House Republicans have urged seven US universities to cut ties with a Chinese scholarship programme that lawmakers call a “nefarious mechanism” to steal technology for the Chinese government. In letters to Dartmouth College, the University of Notre Dame and five other universities, leaders of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party raised concerns…
Ingrid Daubechies, a mathematician at Duke University, is an expert on many matters, not least the baking of cookies in the shape of pi, the mathematical constant that equals the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, or roughly 3.14159. A sugar cookie recipe works fine, Dr. Daubechies says. But she prefers a savory…
China’s ambassador to the United States Xie Feng has called for closer cooperation on artificial intelligence, warning that the technology risks “opening Pandora’s box”. “As the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is unfolding, what we need is not a technological blockade, [but] ‘deep seeking’ for human progress,” Xie said, making…