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Things Just Keep Getting Worse For China’s Fallen Tech Upstart LeEco
‘It’s All Over Now But the Screaming’: Inside the Unraveling of LeEco in America In 2016, rising Chinese tech star LeEco made an aggressive move to conquer the unfamiliar US market … Read more A Chinese court froze $182 million is assets tied to LecEco founder and chairman Jia Yueting due to unpaid loan payments,…
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Science Reveals the Secret to Ancient Rome’s Indestructible Concrete
This microscopic image shows the lumpy calcium-aluminum-silicate-hydrate (C-A-S-H) binder material that forms when volcanic ash, lime and seawater mix. Platy crystals of Al-tobermorite have grown amongst the C-A-S-H in the cementing matrix. (Image: M. D. Jackson et al., 2017) Convinced that something else was responsible for the effect, the researchers took samples of aluminous tobermorite,…
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Rain hinders ’panda-event’ Berlin
BERLIN – Chinese president Xi Jinping and German chancellor Angela Merkel have Wednesday in the Berlin zoo a good place for pandas to open. The event, however, was in the war sent by the heavy rains of the past time. The China loaned pandas Mix Mix (Droompje) and Jiao Quing (Sweetie) had as their honored…
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Turkey declares Kurds in Syria, the war
KAMISHLI – The Turkish troepenopbouw in Northern Syria amounts to a declaration of war”. That said the head of the Kurdish YPG militia, which warned that in the coming days as possible, fights can break out. ,,We are not going to be passive at this potential aggression”, said YPG-leader of Sipan Hemo Wednesday, told Reuters.…
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Rutte guest at the turbulent G20 summit in Hamburg
BRUSSELS – Thousands of activists are preparing for two turbulent days in Hamburg, where Friday and Saturday of the G20 summit takes place. But also in the hall where the leaders of the world’s economic powerhouses meet, it will be expected to be called to draw near. With topics as climate change, free trade and…
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Review of the game “Is you!”
Unite gaming console people who are addicted to video games, not from the word “all” is not an easy task. Sony understands this, because in the gaming industry, the Japanese are working since 1994. Announced in the framework of the recent E3 2017 technology PlayLink was a big surprise for many, including me. Were presented…
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The European space Agency will launch a new “hunters” for exoplanets
The scientific programme Committee of the European space Agency approved the further development of the project of a new space mission PLATO (Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars). Within its framework it is planned to 2026 to create a new space Observatory, whose main task will be to “the discovery and study of terrestrial planets…
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Chinese giant LeEco on the verge of bankruptcy?
The Chinese company LeEco was in a difficult financial situation. As reported by Chinese news site Tencent, as well as the Financial Times, the Shanghai court has frozen $ 180 million in assets of the company owned by its co-founder Jia Wetin, his wife, Gan Wei, and three subsidiaries. The initiator of the claim was…
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DeepMind learns his AI thinking humanly
Last year, artificial intelligence AlphaGo for the first time won the world champion in the game. This victory was unprecedented and unexpected, given the high complexity of the Chinese Board games. Although the victory AlphaGo was definitely impressive, the artificial intelligence, since then, and beat other Champions, still considered a “narrow” type of AI that…
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Five deaths due to explosion of gas pipeline to China
SHANGHAI – With an explosion of a gas pipeline in Songyuan, northeast of China, five people were killed. 89 people were injured. Engineers would have been busy with the repair of the pipeline.