Day: August 12, 2023

In an exclusive interview with the South China Morning Post on Saturday, Huawei’s chief project scientist Tian Qi discussed the cooperation between the two organisations, as well as the potential for using AI in meteorology. “The decision of including Pangu-Weather in their forecasting is partly due to the model’s high performance and ECMWF is recognising AI’s significant potential in this field,” Tian said. 02:19 Is AI better at maths than mathematicians? Is AI better at maths than mathematicians? Pangu-Weather forecasts require much lower computational costs while still being competitive in…

The firm’s current products include a smart exercise bike, a wireless robotic glove and a series of computer-guided contraptions that help users restore movement in their arms and legs. But just like many of his peers, 42-year-old Gu, a mechanical engineering graduate from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, had long dreamed about creating his own humanoid robot. Advertisement So in 2019, after Fourier brought its intelligent rehabilitation devices into hundreds of hospitals and medical care centres in over 10 countries and established itself in the industry, Gu decided it was time…

Born in 1948, Hu grew up with his mother and siblings in Shanghai. His father had left for Hong Kong to start a textile business. However, amid the volatile international situation after World War II plus the Communist victory in China, Hong Kong’s economy had become sluggish. And so, following a friend who had relocated his businesses to a fellow British colony, Nigeria, Hu’s father moved there as well. Advertisement Over the years, Hu Snr built textile factories in Lagos, befriended politicians including Olusegun Obasanjo – who served as Nigeria’s…

A star-studded Chinese TV drama delving into workplace sexual harassment titled Imperfect Victim recently ended but the debate it triggered rages on. The show, which ran to 29 45-minute episodes, centres on a rape case: beautiful, young personal assistant Zhao Xun accuses her powerful and handsome boss, Cheng Gong, the company president, of raping her. But the case is complex, and so are the characters involved. Within three months, Cheng, a married man, promotes Zhao from a trainee to the position of senior assistant, multiplies her salary and showers her…

The docking of the PLA’s Yuan Wang 5 tracking ship in Sri Lanka in 2022 drew heavy protests from India, its first foreign base in Djibouti in the Horn of Africa caused concern, and more recently, the Ream naval base in Cambodia that China helped build drew fears that the Chinese navy could establish a presence there, despite Beijing’s repeated denials. In a January hearing on Chinese military diplomacy, Randall Schriver, a commissioner of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, said: “Under the guidance of the [Communist Party] and…