Wang Haili was facing the dire prospect of shutting down his semiconductor business when he reached out to a mentor at Tsinghua University, where he read his PhD in computer science and technology.... | Continue reading
South Korea’s meagre social welfare payments force many pensioners to keep working after they reach 60. Park Jae-yeol, 71, says the pension payments are barely enough for pocket money, so he has to remain part of the workforce | Continue reading
Amid all the high-pitch propaganda surrounding a possible deal between Washington and Beijing, less attention has been devoted to the holes the telecom giant dug for itself and neglected to fix | Continue reading
Pupil tells reporters he doesn’t dare let his mind wander after technology is installed in classroom to see who is paying attention | Continue reading
First projects to be rated will include 28 virtual currencies, according to institute responsible for advising on technology policymaking | Continue reading
A new spacecraft could ‘sniff and taste’ the water spraying from an icy moon with a giant hidden ocean and analyse it for signs of habitability — and alien life | Continue reading
Vast system of chambers on Tibetan plateau could send enough particles into the atmosphere to allow extensive clouds to form | Continue reading
Island’s air force says it deployed F-16s to monitor latest military manoeuvres | Continue reading
Baidu, which has ambitions to build an operating system for autonomous cars, requires more human intervention during road tests in the US compared with Waymo, the self-driving unit of Google parent Alphabet. ... | Continue reading
China wants to be a world leader in artificial intelligence by 2030. To get there, it needs to equip pupils and high school students with basic AI knowledge | Continue reading
We represent each language within black borders and then provide the numbers of native speakers (in millions) by country. The colour of these countries shows how languages have taken root in many different regions | Continue reading
Billboards, bus stops and screens at railway stations display personal information as courts in Anhui find new ways to continue national campaign | Continue reading
Xiaomi’s 2017 sales jumped by two-thirds to 114.6 billion yuan, while operating profit tripled and adjusted net profit soared from a year earlier | Continue reading
Government-backed surveillance projects are deploying brain-reading technology to detect changes in emotional states in employees on the production line, the military and at the helm of high-speed trains | Continue reading
Having an alternative smartphone OS may have taken on added urgency for China with rising trade tensions with the US. Huawei has been developing and perfecting its own system, according to people familiar with its plans | Continue reading
Government-backed surveillance projects are deploying brain-reading technology to detect changes in emotional states in employees on the production line, the military and at the helm of high-speed trains | Continue reading