this year. The economy expanded 5.02 percent year-on-year from July to September, slightly below forecasts and slower than a revised 5.19 percent in the second quarter, according to ...

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China adopts new cybersecurity law

  Bloomberg China has green-lit a sweeping and controversial law that may grant Beijing unprecedented access to foreign companies’ technology and hamstring their operations in the world’s second-largest economy. The Cyber Security Law was passed by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, China’s top legislature, and will take effect in June, government officials said Monday. Among other things, ...

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DeepMind takes on Starcraft

  Bloomberg Google’s DeepMind AI unit, which earlier this year achieved a breakthrough in computer intelligence by creating software that beat the world’s best human player at the strategy game Go, is turning its attention to the sci-fi video game Starcraft II. The company said it had reached a deal with Blizzard Entertainment Inc., the Irvine, California-based division of Activision ...

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