From People’s Daily by way of Wired News: Scientists with the Robot Engineering Technology Research Center of east China’s Shandong University of Science and Technology say they implanted micro electrodes in the brain of a pigeon so they can command it to fly right or left or up or down. The implants stimulated different areas […]
Read MoreFrom Virtual China Blog: “Second Life has no Chinese port yet. Welcome to HipHi, a China-produced and Chinese language version of Second Life…Screenshots and a demo clip reveal a rather unoriginal take on Second Life, though their website claims that they will later provide Flash & cell phone interfaces to the virtual world.”[Full Text] For […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: “Sun Jiting spends his days locked behind metal bars in this military-run installation, put there by his parents. The 17-year-old high school student is not allowed to communicate with friends back home, and his only companions are psychologists, nurses and other patients. Each morning at 6:30, he is jolted awake by […]
Read MoreFrom XinhuaNet: China on Sunday launched a three-month crackdown on Internet gambling, aiming to purify the cyber environment. The prevalence of online gaming has ruined the online environment and harmed young people’s growth, which runs against the policy of building a harmonious society,” said a circular jointly issued by the Ministry of Public Security, the […]
Read MoreVirtual China has posted a brief summation of three current internet based language learning initiatives, one of which is an online game dedicated to Chinese language learning. From the text: IBM’s John Tolva alerted me to the Confucius Institute at Michigan State University, which has two efforts I’m particularly interested in. The first is an […]
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