https://www.scmp.com/rss/522635/feed The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a prominent public land-grant research university based in Los Angeles, California, United States. As a non-profit institution, its core mission is the creation, dissemination, preservation, and application of knowledge for global societal betterment. UCLA offers extensive undergraduate, graduate, and professional programmes across diverse fields, including arts, engineering, and medical sciences. Recognised for academic excellence and... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Vincent Chow Vincent Chow Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek has released the world’s first open AI model to test and score a gold medal-level performance at the annual International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), the Hangzhou-based start-up said on Thursday. DeepSeek has made widely available its Math-V2 model, which was open-sourced on developer platforms Hugging Face and GitHub, under a permissive licence that allows users to repurpose the model. Held annually since 1959, the IMO is widely regarded as the... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3334553/deepseek-releases-first-open-ai-model-gold-level-scores-maths-olympiad?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3334553/deepseek-releases-first-open-ai-model-gold-level-scores-maths-olympiad?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 29 Nov 2025 01:00:36 +0000 Tribune News Service Tribune News Service It promises the benefits of a 10,000-step walk in just 30 minutes. No gym membership is required. Just a pair of shoes and a willingness to alternate between brisk and slow-paced walking in three-minute bursts. Dubbed “Japanese walking”, this latest viral fitness trend is all over TikTok and YouTube. It has people wondering whether this short-interval workout can improve health more efficiently than a traditional stroll. The trend has spread beyond social media, with bloggers, online articles... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/3321841/what-japanese-walking-viral-fitness-trend-and-how-healthy-it-experts-weigh?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/3321841/what-japanese-walking-viral-fitness-trend-and-how-healthy-it-experts-weigh?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 15 Aug 2025 11:15:08 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse A California library user who allegedly took home rare Chinese manuscripts and returned fake ones in their place has been charged with US$216,000 worth of theft, US officials said on Thursday. Jeffrey Ying used a number of aliases to get access to classic works, some over 600 years old, at the library at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Department of Justice said. Ying, 38, would check the works out and return days later with dummy manuscripts. He would frequently travel to China... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3321173/man-charged-borrowing-rare-chinese-manuscripts-ucla-library-returning-fakes?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3321173/man-charged-borrowing-rare-chinese-manuscripts-ucla-library-returning-fakes?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 08 Aug 2025 04:11:59 +0000 Brian Rhoads,Raymond Ma Brian Rhoads,Raymond Ma Nvidia denied that its graphics processing units (GPUs) can be remotely disabled without users’ knowledge after the Chinese cybersecurity regulator hauled in the chipmaking giant over concerns about backdoor access. “Nvidia GPUs do not and should not have kill switches and backdoors,” chief security officer David Reber Jnr wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. “That’s not how trustworthy systems are built – and never will be.” The Cyberspace Administration of China summoned Nvidia on July 31, citing... https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3320943/nvidia-back-firing-line-us-china-tech-war?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3320943/nvidia-back-firing-line-us-china-tech-war?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 06 Aug 2025 09:00:24 +0000 SCMP SCMP Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Taiwan could run out of energy in 10 days under PLA blockade, report warns Taiwan would run out of natural gas supplies in about 10 days if Beijing blockaded the island, according to a report published by a Washington-based geopolitical think tank. 2. ‘Too far ahead’: can the US upskill to compete with China on rare earths? Multilateral moves to break... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3320857/us-china-battle-over-rare-earths-beijings-beef-industry-boost-scmp-daily-highlights?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3320857/us-china-battle-over-rare-earths-beijings-beef-industry-boost-scmp-daily-highlights?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:15:08 +0000 Shi Huang Shi Huang As the world’s brightest young mathematical minds gathered last week at Australia’s Sunshine Coast for the biggest global maths competition of the year, one moment stood out before the contest had even begun. During the opening ceremony for the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), the audience erupted into lengthy cheers and applause as China’s six-person team was introduced among the more than 100 taking part. The team was led by second-year Wuhan high school student Xu Qiming, who helped... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3319043/chinas-beautiful-mind-brain-disorder-no-match-young-prodigy-maths-olympiad?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3319043/chinas-beautiful-mind-brain-disorder-no-match-young-prodigy-maths-olympiad?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 21 Jul 2025 13:00:08 +0000 Shi Huang Shi Huang China has secured a major academic coup with the recruitment of mathematics luminary Joshua Zahl, recently celebrated for solving the more than 100-year-old three-dimensional Kakeya conjecture. Zahl is leaving Canada’s University of British Columbia (UBC) to take up a full-time position as a chair professor at Nankai University’s Chern Institute of Mathematics (CIM), according to the Chinese educational institution’s website. Zahl and his collaborator Wang Hong from New York University posted... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3315717/star-mathematician-joshua-zahl-leaves-canada-china-after-solving-century-old-puzzle?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3315717/star-mathematician-joshua-zahl-leaves-canada-china-after-solving-century-old-puzzle?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:30:16 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Extreme heat makes it especially hard for your body to cool down, so you need to be extra careful if you exercise or play sports when it is baking outside. Your brain tries to keep your body around 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit (37 degrees Celsius) and it does so in part by triggering sweat. When sweat evaporates, it carries away heat from your body’s surface. When sweat cannot do its job – because your body is generating a lot of heat or it is too hot and humid to cool down – you are at risk of... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/3315775/how-hot-too-hot-exercise-plus-how-do-it-safely-summer?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/3315775/how-hot-too-hot-exercise-plus-how-do-it-safely-summer?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 25 Jun 2025 09:32:02 +0000