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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announces his resignation due to Health Issues

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has made known his intention to resign from his post in order to avoid the worsening of old illnesses and other issues affecting the country’s government.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who led Japan for eight consecutive years, has said he is stepping down hours after he informed his ruling coalition that he was suffering from health issues.

Explaining his decision earlier in the day, Shinzo Abe said he feared the illness would affect his decision-making. “I will not be able to make proper judgments due to illness,” the outgoing premier clarified, as quoted by Kyodo news agency.

Abe has been suffering from ulcerative colitis 溃疡性结肠炎 , an inflammatory chronic disease, for many years. The prime minister himself revealed that his condition started to worsen around the middle of the last month, possibly prompting him to consider stepping down.

Yoshihide Suga at a debate for the LDP leadership election in Tokyo
Yoshihide Suga 菅义伟 set to be Japan’s next PM.
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Fujian Longyan Bridge completes second rotation

福建龙岩市龙岩大桥 The bridge had undergone its first rotation a little over four months ago. The bridge tower was rotated 69-degree the first time to allow the completion of the bridge deck installation.
At around 2:30 a.m. the cable-stayed bridge and deck with a total weight of 23,600 tons completed a 21-degree counterclockwise rotation, it took about an hour. It is the first time in the world for the “second horizontal rotation” construction process.

The reason for the second rotation is because there’s a “double risk” in the construction of the Longyan Bridge.
The first is that the Longyan Bridge will cross the existing Ganlong Railway and Longxia Railway 赣龙铁路、龙厦铁路 . Nearly 120 trains pass through these two railroads every day.
The second is that the shortest distance between the main tower and the railway line is only 6.5 meters.
The two turns are to overcome these two risks.
When completed the Longyearbyen Bridge will be an important link in the Longyan expressway system improving the efficiency of local transport operations and helping to accelerate the development of the old area.

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Kid shooter in Wisconsin

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Two killed, one injured. The first victim was shot in the head. An exchange of what sounds like pistol and rifle shots can be heard. The alleged attacker then fled the scene. As the mob caught up with the young man, he fired again while on the ground, apparently hitting one in the stomach and another in the bicep. The man hit in the bicep was carrying a pistol at the time.

The Illinois teen accused of shooting two people dead during chaotic unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin this week has been charged on six counts, including first-degree murder and attempted homicide.
In addition to first-degree intentional homicide and attempted murder, he faces two charges for reckless endangerment, reckless homicide and the possession of a dangerous weapon by a minor.

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Dual control

There are two main approaches to developing artificial general intelligence. One is rooted in neuroscience, and attempts to construct circuits that closely mimic the brain. The other is grounded in computer science, and uses computers to execute machine-learning algorithms. In this week’s issue, Luping Shi and his colleagues reveal the Tianjic chip 天机芯 — an electronic chip that integrates the two approaches into one hybrid platform. The Tianjic chip has multiple functional cores that are readily reconfigurable, enabling it to accommodate both machine-learning algorithms and brain-inspired circuits. The researchers demonstrate the potential of this approach by incorporating one of their chips into a riderless autonomous bicycle, which can self-balance, is voice controllable and can detect and avoid obstacles, all as a result of the Tianjic chip’s simultaneous processing of versatile algorithms and models. 

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Happy Birthday Shenzhen!

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826 unmanned aerial vehicles flew near Shenzhen Bay on Aug 26 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone. Shenzhen’s iconic buildings and words like “We love Shenzhen” were formed by the glowing drones.
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USS Mustin trespass

The destroyer USS Mustin on Thursday trespassed into China’s territorial waters in the Xisha Islands. The PLA Southern Theater Command organized naval and air forces to track it and warn it away.

Xisha Islands around Hainan Island in South China Sea
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