Maggie Xiao

Jibo, the world’s first family robot who promised us nearly everything, now left us with its last dance. Aibo, with a hefty price tag at $2,900, announced its envoy to the States and immediately received press attention a niche product can hope for. Two opposite events occuring at

Our bodies are built to run but not to find water. Therefore our need to exchange information about the location of water have evolved us to become more successful than apes.  In his book The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making

On March 4, Financial Times reported  that David Cicilline, the head of the House antitrust subcommittee, suggested separating social media platforms from selling information and data, or so-called “Glass-Steagall for tech”. (The Glass Steagall Act was enacted in 1933 in the wake of 1929 stock market crash to separate investment

Anti-aging is one of the fastest growing fields in today’s biotech advancement. According to this Guardian article, it was in in 2008, Novato, CA-based Buck Institute researcher Judith Campisi discovered secretion from senescent cells causes inflammation, the driver of almost every age-related diseases. This discovery shed light on scientists

To answer this question, Michael Pettis, professor of finance at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management argues GDP, the statistics supposedly able to measure both on growth and ability to service debt, never perfectly achieved so (building a bridge to nowhere counts the same as building a much-needed bridge)

In today’s AI era, I revisited the once-hyped concept Gene and Meme, the idea that we are vehicles driven by these two replicators, who care less about the vehicle’s (ours) own well-being (meaning) but thrive for mere replication. A book called “The Robot’s Rebellion: Finding Meaning in