My driver did not hold back during the two-hour ride, talking about everything from autonomous vehicle technology company Pony.ai to Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxi, from Shanghai to Shenzhen and Wuhan, arguing on various levels that intelligent driving is, in fact, not intelligent, and autonomous vehicles may not benefit humanity. Source link
Washington, D.C., April 12, 2025 – Michael Kratsios, the newly appointed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), is at the forefront of shaping America’s technological future as tensions with China over AI innovation intensify. At 38, Kratsios, a Greek-American with roots in Volissos, Chios, and Kastoria, Greece, is the…
China and Israel share a deep foundation for friendship, having achieved substantial results in friendly exchanges and cooperation across various fields. In March 2017, the two countries established the Innovative Comprehensive Partnership, which has fostered mutual advancement in the realm of scientific and technological innovation, continuously benefiting the peoples of both countries. Before I…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Fashion is found on runways, shop windows and the accounts of social media influencers. Until recently, Varun Grover, Distinguished Professor at the Sam M. Walton College of Business, and other information systems researchers had considered fashion and technology uncomfortable bedfellows. “Most of the time when we talk about technology, we’re talking…
Spotlight on the HKDSE Curriculum: Promoting New Pathways in Education GUANGZHOU, China, April 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — On 29 March 2025, Yew Wah International Education School of Guangzhou (YWIES Guangzhou) hosted the 2nd Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Education Integration and Innovation Summit – HKDSE Curriculum Teacher Forum. Educators, scholars, school administrators, and frontline teachers…
Credit: Junchen Zhou from Pexels Chinese EV maker Xiaomi said it would cooperate with a police investigation into a fatal crash involving one of its cars which had been in autonomous mode just before the accident. Three college students died on Saturday night after their Xiaomi SU7 hit a concrete barrier on a section of…
Apple is reportedly poised to revolutionize personal wellness with the introduction of an AI-driven health coach integrated into a completely overhauled Health app. The initiative, known internally as Project Mulberry, represents the company’s most ambitious effort in the health sector to date. At the heart of the endeavor is an AI health coach, tentatively…
Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu has praised the water supply from mainland China for sustaining Hong Kong’s development over the past six decades, while pledging to turn the city into an international infrastructure centre through innovation. Hong Kong’s leader made the remarks on Tuesday to mark the 60th anniversary of the fresh water supply from…
The AI behind Manus builds on technology first shared publicly last October by one of its creators, Ji Yichao. By integrating the QwQ-32B LLM, it achieves two key innovations: one, a “long chain-of-thought reasoning” — instead of jumping straight to answers, the AI breaks down problems step-by-step (like showing your work in math class); two, action…
Hong Kong is on the cusp of a transformative shift as it embraces the low-altitude economy, a rapidly growing sector poised to revolutionise industries, reshape urban landscapes and redefine modern living. Advances in artificial intelligence, intelligent networks and human-computer interaction are driving the integration of autonomous aerial vehicles and drones into everyday life. Globally, the…