Enlarge (credit: Financial Times) The world’s largest technology companies are pouring money into the biggest foreign policy think tanks in the US, as they seek to advance the argument that stricter competition rules will benefit China. Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple are behind an increase in funding to four of Washington’s most prestigious research groups: […]
Enlarge / China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft flies above Mars. (credit: CNSA) China celebrates the start of a new year on Tuesday—it will be the Year of the Tiger—and on the particular eve of the holiday, the Chinese space program sent a special message from the red planet. The country’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft, which has been in orbit […]
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A Japanese woman has given up her baby and sued the man who helped her conceive it as a sperm donor after she discovered that he allegedly lied to her about his marital status, his ethnicity, and his educational background. The woman, who is only identified publicly as a 30-year-old from Tokyo, is believed to […]
Enlarge / A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in May 2021 carrying the 29th batch of approximately 60 satellites as part of SpaceX’s Starlink broadband Internet network. (credit: SOPA Images / Getty Images ) Earlier within December, the Chinese government filed a document with […]
Enlarge / Photo taken on Aug. 2, 2019 shows the booth of CPU chip manufacturer Intel at China Digital Entertainment Expo and Game Expo in Shanghai, China. (credit: Future Publishing |Getty Images) Intel has apologized for a ban upon using components from Xinjiang within response to attacks from Chinese nationalist media over the policy, becoming […]
Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai is speaking out again about the sexual assault accusation she made against a high-profile government official — but now, she’ s saying she never actually delivered the allegation at all. The women’ s professional tennis star opened up in a new video statement published on Sunday, claiming that she never […]
Algorithm designers, Chinese tech companies, and an at-home exercise brand hope to put a miserable year behind them. Read More