Victoria Bela

3 weeks ago | scmp.com | Holly Chik |Victoria Bela |Shi Huang |Yuanyue Dang

The impact on a flagship Chinese oil and gas pipeline is under close watch after a powerful earthquake hit Myanmar on Friday afternoon, with tremors felt in neighbouring China and Thailand. Strong tremors were felt in China’s southwestern province of Yunnan, but no casualties have been reported so far, according to state news agency Xinhua. Other Chinese media outlets reported that many in Yunnan felt the quake, with some injuries and damage to houses. Rescue operations are reportedly under way.

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Holly Chik |Victoria Bela |Shi Huang |Yuanyue Dang

4 hours agoPowerful earthquake rocks Thailand and Myanmar, killing at least 3 in Bangkok high-rise collapseBANGKOK (AP) — A powerful earthquake rocked Thailand and neighboring Myanmar on Friday, killing at least three people in Bangkok and burying dozens when a high-rise building under construction collapsed.

1 month ago | scmp.com | Victoria Bela |Holly Chik

Chinese scientists have set a transmission record in quantum secure direct communication, which brings the technology to the internet dial-up speed of the 1990s and sets the stage for a future quantum internet. The team’s new quasi-quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) protocol set both a transmission and a distance world record with a transmission rate of 2.38 kilobits per second (kbps) over 104.8km (65 miles) of standard telecommunications optical fibre.

2 months ago | scmp.com | Dewey Sim |Victoria Bela

While Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has drawn scrutiny in the West over national security and privacy concerns, it could be an opportunity for countries like Russia that have little access to advanced technologies. That is the assessment of analysts after Hangzhou-based DeepSeek surprised the world last month with the launch of an open-source reasoning model, R1, with capabilities that are comparable to OpenAI’s closed-source GPT but at significantly lower cost.

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Dewey Sim |Victoria Bela

15 hours agoThe Beatles have won their eighth competitive Grammy award thanks to a little help from artificial intelligence. The 2023 track “Now and Then” — which Billboard reports is the first song knowingly created with AI assistance to earn a Grammy nomination — was awarded Best Rock Performance on Sunday, …