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The traffic to some highly sensitive US websites was briefly rerouted via China, the US government has said. The incident, which happened for 18 minutes last April, is published in a report by the US-China Economic and Security review commission. China denies hijacking a huge chunk of US net traffic For 18 minutes in April about 15% of all net traffic was re-routed via China China has rejected claims that it hijacked a huge chunk of net traffic in April 2010. The allegation surfaced in a report presented to the US Congress which said that for 18 minutes the traffic was redirected to Chinese servers. But in an official statement China Telecom "denied any hijack of internet traffic". So far the Chinese government has declined to comment on the allegations. The report was written by the US-China Economic and Security review commission and said the re-routing of...

According to Michael Kruse, consultant on nuclear systems for Arthur D. Little, the Chinese are ready to spend $511 billion to build up to 245 reactors. Money is not an issue, which is different from the rest of the world. The Chinese have the capacity to deliver and they are deadly serious about achieving it,” says Steve Kidd, director of strategy and research at the London-based World Nuclear Association, the industry trade group. President Hu Jintao wants non- fossil fuels to produce 15 percent of China’s energy by 2020. Although the Chinese have spent plenty on wind turbines and solar panels , only a buildup of nuclear power can make that target reachable. “Developing clean, low- carbon energy is an international priority,” says Zhao Chengkun, vice-president of the China Nuclear Energy Association. “Nuclear is recognized as the only energy source that can be used on a mass scale to achieve this.”

I may as well warn you right away that this article isn’t going to be talking about Star Trek style teleportation technology. Hopefully one day I’ll get to talk about the latest in personal teleportation devices, but sadly that day is not yet in sight. Real teleportation devices as they exist today, don’t have the ability to mystically transport objects from one location to the other. Instead quantum teleportation is a technique that is used to transfer quantum information between two quantum systems. So what does that actually mean? Well in practical terms quantum teleportation can either be used to run quantum computations or as a form of highly secure long range communication (see video below for a more detailed explanation). In May Nature reported that China had achieved successful quantum teleportation over a distance of 16KM without the use of cables. A move which indicates that China are close to being able to use quantum teleportation as a means of trans...

​ Much has been said about the FBI tactics used in apprehending alleged attempted Portland bomber Mohamed Osman Mohamud. Was he a dyed-in-the-wool jihadist that would have struck, were it not for an FBI sting? Or was was he an impressionable young man that was goaded toward terror by overzealous feds? The same questions, it seems, might be raised about Lian Yang, the 46-year-old Microsoft-contracted engineer from Woodinville who was arrested on Friday after the FBI says he thought he was going to meet with people who would buy illegal satellite parts, but were really federal agents posing as such. According to an AP report on Monday, Yang came to the attention of the FBI more than a year ago, when they learned he might be trying to smuggle satellite parts to China. So from then until his arrest on Friday, federal agen...

China's unmodified, conventional passenger train hits 300 mph. The country plans to cover 8125 miles of track by 2012 and 10,000 by 2020. AP – In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, a China Railway High-Speed (CRH) train enters Bengbu … By ANITA CHANG, Associated Press Anita Chang, Associated Press – Fri Dec 3, 4:18 am ET BEIJING – A Chinese passenger train hit a record speed of 302 miles per hour (486 kilometers per hour) Friday during a test run of a yet-to-be opened link between Beijing and Shanghai, state media said. The Xinhua News Agency said it was the fastest speed recorded by an unmodi...

China will soon overtake Japan as the world's second heaviest spender on research and development, according to a report from the Battelle Memorial Institute. A nonprofit group that conducts scientific research, Battelle published its findings today as part of an article in its R&D Magazine . The article and its full supplementary report ( PDF ) looked at global R&D spending in general and across six specific segments--Information Technology, Electronics, Life Sciences, Aerospace/Defense/Security, Energy, and Advanced Materials. (Credit: Battelle) Next year, China is expected to spend $153.7 billion on R&D, a big jump from $141.4 billion this year. That will put it in second place globally ahead of Japan, which is due to spend $144.1 billion in 2011, a slight gain from this year's $142 billion. Though most nations pulled back on spending during the recession, Asian countries increased their R&D budgets, according to Battelle. China in particul...