Technology meant to read your thoughts and explore your memories is already here In recent years, we’ve seen neurotechnologies move out of research labs and into actual use. Schools have used some devices to monitor children’s brain activity to know when they are paying attention. Police forces use others to find out if someone is … Read more
In fact, the robot’s promised “live” demo was pre-recorded. Shares of Baidu, the company behind the technology, plunged in Hong Kong.
How the downfall of an intelligence agent revealed the startling depth of Chinese industrial espionage.
Some people may look in the trash at a grocery store and see trash. But others are starting to see dollar signs. New facilities are popping up in the US to help process food waste using a process called anaerobic digestion, which uses microbes to break down organic matter. Food waste processing company Divert announced … Read more
Before most people realized what was happening, China had become a world leader in electric vehicles. And the momentum hasn’t slowed: In just the past two years, the number of electric vehicles sold annually in the country has increased from 1.3 million to 6.8 million. The industry is growing at a speed that has surprised … Read more
Similar scams are, perhaps unsurprisingly, incredibly prevalent within China at the moment, and in the days since my messages with Jin, I spoke with several Chinese who fell for the scams after they searched social media for Paxlovid. Liao, a Chinese woman in Shenzhen who asked that we only use her last name, was despondent … Read more
This is today’s version of LoadingAnd the Our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s happening in the tech world. What’s next for batteries? Every year, the world runs more and more on batteries. Electric vehicles will surpass 10% of global auto sales in 2022 and are on track to reach 30% by … Read more
A project led by researchers from a Swiss university highlights China’s ambition to make the Tiangong outpost widely accessible to science.
It’s a confusing time. Instead of a single top-down decision from Beijing to roll back anti-virus policies, there have been several independent decisions announced by local governments in the past week., mostly about canceling mandatory PCR tests and reopening businesses. However, they sometimes conflict with each other, and a lot of Chinese cities enforce their … Read more
As protests against China’s strict coronavirus measures swept through social media, one Twitter account emerged as a central source of information: @李老师不是你老师 (“Teacher Lee is not your teacher”). People everywhere in China sent protest screenshots and real-time updates to the account through private messages, and he posted them on their behalf, with the sender’s identity … Read more