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Chinese chipmaking tool roadmaps examined — Beijing's nascent lithography tools target DUV production at five machines a year, and an EUV prototype with no chips (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-04 | by Luke James | tags: china, lithography, asml

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Shanghai Aishengna named as the maker of China's first domestic immersion DUV chipmaking tools — first viable domestic 7nm-capable scanner to be completed by 2038 (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-30 | by Luke James | tags: aishengna, immersion duv, smic

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China Begins Mass Production of Homegrown DUV Chip Tools (slashdot.org)

2026-07-27 | tags: duv lithography, smic, hua hong

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China begins mass production of homegrown immersion chipmaking machines in major breakthrough, report claims — first DUV lithography units will be delivered this year to SMIC, Hua Hong, and CXMT (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-27 | by Luke James | tags: duv lithography, smic, hua hong semiconductor

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Is Huawei Building Its Own DRAM Fab? (slashdot.org)

2026-07-26 | by Posted | tags: huawei, dram fab, swaysure

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China is Creating a Herd of 100 Elite Yak Clones (slashdot.org)

2026-07-25 | by Posted | tags: china, yak cloning, gene selection

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I milled an Android figurine out of a solid block with an AI-powered 5-axis CNC machine (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-24 | tags: android, infimaker, cnc machine

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Brutal Humanoid Robot Cage Match Stops Abruptly When One of the Robot’s Heads Pops Off (futurism.com)

2026-07-17 | by Frank Landymore | tags: humanoid robot, engineai, t800

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CNBC's The China Connection newsletter: Betting on Shenzhen over Silicon Valley (cnbc.com)

2026-07-13 | by Evelyn Cheng | tags: apple, china, chinese

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The Chinese Voice Actor Forced to Prove He's Human (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-11 | by Sixth Tone | tags: began, recordings, shen

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Factories Are Just Rooms (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-03 | get Smart Factory Automation Kit → | tags: ai clock, shenzhen, injection moulding

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TOP500 at ISC’26: We have a New Number 1 Supercomputer (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-28 | by George Cozma | get Cray EX Supercomputer → | tags: supercomputer, top500, linshine

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China Defies US Restrictions and Builds the World’s Fastest Supercomputer (wired.com)

2026-06-28 | by Fernanda González | get Cray XC50 Supercomputer → | tags: lineshine, top500, el capitan

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Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-27 | get Meta Portal Video Calling Device → | tags: belarus, lukashenka, kgb

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Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-27 | tags: belarus, lukashenka, kgb

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China’s LineShine just topped the global supercomputer ranking: what you need to know (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-25 | by Gibney | get Supermicro SuperServer 1029U-TR4 → | tags: lineshine, supercomputer, shenzhen

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Morgan Stanley doubles China humanoid robot shipment forecast as commercialization accelerates (cnbc.com)

2026-06-24 | by Anniek Bao | get Hanson Robotics Sophia Robot → | tags: humanoid robots, unitree robotics, china robotics

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China’s Mysterious Spaceplane Releases Unidentified Object in Orbit (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-23 | get Satellite Tracking and Monitoring Kit → | tags: china, shenlong, spaceplane

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China's LineShine supercomputer dethrones US' El Capitan, secures first place in Top 500 list — first machine in the rankings to sustain more than 2 ExaFLOPS of double-precision performance using only CPUs (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-23 | by Anton Shilov | get HPE Cray EX Supercomputer → | tags: lineshine, supercomputer, el capitan

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Grave Seasons Lets You Date the Serial Killer Plaguing Your Cute Town (cnet.com)

2026-06-19 | by See Full Bio | get Serial Killer Puzzle Game → | tags: perfect garbage studios, grave seasons, blumhouse games

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Operating a Humanoid With Your Body Is a Hot Job in China’s Hardware Capital (wired.com)

2026-06-17 | by Will Knight | get Humanoid Robot Kit → | tags: shenzhen, io-ai tech, humanoid robots

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Genetic architecture of sugarcane traits in a polyploid genomics framework (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-27 | by Wang | get Sugarcane Genome Analysis Kit → | tags: sugarcane, polyploid genomics, genome sequencing

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This Robot Trying to Dance Like Michael Jackson But Wiping Out Pathetically in Front of a Crowd Perfectly Illustrates the Industry’s Deep-Seated Problem (futurism.com)

2026-05-20 | by Jon Christian | get Robotics Dancing Robot Kit → | tags: humanoid robots, michael jackson, future era

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Alibaba Selling High-Powered Laser Guns (futurism.com)

2026-05-18 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: alibaba, laser guns, shenzhen liyang

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Alibaba Selling High-Powered Laser Guns Advertised as “Obstacle Removers” (futurism.com)

2026-05-18 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: alibaba, laser guns, shenzhen liyang

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iRobot announces eight smaller and better Roomba bots after bankruptcy (9to5mac.com)

2026-05-12 | by Ben Lovejoy | get iRobot Roomba Replacement Parts → | tags: irobot, roomba, shenzhen picea robotics

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These new Roombas are smaller and cheaper (theverge.com)

2026-05-12 | by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy | get Roomba i3 Robot Vacuum → | tags: irobot, roomba, lidar

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How LEDs are made (2014) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-07 | get LED Manufacturing Kit → | tags: leds, yunsun, shenzhen

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FCC votes to ban all Chinese labs from certifying electronics sold in the US due to national security concerns — ruling would affect 75 percent of US-bound devices (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-02 | by Luke James | get US-China Tech Security Kit → | tags: fcc, chinese labs, certification

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China announces CPU-only exascale supercomputer with 47,000 homemade processors, record 2 Exaflops of performance without GPUs — Lingshen super said to use Huawei Kunpeng servers and no foreign-made components (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-28 | by Luke James | get Huawei Kunpeng Server → | tags: huawei kunpeng, exascale supercomputer, ling shen