BEIJING - Chinese cyber police and leading tech firm Baidu have launched an online service to control the spread of rumors. The service is imbedded into the country's top search engine, and all news portals and online forums that Baidu operates. Baidu said the company used big data, natural language processing and artificial intelligence technology to gather suspicious messages on the Internet and forward them to the institutes, experts, and the police to verify. The company will help them write stories to dispell the rumors and send that information to a target audience. Internet users will also be warned of Baidu search results that contain suspicious messages. Baidu vice president Wang Lu said the company's search engine received nearly 3 billion requests to verify suspicious claims. Closer collaboration between the tech company and police will bring the dangers of false information down to a minimum, he said. Baidu said it would build a database with up to 1 million verified rumors and share the information accordingly. custom wristbands uk24 hour wristbands coupon codecheap rubber wristbandsuv bracelettrio spinnersdebossed wristband
XINING - China's largest inland salt lake contained around 80,000 tonnes of naked carp in 2017, 30 times the number in 2002, according to local authorities Wednesday."Qinghai Lake has seen a 14-percent annual growth of naked carp stock this year," said Wang Hai, head of the fishing bureau of northwest China's Qinghai Province.Owing to over-fishing and environmental deterioration, the population of naked carp sharply declined in the 1960s and 1970s.In order to protect the species and restore the Qinghai Lake environment, the province banned naked carp fishing at the lake in 2001, following a series of temporary prohibitions from the 1980s onward.More than 94 million artificially-bred fry have been released into the lake since 2002 to preserve the rare species. There has also been a crackdown on the illegal fishing, selling and processing of the fish.The naked carp is endemic to Qinghai Lake, which is classified as endangered and on the China Species Red List.The fish are critical not only to the existence of local bird species, but to the whole ecological balance of the highland lake.
