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We ARE living in a material world! Scientists reveal hi-tech textiles breakthrough in wearable, washable electronic displays

We ARE living in a material world! Scientists reveal hi-tech textiles breakthrough in wearable, washable electronic displays

Chinese scientists have unveiled next-generation wearable tech in the form of flexible, breathable electronic fabric which serves as a wearable, washable, interactive display, with diverse applications from telecoms to medicine.…

US war on China tech: Five firms accused of posing national threat

US war on China tech: Five firms accused of posing national threat

The latest development comes as the administration of President Joe Biden is reinforcing a hard line in Washington’s war on Chinese companies. The US has declared more restrictions on five…

Radioactive ‘snowflakes’ act like the tiniest nuclear bombs in the universe

Radioactive ‘snowflakes’ act like the tiniest nuclear bombs in the universe

By Mara Johnson-Groh – Live Science Contributor This Chandra X-ray Observatory image shows the remnant of Kepler’s supernova, the famous Type 1a supernova explosion that was discovered by Johannes Kepler in 1604.  (Image credit: X-ray:…

Scientists Baffled By Discovery of Most Distant Radio-Loud Quasar With Greedy Black Hole

Scientists Baffled By Discovery of Most Distant Radio-Loud Quasar With Greedy Black Hole

by Max Gorbachev 0 81 Quasars are the most energetic objects in the universe and emit tremendous amounts of energy as they are powered by supermassive black holes that, in turn, are surrounded…

Rise of the Yellow man…China sets goal of sending 12 astronauts to space by 2023, opening of space station by 2022

Rise of the Yellow man…China sets goal of sending 12 astronauts to space by 2023, opening of space station by 2022

Hot on the heels of its recent successes reaching the Red Planet, China’s space agency has announced the lofty goal of executing 11 launch missions and sending a dozen astronauts…

WATCH: Scientists unveil new rapid 3D organ printing method which is 10-50 times faster than current techniques

WATCH: Scientists unveil new rapid 3D organ printing method which is 10-50 times faster than current techniques

Researchers at the University at Buffalo have unveiled their novel 3D printing method with an incredible video showcasing what could soon be the future of rapid, artificial organ manufacture. The…

China’s beefed up R&D spending to narrow tech gap with US, ease ‘stranglehold problems’

China’s beefed up R&D spending to narrow tech gap with US, ease ‘stranglehold problems’

By GT staff reporters Technicians taking part in the hot-running test check a train of the Guangzhou Metro Line 18 in the cab in Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong Province, March…

US & China moving from tariff war to technology war, economics professor tells Boom Bust

US & China moving from tariff war to technology war, economics professor tells Boom Bust

Technology is one of the major issues being discussed by China at its national congress this week. The government sees the sector as critical to its drive for modernization and…

China Development Bank Backs $62bn Loan Scheme For Mainland Chipmakers Amid US-China Trade Tensions

China Development Bank Backs $62bn Loan Scheme For Mainland Chipmakers Amid US-China Trade Tensions

by Demond Cureton2281 The move comes as Beijing aims to reduce dependence on key US technologies amid Washington’s ongoing trade war with China, and ahead of a major policy meeting for…

China aims for tech independence amid looming cut-throat race with US

China aims for tech independence amid looming cut-throat race with US

By Global Times The Kunpeng 920 chip, among other server chips, showcased at Huawei Beijing research center. Photo:CGTN China is moving swiftly to map out potential weaknesses in dozens of…

What dreams may come: Scientists develop method for two-way communication while people are in deep sleep

What dreams may come: Scientists develop method for two-way communication while people are in deep sleep

Illustration: © Orange Fox from Pixabay Follow RT onWhile not quite on par with ‘Inception,’ researchers from Northwestern University have discovered a new phenomenon they describe as “interactive dreaming,” in…

Huawei digitally connects Pakistan beyond India’s reach

Huawei digitally connects Pakistan beyond India’s reach

New Silk Road fiber optic cable project eases Pakistan’s cybersecurity concerns with India but raises new ones with China By FM SHAKIL Huawei is reaching ever deeper into Pakistan’s digital sector.…

Scientists prepare for their last good look at asteroid Apophis before 2029 flyby

Scientists prepare for their last good look at asteroid Apophis before 2029 flyby

By Meghan Bartels – Space.com Senior Writer  Chaos is coming. An animation shows Apophis’ 2029 path compared to the swarm of satellites orbiting Earth.(Image: © NASA/JPL-Caltech) On March 5, wave hello to the…

Trump’s Sanctions Pushed China’s Move Towards Chip Independence: China’s Baidu In Talks With Investors To Raise Funding For In-House AI Chipmaking Firm, Reports Say

Trump’s Sanctions Pushed China’s Move Towards Chip Independence: China’s Baidu In Talks With Investors To Raise Funding For In-House AI Chipmaking Firm, Reports Say

by Demond Cureton2260 The Chinese search engine giant currently has an in-house chip unit to manufacture Kunlun semiconductors for processing data for its artificial intelligence programmes amid a global chip shortage,…

Mysterious Element ‘Einsteinium’ Measured by Scientists For The First Time

Mysterious Element ‘Einsteinium’ Measured by Scientists For The First Time

MIKE MCRAE Dragons lurk at the edges of the map of known elements – atomic giants so delicate, and so scarce, they defy easy study. One such behemoth has finally…

Washington could put US tech in danger by going after Huawei, Professor Wolff tells Boom Bust

Washington could put US tech in danger by going after Huawei, Professor Wolff tells Boom Bust

The US-China ‘phase one’ trade deal has paused a tariff fight between the world’s top two economies that started in 2018. Boom Bust explores US President Joe Biden’s plan for…

West loses nuclear tech monopoly as China’s first third-generation nuclear reactor put into operation

West loses nuclear tech monopoly as China’s first third-generation nuclear reactor put into operation

The first reactor adopting China’s third-generation nuclear reactor technology has been put into commercial operation, announced China National Nuclear Corporation in Beijing on Saturday. The opening of the reactor, Fuqing…

US-China tech war: Beijing’s top policy official lays out strategy to address Washington’s ‘stranglehold’ over China

US-China tech war: Beijing’s top policy official lays out strategy to address Washington’s ‘stranglehold’ over China

It was Beijing’s ‘inevitable choice’ to seek a greater level of tech independence when the US was imposing restrictions on China, said policy chief Jiang JinquanThe article, published just days…

Choo Choo! Meet China’s First Hydrogen-Powered Locomotive

Choo Choo! Meet China’s First Hydrogen-Powered Locomotive

by Nikita Folomov 0 360 When China’s President Xi Jinping pledged that China would be carbon neutral by 2060, he was dead serious. Although hydrogen is only one of the many elements to…

Ingenious ‘Wrinkled’ Graphene Could Be The Most Promising Water Filter Yet

Ingenious ‘Wrinkled’ Graphene Could Be The Most Promising Water Filter Yet

DAVID NIELD Graphene continues to dazzle us with its strength and its versatility – exciting new applications are being discovered for it all the time, and now scientists have found a way of manipulating the…

The quantum leap forward: On birthing the world’s fastest, most advanced internet network, China claims supremacy over the US

The quantum leap forward: On birthing the world’s fastest, most advanced internet network, China claims supremacy over the US

By Brian McGleenon, a journalist who has worked for Fuji Television, The Daily Express, The Independent, KBS and Pear Video.Beijing’s new quantum computer can solve mathematical problems in 200 seconds that…

Photos: China Rolls Out ‘Super Bullet Maglev Train’ That Uses New High-Temperature Superconductor

Photos: China Rolls Out ‘Super Bullet Maglev Train’ That Uses New High-Temperature Superconductor

by Morgan Artyukhina2270 China announced plans for two new maglev train routes as part of its vast expansion of high-speed rail travel: one from Shanghai to Hangzhou and one from Guangzhou…

Twin-seat variation & domestic engine-equipped version of J-20 make official appearances

Twin-seat variation & domestic engine-equipped version of J-20 make official appearances

By Liu Xuanzun The twin-seat variation of the J-20 fighter jet, depicted by computer-generated imagery, is seen in a video released by AVIC celebrating the 10th anniversary of the aircraft’s maiden…

Chip war heats up with new Kirin 9010 for Huawei

Chip war heats up with new Kirin 9010 for Huawei

According to an industry leaker, Huawei may be the first manufacturer to announce a 3nm chipset By DAVE MAKICHUK The info about the new Kirin processor comes from the leaker @RODENT950,…

Desalination Breakthrough Could Lead to Cheaper Water Filtration

Desalination Breakthrough Could Lead to Cheaper Water Filtration

Photo courtesy of Tyler Henderson/Penn State. AUSTIN, Texas — Producing clean water at a lower cost could be on the horizon after researchers from The University of Texas at Austin…

Huawei Fallout—Serious New China Threat Strikes At Google, Samsung And Apple

Huawei Fallout—Serious New China Threat Strikes At Google, Samsung And Apple

Zak Doffman Contributor CybersecurityI write about security and surveillance. LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGES It is now clear that the fallout from the latest U.S. sanctions against Huawei will reshape the global smartphone…

China Claims Quantum Supremacy With Computer 10 Billion Times Faster Than Google’s Prototype

China Claims Quantum Supremacy With Computer 10 Billion Times Faster Than Google’s Prototype

 has built a computer that could perform a computation in 200 seconds that would take the fastest supercomputers about 10,000 years, reaching quantum supremacy. ALSO READAmazon to up the ante…

Unintended consequences of US sanctions: Huawei aims to forge complete microchip industry chain

Unintended consequences of US sanctions: Huawei aims to forge complete microchip industry chain

Panorama of the 2020 Global Mobile Broadband Forum. Photos: Courtesy of HuaweiChinese technology giant Huawei plans to phase in a complete microchip industry chain using own technology and investment, facing…

Black holes can grow ‘hair’ when spinning fast enough in dramatic extension of Einstein’s theory of gravity

Black holes can grow ‘hair’ when spinning fast enough in dramatic extension of Einstein’s theory of gravity

Illustration: © Alexander Antropov from Pixabay Follow RT onAn international team of scientists has found that black holes can grow hair-like structures if they spin fast enough, providing fresh insights…

China to expand weather modification program by 2M square miles

China to expand weather modification program by 2M square miles