Tag: china
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Over the past decade, entertainment companies in China and Japan have increasingly invested in developing virtual talent: pop stars that appear on stage via hologram, animated personalities who livestream themselves playing games and… more ›
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Luo Tianyi is China’s most popular virtual idol among an estimated 30 to 40 holographic celebrities in the country. The trend originated in Japan, which has a long history of… more ›
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GUANGZHOU, China — As I walked through the narrow alleyways of the garment district here in China’s third-largest city one afternoon, I saw a woman I’ll call Wong Yip sitting beside… more ›
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When Liu Yang started his current job, he found it hard to go back to driving his own car: “I instinctively went for the passenger seat. https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/27/1056472/life-of-chinese-robotaxi-driver/ more ›
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HILLSBORO, Ore. — To create a beam of ultraviolet radiation precise enough to print the world’s most advanced microchips, one of the most expensive tools in the world sprays microscopic… more ›
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A future in which China is the world’s dominant scientific power fills the imagination of leaders in both East and West. China’s ability to realize these visions depends on its… more ›
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Posing as a scholar, a Chinese woman spent years writing alternative accounts of medieval Russian history on Chinese Wikipedia, conjuring imaginary states, battles, and aristocrats in one of the largest… more ›
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The US has always been the world leader in semiconductors: design, manufacturing, and the tools to produce them. Semiconductors are the base of all technological innovation in computing and information… more ›
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China kicked off a formal campaign to rein in the potential abuse of algorithms by internet giants from ByteDance Ltd. to Tencent Holdings Ltd., taking aim at the way social… more ›
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Russia’s military incursion is severing key supply chains and setting off a scramble among global companies to comply with new sanctions. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/business/economy/ukraine-russia-supply-chains.html more ›