Earlier this year we covered China’s grand plan to fix its birth-rate crisis with humanoid pregnancy robots, android nursemaids carrying lab-gestated babies like luxury Tamagotchis. It was dystopia with a price tag, pitched somewhere between The Matrix and a government white paper. Now comes something very different. A joint Japanese–Australian team has unveiled EVE therapy, an artificial womb not built to raise birth rates or fuel sci-fi nightmares, but to give extremely premature babies a fighting chance. Instead of android mums, think of a carefully controlled habitat, oxygen, nutrients, and warmth delivered through tubes that mimic nature just enough to

Picture this: you wake up, check your phone, and find Bitcoin down 70% overnight. Not because Elon Musk tweeted something cryptic, but because the foundations of its security just evaporated. Somewhere in a lab, a quantum computer finally grew enough teeth to chew through Bitcoin’s elliptic curve cryptography, and the private keys that once guarded fortunes like dragon gold are suddenly up for grabs. The fear isn’t entirely baseless. Bitcoin rests on two pillars: SHA-256 hashing for mining, and ECDSA signatures to prove that you’re the rightful owner of a wallet. The hashing side is relatively safe; quantum computers only

China has decided that HDMI and DisplayPort are getting a bit old-fashioned. The answer? GPMI, a new standard backed by more than 50 domestic tech companies, designed as a one-cable-to-rule-them-all solution. Unlike the mess of ports and dongles most of us juggle, this connector promises video, data, audio, control signals, and even serious power delivery in a single line (Tom’s Hardware). There are two flavours. Type-B is a proprietary port that can push around 192 Gbps while delivering up to 480 watts of power, enough to run a desktop or a large TV without a separate brick. Type-C piggybacks on

Google has a habit of naming its creations like Pokémon evolutions. Enter Med-Gemini (the research flagship) and MedGemma (the open-source cousin you can actually download). Both are medical large language models, and both are Google’s way of saying: “Yes, AI can memorise your anatomy textbook and squint at your X-ray, but please, don’t sue us just yet.” Med-Gemini is DeepMind’s high-end research line, built on Gemini. It reads text, looks at scans, keeps its memory long enough to parse an entire patient record without keeling over, and, on paper, it’s smashing benchmarks. Google claims it outperformed GPT-4 on every comparable

For decades, China’s military jets have had a dirty little secret: the airframes looked modern, but under the hood they were running on Russian imports or Russian knock-offs. The J-10, J-11, even the flagship stealthy J-20, all flew with engines that might as well have come with a Cyrillic instruction manual. Now, that dependency may be ending. At DSEI 2025 the conversation wasn’t just about drones and AI; propulsion is creeping into the headlines too. The latest reports suggest China’s own WS-series engines are starting to look less like prototypes and more like production workhorses. The much-touted WS-15, for instance,