China is now accepting bids to join Chang’e-8 (CE-8), the country’s lunar exploration mission. It’s both space diplomacy and China’s latest push to become a leading space power at a time when countries are racing to land on the Moon.
It’s becoming difficult to make microchips smaller, so the encasing around them is where advanced tech is going. TSMC's advanced packaging technology has emerged as a game-changer, with repercussions extending far beyond circuitry for U.S.-Taiwan relations.
Sam Bankman-Fried is behind bars, and the zeitgeist has moved on from cryptocurrencies and web3. But the Hong Kong government is charging ahead with blockchain technologies.
Beijing city authorities have issued new draft rules to govern online medical consultations and the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare: AI will not be allowed to prescribe drugs without human supervision.
The Cyberspace Administration of China’s latest regulations want to co-opt parents into cutting down on their children’s time online. But this will cut into the bottom lines of China’s tech giants, too.
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Beijing will impose export restrictions on gallium and germanium, two key metals needed to manufacture semiconductors and other electronics, and which are primarily sourced from China. The move has raised concern over an intensifying global battle on the supply of key chipmaking technologies.
China is still producing the world’s best batteries, but a glut of low-quality EV batteries is crowding out more advanced tech.
American car companies want to use Chinese battery technology in their new plants. Despite intense political opposition, the U.S. might have no other choice.
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Andrew Stokols, a Ph.D. researcher at MIT who has been studying the “techno-natural utopia” that the Chinese government...