On Dec. 22, Monday, the National Railway Administration (NRA) has set down China’s first-ever design specification standards for rail links that cater to high-speed trains running at speeds of 250 to 350 kilometers per hour.
World's most popular search engine, Google has introduced a search feature that features the lyrics of songs that one searches to return above the search results as part of its exercise to popularize 'Google's Knowledge Graph'. This move by Google seems to reduce the number of visits to websites containing music lyrics and rank high in Google search results such as azlyrics or songlyrics, among others.
Apple Inc. has come up with a new security update for its Mac operating system X (OS X), Mountain Lion, Mavericks, and Yosemite. It is good news for the Mac owners and users as the latest NTP security update is capable to fix a critical issue related to security concerns with the software that provides the Network Time Protocol service on OS X.
China’s widely publicized air pollution problem appears to be weighing on Beijing too heavily, as the bimonthly session of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress was presented with newly drafted laws.
BMW announces a nationwide recall of all vehicles with the air bags made by Takata Corporation.
Credit cards may not be needed for Disneyland goers this week. Google wallet and Apple pay will be accepted.
The United States is planning to put back North Korea to its state sponsors of terrorism after the latter was implicated in the Sony Pictures data breach in November.
ISIS is using not only brute force to strike terror, but it is also reportedly using malware to find its targets online.
Red light cameras in the city of Chicago have been found to cause more road accidents rather than deterring them.
The executive, legislative and justice departments of the Chinese government have total net assets amounting to 55.3 trillion yuan ($9 trillion) in 2013, according to a report published by the People’s Bank of China Research Institute of Finance and Banking.
On Dec. 21, Sunday, the construction of China’s first high-speed railway that runs through the country’s southwest karst region was completed.
Naan, a staple in the Uyghur diet, had natural gas as a replacement for charcoal in baking. The Uyghur diet is popular in Southern Xinjiang, and because of this replacement, the local residents had bid goodbye to bio-fuel burning.
Intel is about to make the Chromebook users happy by providing them with the ultimate option of migrating their data and files from their mobile devices and desktop machines to their Chromebooks.
As directed by China's Education Ministry, several secondary schools in Zhejiang Province and Shanghai become testing grounds for an education program that grants students more choice in their education as part of the country's initiative to steer away from exam-oriented education.
This may not be a good month for Uber as it is facing again another controversy. Taiwan's Ministry of Transportation and Communications says that the company is operating in Taiwan without license, in which, violating laws in the said country.
