Science & Tech

The first batch of data from a Taiwanese-made radiation detector has arrived after being launched into space last week, according to Taiwan's National Central University (NCU) on Wednesday.

Over one-fifth of Taiwan's adult population used TikTok or Douyin at least once during a three-month period last year, according to a report released by the Ministry of Digital Affairs (MODA).

Jensen Huang (黃仁勳), CEO of American artificial intelligence (AI) chip designer Nvidia Corp., said Saturday that his company and TSMC are jointly creating new opportunities in areas such as robotics and self-driving cars.

Taiwan's National Central University (NCU) announced the successful launch of the country's first lunar mission on Wednesday (Taipei time), as its Deep Space Radiation Probe (DSRP) was carried into space and expected to land on the moon in four months.

Contract chipmaker United Microelectronics Corp.'s (UMC) flagship fab in southern Taiwan has been selected for the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Global Lighthouse Network, becoming the first semiconductor foundry in the world to earn Lighthouse status, the company said Tuesday.

A CubeSat designed and made by the Taiwan Space Agency (TASA) was launched early Wednesday morning (Taiwan time), carried by a SpaceX Transporter-12 rocket launched from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, the United States, TASA said in a news release.

Representatives of American space company Axiom Space visited Taiwan in late November last year to discuss the possibility of potential collaborations in the future that would take Taiwan's manufacturing of its flagship semiconductors into space.

Taiwan has established an office in Palo Alto in the United States aimed at helping Taiwanese tech startups gain global visibility, according to the National Development Council (NDC).

National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) on Thursday presented its newly developed telecare system that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to predict the occurrence of patient-related emergency events by analyzing text conversations between patients and their live-in caregivers.

A pavilion organized by a tech start-up incubator created by Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) opened on Wednesday, the first day of the four-day Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Los Angeles.