Cheng Jianping probably didn’t think much about retweeting her fiance’s statement. Now that tweet is now going to cost her a year in a labor camp “for disrupting social order.”
China’s Tianhe-1A supercomputer just turned in the fastest performance score in the world: 2.507 petaflops. That’s “more than 40% higher” than the score set by the “Jaguar” supercomputer housed here in the U.S. at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Do you like Adidas shoes? Do you use a cell phone? Do you like Adidas shoes enough to get a cell phone that looks just like an Adidas shoe?
Just when you thought USB hubs couldn’t get any more exciting, they go and add a solar panel to one of them. Head? Explode.
Reports out of China indicate another Foxconn employee has lost his life. According to Ming Pao, 28-year-old Yan Li died from exhaustion after a 34-hour shift. Foxconn has yet to issue an official statement on Li’s death.
It’s difficult to ignore the recent slew of suicides at Apple’s Chinese manufacturer Foxconn. Apple released the following statement last week after the ninth Hon Hai worker jumped to their death.
The commentary and music are a bit too dramatic but there are a few new scenes. Can anyone translate?
After Google began shuttling Chinese users to an uncensored search via a Hong Kong Web site, China’s government officials took quick action to block the site from China’s mainland users.
After January’s falling out with China over cyber attacks on the search engine giant that were uncovered in December, Google has just announced that they’re offering unfiltered search to mainland China users via servers in Hong Kong.
Tuesday, Mar. 16, 2010
I’m not super into straight-up repostings of other people’s repostings of links, but I am sufficiently skeeved by an article in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine that I can’t help it.
