Tiangong-1, translated to ‘Heavenly Palace,’ is a 9.4 ton Chinese bus-sized space station that was launched in 2011 and was China’s first space station, but they lost contact with it in 2016. After two failed repair attempts, a ‘technical issue’ caused the spacecraft to fall out of orbit and it began its uncontrolled tumble and…
When I lived in Beijing, I used ChinesePod language lessons to work on my Mandarin. ChinesePod beat out Berlitz and other language tapes because it offered short, targeted lessons. I could practice a short dialogue with vocabulary words for the post office before I went to mail a letter. Plus, ChinesePod was available as a…
Xiaomi, a Chinese manufacturer of Android devices has recently managed to sell 200,000 units of its latest Xiaomi Mi2S smartphone in less than a minute, 45 seconds to be exact. Xiaomi may not be as popular as Apple or Samsung in the mobile industry, but its name has been in the news lately for their high-end…