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Chinese researchers have created a handheld sonic gun designed to help the nation's military and law enforcement agencies disperse crowds.

China’s New Weapon: A Sonic Gun That Vibrates Your Brain

By Kristin Houser

China's Yutu-2 lunar lander just sent back images of a strange new substance it found near a small crater on the far side of the Moon.

Science & Energy

Here Are New Pics of That Weird Substance China Found on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The editor of Chinese state-backed newspaper, the Global Times, protested government censorhip in a Weibo post that was soon deleted.

Editor of Chinese Paper Complains About Censorship, Gets Censored

By Dan Robitzski

Pengyi Li from China attempted to smuggle sensitive spacecraft and military missile components out of the U.S. according to documents obtained by Quartz.

The U.S. Says China is Stealing Military Spacecraft Technology

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese-owned video social media sharing app TikTok is accused of censoring its user's content surrounding protests against in the government in Hong Kong.

China Appears to Be Censoring Hong Kong Protests From TikTok

By Natalie Coleman

On Friday, state broadcaster CCTV aired footage of traffic police using a drone to tell a scooter rider to put on his helmet, according to a newly published South China Morning Post story.

Police Drone Caught Barking Orders at Chinese Driver

By Kristin Houser

China plans to "curb and regulate" the use of facial recognition technology in its schools, according to officials from the Ministry of Education.

Facial recognition

Surprise Move: China to Curb Use of Facial Recognition in Schools

By Kristin Houser

China claims its Yutu-2 lunar rover has stumbled upon an unsually colored "gel-like" substance on the bottom of an impact crater on the Moon.

Science & Energy

China Claims Its Moon Rover Found a Colorful “Gel-Like” Substance

By Victor Tangermann

Authorities in Hong Kong are spraying crowds of protestors with canons full of blue dye to make them easy to identify for later arrest.

Police Are Spraying Protesters With Dye to Round Them up Later

By Kristin Houser

Chinese deepfake app Zao replaces famous actors with iPhone users' faces, and though popular, it has quickly raised serious privacy concerns.

Artificial Intelligence

New Deepfake App Lets You “Act” in Popular Movies, TV Shows

By Kristin Houser

China's central bank is set to launch a state-backed cryptocurrency and hand it out to several major institutions in the country, according to Forbes.

Report: China’s Central Bank is Ready to Launch Cryptocurrency

By Victor Tangermann

Americans are subject to a social credit system like China's, but it's managed by tech companies and not the government, according to Fast Company.

Report: America Has a Social Credit System Much Like China’s

By Kristin Houser

A Chinese first that creates cloned pets says it's considering ways to use artificial intelligence to clone animals memories.

Science & Energy

Chinese Firm Wants to Give Cloned Pets the Original’s “Memories”

By Kristin Houser

A Chinese city has deployed police robots to help human officers deal with traffic problems, marking another way the nation is using tech to maintain order.

Artificial Intelligence

China Deploys Its First Robot Traffic Police

By Kristin Houser

If global temperatures reach two degrees Celsius about pre-industrial levels, 30,000 additional people will die in Chinese cities every year.

A Half-Degree Temperature Rise Will Kill 30,000 in China Per Year

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese students are already interacting with AI teachers, and what they learn could affect the future of education on a global scale.

China’s AI Teachers Could Revolutionize Education Worldwide

By Kristin Houser

Hong Kong protesters are reportedly shining high-powered laser beams at surveillance cameras to confuse facial recognition technology.

Facial recognition

Hong Kong Protesters Use Lasers to Block Facial Recognition Tech

By Kristin Houser

Chinese vlogger "Your Highness Qiao Biluo" was ousted to be a 58-year-old woman with a different appearance when her face filtering software glitched.

Youthful Vlogger’s Face Filter Fails, Exposing Her as 58-Year-Old

By Victor Tangermann

China recently published a white paper outlining its nuclear strategy, which describes how it will never strike first or nuke non-nuclear powers.

China Promises to Never Use Nukes — Unless Another Country Does First

By Dan Robitzski

In a new piece for Quartz, professor David Carroll argues that the U.S. is a surveillance state not entirely unlike China.

Professor: US Surveillance State Is a Lot Like China’s

By Kristin Houser

The Chinese space station Tiangong-2 incinerated as planned during its scheduled decommissioning on Friday. Now there's video footage of the event.

Science & Energy

Watch a Chinese Space Station Burn up in Earth’s Atmosphere

By Dan Robitzski

The Chinese city Guangzhou gave 17,000 GPS-tracking wristwatches to elementary schoolchildren. The watches let parents monitor what their kids are up to.

China Gives GPS-Tracking Wristwatches to 17,000 Kids

By Dan Robitzski

China is about to decommission its Tiangong-2 space station by rocketing it toward a remote patch of the Pacific Ocean dubbed the "spacecraft cemetery."

Science & Energy

China’s Tiangong-2 Space Station Will Fall Out of the Sky Friday

By Dan Robitzski

Google has reportedly decided to halt plans for launching a censored search engine in China."We have terminated Project Dragonfly."

Google “Terminated” Its Chinese Search Engine Plans

By Victor Tangermann

China Is Obsessed With Facebook’s Cryptocurrency

China Is Obsessed With Facebook’s Cryptocurrency

By Victor Tangermann

During a speech at the National Conservatism conference, Peter Thiel called for the CIA and FBI to investigate Google's "seemingly treasonous" ties with China.

Peter Thiel: Investigate Google For “Treasonous” Ties With China

By Dan Robitzski

As NASA scrambles to get ready for Artemis, its upcoming crewed mission to the Moon slated for 2024, China may take the lead.

Bad News, Astronauts: NASA Probably Won’t Reach Moon by 2024

By Dan Robitzski

Casinos in China are using artifiical intelligence and facial recognition tools to track and cater to gamblers who are more likely to make riskier bets.

Facial recognition

Chinese Casinos Use AI, Facial Recognition to Spot Suckers

By Dan Robitzski

China's rocket launch from a barge in the Yellow Sea on Wednesday makes it just the third nation to successfully complete an offshore launch.

Watch China Launch a Rocket From Sea for the First Time

By Kristin Houser

According to Chinese state-owned news media, a team of Chinese scientists developed "injectable cartilage" that can be used to repair human tissue.

Health & Medicine

New “Injectable Cartilage” Could Revolutionize Plastic Surgery

By Victor Tangermann

"Brain Talker," a computer chip designed specifically for use in brain-computer interfaces, could help the devices finally reach the mainstream.

Prosthetics and Devices

China Unveils First Chip Designed Specifically for Mind-Reading

By Kristin Houser

$Chinese researchers say that replacing water with atmosphere-polluting carbon dioxide could make fracking more eco-friendly.$

Fracking With CO2 Instead of Water Is Greener, Say Researchers

By Kristin Houser

A Brooklyn wholesaler has been charged with selling the U.S. military gear made in China that could have endangered troops' lives.

Scammed: US Military Spent $20M on Fake Gear Made in China

By Kristin Houser

Australian pilots recently had to land after Chinese boats reportedly aimed lasers at them. Now China is denying responsibility for the incident.

Australia: Chinese Lasers Forced Military Pilots to Land

By Dan Robitzski

The director of China's space agency told the press that scientists are currently attaching scientific instruments to its Mars rover.

China Is Now Assembling Its 2020 Mars Rover

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese state scientists claim to have developed a network of meter-long radar systems capable of spotting and tracking stealth aircraft.

China Says New Tech Can Detect Stealth Jets Including F-22, F-35

By Dan Robitzski

Thousands of preschools are using a robot named Walklake that looks for signs of illness by scanning the faces and hands of students.

Health & Medicine

This Robot Scans Preschoolers’ Faces Daily for Signs of Sickness

By Kristin Houser

China has unveiled a prototype for a new high-speed maglev train that it believes could dramatically cut travel times in the nation.

Advanced Transport

See China’s Newly Unveiled Maglev Train

By Kristin Houser

A Chinese rocket failed to successful launch a satellite into orbit Thursday morning, marking the second failed rocket launch in the nation this year.

Chinese Rocket Fails Spectacularly, Raining Debris Back to Earth

By Kristin Houser

The Chinese government has extended its Wikipedia ban to include all available languages of the online encyclopedia, the Wikimedia foundation has confirmed.

China’s Government Just Blocked the Entirety of Wikipedia

By Kristin Houser

A new truck built for the Chinese military is capable of launching up to 12 drones, sort of like a smart, precision artillery strike.

Chinese Military Truck Launches Killer Drones Like Artillery

By Dan Robitzski

A new report claims a group of Chinese hackers co-opted cyberweapons the NSA used against the nation to attack US allies.

China Stole NSA Cyberweapons and Used Them Against US Allies

By Kristin Houser

At roughly the same time blockbuster battle royale shooter PUBG disappeared for Chinese gamers, a new government friendly version of the game was announced.

China Replaces PUBG With Bizarre, Propaganda-Filled Clone

By Victor Tangermann

In 2024, China may launch a robotic space probe to gather and return samples from a nearby asteroid. The mission aims to learn how asteroids form.

China Is Planning a Mission to Deep Space

By Dan Robitzski

Two Chinese launch startups have successfully tested and demonstrated rockets that set the groundwork for future reusable launch vehicle technology.

Watch Out SpaceX: Chinese Startups Are Testing Reusable Rockets

By Victor Tangermann

China is considering a law that would make deepfakes illegal, a move that shows the world power is taking the threat the videos pose very seriously.

Artificial Intelligence

China Wants to Make Deepfakes Illegal

By Kristin Houser

On Wednesday, the head of China's National Space Administration announced that China plans to construct a research station on the Moon within ten years.

China Says It’ll Have a Moon Base in Ten Years

By Dan Robitzski

Three scientists in Texas have been fired over allegations they'd been stealing research for China, a move some are calling racially motivated.

Science & Energy

Research Institute Fires Scientists for Selling Secrets to China

By Kristin Houser

China has announced what local media is calling the "world's first armed amphibious drone boat."

China’s Military Built an Autonomous Amphibious Landing Vehicle

By Victor Tangermann

It sounds like the premise to a young adult novel: a totalitarian government sends its kids to a special facility to train them for life at a Mars colony.

China Is Sending Teens to a Simulated Mars Colony

By Jon Christian

China is building new highways with dedicated self-driving car lanes to help usher in widespread autonomous technology. The first will be done next year.

Self-Driving Vehicles

China’s Rolling Out Dedicated Highway Lanes for Self-Driving Cars

By Dan Robitzski

A new story reveals how Chinese live-streaming company Inke uses a combination of human moderators and AI to facilitate government censorship.

China Is Trying to Scrub Bikinis and Smoking From the Internet

By Kristin Houser

The agency tasked with guiding China's economic development has suggested the nation ban crypto mining — and the move could have global implications.

Chinese Authorities Want to Ban Crypto Mining

By Kristin Houser

Several Chinese schools have started making students wear brain-scanning headbands that can detect when they start to lose focus or slack off.

In Chinese Schools, Brain-Reading Headbands Measure Student Focus

By Dan Robitzski

More and more Chinese citizens are opting for eco burials as a way to cope with the increasing price of grave plots due to a lack of land.

In China, Overpriced Graves Force People to Bury Dead in Jars

By Kristin Houser

A Chinese prison's new surveillance system will monitor inmates constantly to prevent escape attempts — but perhaps at the cost of prisoners' mental health.

Artificial Intelligence

China Is Installing “AI Guards” in Prison Cells

By Kristin Houser

China is following Russia's lead and constructing nuclear power plants on top of floating barges so it can bring cheap energy to distant islands.

China Is Building up to 20 Floating Nuclear Power Plants

By Dan Robitzski

China just closed the bidding period for contractors looking to build the country's first nuclear-powered icebreaker, set to be the largest in the world.

China Is Building a 33,000 Ton Nuclear Icebreaker

By Dan Robitzski

Though Google's Project Dragonfly made headlines, a number of American scientists are helping Chinese build its ubiquitous surveillance state.

Americans Built Tech for China’s Sinister “Re-Education Camps”

By Dan Robitzski

Leaders from 25 nations, including China, Russia, and the U.S. are currently meeting in Geneva to draft laws that would prevent a space arms race.

25 Governments Are Meeting Right Now to Prevent a Space Arms Race

By Dan Robitzski

China will need to build eight new nuclear reactors annually to reach the global average for nuclear energy generation by 2030, according to an official.

China Needs to Build Eight Nuclear Plants Annually to Meet Goals

By Kristin Houser

According to a damning new internal review, the U.S. Navy is getting hacked so much that it can't even tell how much intel has been stolen.

US Navy Struggling to Deal With an Onslaught of Hackers

By Dan Robitzski

A newly discovered Chinese database tracks which female citizens are "breedready," a term apparently used to signal if she is likely able to have children.

Creepy Database Lists Whether 1.8M Chinese Women Are “Breedready”

By Kristin Houser

A Chinese official claims the nation is poised to wrap up construction on the HL-2M tokamak, a new "artificial sun," this year.

Science & Energy

China: New “Artificial Sun” Will Be Completed This Year

By Kristin Houser