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Guo Ke’s team, a researcher at the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, found the tallest tree in China so far in the virgin forest of Huangguo fir in Yunnan during an inspection in Chayu County, Tibet. After repeated measurements by the drone sling, the tree is 83.2 meters high and 207 […]

Zhao Haijun, CEO of SMIC, said that in 2022, global smartphone sales will decrease by at least 200 million units, mainly affecting Chinese mobile phone brands. Zhao Haijun said that the war and the new crown blockade have greatly reduced demand for consumer electronics and home appliances, affecting chip orders in these areas. Zhao Haijun

The Wall Street Journal quoted sources as saying that the black box data analysis reported that the crash of a China Eastern Airlines passenger plane in Guangxi in March, killing all 132 people, may have been caused by someone deliberately crashing the plane. China Eastern Airlines said that there is currently no conclusive evidence to

ARM open source project migrated from GitHub to GitLab. The official GitLab blog explains the advantages of choosing GitLab as a self-hosted platform : maximizing choice and cost-effectiveness, minimizing vendor lock-in. Using GitLab will allow ARM to use its own tools, unlike GitHub which is a black box. ARM chips account for 95% of the

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis ruled that a California law requiring corporate boards to include women is unconstitutional and violates the right to equal treatment. The California government sees the law as helpful in reversing a culture of discrimination that favors men, and it enacted the law after other measures had failed. The

The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology released the ” Analysis Report on the Operation of the Domestic Mobile Phone Market in March 2022 ” (PDF). The data shows that the shipment of mobile phones in March was 21.5 million units, a year-on-year decrease of 40.5%; the shipment of 5G mobile phones was 16.185

Researchers at the University of Bath report in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking a very simple experiment they conducted: The researchers recruited 154 volunteers, with an average age of 29.6 years, who were randomly assigned to stop using social media. (mainly Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok) for one week in the intervention group

Han Bing, the former database administrator of Lianjia, was sentenced to seven years in prison in the first instance for deleting the database, and the original sentence was upheld in the second instance. Han Bing used the company’s financial system such as administrator privileges and a root account on June 4, 2018, and deleted the

The Royal Mail has announced plans to open 50 postal lines serviced by drones over the next three years as part of a broader goal of deploying more than 500 drones to deliver letters and parcels to remote areas. Royal Mail said drone deliveries would initially be introduced to Shetland, Orkney, Hebrides and Scilly. Last

For three decades, quantum physicists Sandu Popescu, Yakir Aharonov and Daniel Rohrlich have been plagued by the same scenario. This started with a wave phenomenon they described in 1990 called superoscillation. “We’ve never been able to really say what the trouble is,” said University of Bristol professor Popescu. “We’ve come back here every year since

The iPhone didn’t shut down completely when it turned off. The chip inside the device continues to operate in a low-power mode, so the Find My function can be used to locate a lost or stolen device, or to use a credit card and car keys when the battery is depleted. Now researchers have devised

Doctors cannot tell if a person is black, Asian or white just by looking at X-ray imaging results. Computers can , an international team of scientists including researchers at MIT and Harvard Medical School says in a surprising new paper. An artificial intelligence program trained to read X-ray imaging results and CT scans can predict

Lupus is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system does not normally attack its own healthy tissues and organs. The cause of lupus has long been a mystery, there is no cure, and current treatments focus on reducing symptoms. According to a study published in the journal Nature, researchers believe they have identified a