Silk-weaving loom dating to Western Han is world’s oldest known ‘computer hardware’ with corresponding ‘software’, China science body says.

The world's earliest computer was a silk loom built in China over two millennia ago, according to a claim made by China's ...

Pioneering scientist takes up new position at Westlake University to seek ‘fresh exploration’ with greater freedom and ...

China has built a prototype EUV (extreme ultraviolent) lithography machine in a high-security laboratory in Shenzhen. They ...

The US response came in November, when President Donald Trump unveiled the Genesis Mission, described as an “AI Manhattan ...

China is reportedly working to cognitively merge humans with machines as part of its ongoing efforts to compete in the artificial intelligence race. The communist country is using brain-computer ...

Since February this year, a quiet but significant breakthrough unfolded in several of Beijing’s top neurosurgical hospitals. Working ...

In a policy document released this month, China has signaled its ambition to become a world leader in brain-computer interfaces, the same technology that Elon Musk’s Neuralink and other US startups ...

In the atrium of a research building at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing is a wall of patents. Around five metres wide and two storeys high, the wall displays 192 certificates, ...

A decade ago Nature, a scientific publisher, began tallying the contributions made by researchers at different institutions to papers published across a set of 145 respected journals. When the first ...

The computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations automatically and produces results.By this fundamental definition, China's ...