2021 is going to be more than a merry celebration following the annus horribilis year 2020 – it’s going to be a space party like never seen before. Here are the space events we have to look forward to in 2021.
Chongqing Zhongshuge bookstore in China looks fantastic with its maze of staircases, mirrors, and Escher-style design.
A new study published in Nature suggests building powerful telescopes in Hawaii and Northern Chile might not be such a great idea.
In Japan, there are several life-size Gundam statues. If you visit Tokyo, it’s a must-see attraction. Now we learn there will be a life-size Gundam built – in China!
The United States typically fell within the top 10, albeit not the top position as you’d expect from the country that invented the damn thing. But that changed with the latest analysis. The US now sits in the 11th position with 25% of US households having access to speeds of up to 25 Mbps or…
Have no doubt about it. America’s skirmish with China has more to do with fear than anger. America is about to lose their #1 position on the world’s stage and they know it. And China is posed to step into the pole position. What will it take to overtake the US? Technological advances. And what’s…
The Chinese call them “nail houses”, a home whose resident has refused to leave in order to make way for new construction. Rather than cease development, builders simply build around the home, often using innovative, but visually unpleasant, means to continue construction unabated. The term nail house is a pun coined by construction workers and…
The largest building in the world has opened in China this week. At 1.7 million square meters, the glass and steel-frame New Century Global Center took only a little more than a year to build. It stands 18 stories tall and sits above a new subway station in Chengdu, a Sichuan province city of more…
The Cray Titan lost bragging rights this past week as China’s Tianhe-2 supercomputer clocked in at a silicon-scorching 30.65 petaflops (74% faster than Titan) making it the fastest supercomputer on the planet. The feat was even more impressive given that Tianhe-2 was not even running at full capacity. Theoretically it could hit 50 petaflops although
The Army Corps of Engineers has admitted that an unauthorized Chinese user has hacked the National Inventory of Dams (NID) database in January 2013 and that the attack was not discovered until sometime in April. There are about 8,100 major dams in the U.S., and the NID database has information about all of them, including…
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