Chinese EV maker BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank

https://lemmy.ml/post/27357327

If you are involved in any way in helping to organize a conference in the US at this time, it is imperative that you offer online attendance and speaker options.

And not just because it's the right thing to do for environmental and accessibility reasons (but you should do it for those reasons, anyway).

#China is leading in research papers on chip design and fabrication, with 160,852 articles published between 2018 and 2023. The US is in second place with 71,688 articles, followed by India and Japan.

Nine of the top-10 articles and eight of the top-10 highly cited publications came from China.

China's lead in chip research is part of the country's push for self-reliance in the semiconductor industry and rapid progress in semiconductor self-sufficiency.

https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3301171/tech-war-china-leads-us-quantity-quality-semiconductor-research-report-finds

China leads US in quantity, quality of chip research, report finds

https://lemmy.ml/post/27335741

It's fascinating to see how AI tech is being applied to transforming healthcare in China. It's now used at over a 100 hospitals for pathology, radiology, and diagnostics, easing medical staff workload. This technology is helping address workforce shortages and ensures up-to-date practices in China, while it's used to make inane chat bots in the west.

https://youtu.be/Kt-6GuccEuY

Nice to see Vivaldi in the Mercedes-Benz CLA. All the cool cars get Vivaldi.

https://www.caranddriver.com/photos/g64124634/2026-mercedes-benz-cla-class-ev-interior-gallery/

#Vivaldi #browser #Mercedes #Cars #Technology @Vivaldi #automotive

OpenAI's cry for 'daddy government' shows AI leadership in crisis

https://lemmy.ml/post/27305345

World's fastest high-speed train undergoing type tests in Beijing

https://lemmy.ml/post/27235351

World's smallest microcontroller looks like I could easily accidentally inhale it but packs a genuine 32-bit Arm CPU

https://lemmy.ml/post/27233288

If you still use one of these devices, you might want to start looking into alternatives.

"In an email sent to customers today, Amazon said that Echo users will no longer be able to set their devices to process Alexa requests locally [...] Starting on March 28, recordings of everything command spoken to the Alexa living in Echo speakers and smart displays will automatically be sent to Amazon and processed in the cloud."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/

via https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114166991733057284

Why do a handful of rich men get to control how the world communicates?

https://lemmy.ml/post/27204431

Let’s get a little weird for the weekend! This is my first longer blog post and I’ve been doing a fair bit of reflection on #Theology and #Technology these days…

#Jesus #Christian #Church #Linux #Episcopal #Weird #Spirituality

https://catecheticconverter.com/gods-technology

RCS Universal Profile 3.0 will fully encrypt texts between iPhone and Android

https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-ae252777-dda436890a8ab298

China's Targeted Poverty Alleviation program aims to raise people out of poverty by addressing multidimensional poverty, not just income.

The program involves the deployment of millions of cadres to collect data and verify information in impoverished areas.

The use of cybernetics in China's poverty alleviation program involves the collection and analysis of extensive data to identify and address the root causes of poverty.

https://peoplesworld.org/article/cybernetics-with-chinese-characteristics-how-big-data-is-eliminating-poverty-and-building-socialism/

Scientists at Central South University, Guizhou Normal University, and the National Engineering Research Center of Advanced Energy Storage Materials have developed a new method for recycling lithium-ion batteries, recovering nearly 100% of the lithium, 96.8% of nickel, 92.35% of cobalt, and 90.59% of manganese in just 15 minutes. The eco-friendly process uses tiny micro batteries and an amino acid, avoiding harsh chemicals and toxic byproducts.

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/battery-recycle-lithium-ion-environment-b2713723.html

Battery breakthrough as 99.99% of lithium extracted from old cells

https://lemmy.ml/post/27177831

Do you think governments should move towards using a Linux distro for computer systems rather than windows?

Please boost for maximum exposure.

Coding is like taking a lump of clay and slowly working it into the thing you want it to become. It is this process, and your intimacy with the medium and the materials you’re shaping, that teaches you about what you’re making – its qualities, tolerances, and limits – even as you make it. You know the least about what you’re making the moment before you actually start making it. That’s when you think you know what you want to make. The process, which is an iterative one, is what leads you towards understanding what you actually want to make, whether you were aware of it or not at the beginning. Design is not merely about solving problems; it’s about discovering what the right problem to solve is and then solving it. Too often we fail not because we didn’t solve a problem well but because we solved the wrong problem.

When you skip the process of creation you trade the thing you could have learned to make for the simulacrum of the thing you thought you wanted to make. Being handed a baked and glazed artefact that approximates what you thought you wanted to make removes the very human element of discovery and learning that’s at the heart of any authentic practice of creation. Where you know everything about the thing you shaped into being from when it was just a lump of clay, you know nothing about the image of the thing you received for your penny from the vending machine.

John Burn-Murdoch (FT) asks whether 'passive consumption & constant context-switching' in our use of social media is behind the rising number of people who have difficulty with literacy & numeracy?

Thus, while international & active use of information technology can be empowering, for too many (he suggests) the shift to a more passive relationship with what their digital devices offer is having a negative impact on information processing skills....