Category Archives: china

For decades, American and Chinese scientists collaborated on supercomputers. But Chinese scientists have become more secretive as the U.S. has tried to hinder China’s technological progress, and they have stopped participating altogether in a prominent… Continue reading China Is Getting Secretive About Its Supercomputers→

Simon Sharwood reports via The Register: Chinese researchers have created a drone that weighs just over four grams — less than a sheet of printer paper — and may be able to fly indefinitely. Documented in a paper published last week in Nature, the dr… Continue reading Chinese Researchers Create Four-Gram Drone→

The BBC reports that “while most of the world was grappling with the blue screen of death on Friday,” there was one country that managed to escape largely unscathed: China.

The reason is actually quite simple: CrowdStrike is hardly used there. Very fe… Continue reading One Nation Mostly Unaffected by the Crowdstrike Outage: China→

The pace of China’s clean energy transition “is roughly the equivalent of installing five large-scale nuclear power plants worth of renewables every week,” according to a report from Australia’s national public broadcaster ABC (shared by long-time Slas… Continue reading China Is Installing Renewables Equivalent to Five Large Nuclear Plants Per Week→

The U.S. Commerce Department plans to issue proposed rules on connected vehicles next month and expects to impose limits on some software made in China and other countries deemed adversaries, a senior official said Tuesday. From a report: “We’re lookin… Continue reading US To Issue Proposed Rules Limiting Chinese Vehicle Software in August→