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6 Asian-American designers at New York Fashion Week SS 2024 whose collections were a hit, from Kim S

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Zhou showed oversized coats and dresses with structured circular hems using organic, free-flowing choreography. The performance, featuring his signature tongue-in-cheek humour, emphasised the importance of evoking emotions when engaging with fashion. “For other shows [like musicals or ballets], I always feel so emotionally touched, but for fashion shows, I rarely feel that way. I conceptualised with this contrarian question in mind: are there any fashion shows that make me feel emotionally touched? Read More...

Chinese scientists claim EU snub over jobs on nuclear fusion project

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"The discrimination against Chinese [at ITER] is an open secret," said Liu Huajun , a nuclear fusion scientist with the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP). The experimental nuclear fusion reactor in Cadarache, France, could potentially deliver clean, safe and inexhaustible nuclear energy one day. Dubbed by some as an "artificial sun", the reactor would mimic the energy-generating process of a star, fusing small atoms into larger ones and harnessing the energy released. Read More...

Tencent doubles down on healthcare sector with launch of new AI-powered hearing aid, while bolsterin

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The device, priced at 2,880 yuan (US$399), was jointly introduced on Sunday by Tencent Ethereal Audio Lab, part of the Tencent Meeting live audio and videoconferencing app business, and hearing aid maker Shenzhen Eartech Company. Using Tencent’s self-developed AI algorithm, the new hearing aid provides about 85 per cent improved sound clarity and speech intelligibility compared with similar devices in the market, according to the company. At the launch, Silver Hair Technology Lab – operating under the Sustainable Social Value Organisation within Tencent’s Corporate Development Group – joined its parent firm and Shenzhen Eartech in a pledge to donate one AI-powered hearing aid, for each device sold during the presale period, to a hearing-impaired senior citizen in the mainland’s rural areas. Read More...

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