Elon Musk says Tesla’s Chinese rivals ‘work hardest, smartest’

Elon Musk said that Tesla’s closest competitor is likely a Chinese company as they “work the hardest and the smartest.” On Tesla’s earnings ...

College student develops new app that detects AI-written essays

A university student has developed an app that can detect if a written work was authored by the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT...

Chinese researchers help demystify decades-long Moon mystery

A new study by a Chinese research team has shed new light on the presence and formation of ferric iron (Fe3+), a version of iron that contai...

Video: Wash your hands — and smartphone — at McDonald’s in Japan

A video of a phone cleaning station at a McDonald’s in Japan has gone viral. Uploaded to Twitter by Sho Sawada (@shao1555) on Oct. 26, 2022,...

Sim Wong Hoo, co-founder and CEO of Singapore’s Creative Technology, dies at 67

Creative Technology co-founder, chairman and CEO Sim Wong Hoo died on Wednesday at the age of 67.   The board of directors of the Singaporea...

Sony says the PlayStation 5 shortage is over

Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan has announced the PlayStation 5 (PS5) shortage is over. During their annual CES press conference...

Stanford pulls IT language guide that brands ‘American,’ ‘brave’ as ‘harmful’ words

Amid massive backlash within and beyond its academic community, Stanford University has backpedaled on a language initiative that deemed wor...

Chinese electric vehicle catches fire during Guangzhou Auto Show

An electric concept car went up in flames during the Guangzhou Auto Show in China.  Images and videos of the incident have been circulating ...

Tom Zhu: Tesla’s China chief is now the company’s most powerful executive after Elon Musk

Tesla’s China chief Tom Zhu is reportedly the second highest-profile executive of the billion-dollar electric vehicle (EV) company aft...

S. Korea fines Tesla $2.2 million for overstating driving range of EVs

Before you read:  Videos of Teslas malfunctioning in below-freezing temperatures go viral The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) announced t...

‘An insult to life itself’: Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki condemns AI art

A clip of legendary Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki reacting to artificial intelligence (AI) art has reentered online discourse s...

Chinese farmer uses AI to save hundreds of newborn goats

A man who once worked in the finance industry in Shanghai now uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help reduce the mortality rate of goats g...

Hate rush hour? This $140,000 Chinese electric car can fly over traffic jams

An electric flying car designed to escape traffic in China may go into mass production in 2025. Xpeng Aeroht, which was founded by high-scho...

Watch: ‘Metal Gear’ voice actor narrates tour of Kojima Productions’ new studio in Tokyo

Kojima Productions, founded by legendary video game designer Hideo Kojima of “Metal Gear” fame, celebrated their seventh anniver...

150-year wait to get a green card: Indian H1B visa holders hold protest in Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley tech workers from India held a demonstration in front of Representative Zoe Lofgren's (D, CA-19) home in San Jose, Cali...

Indian PhD student finds simple solution to puzzle that’s baffled scholars since 5th century BC

An Indian PhD student at the University of Cambridge has solved a grammatical puzzle that has eluded Sanskrit scholars since the 5th century...

Japanese startup develops edible cement out of food waste

Japanese startup Fabula Inc. has developed a technology that turns food waste into edible, biodegradable and high-quality cement. Tokyo Un...

TerraUSD founder Do Kwon may be hiding in Serbia, prosecutors say

Before you read: Interpol issues red notice for Luna, TerraUSD co-founder Do Kwon Luna crashes below $3 after S. Korea issues arrest warrant...

Dyson creates headphones with air purifier

Singapore-based technology company Dyson has created the Dyson Zone, a set of air-purifying headphones that target both air and noise pollut...

$20 million stolen from COVID relief funds by Chinese government-linked hackers, Secret Service says

The hacking group APT41, which has reportedly been working with the Chinese government for years, has been accused by the U.S. Secret Servi...

Chinese astronauts return from 6-month mission in space

Chinese astronauts Chen Dong, Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe, who spent half a year aboard China’s Tiangong space station, have safely made it back...

Taiwanese man starts living in year 3000 with his payment app barcode tattoo

A Taiwanese man has been using a new hands-free mode of payment after getting a payment app barcode permanently tattooed on his arm. An un...

Flying cars to be tested in new Indonesian capital in 2024

Indonesia’s future capital city, Nasuntara, is set to become the testing ground for Hyundai’s flying car project Advanced Air Mobility (AAM...

Vietnamese EV maker VinFast ships 999 cars for US debut

Vietnamese electric vehicle (EV) maker VinFast shipped its first batch of 999 EVs to the U.S. on Friday. “The export of the first 999 VF 8...

Japanese researchers unveil digital reconstruction of 1,600-year-old woman

Japanese scientists from seven research institutes have digitally reconstructed the image of a woman born 1,600 years ago using DNA technol...

Ex-CEO fired for alleged LSD use files discrimination suit, says startup sacked him for being Asian

Justin Zhu, co-founder and former CEO of Iterable, has filed a federal lawsuit against the company, citing anti-Asian discrimination. Zhu ...

China says it has ‘solved’ children’s addiction to online games, but attention shifted to videos

China has “basically solved” the problem of online gaming addiction among its youth, according to a new report co-authored by the country’s...

‘It’s Japan-centric’: Elon Musk names Japan as Twitter’s ideal market

Elon Musk reportedly told employees on Monday that Japan’s strong usage of Twitter is what the company should aim for “ideally in every cou...

Georgia man pleads guilty to stealing bitcoin worth $3.4 billion

The Southern District of New York revealed on Monday that real estate developer James Zhong pleaded guilty to stealing over 50,000 bitcoin ...

FDA reviews evidence pulse oximeters less accurate on people with darker skin

A panel from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently met to review the reported inaccuracy of pulse oximetry in patients with ...

Workers filmed fleeing major iPhone factory in China

Viral videos on Chinese social media apparently show workers fleeing one of the largest iPhone assembly factories in China following a repo...

Lego Singapore’s Halloween-themed gaming PC promises scary fast loading times

Lego Singapore created a custom Halloween-themed gaming PC with over 20,000 bricks in collaboration with Aftershock PC. On Sunday, the toy...

‘Like drinking a cup of milk tea’: China debuts world’s first inhalable COVID-19 vaccine

China began administering the world’s first inhalable COVID-19 vaccine in Shanghai. The vaccine is a mist that is inhaled through the mout...

Japan creates laughing robot that can ‘coexist alongside people’

A team of researchers led by Inoue Koji, an assistant professor at Kyoto University's Graduate School of Informatics in Japan, recentl...

New personal fryer can help fuel your tempura addiction

Japanese electronics company Thanko has come up with another brilliant way to cook your favorite struggle meals: the new Kalari portable fry...

Bangkok wants to become ‘Silicon Valley of food tech’ through anti-hunger project

Dr. Pun-Arj Chairatana, executive director of Thailand’s National Innovation Agency, said the agency aims to make the country the “kitchen ...