Donald Trump made good on his promise Wednesday to impose sweeping tariffs on all goods entering the U.S. in a move that’s almost universally expected to raise prices for American consumers. Announced by the president in the Rose Garden of the White House, the tariffs will include 10% across the board, with additional tariffs of […]
China Plans Ambitious Nuclear Fusion Target For 2030
China has set its sights on a new fusion-fission power plant that could be up and running by the end of the decade. The reactor is called Xinghuo; it will reportedly cost $27.6 billion and will be built on central China’s Yaohu Science Island, according to the South China Morning Post. Because Xinghuo is a […]
China Delays BYD Factory in Mexico Over Concerns Tech Will Leak to American Rivals
China is frequently a target of criticism over allegations that it does not innovate but instead exfiltrates intellectual property developed abroad and wins by undercutting rivals on price. Now that the country has arguably leapfrogged America in electrical vehicle technology, it is starting to see the value in protecting domestic business in the free market. […]
BYD Says It Can Now Charge An Electric Car In 5 Minutes
Chinese automaker BYD continues to leave Tesla in the dust. The company introduced a new battery system on Monday that it claims can charge an electric vehicle in just five minutes, about the same time it takes to refuel a traditional car. The feat has long been a goal of the industry, which is still […]
Whistleblower Alleges Meta Was Ready to Censor Content for Chinese Government
Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg have been in their “free speech” arc since Donald Trump took office again, but a new account offered by a whistleblower throws cold water on the idea that the company won’t comply with censorship regimes. According to a report from the Washington Post, a whistleblower complaint alleges that Facebook built […]
China Looks to Use Tesla FSD Rollout as Leverage in Trade Negotiations
There has been a lot of speculation over how Elon Musk’s close involvement in the new Trump administration could affect the fortunes of his vast business empire. On the one hand, President Trump could ease the regulatory environment on Tesla, and hand even more government contracts to SpaceX. Conversely, markets seen as favorable to the […]
Trump Says He Wants to Get Rid of Nukes. He Spent His First Presidency Making That Impossible
Between Donald Trump’s words and his actions falls the nuclear shadow. Yesterday while speaking in the Oval Office, President Trump fantasized about cutting the U.S. military budget in half and stressed the need to get rid of nuclear weapons. “There’s no reason for us to be building brand new nuclear weapons, we already have so […]
Thousands of Americans Use Sideloading Workaround to Install TikTok on iPhones
A company called Signulous has helped more than 120,000 Americans install TikTok on their iPhones despite the app being unavailable on the Apple App Store. The company simplifies the process for iPhone users to create iOS developer accounts, which allow them to load apps onto the device without going through the App Store. Apple’s own […]
China’s BYD Adding ‘High-Level’ Self-Driving to Its Budget $10K Electric Car
Tesla’s famously sky-high market valuation is based in part on the premise that it is not actually a car company at all, but an AI and robotics company. Selling a $25,000 electric car that can transition the world to a sustainable future is no longer the goal but rather creating AI software that can make […]
Einstein Probe Detects Mysterious Blast of X-Rays From the Early Universe
On March 15, 2024, a space-based observatory detected bursts of low-energy X-rays from deep in the ancient universe, fluctuating in brightness for over 17 minutes before fading away. About an hour later, ground-based telescopes picked up visible light from the same source, tracing it back to when the universe was only around one billion years […]