The high-end art industry is one of the few businesses in the world where the buyers tend to pride themselves on how much they spent on the product. The more expensive a painting is, the more prestige it brings to the buyer. However, it is also one of the most manipulated markets in the world, ...
At the height of the U.S.-China trade war, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation began to comprehensively investigate China’s Thousand Talents Program in order to prevent the release of advanced technology. China’s Thousand Talents Program was established in 2008 with the stated aim being to bring top-notch professionals from all parts of the world to ...
Russia is developing a wide range of satellites to strengthen its military dominance in a potential space war — everything from a model capable of recording objects on the ground as small as 12 inches wide to ones that can be used as anti-satellite weapons from space. The new generation satellites Moscow is reportedly replacing ...
Apple users tend to blindly trust the company’s app store out of a belief that the applications must be secure since they are vetted by the company. However, two cases of data theft have brought to light the vulnerability of Apple’s Mac Store. Data theft by Trend Micro apps Trend Micro has four apps at ...
President Trump’s trade war on China seems to be working pretty well, as China panics and announces that it will be injecting US$110 billion into the domestic economy in a bid to stimulate growth. However, a report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) confirms China’s worst fears — if it continues to defy the U.S. ...
Honesty is always rewarded. Yan Shu of the Northern Song Dynasty could write essays when he was just 7 years old. The local officials called him a child prodigy. At the time, the Emperor tested the scholars personally and asked Yan Shu to take the test in the palace with a thousand other scholars. Yan ...
Artists are known to pull off some crazy stunts during the auction of their paintings. But one artist may have taken things too far by having his painting self-destruct immediately after the auction. As the stunned bidders watched on, the painting shreds itself by a shredder hidden inside the frame. Painting shreds itself after auction ...
In what is the Vatican’s first direct response to the sexual abuse cover-up scandal against Pope Francis, an official from the religious organization has come down heavily on the ambassador who stirred up the issue, claiming that it was a political hit job. Meanwhile, Pope Francis’ popularity has shown a marked decline in the U.S. ...
In 1977, U.S. space agency NASA launched Voyager 2 into space to explore the vastness of our universe. Now, about four decades later, the probe is reportedly nearing interstellar space. Approaching interstellar space Voyager 2 is currently about 11 billion miles away from Earth. This comes to approximately 118 times the distance between the Earth ...
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is increasingly trying to influence the world’s perception through a huge, ongoing worldwide propaganda campaign. A foreign journalist of China Daily, the CCP’s English media outlet, told National Public Radio that in the past, the motto of the media was: “Let China go to the world; let the world know ...
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