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AdvertisementHong Kong economyHong KongHong Kong EconomyHong Kong, mainland China sign ‘milestone’ MOU on promoting digital economyMemorandum of understanding covers topics including AI promotion, cross-boundary data flow and blockchain
2-MIN READ2-MIN ListenEdith LinPublished: 10:18pm, 12 Apr 2026Hong Kong authorities have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with mainland China’s top internet regulator to promote the digital economy, with the city’s leader pledging to contribute to building a strong technological nation.
The MOU was signed on Sunday by Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Sun Dong and Wang Jingtao, deputy director of the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), and covers topics including artificial intelligence (AI) promotion, cross-boundary data flow and blockchain.
Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu and CAC director Zhuang Rongwen witnessed the signing of the MOU, which aims to support the implementation of the nation’s 15th five-year plan for Ch..

AdvertisementUS, Israel war on IranChinaMilitaryHow a Chinese company said it used AI to track US bomber movements over IranMizarVision tried to determine bomber movements based on aerial tanker positions and US attacks on key strategic sites
3-MIN READ3-MIN ListenAmber Wangin BeijingPublished: 10:00pm, 12 Apr 2026Updated: 10:11pm, 12 Apr 2026A Chinese company has tried to use AI analysis to track US aerial refuelling missions to detect the strike patterns of bombers over Iran.MizarVision, a private geospatial intelligence firm, published a report earlier this month analysing the activities of US KC-135 and KC-46 tanker aircraft during Operation Epic Fury.
The report detailed critical links between known tanker movements and strikes against Iranian targets.
AdvertisementAnalysts said the tankers could be tracked through Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast signals, which are used to locate aircraft. Tankers are the most commonly tracked type of military aircraft.
However, bombers..

President Donald Trump and Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer attend a business roundtable at Chequers near Aylesbury, England. AP/PTI(AP09_18_2025_000277B) There’s a recurring gag in Yes, Minister (and Yes, Prime Minister) which usually involves the premier of Great Britain discovering, with mounting irritation, that he is not quite as sovereign as he believed. At some point, the joke lands: for all the rhetoric of independence, Britain still depends on America to protect it from external threats. The humour lies in the gap between posture and reality. The country that once ran an empire now waits, politely, for Washington to pick up the phone.The gag recently resurfaced in a sketch imagining Keir Starmer hyperventilating before a call with Donald Trump, as if the “special relationship” were less a partnership and more a performance review. The joke is simply a resemblance of the real nature of the Albion’s relationship with Uncle Sam. Watch Starmer Blames Trump & Putin For En..

A sudden job loss turned into a swift comeback for the mother of an Indian-origin tech executive, after a single LinkedIn message helped her secure a new role within days.Ashalesh Tilawat, who is based in Austin, Texas, recently shared the experience on X. His post described how his mother, who had been laid off just three days earlier, managed to quickly find a new opportunity due to his 'connections.'According to Tilawat, the turnaround was fast. After sending just one message on LinkedIn, his mother was able to connect with the right contact. An interview was arranged the following day, and she received a job offer soon after.“1 LinkedIn message. Interview the next day. Offer the day after. Your network is everything,” he wrote on X.The story went viral, particularly at a time when layoffs continue to affect workers across industries, including companies like Amazon and Oracle, which have laid off thousands of employees, often without prior notice. The rise of the AI era i..

AdvertisementScienceChinaScienceChinese crystal ‘paves way’ for GPS-free thorium clock navigationWorld-first crystal tunes laser light to power ultra-precise, compact nuclear clocks which could guide submarines and deep-space probes
2-MIN READ2-MIN ListenLing Xinin OhioPublished: 10:00pm, 11 Apr 2026Scientists in Xinjiang have created the world’s first crystal that can produce the ultraviolet light needed for future thorium nuclear clocks, which could one day guide submarines and deep-space probes without GPS.The fluorinated borate compound could push laser light to a record 145.2 nanometres (nm) – a wavelength short enough to meet a key requirement for these ultra-precise, portable clocks being developed in the United States, China and elsewhere, the team reported in Advanced Materials in January.
The result surpassed previous benchmarks set by potassium beryllium fluoroborate, a crystal developed in China in the 1990s that has long dominated the field but can only reach about 150nm –..