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Back in 2023, Chinese tech brand Beaverlab raised more than HK$2.8m (US$360,000) to bring the world’s first portable digital microscope to the market, and it proved an instant hit. The updated Darwin ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Mothers deserve anything they want, and we’ve got a few dozen gift ideas that should make most moms happy.

The leaders of the big three artificial-intelligence (AI) labs promise great things, and soon. Sam Altman, the boss of OpenAI, thinks next year computers will be capable of “novel insights”. Dario ...

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