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State Grid says China's first 2-ton-class tethered balloon has completed trial runs on the Tibet section of its Tibet–Guangdong ultra-high-voltage line, lifting tower parts onto 4,000-metre ridges without roads or cableways — a 'green air corridor' with uses well beyond power lines.

A tech commentator's argument that AI could soon replace every subject teacher while each class keeps a single homeroom teacher has drawn a pointed counterargument about what machines cannot do — and lands amid a physics-competition scandal showing students already use AI to answer for them.

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vivo Opens Its New Flagship Line at 5,499 Yuan as Chinese Phone Prices Climb

vivo launched its X500 flagship line in Shenzhen at 5,499 yuan and up, and immediately took heat for it — the first phone out in a season when every Chinese maker is repricing upward on memory costs.