New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday called on Brics countries to work together in order to secure critical mineral supply chains and ensure that no one nation is able to dominate and weaponize these resources. His call at the 17th Brics Summit in Rio de Janeiro comes amid a Chinese chokehold on global…
China has released its latest list of 30 major scientific questions, engineering challenges, and industrial technology bottlenecks, highlighting national priorities in its ongoing technological advancement. The list was unveiled Sunday by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) at its 27th annual meeting, News.Az reports, citing Xinhua. This marks the eighth edition of the…
Denis Simon is one of the leading experts on US-China science and technology cooperation as well as China’s innovation system. He has held senior roles including executive vice-chancellor at Duke Kunshan University and director of the US-China programme at Pennsylvania State University. He is teaching a graduate course on China science and technology policy at…
From steel mills to display panel factories, Chinese companies are rapidly integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into traditional industries, marking a major shift toward intelligent, digital manufacturing. Leading the transformation is Shougang Group, one of China’s largest steelmakers, which has deployed an AI-powered visual system that boosted production efficiency by over 20% and cut defects by…
Beijing-based Baidu has now enlarged the mobile app’s search bar and turned it into a “smart box” that supports long text input and handles more tasks than simple text-based queries and information retrieval, according to the company’s statement on Wednesday. This search box is capable of handling prompts that are thousands of words long, rather…
getty A retirement side gig can emerge from boredom, isolation, or simply the desire to earn some extra spending cash. No matter the reason, it’s clear that senior side hustles will only grow as more baby boomers enter the retirement ranks. A 2024 study showed that retirement side gigs generate nearly $6 billion in revenues…
Baidu, the Chinese tech giant, is making its Ernie artificial intelligence (AI) model open-source on Monday. The company announced the move in February, and has already made its chatbot free to use. This is being viewed as a watershed moment in China’s AI space, as this is the first time a major AI player has…
Kevin Parsons has a unique view of photography from the past to the present day. His mother, an avid photographer in Western Australia’s Midwest in the 1950s and 60s, left him a cherished collection of photo slides and 8-millimetre film reels. “Anything in town, she would be there,” he said. “Mum took some really good…
China still lags behind the US in artificial intelligence (AI) chips, but the country is rapidly catching up in algorithms amid an intense technological race between the world’s two largest economies, according to renowned computer scientist Harry Shum Heung-yeung. AI competition encompassed three key aspects: chips, algorithms, and applications – and the US was “clearly”…
Yajiang-1, a cutting-edge computing centre perched in the cradle of Tibetan civilisation along the Yarlung Tsangpo River, is up and running as part of China’s plan to transform the so-called roof of the world into a strategic frontier for sustainable supercomputing. The facility, the first major hub of the “Eastern Data, Western Computing” project on…