Chinese researchers create four-gram drone that might fly forever

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Chinese researchers have created a drone that weighs just over four grams – less than a sheet of printer paper – and may be able to fly indefinitely.published last week in Nature, the drone uses an electrostatic motor that weighs just 1.52 grams and is powered by solar cells that produce 4.5V.

The paper asserts that the drone's design has a lift-to-power efficiency two to three times better than that found in traditional drones.A former Samsung worker was last week sentenced to six years jail for sharing secrets about OLED tech with a Chinese entity.the man spent a decade or more at Samsung before starting his own business that illegally used Samsung's IP. Worse, he also sold that knowledge to unnamed Chinese customers.

It did say that in the last five years it"served over 1,000 customers in Singapore and collaborated with over 500 technology partners," and that revenue it won in the Asia Pacific region"has increased twenty-fold in the past four years" – making Huawei the second-largest cloud provider in China and the fastest-growing in the Asia-Pacific region.reportedly

decided to allow robo-=cabs to service passengers at Pudong International airport, angering local cabbies who stand to miss out on fares to the city's downtown areas, about 40km away.NASA and the newly established Korea AeroSpace Administration last week conducted their first bilateral meeting. KASA commenced operations in late May. The two space orgs pledged ongoing collaboration on NASA's Artemis program, as well as existing South Korean space efforts.it will invest $200 million to acquire a ten percent stake in Smart Global Holdings – a US AI datacenter solutions provider – to collaborate in building and operating AI infrastructure.

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