What they refer to as the first AI child in history has been unveiled by Chinese scientists. The Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI) is the organization that developed Tong Tong, the AI. Tong Tong is a virtual AI avatar that was initially displayed to the public in Beijing. Tong Tong, according to BIGAI, […]
Curious tourists grabbed out cell phones to record the stunning show as 500 drones with dazzling lights soared into the sky at the old resort town of Shexiang in southwest China’s Guizhou Province, producing designs resembling a dragon, a phoenix, and a lotus in succession. The local tourism firm in charge of resort administration leased […]
This overshadowed overall fiscal first-quarter sales and profit that beat analysts’ targets, powered by iPhone growth, sending Apple shares down 3% in after-hours trade. The results confirmed some analysts’ concerns that the company’s signature product is losing ground in the key Asian market where consumers are buying foldable phones and phones from Huawei, powered by […]
China has demanded “restraint” from Pakistan and Iran in response to Tehran’s airstrike on its territory, which left two children dead and three females injured. Speaking at a routine briefing on Wednesday, foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said, “We call on both sides to exercise restraint, avoid actions that would lead to an escalation of […]
That raises the official number of fatalities from the magnitude 6.2 quake that rocked the northwestern provinces of Qinghai and Gansu almost two weeks ago to 151. The final bodies were found in Qinghai at 1:16 a.m. (1716 GMT Saturday), state media reported. The earthquake, whose epicenter straddled Qinghai and Gansu, was the most serious […]
The top US military officer held a virtual meeting with his Chinese counterpart on Thursday, the Pentagon said, in the first such conversation in over a year amid hopes by US officials that it could lead to a broader restoration of ties between the two militaries. The video meeting came after US President Joe Biden and […]
China has called for resolving the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the UN charter, relevant Security Council resolutions and relevant bilateral agreements between Pakistan and India. This was stated by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson. Mao Ning, who was replying to a question on the Kashmir dispute during a media briefing in Beijing, on Thursday. She […]
Pakistan and China trumpeted their “all weather” friendship after their leaders met on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit on Friday, but analysts warn that Islamabad’s scramble to extricate itself from an economic crisis could stoke tensions. Both sides’ readouts of the summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz […]
China is willing to shape the international order together with Russia in a “more just and rational direction”, a senior Chinese diplomat said as the two countries’ leaders prepare to meet this week. Under the guidance of President Xi Jinping and President Vladimir Putin, “the relationship between the two countries has always been on the […]
Half of China’s vast territory is now experiencing drought, including parts of the frigid Tibetan Plateau, official data showed- with more high temperatures forecast Thursday for hundreds of millions of people enduring the country’s hottest summer on record. The world’s second-largest economy has been hit by record heat, flash floods and droughts phenomena that scientists […]