Google's DeepMind AI team has once again beaten the world's best Go player at his own game. Yesterday, the AlphaGo program beat South Korea's 9-dan Go player Lee Sedol in a live-streamed Go match. In the early hours of this morning, the ...
Researchers in Canada claim the highest reported optical-to-electric power conversion of more than 65% (Figure 1) for a 150W/cm2 (~1500 suns) tuned narrow spectrum input from high-powered laser diodes [S. Fafard et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., ...
Cooking, home entertaining, and baking just got infinitely easier with the creation of the biēm butter sprayer, a first-of-its-kind kitchen tool that lets users convert a stick of real butter from solid to liquid spray in seconds. ...
The first quality standards for pollution filter masks will take effect on March 1 in a bid to regulate the rapidly growing domestic market. The Group Standard on Protective Masks against PM 2.5 was released on Jan 18, with the goal to ...
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Everything you need to know about MWC 2016, from show dates and attendees to the likely big announcements This year's Mobile World Congress takes place in Barcelona from February 22 through to February 25. MWC invariably proves to be ...
UK-based drinks company Diageo has reportedly said that it would challenge the claim by its Indian subsidiary United Spirits Ltd (USL) chairman Vijay Mallya, who alleged that Diageo failed to enter into a joint venture with him in the ...
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The world's stock markets are spiralling downwards. The U.S. equity market fell 10 percent last month. Investor terminology calls this a "correction" not a crash. But prospects don't look good. Big investors, banks and financial ...
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A company was sued and will give two million yuan (308,000 U.S. dollars) in compensation for dumping contaminated water, announced by Dalian People's Procuratorate in northeast China's Liaoning Province on Tuesday. China-Japan joint ...
Overseas visitors will be able to claim tax refunds on departure from China in the southwest city of Chengdu. The new policy will take effect from New Year's Day. Visitors can also get their tax refunded in 33 shopping malls in the ...
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21 Dec 2015 Tobacco giant Philip Morris has lost its fight against the plain packaging laws that it claimed would threaten the intellectual property of its brands. The company behind Marlboro, Peter Jackson and Longbeach cigarettes has ...
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A photo shows the household register of China. [Photo: cctv.com] There have been heated discussions over a planned points-based residence registration system in the Chinese capital that accommodates over eight million non-locals. The ...
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Gooee, the original ‘Full-Stack’, smart lighting ecosystem provider that connects OEMs to the Internet of Things, has developed, out of Silicon Valley, a multi-protocol enterprise IoT gateway that connects lighting and sensing ...
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The mainland company Unigroup's investment in Taiwan's semiconductor industry is purely commercial and should not be politicized, a mainland official said Wednesday. Unigroup, controlled by the prestigious Tsinghua University, is buying ...
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After eight months of patient, indirect and difficult contact with the Dutch collector, the villagers of Yangchun in south-east China's Fujian province failed to get back the mummy Buddha statue of Patriarch Zhanggong which was stolen in ...
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The Buddha statue on display at the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest in March. [Photo/Xinhua] A 1000-year-old Buddha statue with a mummified monk inside, now in possession of Dutch private collector Oscar van Overeem, ...
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