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• China Stresses Family Values as More Women Put Off Marriage: Mao Zedong urged women to join the workforce to help build the nation and to hold off on marrying and having children. The new regime emphasizes “family virtues” to pass on the Red Gene. Accounts used by women’s-rights groups were deleted from social-media recently.



• Tianhe-3 exascale prototype supercomputer: China’s Exascale prototype supercomputer tests AI workloads -- potential for leadership-class systems to tackle deep learning.



• Sales of Fab Tools Surge to Over $71 Billion: China is intensifying its domestic semiconductor efforts amid the trade war with the U.S.



• Golden goose for Big Pharma: Pfizer-BioNTech says immunity wanes, annual vaccination needed. . . . . yay! subscription model.. revenue stream.. Thank you, China!



• Aping Amrika: 'In 3 years, India's infrastructure will be on par with the US'. . . . . . For Gadkari, infrastructure is all asphalt.
  
  With just 1% of the world's vehicles, India accounts for 11% of the global deaths in road accidents, highest in the world



• Raag Shuddh Kalyan: Pt. Venkatesh Kumar





• Traditional ways of Storing Grains: “Seed is sacred. Seed is the embodiment of the ideas and knowledge, of the culture and heritage of a people. It is an accumulation of philosophy, of tradition, of knowledge.” . . Indigenous grain storage structures of Tamil Nadu.



• India's Hypersonic Scramjet: The hypersonic missile club is quite exclusive, only the US, China, Russia, and India are members, and advancing Indian hypersonic technology might give the Chinese Navy—and Army—pause for thought.



• Wafer Scale Chip - 2.0: 7nm, 2.6 Trillion Transistors, 850,000 Cores, 15kW of Power from Cerebras