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Senior superintendent Baron Chan Shun-ching speaking to reportersPhoto: Dickson Lee (Getty Images)A finance worker in Hong Kong hopped on a video call with, what appeared to be, multiple coworkers and his company’s Chief Financial Officer. Everyone looked and sounded real, but it turns out everyone on the call was a deepfake. The employee was scammed into paying out over $25 million to unknown fraudsters, according to CNN on Sunday.Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future Tech“(In the) multi-person video conference,…

China has seemingly set off on a journey into the center of the earth. This week the country has begun digging what will eventually become the deepest hole in China’s history to test drilling technology and further understand the Earth’s underground structure, Bloomberg reported. Chat GPT-4 Worth the Upgrade? | Future TechOnce completed, the hole is going to be 10,000 meters (32,808 feet). That’s a little more than 6 miles deep into the earth. The drilling is expected to occur for 457 days and is being led by the China…

China launched its latest crew of astronauts to the Tiangong space station, including the first civilian sent to orbit by the country’s rapidly evolving space program. Better Mobility & Cameras: NASA & Axiom's New Spacesuits | TechmodoThe Shenzhou-16 crew launched on board a Long March 2F rocket late Monday at 9:31 p.m. ET (9:31 a.m. on Tuesday local time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northern China’s Gobi Desert. The three astronauts arrived at the space station around seven hours later to begin a…

China’s plan to reach the widely coveted lunar south pole—where NASA hopes to touch down in 2025 with Artemis 3—has been disrupted by a decades-old U.S. trade law. The International Traffic in Arms Regulations, or ITAR, has seemingly prevented the 2026 Chang’e 7 mission from including UAE’s Rashid 2 rover.Astronomers Could Soon Get Warnings When SpaceX Satellites Threaten Their ViewThe South China Morning Post reported on the shakeup last week, citing two anonymous sources familiar with China’s mission. Rashid 2 would…

Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings has set up a development team to work on a ChatGPT-like chatbot, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. ChatGPT's uncanny ability to create cogent blocks of text instantly has sparked worldwide frenzied interest in the technology behind it called generative AI. Although Microsoft-backed OpenAI does not allow users in China to create accounts to access the chatbot, the open AI models behind the programme are relatively accessible and are increasingly being incorporated…

A cutout of 3 images taken of the Zhurong rover from March 2022 to February 2023.Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizonaChina’s Zhurong rover appears to still be snoozing since entering into hibernation mode a little less than a year ago. The Chinese robot was supposed to wake up in December but recent images captured by a NASA orbiter reveal that the rover hasn’t moved from its position on the Martian surface for months.The images, released on Tuesday, were captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE)…

The Chinese rover snapped this selfie of itself on Mars shortly after landing on the Red Planet.Image: China News ServiceChina’s Zhurong rover went into hibernation mode in May 2022 to avoid the harsh winter season on Mars, but communication issues, both with the rover and orbiter, suggest something’s now very wrong with the mission.The six-wheeled Martian rover was scheduled to wake up in late December, but it hasn’t been heard from since entering into its scheduled hibernation mode, unnamedsources told the South China…

Amid the FTX collapse saga, customers withdrew $1.14 billion in just 12 hours from leading crypto exchange Binance and according to its CEO, the massive withdrawals were "handled with ease" and "things seem to have stabilised" now.Customers pulled billions of dollars of funds from the exchange, amid fears about the state of the cryptocurrency industry following the collapse of FTX and arrest of its former CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), from the Bahamas by the US authorities.Read AlsoChangpeng Zhao tweeted that this was…

China’s Long March-5B Y3 rocket carried the Wentian lab module to China’s space station in July.Photo: LIU HUAIYU (AP)On November 12, China’s Long March 6A rocket broke apart after launch, scattering debris in low Earth orbit. Now, reports suggest that the disintegrated upper stage of the rocket has grown to a cloud of 350 pieces of space debris. The rocket launched at 5:52 p.m. ET on November 11 from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China, carrying the Yunhai 3 environmental monitoring satellite.Shortly after…

Apple supplier Foxconn has dismantled parts of its production lines for iPhone 14 models in China to update them to manufacture more Pro models as the high-end Apple iPhones are generating more demand in the country, the media reported.Basic iPhone models are reportedly facing lukewarm sales amid growing economic headwinds in the country, according to local reports. A Foxconn spokesperson told South China Morning Post that the company "would not comment on market rumours".According to market research firm Sandalwood…