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‘Better than real men’: Young Chinese women turn to AI boyfriends
Beijing – Twenty-five-year-old Chinese office worker Tufei says her boyfriend has everything she could ask for in a romantic partner: He’s kind, empathetic, and sometimes they talk for hours. Except he isn’t real. Her “boyfriend” is a chatbot on an app called “Glow,” an artificial intelligence platform created by Shanghai start-up MiniMax that is part …
A top-secret Chinese spy satellite just launched on a supersized rocket
Enlarge / A Long March 5 rocket, the largest launcher in China’s inventory, deployed a classified Chinese military satellite into orbit Friday. China’s largest rocket apparently wasn’t big enough to launch the country’s newest spy satellite, so engineers gave the rocket an upgrade. The Long March 5 launcher flew with a payload fairing some 20 …
Three Gorges’ new Chinese CSP project trials a double solar field
One of the new CSP projects being built by Three Gorges Renewables is a novel dual-tower design at Guazhou, in Gansu Province: Construction images below Three Gorges Renewables (of Three Gorges Dam hydropower fame) is building a novel configuration for one of the three new CSP projects it is building in China, this one at …
Protests Erupt in Shanghai and Other Chinese Cities Over Covid Controls
Protests spread to cities and campuses in China on Saturday night amid rising public anger at the country’s strict but faltering controls against the spread of Covid, with a crowd in Shanghai going so far as to call for the removal of the national leader, Xi Jinping. The demonstration occurred after an outpouring of anger …
Chinese Food Culture: How Many Meals Per Day?
When I first came to England, I was very confused when people asked me how many meals per day do Chinese people usually have. I would simply reply: “obviously three, but don’t you have the same?”. Later on I found out that I wasn’t right. Of course, different cultures have different eating habits (in Spain, …
Magpie Symbol Meaning in Chinese Culture
In Chinese culture, magpie is a symbol of happiness. The singing of a magpie foretells good luck and happiness. That’s why Chinese people call it ‘Happy Magpie’. The Manchu minority in Northern China even regards this birds as sacred animals. The magpie in Chinese is called ‘xi que’ and the character ‘xi’ means happiness. Two …
Chinese President Xi Jinping warns it could take decades to repair economic damage caused by Ukraine crisis
Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged the EU not to “tie the whole world” to the crisis in Ukraine and warned it could take decades to repair the economic damage. In a virtual summit with European Union leaders on Friday, Xi told European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel …
NSW records 20,960 new COVID-19 cases, four deaths; Chinese airliner with 132 people aboard crashes; At least eight killed in Ukraine shopping centre bombing; Seven deaths, 9594 new cases in Victoria
Welcome to the 9News.com.au live blog for Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Coronavirus cases and hospitalisations have surged across New South Wales and Victoria today as concern grows over spreading infections among students and children. Free tickets to Australian cricket great Shane Warne’s state funeral at the Melbourne Cricket Ground will be made available from 3pm …
At least 12 killed in huge gas explosion in central Chinese city
The blast took place at about 6:30 a.m. local time in the Zhangwan district of Shiyan city, in Hubei province, according to local authorities. Authorities have rescued 138 from the area, including 37 with serious injuries, according to state-run news outlet CCTV, quoting local officials. The city’s municipal office initially said “many” people were trapped …
Chinese ‘spies’ at UK universities where academics are suspected of passing technology face arrests
Net closes in on Chinese ‘spies’ in UK universities where academics are suspected of passing pioneering British technology to Beijing Specialists have drawn up list of academics suspected of passing on technology Universities under scrutiny include Manchester, Liverpool and Imperial College No suggestion any of the institutions are aware of, or complicit in, wrongdoing By …
