The platform developed by Tairex, a company set up in September under the university’s Institute for Al Industry Research (AIR), features 42 AI doctors covering 21 departments that include emergency, respiratory, paediatrics and cardiology, according to an AIR blog post published last month. Public tests of the platform, named Agent Hospital, will be conducted in … Read more
China’s top intelligence agency has warned that open-source information poses threats to national security by making sensitive data vulnerable to exploitation by foreign spies. Sensitive data that is not properly declassified or assessed for risks can be publicly spread online and “become an important source of open-source intelligence” for overseas spy agencies, the Ministry of … Read more
Several Chinese cities are awarding a “snail award” to sluggish cadres among their measures to eliminate a “lying flat” mentality among workers, after repeated calls for greater diligence by President Xi Jinping and Chinese disciplinary authorities. In the eastern city of Taizhou in Jiangsu province, a snail award has been given to workers who do … Read more
RECENT FREQUENCY OF VIOLENT ATTACKS Over a short span of nine days, China saw three instances of mass violence: On Nov 11, a man drove into a crowd in Zhuhai, killing 35 and injuring 43; on Nov 17, eight people were killed and 17 others wounded in a knife attack at a Jiangsu vocational school; … Read more
With Black Friday still in full swing and Travel Tuesday happening next week, we’ve rounded up some of the best offers available. If you’re in the mood to spoil loved ones with an unforgettable Christmas gift or itching to book your next getaway, these top-notch deals from trusted brands may have the holiday sparkle you’re … Read more
The unoccupied space-facing port on the International Space Station’s Harmony module is pictured several hours before the SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft would relocate there after undocking from Harmony’s forward port. NASA Johnson Space Center In the race to conquer the cosmos, the greatest challenge to space exploration might be the vastness of the unknown, but … Read more
LONDON – China‘s government has kept its cool and offered a muted response to comments by Tadashi Yanai that Fast Retailing does not use cotton from Xinjiang. Yanai, president and CEO of Fast Retailing, the parent of Uniqlo, told the BBC his company does not use cotton from the region, despite working closely with Chinese … Read more
In August 2012, a young Chinese entrepreneur posted to the online forum BitcoinTalk that he was selling shares in a company that would make hardware with chips dedicated to mining bitcoin and pay out dividends based on its earnings. Jiang Xinyu, known as Friedcat on the forum, was one of the first people in the … Read more
China has announced an action plan to reduce food loss and waste. It came days after President Xi Jinping delivered a speech at the Group of 20 summit in Brazil, declaring that China was joining the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty and would remain a committed host of the International Conference on Food Loss … Read more
YANQING, CHINA — In a research facility in the northwest of Beijing, molecular biologist Li Jieping and his team harvest a cluster of seven unusually small potatoes, one as tiny as a quail’s egg, from a potted plant. Grown under conditions that simulate predictions of higher temperatures at the end of the century, the potatoes … Read more
