Dawn Liu

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Peter Guo |Dawn Liu |Rae Wang

By and HONG KONG — President Donald Trump has a new nickname in China: “The Lord of Eternal Tariffs.”Jokes and memes about the tariffs Trump has imposed on Beijing and other U.S. trading partners have been proliferating online in China, embraced by state media seeking to rally the public as well as ordinary internet users bemused by Trump’s policy decisions.

3 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Janis Mackey Frayer |Dawn Liu |Peter Guo |Rae Wang

By , and BEIJING — China’s robots may not run as fast as humans, but they’re also in a broader race with the United States. On Saturday, the Chinese capital of Beijing hosted the world’s first half-marathon where two-legged robots ran together with people, in the latest demonstration of China’s tech progress. A total of 21 Chinese-made humanoid robots joined about 12,000 people for the race.

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Janis Mackey Frayer |Dawn Liu |Peter Guo

2 hours agoHiding your address, phone number, and other details from Google and people search sites is easier than you might think. For years, Google made it incredibly easy to look up someone’s address, phone number, age, and other personal info. All you had to do was type in a person’s name and where they …

1 month ago | nbcnews.com | Janis Mackey Frayer |Dawn Liu |Arata Yamamoto |Peter Guo

By , , and TOKYO — Major League Baseball’s regular season kicked off on Tuesday with an opening pitch thrown from halfway around the world. The Los Angeles Dodgers won 4-1 against the Chicago Cubs in the first of a two-game series at Tokyo Dome, a 55,000-seat indoor stadium in the Japanese capital, as America’s pastime seeks a wider international audience.

2 months ago | nbcnews.com | Jennifer Jett |Dawn Liu |Rae Wang

HONG KONG — China is recruiting for a planetary defense force to combat the threat of asteroids colliding with Earth. The successful candidates will be required to research tasks related to near-Earth asteroid monitoring and early-warning systems, according to the job description for the three positions, among 16posted last week by the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND), which oversees the country’s space activities.