Given the fevered pace of China's infrastructure development, 16 years is ancient. That's why the two-lane concrete Zhuan-yang viaduct running through the town of Wuhan, Hubei in central China had to go — a bigger and better six-lane freeway was in the works. But to demolish the original roadway without harming the surrounding homes, engineers smothered the blast under a blanket. Read More >>
Just three months after hacks by China’s People’s Liberation Army came to an abrupt halt, the country is once again attacking US targets reports the New York Times. Read More >>
Over 23 years ago, Luo Gong — just five years old at the time — was on his way to nursery in the Sichuan region of China, when he was abducted and taken over 1,000 miles to Fujian in the southeast. But now, he's used the power of internet to find his family again. Read More >>
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"Doesn't sound real to me. First of all, why didn't he use China map service such as provided by Baidu and other companies, there're quite a few of the..." More »
It's not the motion of the ocean that matters to Lockheed's Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) power plant, only the temperature of the water. Read More >>
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"6% effiency? Oh dear. Search youtube for a google talk by Dr Kirt Sorensen on Thorium. If Thorium does even a fraction of what is claimed, it would..." More »
While fingers have long been pointed from US shores towards China when it comes to online attacks, the Pentagon has now directly accused the country's government and military of cyberespionage. Read More >>
A team of Chinese researchers have deliberately created deadly new strains of influenza in a veterinary laboratory — and are now on the receiving end of severe criticism from across the wider scientific community. Read More >>
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"I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say, I'm pretty sure both the U.S. and Europe, as well as a multitude of other developed nations have done and con..." More »
If you work at NASA, there are a few things you should never ever do. The first: never be Chinese and bring your NASA-issued laptop to China because they'll think you're a Chinese spy exposing secrets. The second: if you do bring your NASA-issued laptop to China, don't download porn on your NASA-issued laptop. Chinese scientist Bo Jiang failed 'em both. Read More >>
Financial institutions — and stock exchanges in particular — are usually designed to project an image of stability. Not so in Shenzhen, where OMA's new Stock Exchange is set to open in a few weeks. Unlike the staid Neoclassicism of Wall Street, Shenzhen is getting one of the most structurally daring buildings of the century: an 250m tower than anchors one of the largest architectural cantilevers ever built. Read More >>
China's not happy with all the risqué content Apple's apparently trying to push to its citizens. The state-run The People's Daily, named and shamed Apple in a porno-shock investigation, labelling it as one of the biggest providers of the sordid material behind the Great Firewall of China. Oh the irony. Read More >>
Do you have a Bachelors degree, good teamwork skills, and a desire to work in Beijing? If yes, then Chief Pornography Identification Officer might be the job for you! You had better know your porn because you will be expected to research and study pornographic videos and images all day long, while managing and rating your team's porn resources. No easy task. Read More >>
With concern about Chinese hacking on the rise, the American Congress passed new restrictions on buying equipment from China last month as part of a funding bill. The measures ban some federal purchases of networked equipment "produced, manufactured or assembled" by any group with a strong connection to China. Read More >>
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"This is less about stopping Chinese hackers and more about protectionism of US companies. US companies are notoriously afraid of competition and are ..." More »
Baidu, the Chinese search engine used in China, is reportedly working on a Chinese version of Google Project Glass that'll be called Baidu Eye. Because OF COURSE they would. It makes perfect sense for knockoff Google to knock off Project Glass, right? Read More >>
In a lot of ways, China's Internet isn't the sort of Internet you want to be using. It's ridiculously censored, for example. But in other ways, it's way better than the stuff we have over here. According to a recent report from the New England Complex Systems Institute, China's 'net infrastructure is head and shoulders above what we've got here in the west. Read More >>
According to a report obtained by The Verge, analysts from Florida-based Internet security firm Cymru have uncovered a massive foreign hacking enterprise that has somehow managed to steal more than a terabyte of data per day. Confirmed international targets include military and academic facilities in addition to a major search engine, among others. Read More >>
Reuters says Apple was targeted by the same crew that recently hit Facebook, and managed to infect a "small number" of the company's computers. Read More >>
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