Newswire Lisbon: A recent study by McKinsey highlights that Portugal must retrain around 1.3 million workers, about 30% of its workforce, by 2030 to adopt generative AI and close its productivity gap with the rest of the European Union. Portugal has long struggled with low productivity, which has contributed minimally to GDP growth compared to […]
Read MorePieter Haeck Brussels: The European Union has set aside hundreds of millions of euros to grow companies working on critical technologies, such as microchips and quantum technology. A new scale-up scheme is set to get the green light early this week, with a budget of €300 million for next year, according to a draft plan […]
Read MoreThe world is in the midst of the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” and may soon enter the “Fifth Industrial Revolution”. At the same time, the rapid development of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence has been impacting education at all levels, from primary and secondary to higher education. Countries around the world are trying to find […]
Read MorePascale Davies Paris: France has named its first-ever artificial intelligence (AI) minister amid a political shake-up and as the country manoeuvres itself to become a global leader in the technology. Clara Chappaz, the CEO of the government’s start-up body La French Tech, will take up the role of Secretary of State for AI and Digitalisation. […]
Read MoreBrussels: The European Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), the world’s first extensive and far-reaching legislation on AI, has come into force. Its purpose is to ensure that AI developed and used in the European Union’s member states is trustworthy and thus the Act is hedged around with comprehensive safeguards to protect people’s fundamental rights. The […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Beijing: The Chinese leadership has once again demonstrated its determination to develop economic driving forces via sci-tech innovations, according to a resolution on further deepening reform comprehensively to advance Chinese modernization. The resolution, recently adopted at the third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, states […]
Read MoreGlobal Times In recent days, two significant events have taken place in the global communication technology field. First, China has built the world’s first field test network for 6G communication and intelligent integration, significantly enhancing the performance of the communication system. Second, Germany plans to remove Huawei, ZTE and other Chinese communication companies’ technology and […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Beijing: “Our platform could be said to be the Pakistani version of Pinduoduo. As an e-commerce platform targeting price-sensitive users, groceries and daily necessities are within our scope.” Fahad Raja, co-founder of Pakistani e-commerce platform Deal Kart, introduced himself at the EuroAsia Pakistan Digital Economy Forum held in Beijing this week. “As […]
Read MoreCelina Ali Islamabad: Pakistan this week launched its first-ever lunar mission iCube-Q aboard China’s unmanned Chang’e 6 probe from the Chinese city of Hainan. The iCUBE-Q, or CubeSats, was launched at around 5:27 p.m. China time (0927GMT) from the Wenchang Space Launch Site, aboard Chang’e-6 mission which blasted off into space on the Long March5 […]
Read MoreNewswire Athens: On the southern coastline of Greece’s capital, a long-awaited plan to transform the city’s former airport into the largest smart city in Europe is finally gaining momentum. After a decade of delays, a vision of the Ellinikon is emerging. The Marina Tower, soon to be Greece’s first skyscraper, is beginning to rise. Iron […]
Read MoreNewswire Paris: In silent orbit around Earth, a potentially hostile satellite approaches an allied communication node, intentions unknown. French Space Command has determined the move is deliberate, and intelligence shows the enemy spacecraft is equipped with a robotic arm that would allow it to de-orbit the friendly asset. The French-led blue team moves a “patroller” […]
Read MoreAndrey Kortunov During a recent regular press briefing in Washington, John Kirby, White House National Security Communications Advisor, expressed concerns about Russia allegedly working on new anti-satellite weapons. He did not specify the type of weapons, leading some journalists to suggest that the Biden administration was genuinely concerned about a futuristic nuclear missile being deployed […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Islamabad: In the context of the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Chinese and Pakistani researchers are helping Pakistan build smarter and safer cities through the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. At the beginning of year 2022, the CPInS Lab was officially established at […]
Read MoreBrussels: 8 December 2023 was a historic moment for AI regulation in Europe. Following three days of extensive debates, the EU Parliament, Council and Commission finally announced a provisional agreement on the EU AI Act, the bloc’s landmark legislation regulating the development and use of AI in Europe. It is one of the world’s first […]
Read MoreTokyo: The United States and Japan are making final arrangements to land a Japanese astronaut on the surface of the Moon for the first time, under a US-led lunar exploration program, sources familiar with the matter said this week. The Artemis program aims to achieve a historic milestone by sending U.S. astronauts to the lunar […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Islamabad: In a world increasingly reliant on digital connectivity, Huawei continues to spearhead efforts to bridge the digital divide through its commitment to the ITU’s Partner2Connect Digital Coalition. The tech giant, having joined forces with the coalition in 2022, pledged to bring connectivity to over 120 million people in remote areas across 80 […]
Read MoreBen Turner Tokyo: NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are planning to launch the world’s first wooden satellite into space in a bid to make spaceflight more sustainable. LignoSat, a coffee mug-size satellite made from magnolia wood, is set to launch into Earth’s orbit by summer 2024, according to the space agencies. Wood […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Islamabad: Pakistan has taken a significant step by signing an initial cooperation agreement with China to become part of its lunar base program, which aims to establish a research station on the Moon’s South Pole. Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar and Chinese Premier Li Qiang were present to witness the signing of […]
Read MoreAbdullah Jan Tokyo: Japan’s “Moon Sniper” mission blasted off this week as the country’s space programme looks to bounce back from a string of recent mishaps, weeks after India’s historic lunar triumph. Only the United States, Russia, China and as of last month India have successfully landed a probe on the Moon, with two failed […]
Read MoreDing Gang At the end of 2019, I accompanied an American and German media delegation to the offices of Chinese tech giant Huawei. Although it was only for one day, this brief encounter gave me a deeper understanding of this company. In May of the following year, when Washington imposed a severe embargo to cut […]
Read MoreAbida Shaheen Islamabad: China’s tech giant Baidu on Thursday afternoon introduced its own Artificial Intelligence (AI) creation to give tough time to ChatGPT, to keep up in the global AI race. This move follows the green light from the Chinese government as the country pushes forward with AI technology. Baidu, which is known for its […]
Read MoreStaff writer Islamabad: China and Pakistan signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish China-South Asia Technology Transfer Center-Sub Center in Pakistan. Pakistani Ambassador to China Moinul Haque said that the Sub Center would help strengthen bilateral technology transfer, enhance cooperation among enterprises, research institutes, and universities, as well as support cooperation in the pursuit […]
Read MoreChina Daily Chinese and US flags flutter outside the building of an American company in Beijing. [Photo/Agencies] China and the United States are arguably each other’s No 1 partners in scientific research, with collaborative research between people of both countries being among the most-cited papers across fields. This is what Ohio State University Professor Caroline […]
Read MoreGlobal Times A South Korean research team recently claimed to have created room-temperature superconductor, and the news quickly spread beyond the scientific community, sparking heated discussions at the societal level in multiple countries. It also triggered a chain reaction in the international capital market, causing stocks related to superconductor technology to soar. The physics community […]
Read MoreNewswire Beijing: Huawei Technologies Co will launch a complete set of commercial 5.5G network equipment next year, as part of a broader push to speed up the evolution of 5G and kick off the 5.5G era for the information and communications technology industry. “The plan comes amid rapid progress in 5G deployment over the past […]
Read MoreNewswire Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed the need to thoroughly implement the important guidelines of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on boosting China’s strength in cyberspace, and to vigorously advance the high-quality development of the work on cybersecurity and informatization. Xi, also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee and […]
Read MoreGlobal Times The domestically-manufactured aircraft C919 successfully completed its maiden commercial flight on Sunday, marking its official entry into the civil aviation market. This is a historic moment for China’s aviation manufacturing industry, and a milestone for the entire Chinese high-end manufacturing industry. From the approval of the project in 2007, to the assembly line […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Guangzhou: Chinese and Pakistani scientists are collaborating to develop biological control measures to enhance the quality and quantity of citrus fruits in Pakistan. To this end, a research centre was launched in the two countries in 2018 to jointly explore green and sustainable solutions to the growing prevalence of citrus diseases across […]
Read MoreDing Gang I don’t believe ChatGPT is a “knowledge bot” without a political stance. Some people claim that all its answers are neutral, or tend to be neutral, and therefore the AI chatbot is balanced and perfect. A neutral answer to questions about social sciences, such as political, cultural, and philosophical issues, is sleek, or […]
Read MoreNewswire Hefei: China mulls carrying out its first near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) defense demonstration test to approach an asteroid and observe it closely before hitting it to alter its orbit around 2030, according to a key expert in the country’s space industry. Chen Qi, head of the Institute of System Research of China’s Deep Space Exploration […]
Read MoreXinhua Sanya: China’s scientific research ship Tansuo-1 returned to the city of Sanya in south China’s Hainan Province on Saturday, after completing its first international manned deep-diving scientific research mission in waters surrounding Oceania. The vessel, carrying the deep-sea manned submersible Fendouzhe (Striver), began its mission in October 2022. It traveled for 157 days and […]
Read MoreNewswire Rome: Italy and France have agreed to boost bilateral cooperation in space exploration and develop a European carrier rocket, Italian Industry Minister Adolfo Urso said. “Italy and France stand together first of all, but not only, for the sake of the future European launch vehicle. We will strengthen our space cooperation, working together and […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Islamabad: After six months in China’s spacescraft under the first-ever Sino-Pak ‘Seeds in Space’ project, seven kinds of Pakistani medicinal seeds returned to the earth and their motherland this week. The seeds, three kinds provided by the International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), University of Karachi and four by Hamdard […]
Read MoreXinhua Beijing: Chinese researchers have deployed an in-situ scientific experiment station on the seabed that will enable long-term uncrewed scientific research in the deep sea, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said. The researchers aboard the research vessel Tansuo-2 (Discovery 2), carrying the crewed submersible Shenhai Yongshi (Deep Sea Warrior), deployed the station during their […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Beijing: For gardeners and homeowners who often lament the toil of mowing the lawn, a made-in-China robot can come to their service. The robotic lawn mower developed by Chinese service robotics firm ECOVACS can automatically map a lawn and its boundaries in less than 30 minutes, and mow a lawn of 600 […]
Read MoreXinhua Beijing: Chinese scientists have detected the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) to date through combined observations from both Earth and space, according to the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The combined observations were made on Oct. 9, 2022, by China’s Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO), the […]
Read MoreZhang Zhihao – China Daily Beijing: China launched its first comprehensive space-based solar telescope this week, allowing scientists to capture and study unprecedented images of the sun during its most active phase, known as solar maximum, a period of intense solar activity set to peak around 2025. The Advanced Space-Based Solar Observatory, or the ASO-S, […]
Read MoreAnja Engen The metaverse, a $1 trillion annual revenue opportunity, has increasingly attracted businesses seeking to boost growth in virtual spaces. Despite not having an official definition, several businesses have already established their metaverse headquarters. As more companies start operating in these shared virtual environments, several of our daily activities will occur online. For example, […]
Read MoreNewswire Beijing: China this week rejected as an irresponsible smear a warning from the chief of NASA that China might “take over” the moon as part of a military programme, saying it has always called for the building of a community of nations in outer space. China has stepped up the pace of its space […]
Read MoreDr Theodore Karasik Human smuggling continues to be a deadly problem. There was a gruesome discovery in Texas this week, with more than 50 migrants found dead in an abandoned truck trailer in a remote area of San Antonio. The US Department of Homeland Security is now leading the investigation into how this tragedy occurred. […]
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