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The 6 Best R-Rated Sci-Fi Movies Released Since 2000, Ranked
– Collider ranks six of the best R-rated science fiction films released since 2000, arguing that mature ratings have allowed some of the genre’s most ambitious and visually striking work to flourish over the past 25 years. – Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 (2017) is praised for expanding the original’s themes of humanity and identity…
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Taiwan charges nine people for smuggling ‘high-end’ AI servers to China
Taiwanese prosecutors have charged nine people, including employees of Nvidia and Super Micro, over the illegal export of “high-end” AI servers to mainland China, in a case that highlights the ongoing tension between the US and China over advanced semiconductor technology. The servers in question contained Nvidia’s B300 graphics processing units, which are barred from…
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Dreame’s dream of a rocket-powered car is dead
Dreame, the Chinese vacuum-cleaner manufacturer with ambitions to become a broader technology conglomerate, has reportedly shut down its automotive division after government funding dried up. The move follows tighter Chinese government scrutiny of the £3.4 trillion private fund industry, with regulators specifically singling out Dreame’s spending, and it undercuts the company’s efforts to expand from…
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Polestar claims it was blindsided by sales ban
Polestar has told its US dealers that the Trump administration’s Commerce Department rejected its application to keep selling electric vehicles in America under a rule banning connected vehicle software from countries such as China, despite months of meetings that led the company to expect approval. This matters because sister company Volvo, which shares similar Chinese…
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Chinese artist Gao Zhen jailed over Mao sculptures
Gao Zhen, a Chinese artist known for provocative sculptures of Mao Zedong, has been sentenced to three years in prison in China after being convicted of slandering the country’s “heroes and martyrs”. The verdict, handed down two years after his detention, has drawn international condemnation because the artworks in question were created more than a…
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China warns it will safeguard its interests after US widens sanctions against Iran
China has hardened its rhetoric after the United States widened economic sanctions on Iran, with foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian saying Beijing was “firmly opposed” to what it called “illegal unilateral sanctions” and would take “all necessary measures” to safeguard its rights. The exchange followed US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s announcement of sweeping new measures,…
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US building twice as much gas-fired capacity as China in AI boom, analysis finds
The US has overtaken China in the construction of new gas-fired power plants for the first time in decades, driven by a surge in datacentre building to meet artificial intelligence demand, according to a new analysis by Global Energy Monitor. The shift matters because it undercuts claims by Donald Trump and his administration that China’s…
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Another set of Sullivan brothers are making football waves in Bangladesh
Twin brothers Ronan and Declan Sullivan, raised in Philadelphia, have become key figures in Bangladesh’s footballing revival after helping the national Under-20 side win the South Asian Football Federation Championship, with Ronan converting the decisive penalty in a shootout final against India in April. The pair, who qualified through their maternal ancestry and had never…
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India’s Airbound bags $37M to take on trucks with rocket-like drones
Indian startup Airbound has raised $37 million in a Series A round led by Greenoaks, with backing from DoorDash, Lachy Groom, Lightspeed and Humba Ventures, as it seeks to make drone-based delivery as cheap as trucking. The three-year-old company builds vertical-flight, rocket-like drones designed to weigh less than the cargo they carry, aiming to close…
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Caste divides make scorching summers harder in a parched corner of India
In the drought-prone Bundelkhand region of northern India, residents from Dalit communities say caste discrimination is compounding the difficulty of finding water as summer temperatures soar. In Mamta’s village in Jalaun district, government taps have been dry for two years, forcing most of the 1,000 residents to rely on a handful of handpumps, but Dalit…