China’s BrainCo bets on wearable brain tech
Brain-computer interfaces, a nascent technology, establishes a direct link between human minds and devices. BrainCo Elon Musk’s Neuralink,…
China proposes laser-powered energy tower on moon to transmit wireless power
Researchers in China are proposing that the moon could become the first place where wireless power transmission is…
Japan’s smaller businesses exit China on economic, political risks
Business trends Overall tally of Japanese firms in country down about 10% from 2012 peak Staffing services provider…
How Hong Kong is fighting to redefine its future with an institutional moat, wealth surge
For decades, warnings of Hong Kong’s terminal decline have arrived in periodic waves. When Stephen Roach, the former…
Why factories in southern China are feeling the squeeze despite pickup in orders
As China prepares to release its second-quarter and first-half economic data this week – with markets generally expecting…
There are few things more life-affirming than a dancing robot going haywire – The Irish Times
For all the complaints I have about social media, with its ceaseless extrusion of trash into cultural and…
Japan wants 60 million tourists, but China isn’t sending them
Japan has found a new export industry and it doesn’t come off an assembly line. It arrives by…
Opinion | We Returned From China. We Realized Our Century’s Biggest Challenge.
The question is hard to answer because the benefits of the technology are unevenly distributed and can often…
China’s Tianwen-2 Space Probe Has Rendezvoused With Earth’s Quasi-Moon
The China National Space Administration’s asteroid probe Tianwen-2 successfully reached the asteroid Kamo’oalewa, which orbits the Sun in…
China unveils members of state-backed commercial space consortium
HELSINKI — A Chinese government body has published a national commercial space consortium membership list, offering a rare…
China now has 7 of world’s 10 biggest banks as Beijing’s financial ambitions grow
China’s “big four” state-run banks are the largest in the world in terms of asset scale, a new…
Space breakthrough: Secretive Chinese scientists publish first image of asteroid many consider Earth’s ‘quasi moon’
China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft has successfully photographed Kamo’oalewa, marking the first detailed image ever captured of Earth’s quasi-moon. The…