ByteDance has launched Seedream 5.5, a new image-generation model now live in its Doubao app, Jimeng and Doubao Work. The update promises faster output, steadier multi-round edits, native transparent assets and sharper small text for professional design work.
Chinese researchers have developed high-dynamic electronic paper that mimics how ink sits on real paper, aiming at the eye strain and washed-out color of today's screens. The work traces two thousand years of paper history before explaining why reflective displays may finally be ready for wider use.
Oppo has issued an apology after an advertisement drew criticism for leaning on phrases like breaking stereotypes and diversity. The episode shows how quickly corporate messaging in China can misfire when it sounds borrowed from overseas campaigns.
Great Wall Motor's Wei brand has opened pre-sales for the second-generation Blue Mountain at 289,800 yuan, swapping the rounded family SUV look for a square, side-hinged-tailgate off-roader. The design pivot puts Wei directly in the territory of Great Wall's own Tank line.
A Chinese engineer describes how a bridge beam was nearly demolished over cracks that experts called structural, until a four-step check showed the diagnosis could not hold. The method asks why only one span cracked, and why the bottom and not the top.
BYD unveiled its ultra-luxury Yangwang Dingyao sedan in Abu Dhabi, alongside a limited "Shanhe Dingyun" edition with a brown-and-jade colour scheme and a 300,000 yuan deposit. The launch signals BYD's push into the executive flagship segment.
Tai Lihua, the deaf lead dancer of China's Thousand-Hand Guanyin, spent decades turning silence into movement. A viral retrospective traces her path from a childhood illness to a national stage and the quieter work that followed.
A Chinese strategy game guide lays out the most cost-effective way to level a roster to 48 using Xu Yu and Lu Xun, stored experience and high-level resource tiles. It's a window into how deeply players optimize these seasonal campaign modes.
A 2027 trial rulebook from the Chinese Go Association cuts komi from 3.75 to 3.5 stones, a small number with large consequences for the world's top board game. Players and fans are debating whether Black now gains an edge.
A Zhihu discussion argues that today's Chinese buses, despite better specs and smoother roads, often feel harsher than the models of the 1980s and 1990s. The reason lies in technology that stopped changing decades ago and in how buses are now bought and specified.
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