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On this week’s episode of ‘The Big Interview’ podcast, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales talks about maintaining neutrality in an ...

With stats like that, one can’t help but suspect that the first country to have a million humanoids will be China.

More and more Chinese adoptees in the US are trying to reunite with their birth parents. For Youxue, it took more than a ...

Gen Z women in China are all in on digital companionship—even setting up dates with real-world versions of their AI ...

Chinese scientist He Jiankui wants to end Alzheimer’s and thinks Silicon Valley is conducting a “Nazi eugenic experiment.” ...

Decades ago, Donghai was a backwater county. Today, thanks to an army of 24/7 livestreamers, it orchestrates a ...

Millions of words. Thousands of authors. The Morning Star of Lingao is barely known outside China—but it contains the secret ...

Bans the sale of all future foreign drones and components. It does not ban existing drones, which will continue to be for ...

All my Gen Z friends want to ditch their smartphones. It’s cool. They’re cool. But there’s more at stake than they think.

Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of ...

A research team has successfully imaged a nova in high resolution—and the images suggest that the nova was not a single, impulsive explosion. A nova is an astronomical phenomenon that occurs in a ...