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Graphics: 10 numbers you need to know about China in 2020

2020 is a year to remember, a year hard to forget. As 2020 draws to a close, CGTN selected 10 numbers that tell China's story this year.Above all, the country experienc

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UK and EU strike historic post-Brexit trade deal

Britain and the European Union agreed Thursday on new Brexit trading arrangements more than four years after the U.K. voted to leave the bloc, narrowly avoiding a poten

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A healthy China-U.S. race on environmental protection is welcome

05:03 Editor's note: While the international community signed on to the Paris climate accord, the threat posed by rising temperatures and extreme weather is anything but gone. With Joe

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National Grid sees machine learning as the brains behind the utility business of the future

If the portfolio of a corporate venture capital firm can be taken as a signal for the strategic priorities of their parent companies, then National Grid has high hopes for automation as the future of

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U.S. medical workers frustrated over hospitals' vaccine rollout system

East Alabama Medical Center nurse Harvard Graham enters a COVID-19 patient's room in the intensive care unit in Opelika, Alabama, U.S., December 10, 2020. /AP Amid a surge of infections, the f

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Gift Guide: Last-minute subscriptions to keep the gifts going all year

Welcome to TechCrunch’s 2020 Holiday Gift Guide! Need help with gift ideas? We’re here to help! You can find our other guides right here.SURPRISE! It’s December 23rd. How? Because time doesnR

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No rules, no problem: DeepMind’s MuZero masters games while learning how to play them

DeepMind has made it a mission to show that not only can an AI truly become proficient at a game, it can do so without even being told the rules. Its newest AI agent, called MuZero, accomplishes this

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Twitter says followers of U.S. govt accounts won't transfer to Biden

Twitter said Tuesday it would not automatically transfer the millions of followers of official accounts of U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to the incoming Joe Biden administration, bu

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Daily Crunch: Stimulus bill increases penalties for illegal streaming services

The stimulus bill includes significant changes to copyright law and enforcement, the Biden administration may have to build a presidential Twitter following from scratch and we round up the startups t

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Twitter’s POTUS account will reportedly be reset to zero followers when Biden takes over

In this country, we have a longstanding peaceful transfer of power for the executive office, even in the wake of the hardest-fought elections. Certain circumstances have led many to question whether t

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Biden administration has 'most robust climate change plan ever': Jennifer Granholm

President-elect Joe Biden's newly announced nominee for Energy Secretary, former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, said she has not yet been briefed about the massiv

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Daily Crunch: Stimulus bill includes money for broadband and energy

We look at the tech implications of the new stimulus bill, Lockheed Martin makes a big rocket engine acquisition and Google Cloud expands. This is your Daily Crunch for December 21, 2020.The big story

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After the FireEye and SolarWinds breaches, what’s your failsafe?

The security industry is reverberating with news of the FireEye breach and the announcement that the U.S. Treasury Department, DHS and potentially several other government agencies, were hacked due (i

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Solid fundamentals for Chinese yuan likely to be extended into 2021

Editor's Note: Jimmy Zhu is chief strategist at Fullerton Research. The article reflects the author's opinion, and not necessarily the views of CGTN. Domestic economic conditions in China and a we

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Review of 2020: China intensifies regulations on internet business

As a leader in fintech backed by a high penetration of mobile internet, China became more cautious in this turbulent year regarding risk prevention, warning the market that no one can bypass its r

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Dozens of journalists’ iPhones hacked with NSO ‘zero-click’ spyware, says Citizen Lab

Citizen Lab researchers say they have found evidence that dozens of journalists had their iPhones silently compromised with spyware known to be used by nation states.For more than the past year, Londo

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A reporter's memory of a spring steeped in fear and hope

Editor's note: This is the first article in a year-end series of reporter's diaries, which documents our footprints across China in this extraordinary year immobilized