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China's LandSpace made history on 19 August 2026 by recovering a stainless-steel Zhuque-3 booster after an orbital launch — a feat SpaceX's Super Heavy has yet to achieve — instantly reshaping the…
Surgeons in Suzhou, China, have achieved what is claimed to be a global first: reattaching both severed thighs of a patient who…
Nokia is effectively exiting mainland China by year-end 2026, closing nearly all sites and cutting most of its roughly…
Alibaba's 27-billion-parameter Qwen3.8-27B has matched OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna and outperformed Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 on…
Baidu's AI cloud revenue rocketed 50% in Q2 2026, but a brutal 19% collapse in online advertising dragged total revenue down 4% —…
PLA Navy vice-admiral Zhao Xiaozhe, who directed China's naval combat-software research and once led the Central Military…
Indium phosphide — the compound powering AI data centre optical modules — has surged up to 78% in price since late 2025, with…
Nvidia has announced it will serve as the exclusive AI compute infrastructure provider at SB Energy's PORTS-Pike Technology…
Researchers at East China Normal University in Shanghai have built a bacterium that senses high blood sugar and releases a GLP-1…
