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12.05.2026

China’s ‘dark factory’ more than doubles production efficiency for J-20 jets

China has more than doubled the production efficiency of stealth fighter components in a “dark factory”, where autonomous vehicles and AI-driven machinery operate nearly 24 hours a day. The process once required employees to monitor its round-the-clock operations, but the plant can now produce the “skeleton” of an aircraft in near darkness, according to the official Science and Technology Daily. Dark factories are facilities designed to operate with little to no human intervention, thereby...

A big step forward for optical core of China’s Taiji gravitational wave project

In the sci-fi novel The Three-Body Problem, humans build “gravitational wave antennas” to broadcast to the cosmos. Now, Chinese scientists have made a step forward in turning that idea into hardware – only in reverse. Science and Technology Daily reported on Saturday that a team from the Institute of Mechanics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences had developed the optical core of a giant space detector to listen to the universe. The detector is part of a space-based gravitational wave project...

China unveils Hanyuan-2, the world’s first dual core quantum computer

China has built the world’s first dual-core quantum computer, a development that could “significantly enhance” efficiency, official media has reported. The breakthrough signalled that Chinese quantum computing technology was “entering a new stage”, according to the official newspaper Science and Technology Daily. While other quantum computers rely on high energy consumption and need to be run in temperatures close to absolute zero, the design of this computer uses neutral atoms – which consume...

China unveils Hanyuan-2, the world’s first dual-core quantum computer

China has built the world’s first dual-core quantum computer, a development that could “significantly enhance” efficiency, official media has reported. The breakthrough signalled that Chinese quantum computing technology was “entering a new stage”, according to the official newspaper Science and Technology Daily. While other quantum computers rely on high energy consumption and need to be run in temperatures close to absolute zero, the design of this computer uses neutral atoms – which consume...

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China’s ‘dark factory’ more than doubles production efficiency for J-20 jets

A big step forward for optical core of China’s Taiji gravitational wave project

China unveils Hanyuan-2, the world’s first dual core quantum computer

China unveils Hanyuan-2, the world’s first dual-core quantum computer