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Bad News for China: Rare Earth Elements Aren’t That Rare

As the trade war between China and the United States continues to escalate, Beijing is responding by turning to one of its favorite retaliation tactics: limiting the export of critical minerals used...

Stumbling and Overheating, Most Humanoid Robots Fail to Finish Half Marathon in Beijing

About 12,000 human athletes ran in a half marathon race in Beijing on Saturday, but most of the attention was on a group of other, more unconventional participants: 21 humanoid robots. The...

A Cybersecurity Professor Disappeared Amid an FBI Search. His Family Is ‘Determined to Fight’

The wife of data privacy professor Xiaofeng Wang, who was fired from his tenured job at Indiana University, Bloomington (IU) the same day the couple’s houses were searched by the Federal Bureau...

Why It’s Impossible for Most Small Businesses to Manufacture in the US

Dallas-based small business owner Allen Walton says he just sold out of one of his products, a surveillance camera used by law enforcement and private detectives. That would normally be great news...

Inside Maye Musk’s Cozy Relationship With China

In January, with a nationwide ban on TikTok looming, hundreds of thousands of people in the US began flocking to another Chinese social media app called RedNote—only to find that Maye Musk,...

Chinese Companies Rush to Put DeepSeek in Everything

What do a mobile shooting game, a nuclear power plant, and a local Chinese government office have in common? In the past two months, they have all tried incorporating DeepSeek’s R1 artificial...

Trump Still Considering Tariffs on Taiwanese Chips, Despite $100 Billion TSMC Deal

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s top producer of advanced computer chips, said Monday that it is planning to invest $100 billion in the United States to fund five new fabrication plants...

How Candise Lin Became the Unofficial Ambassador of Chinese Internet Culture

One day in mid-January, California-based social media influencer Candise Lin woke up and found that hundreds of thousands of so-called TikTok refugees were suddenly flocking to Red Note, a Chinese social media...

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