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Shanghai’s Zhangyuan neighborhood, a 140-year-old maze of tight alleys and Shikumen-style homes, just pulled off an engineering stunt for the ages. The Huayanli complex—7,500 tons of century-old buildings—was hoisted and shuffled across the city by 432 tiny robots, each small enough to fit in your hand, in a jaw-dropping technological dance.
Forget your smartphone or smartwatch and need to make a contactless payment? Well, there’s Alipay’s PL1, which lets you pay using your palm print. This device comes from Ant Group, an affiliate of Alibaba, and is part of Alipay’s push to expand biometric payment options beyond QR codes and facial recognition.
China hopes to soon build a space-based solar power station positioned in a geostationary orbit about 22,370 miles above Earth. This station will span roughly 0.6 miles wide when completed, and aims to harness solar energy without having to deal with weather, night-time darkness, or atmospheric interference.
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This Red Dead Redemption-inspired bar, called ‘Valentine’, looks to be straight from the video game. It’s located in Hangzhou’s West Lake district, a scenic area known for its beauty, and apparently now for gaming tributes.
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Chengming Liu of Beihang University in China and his colleagues have discovered chorus waves in deep space that sound like chirping birds, or so we’d like to think. These peculiar bursts of energy called could pose problems for long-distance space travel.
A troupe of Unitree H1 humanoid robots took to the stage at the Spring Festival Gala on the eve of the Chinese New Year in Beijing, China, and put on quite the show to say the least. They performed Yangge, a Chinese folk dance that originated in rural northern China.
Finally, after numerous leaks, the refreshed 2025 Tesla Model Y has been officially launched in China, as well as a few other regions, with the base RWD model starting at $35,934 USD and the LR AWD variant priced from $41,389. Those who place an order by February 28th qualify for the ‘Launch Series’ edition, and deliveries are expected to begin in March.
