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Chinese robotics company called Weilan recently showed off a creepy, cartoonish-looking robot dog called "BabyAlpha."

This Cartoonish New Robot Dog Somehow Looks Even Scarier

By Victor Tangermann

China's Mars rover has uncovered underground polygon structures buried deep beneath the Red Planet's surface.

China’s Mars Rover Detected Polygons Under the Planet’s Surface

By Noor Al-Sibai

There's no need to freak out about that surge in respiratory viruses in China, according to both China and the WHO.

China Says Surge of Illness Not Caused by New Virus

By Noor Al-Sibai

A piece of Chinese space junk hit the Moon and left a weird pockmark on the surface — but there's more to this story than meets the eye.

Chinese Spacecraft That Smashed Into Moon Was Carrying Something Mysterious, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

Last week, a group of AI and military leaders met in a secretive three-day retreat hosted at a luxury resort in the Utah mountains.

AI and Military Leaders Gathered for Mysterious Event in Utah

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Chinese government is pushing mass production of humanoid robots — and apparently wants it done in the next few years.

Chinese Government Wants Mass Production of Humanoid Robots By 2025

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bolstering future deep space ambitions, Chinese astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station showed off their space-cultivated veggies.

Chinese Astronauts Harvest Space-Grown Lettuce and Tomatoes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A video went viral in China after a worker at a Tsingtao beer facility was caught urinating inside one of its tanks.

Health & Medicine

Beer Company Responds to Video of Worker Peeing Into Vat

By Sharon Adarlo

China is now planning to expand the station by doubling the number of modules, giving it a lot more room in orbit.

China’s Doubling the Size of Its Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Two astronauts on board China's Tiangong space station have lit a candle with a match during a live broadcast.

Chinese Astronaut Lights Match in Space

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese researchers are investigating the feasibility of having astronauts shelter in space inside lava tubes on the lunar surface.

Chinese Scientists Ponder Moon Base Inside Ancient Lunar Lava Tube

By Victor Tangermann

In China, two people were detained for damaging a section of the Great Wall of China, which is hundreds of years old.

Workers Detained for Plowing Construction Equipment Through Great Wall of China

By Sharon Adarlo

SpaceX's handing out of Starlink terminals to Ukrainian soldiers has thrown Elon Musk into the middle of a crisis. The Pentagon is worried.

Elon Musk Is Apparently Making the US Government Quite Nervous

By Victor Tangermann

The Chinese military claims it has developed technology that would allow for "infinite" lasers that don't go haywire.

Chinese Military Says It’s Figured Out How to Build Laser Weapons That Can Fire Indefinitely

By Noor Al-Sibai

If it were up to NASA administrator Bill Nelson, the US needs to get to the Moon before China since it might be unwilling to share resources.

NASA Head Concerned That China Will Steal Lunar Resources

By Victor Tangermann

A US general is getting heat after saying that any AI employed by our military will be better because of our "Judeo-Christian" values.

General Brags That US Military AI Will Be Better Because of “Judeo-Christian” Values

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meet the "facekini," a ski mask of sorts made from UV-resistant fabrics and designed to cover a wearer's entire head and face.

There’s a Hot New Climate Change Accessory: “Facekinis” That Cover Your Entire Head

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Twitter CEO Elon Musk said that he warned Chinese leaders that an AI-led "digital superintelligence" could take over the entire country.

Elon Musk Warns Chinese Leaders That AI Could Take Over the Country

By Victor Tangermann

China is preparing to deliver zebrafish to its Tiangong space station to study how they interact with other microorganisms and bone loss.

China Is Sending Fish to Its Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Space Force major general David Miller is worried the US could fall behind China and Russia in the space race — and is calling for action.

General Says Space Force Should Stop Waffling and Build Epic Space Weapons

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese astronauts claim they have grown stem cells for human blood in space, in an achievement they say is the first of its kind.

Chinese Astronauts Grow Human Blood Cells in Space

By Sharon Adarlo

It's not just men building relationships with their AI girlfriends — women in China are also falling head over heels for their AI boyfriends.

Artificial Intelligence

The Women With AI Boyfriends Are Speaking Out

By Victor Tangermann

The age of AI arrests appears to have begun in China, where a man who used ChatGPT to allegedly generate fake news headlines was detained.

China Arrests Man for Using ChatGPT to Write Fake News

By Noor Al-Sibai

China's Mars rover Zhurong has remained in its hibernation state since May 2022. Officials are finally ready to talk.

China Addresses Awkward Situation on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Any AI chatbots operating within China's digital borders must comply with its censorship laws — a bar that may prove impossible for the unpredictable tech.

Artificial Intelligence

China Says Chatbots Must Be Strictly Censored by Communist Guidelines

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

China is planning to kick off work on a Moon base using bricks made of lunar soil within the next five years, state-run news outlet CGTN reports.

China Announces Plans to Build Moon Base Using Lunar Soil

By Victor Tangermann

China's space program is getting ready to launch the first satellites of its own broadband-beaming mega constellation, SpaceNews reports.

China Constructing Huge Megaconstellation in Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese researchers found an entirely new source of water on the surface of the Moon in the form of tiny glass beads.

China Found Something Fascinating in Glass Beads Strewn Across Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The space arms race is continuing along, as indicated by recent statements from the US Space Force about its current posturing toward China and Russia.

US Space Force Says It’s “Under Threat” and in “Perpetual Competition” With China and Russia

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to a new report, Chinese military researchers say that their AI-powered fighter pilot has bested a human in a real-life aerial dogfight.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Pilot Crushes Human Dogfight Rival in 90 Seconds

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

China's Zhurong Mars rover and its makers have remained unusually silent about the fate of the rover. It hasn't moved since September.

China Refuses to Say Whether Its Mars Rover Is Dead

By Victor Tangermann

China's giant balloon, which had a structure hanging from it, was shot down by a US missile over the weekend — and now, China wants it back, please.

China Wants the Corpse of Its Balloon Back After the US Killed It With a Missile

By Victor Tangermann

China is constructing giant towers with well over a dozen stories to farm pigs, The New York Times reports, a massive drive to stabilize prices.

Science & Energy

China Growing Pigs in Huge High Rise Buildings

By Victor Tangermann

As BalloonGate continues to unfold, reports have indicated that this is far from the first time a Chinese balloon has flown over American airspace.

Other Chinese Balloons Apparently Flew Over America, But Nobody Noticed Them

By Noor Al-Sibai

It appears that the United States has shot down the Chinese balloon that made headlines as it soared over the country this week.

Robots and Machines

Footage Shows Chinese Balloon Being Shot Down

By Jon Christian

US defense officials are tracking what they suspect to be a Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon floating above the United States, CNN reports.

China Says “Spy Balloon” Soaring Over America Is Completely Innocent

By Victor Tangermann

China is getting its own equivalent of OpenAI's blockbuster AI chatbot ChatGPT, courtesy of the country's largest internet search engine Baidu.

Chinese Company Gearing Up to Release Powerful ChatGPT Competitor

By Victor Tangermann

It looks like the space relationship between the ESA and China may be disintegrating before even being officially launched.

European Space Agency Halts Plans to Send Astronauts to Chinese Space Station

By Noor Al-Sibai

TikTok employees reporetdly have access to a secret "heating" button. Hit that button, and content gets boosted — unbeknownst to users.

Employees at TikTok Apparently Have a Secret Button That Can Make Anything Go Viral

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to China's National Bureau of Statistics, the world's most populous country's population declined in 2022, the first time in 60 years.

China’s Population Just Dropped for the First Time in 60 Years

By Victor Tangermann

China's Zhurong rover might be in big trouble well over a year and a half into its stint on the Martian surface.

Something Is Reportedly Wrong With China’s Mars Rover

By Victor Tangermann

We Are Completely Puzzled by This Video of a Chinese Astronaut Playing Ping-Pong in Space

By Victor Tangermann

NASA administrator and former astronaut Bill Nelson is afraid that China may get to the Moon first — and claim portions of the surface as its own territory.

The Head of NASA Is Scared Chinese Astronauts Will Seize Portions of the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese protest content posted to Twitter was impossible to find due to bots, ultimately rendering Elon Musk's Twitter an ineffective ally to protestors.

An Overwhelming Number of Porn Bot Accounts “Drowned Out” Chinese Protest Content on Twitter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Chinese regulators have issued regulations aimed at banning the creation of any AI-generated media including deepfakes that isn't clearly labeled.

Artificial Intelligence

China Just Outlawed AI-Generated Media That Isn’t Clearly Labeled

By Victor Tangermann

China's in hot water after being accused of sabotaging a Philippine mission to retrieve Chinese rocket debris from that country's disputed waters.

Chinese Military Forcefully Seizes Debris That Philippines Recovered After It Fell From Space

By Noor Al-Sibai

China's got a lot of explaining to do after one of its rockets broke apart after being launched into orbit and spewed out dozens of pieces.

Chinese Official Squirms at Question About Rocket That Disintegrated in Orbit

By Noor Al-Sibai

ABC News reports that Chinese space debris from another one of the nation's Long March 5B rockets was just discovered at sea off the Philippines coastline.

Chinese Space Debris Crashes Down in the Philippines

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After launching into orbit three months ago, China's top-secret spaceplane has released a mysterious object, which is now circling the Earth behind it.

Chinese Spaceplane Releases Mystery Object Into Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

China Plans to Send Monkeys to Space Station to Have Sex With Each Other

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Chinese researchers claim to have turned lunar regolith samples brought back by the country's Chang'e 5 mission into a source of fuel.

Scientists Use Actual Lunar Soil Sample to Create Rocket Fuel

By Victor Tangermann

Videos show what appear to be workers at Foxconn's plant in China jumping a fence to reportedly escape the country's strict zero-COVID policies.

Chinese Workers Jump Fence After Being Locked Inside World’s Largest iPhone Factory

By Victor Tangermann

A gigantic piece of a Chinese Long March 2D rocket has seemingly plummeted back down to Earth and lodged itself in a crop in the province of Gansu.

Large Chunk of Chinese Rocket Comes Crashing Down, Lodges in Field

By Victor Tangermann

TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, reportedly planned to spy on the locations of specific American citizens using the popular video app's location data.

TikTok Caught Planning to Spy on the Locations of Specific American Citizens

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

China claims to have become the first to successfully carry out tests on a Hyperloop-style, magnetically levitated train inside a vacuum tube.

China Successfully Tests Hyperloop-Like Train Inside a Vacuum Tube

By Noor Al-Sibai

A video has gone viral of a massive drone dropping off a machine gun-wielding robot dog, a terrifying vision of the future of warfare.

China Shows Off Drone That Drops Robodog With Huge Gun Anywhere

By Victor Tangermann

China may have chosen the shadiest way to broadcast that there's trouble in paradise with its joint lunar mission with Russia.

China and Russia’s Moon Base Alliance May Be Falling Apart

By Noor Al-Sibai

A leading Chinese solar power company is sending its panels to space in an effort to establish 24/7 energy harnessing to send back to Earth.

Chinese Company Launching Solar Panels to Space, Where They’ll Beam Energy Down to Earth

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new report warns that China could soon be able to rule over the US economy and military using cutting edge tech.

Former Google CEO Issues Dire Warning About China

By Victor Tangermann

China claims it will build the world's biggest nuclear fusion reactors within the next six years, a highly ambitious timeline.

China Announces Plan for Hybrid Fission-Fusion Power Facility

By Noor Al-Sibai

China has tested modified cars that are capable of magnetically levitating (maglev) almost an inch and a half off of the ground on a stretch of highway.

Advanced Transport

Chinese Researchers Test Cars That Hover Over Road Using Magnets

By Victor Tangermann

The space race may just have heated up amid China's reported discovery of a new lunar mineral that could possibly be used as an energy source.

China Approves Three Moon Missions After Discovering Mineral That Could Be Energy Source

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Pentagon has halted F-35 fighter jet deliveries after discovering that a component of the jet's engine is actually made in China.

Military Horrified to Discover Its Most Expensive Jet Has a Part Made in China

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The US and China are gearing up for an awkward confrontation if both decide to land their respective lunar rockets on similar spots at the Moon.

Awkward! The US and China Are Looking at the Same Moon Landing Sites

By Noor Al-Sibai