Según se informa, OpenAI planea bloquear el acceso a su API en China, y las empresas chinas están interviniendo para llenar el vacío que se avecina. Según el periódico estatal chino Securities Times (vía Reuters), los usuarios en China recibieron un correo electrónico indicando que se encontraban en una “región que actualmente no es compatible … Read more
Onboard this Long March 5 rocket, Chang’e-6 is waiting to lift off from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre on Hainan Island, southern China.Credit: Xinhua/Shutterstock China has successfully launched its historic Chang’e-6 mission.The 53-day odyssey will be the most complex and challenging Moon mission China has carried out. If all goes according to plan, scientists will … Read more
Later this week, China will embark on the world’s second-only trip to the Moon’s far side. The goal is to collect the first rocks from inside the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest impact crater on the lunar surface, and bring them back to Earth for analysis. A stack of four spacecraft needed … Read more
On the outskirts of Beijing sits a set of unassuming buildings marked ‘X’, for ‘extreme’. Inside the Synergetic Extreme Condition User Facility (SECUF), researchers from all over the world are pushing matter to its limits with extreme magnetic fields, pressures and temperatures, and examining it in new ways with extremely precise resolution in time. One … Read more
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has released the highest-resolution geological maps of the Moon yet. The Geologic Atlas of the Lunar Globe, which took more than 100 researchers over a decade to compile, reveals a total of 12,341 craters, 81 basins and 17 rock types, along with other basic geological information about the lunar … Read more
WhatsApp and Threads are no longer available for download in China’s App Store. Photo: Unsplash Following a request from the Chinese government, Apple has reportedly pulled WhatsApp and Threads from China’s App Store. Other Meta apps, like Facebook and Instagram, are still available for download in the country. The Cyberspace Administration of China asked Apple … Read more
Apple supplier BOE has taken the lead in becoming the OLED panel supplier for the fourth-generation iPhone SE, IT Home reports. Samsung Display, BOE, and Tianma have all been in discussions with Apple to supply the OLED panels, but today’s report claims that Samung has withdrawn from negotiations due to pricing problems, despite having an … Read more
China wants to use and manufacture more of its own medical equipment.Credit: VCG via Getty Images As a sinology student in the early 1990s at Nanjing University, Elisabeth Staudinger “got a flavour of what health care felt like for the people in China”. As part of her studies, she had to venture more than 2,000 … Read more
Kaiping, China Seven hundred metres below the rolling green landscape of Kaiping, southeast China, construction workers are furiously finishing a 35-metre-diameter orb-shaped detector that aims to observe ghostly subatomic particles known as neutrinos in exquisite detail. If all goes to plan, the US$376 million Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) will be ready to start detecting … Read more