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Podcast: One Thing Today in Tech
Episode: China’s hypersonic missile; Klarna’s UK update; and a chat on Canada’s startup visa as a gateway to the US for Indian founders
Description: China has amped-up its military technology race against the US, demonstrating advanced space capabilities with the test of a new hypersonic missile in August, the Financial Times reports. The missile missed its target by about 24 miles, but the test demonstrated China had made “astounding progress” on hypersonic weapons and was far more advanced than US officials realised, according to the report.
Hypersonic missiles fly at low-altitude trajectories at more than five times the speed of sound. The missile tested by China is said to be of a type that is manoeuvrable and does not follow a fixed traj...