Throughout China’s annual legislative meeting, the national leader Xi Jinping made clear that he wants nothing to hold back his plans for China to march past its rivals by becoming a technological superpower. Not the economic slowdown or heavy local government debt, nor a trade war with the United States. The meeting in Beijing, called…
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for better integration of technology and industry, stressing the need to upgrade traditional sectors and foster future sources of innovation. Addressing deputies from the eastern province of Jiangsu in Beijing on Wednesday, Xi also reaffirmed support for private businesses – a message he has delivered repeatedly as part of…
At the annual gathering in Boston this week of one of America’s oldest scientific societies, the discussions touched on threats to humankind: runaway artificial intelligence, toxic “forever chemicals,” the eventual end of the universe. But the most urgent threats for many scientists were the ones aimed at them, as the Trump administration slashes the federal…
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, or NASEM, is an independent, 162-year-old nongovernmental agency tasked with investigating and reporting on a wide range of subjects. In recent years, diversity, equity and inclusion — collectively known as D.E.I. — have been central to its agenda. But the Academies’ priorities changed abruptly on Jan. 31….
The United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are locked in a race to lead the development of critical and emerging technologies (CETs), such as artificial intelligence (AI), 5G, quantum technologies, and others. Both nations have distinct ambitions, and their own strategic plans aimed at securing their dominance in these fields. Despite the…
A humanoid robot gyrates to pulsing music at a shopping mall in Beijing, part of an exhibition harnessing artificial intelligence to enhance the flavour of China’s biggest annual festival. The country is celebrating the eight-day Lunar New Year holiday that typically sees people return home to eat, drink and make merry with family and friends….
Every year when winter finally loosens its grip on northern Japan, Tomoko Kobayashi begins what has become an annual rite for her and a small band of collaborators. They head out with measuring devices to keep tabs on an invisible threat that still pollutes the mountains and forests around their homes: radioactivity. In her car,…
Wall Street’s superstars are tumbling as a competitor from China threatens to upend the artificial-intelligence frenzy that has created a spending bonanza. The S&P 500 was down 1.7 percent in midday trading on Monday and heading for its worst day in more than a month. Big Tech stocks took some of the heaviest losses with…
The rocket’s first attempt to launch on Monday was scrubbed around because ice had accumulated on a propellant line. Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket has blasted off from Florida on its first mission to space, an inaugural step into Earth’s orbit for Jeff Bezos’s space company. Thirty storeys tall, standing at 98 metres (321.5 feet),…
SANYA, China, Dec. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Yin Min Htwe, a former civil servant in Myanmar, is currently pursuing her academic career in China as an assistant researcher at the Coconut Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CRICATAS). Based in Sanya, a coastal city in Hainan in south China, she calls…