69 h. ago Hong Kong’s food delivery scene soars with drone services to Ma On Shan

Food delivery in Hong Kong has reached a new height as a major provider has started to use drones to send orders, cutting waiting time by 35 minutes. The service, provided by Keeta Drone, a subsidiary of mainland Chinese food delivery giant Meituan, delivers orders from two fast-food restaurants in Science Park to a landing zone on Ma On Shan Promenade. The operator said it was planning to expand the service to other locations in the new town using the company’s automatic kiosk system. “The...

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3 d. ago DeepSeek is hiring interns to label medical data for AI use in hospitals

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek, which has remained mute over a release date for its R2 reasoning model, has begun recruiting interns to label medical data to improve the use of AI in hospitals. According to recruitment ads posted on Boss Zhipin, one of China’s largest hiring websites, DeepSeek is offering 500 yuan (US$70) per day for interns who can work four days a week to label medical data for applications involving “advanced auxiliary diagnosis” tools. The jobs are...

Science

1 week ago Top sleep scientist Dan Yang leaves US for China role, reunites with Mu

After spending 35 years in the United States pioneering research on the neural circuits that govern sleep and executive brain functions of the frontal cortex, neuroscientist Dan Yang has returned to China to join the Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation (SMART) as a senior principal investigator. Dan was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 2018 in recognition of her “contributions to understanding the microcircuits underlying cortical computation, cellular...

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2 w. ago Disabled Chinese man inspires many by starting primary school at 16, medical school at 25

Dedicated to medicine, in 2014, Li pledged to donate his body for medical research after death.

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3 w. ago DeepSeek’s AI in hospitals is ‘too fast, too soon’, Chinese medical researchers warn

A paper warning of ‘substantial clinical risk’ from an overreliance on AI models makes a team of medical researchers a rare voice of caution.

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3 w. ago Dr DeepSeek? Hospital adoption is ‘too fast’, Chinese researchers warn

Dr DeepSeek? Hospital adoption is ‘too fast’, Chinese researchers warn  South China Morning Post

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