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Hype Malaysia
3 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Hype Malaysia
(Video) YouTuber Builds Fully Functional Mini Subway Station For His Cats
Pets are more than just furry companions. For many, they are family and, like any loved one, you'll want to spoil them with the best food, toys and outfits. There are some individuals, however, who go so far as to give their pets a world of their own, and that's exactly what one man in China has done. YouTuber Xing is known for building miniature homes and attractions for his pets. From supermarkets to banks and even cinemas, he has created a number of projects that never fail to amaze his audience. What's even more remarkable is that these tiny setups are fully functional. His latest project, a miniature subway for his cats, is currently going viral, so here's a behind-the-scenes look at how it was created: Over the weekend, Xing shared a new video on Douyin showcasing his latest creation for his cats: a miniature subway station. In the English-dubbed version uploaded to YouTube, the content creator explained that it took him and his team about 4 months to build the working train station as part of the ongoing Cat Town project. In the introduction, he demonstrated how the train pulled into the station, complete with fully functional doors for his feline passengers to embark and disembark their 'public transport'. When the influencer first came up with the idea for the subway, he was concerned about how to create a fully functional escalator, train and platform doors. Nevertheless, he decided to proceed with the project and tackle the challenges as they arose. As humans, one of the main challenges of creating the miniature cat worlds was the final cleanup, as they kept bumping into the ceilings. Once the station was complete, all of Xing's cats were seen relaxing and enjoying the train ride before disembarking on arrival. The video has since gone viral across social media platforms, with YouTube users expressing both amusement and amazement at the creation. Some even requested that the business owner release a more detailed behind-the-scenes video showing how the train, doors and escalators were built. Others joked that the cat subway is far better than the real ones made for humans, while a few wished the video had been longer so they could see more of the cats exploring the area. We agree that all of Xing's miniature world creations have been astounding, and we're looking forward to seeing more in the future. Check out the viral video below: Source: YouTube
The Star
6 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Star
Chinese YouTuber builds a metro station for his cats
Xing Zhilei said he built a train station for his cats after repeated requests from followers of his YouTube channel. - SCREENGRAB FROM XING'S WORLD/YOUTUBE SINGAPORE: There are many social media influencers who use their pets for content. Then there is Chinese YouTuber Xing Zhilei, who has made a lot more than content for his cats. After building a supermarket, a theatre, a spa and a garage in feline proportions, he constructed an underground train station in a similar size over four months, upon the request of his followers. His highly realistic creation – complete with a moving train, a functioning escalator and platform doors that open at the same time as the train doors – was showcased in a two-minute video uploaded on Aug 17 to his channel Xing's World. Xing can fit inside the train but only if he lies down nearly flat. His cats are seen boarding and alighting from the train, as boarding announcements for its paw-ssengers are broadcast. The video racked up over 105,000 views in about two days, with many viewers left amazed at Xing's Cat Town subway station's resemblance to a real train station. Xing said he had to grapple with how to build a working escalator and how to open both the carriage and platform doors simultaneously when the train arrives at the station. A viewer wrote that the cats in China are 'getting better public transit than the humans in America', while another one commented that Xing's cats have 'won the lottery' in life. Others praised Xing for his artistry and craftsmanship. 'This is spectacularly well done! Your attention to detail is incredible. I really appreciate all the little touches like using different paint textures and adding illuminated signs. That really makes it look like the full-scale subway. It could be a movie set!' said a commenter with the handle Ghotio. - The Straits Times/ANN
Straits Times
7 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Straits Times
Chinese YouTuber builds a metro station for his cats
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox Mr Xing Zhilei said he built a train station for his cats after repeated requests from followers of his YouTube channel. There are many social media influencers who use their pets for content. Then there is Chinese YouTuber Xing Zhilei, who has made a lot more than content for his cats. After building a supermarket, a theatre, a spa and a garage in feline proportions, he constructed an underground train station in a similar size over four months, upon the request of his followers. His highly realistic creation – complete with a moving train, a functioning escalator and platform doors that open at the same time as the train doors – was showcased in a two-minute video uploaded on Aug 17 to his channel Xing's World. Mr Xing can fit inside the train but only if he lies down nearly flat. His cats are seen boarding and alighting from the train, as boarding announcements for its paw-ssengers are broadcast. The video racked up over 105,000 views in about two days, with many viewers left amazed at Mr Xing's Cat Town subway station's resemblance to a real train station. Top stories Swipe. Select. Stay informed. Singapore Two China Eastern Airlines planes involved in runway incursion at Changi Airport in Aug 2024 Life Local indie theatre The Projector to cease operations on Aug 19 after a decade Singapore 'I vaped when I woke up until I slept': More youth vaping to cope with stress, say social workers Asia Singaporean man sentenced to 72 years' jail in Malaysia for murdering wife and stepson Singapore 4 days' jail for former pre-school teacher who kicked and bruised pupil's shin Life Disrupted sleep, steroid psychosis: How chronic sinus condition affected one S'pore hawker's life World Trump's art of the 'peace' deal for Ukraine and Russia Mr Xing said he had to grapple with how to build a working escalator and how to open both the carriage and platform doors simultaneously when the train arrives at the station. A viewer wrote that the cats in China are 'getting better public transit than the humans in America', while another one commented that Mr Xing's cats have 'won the lottery' in life. Others praised Mr Xing for his artistry and craftsmanship. 'This is spectacularly well done! Your attention to detail is incredible. I really appreciate all the little touches like using different paint textures and adding illuminated signs. That really makes it look like the full-scale subway. It could be a movie set!' said a commenter with the handle Ghotio.
South China Morning Post
26-05-2025
- Automotive
- South China Morning Post
China couple choose bicycles over limousines for wedding, get community blessings
A young man and woman in China who swapped traditional luxury bridal cars for a bicycle on their wedding day has captivated mainland social media. The couple, whose nuptials was held on May 13 in Luohe, Henan province in central China, were showered with blessings along the 20-minute bike ride, Hunan Daily reported. Chinese families normally use luxury cars for the bride pickup ritual on the big day, the vehicles often being borrowed from friends or rented from wedding organising companies. The happy couple turned heads along the wedding route with their unusual choice of transport. Photo: But the Henan bride, known as Xing, preferred that her husband used a bicycle to pick her up from her parents' home and take her to the house of his parents. The decision came as a result of her hobby of bicycle riding and her admiration for the simple love of her parents' generation, said Xing. 'I love riding, so I would like to add this element into my wedding to make it different from others,' Xing was quoted as saying. The bride dismounts the traditional-style bicycle onto a red carpet at the end of the journey. Photo: The bike her husband rode for the journey was an old-fashioned, big-sized model.
Straits Times
23-05-2025
- Business
- Straits Times
UAE's AI Uuniversity aims to become Stanford of the Gulf
The UAE is on a mission to become a global player in AI. PHOTO: REUTERS UAE's AI Uuniversity aims to become Stanford of the Gulf A few weeks before US President Donald Trump announced plans to lift semiconductor restrictions on the United Arab Emirates, a move with the potential to supercharge the region's AI development, Eric Xing sat in his office in Abu Dhabi and discussed what the future might look like. Mr Xing, a computer scientist who previously taught at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon, is president of Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI, a six-year-old institution uniquely positioned to shape the coming AI boom. During an interview with Bloomberg, Mr Xing repeatedly mentioned his ambition of making MBZUAI the Stanford of the Gulf, pointing to the California school's role in nurturing a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship whose effects have rippled far beyond Silicon Valley. The UAE is on a mission to become a global player in AI. The country appointed the world's first AI minister back in 2017, and mandated this month that all primary schools add AI-based topics like algorithmic bias and prompt engineering to their curriculums. With MBZUAI, named after the UAE leader, it is taking things further: the school is aiming to be a feeder for Emirati companies, which now mostly hire engineers from abroad; an incubator for homegrown startups; and an AI research and development arm for the UAE. While the UAE has poured billions into building AI, MBZUAI wants to make the country less dependent on foreign talent and companies. Its role, in Mr Xing's words, is 'train the people who can carry out the work'. Mr Trump may have just given the school a leg up in these ambitions. On his recent trip to the region, the US president framed a potential 'US-UAE AI Acceleration Partnership' as a way to strengthen business ties between the two countries, and to solidify the US lead in the field. Under the terms of the agreement, the UAE would be allowed to import 500,000 of the most advanced chips every year between now and 2027, with a fifth set aside for G42, the country's all-purpose AI company. That's a notable break with previous US strategy, said Kristin Diwan, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, DC. Over the past two decades, as the country has strengthened its ties with China, US administrations responded by restricting UAE access to semiconductors and sensitive technologies. Last year, G42 agreed to divest from China upon entering a partnership with Microsoft. By contrast, this latest proposal does not demand any Emirati concessions on ties with China. Ms Diwan described that as 'a massive win for the UAE's ambitions to become a central hub in the global tech economy'. Just under a fifth of the nearly 400 graduate students at MBZUAI come from the Emirates. The rest mostly hail from China, India, Kazakhstan and Egypt, which increasingly have trouble sending students to study in the US and UK. Backed by full scholarships from the UAE, MBZUAI students can pursue degrees in robotics, computer vision and other fields, with programs in decision science and digital public health launching soon. So far, the school has granted 211 master's degrees and eight doctorates and will welcome its first undergraduate class in the fall. This week, it opened its first US outpost: a research lab in Sunnyvale, near Google's headquarters, focused on advanced AI foundation models. Designed by British architect Norman Foster, the MBZUAI campus is new, sleek and expensive, with students zipping around on electric golf carts and gathering at cafes and communal prayer rooms. Ikboljon Sobirov, a graduate from Uzbekistan, said the university offered 'quite generous' academic and administrative support, including securing him a golden visa for long-term residency in the UAE. Ariana Venegas, a former analytics manager at Uber in Costa Rica, chose to study computer vision at MBZUAI over programs in Europe and Canada, where financial support was less certain. 'I prefer something more stable,' she said. According to MBZUAI, up to 70 per cent of graduates stay in the country. Many end up at G42, as well as TII, a government-funded research institute, and the Emirati defense company Edge. MBZUAI is designed to prepare graduates for the tech workforce. Business accounting and product management classes are required alongside computer science coursework, and Provost Timothy Baldwin has been recruiting rank-and-file engineers from Silicon Valley companies as guest lecturers. According to an internal presentation, MBZUAI hopes to add another 225 faculty members within the next five years. To lure AI talent, the school offers pay packages that are 'more favourable' than those at top-tier schools, said Elizabeth Churchill, who left Google last year to start the human-computer interaction department. She mentioned MBZUAI's interest in breaking with 'dominant' English-language culture as a point of appeal. Two years ago, the institution debuted what it described as 'the world's most advanced Arabic large language model.' Michael Bronstein, the DeepMind Professor of AI at Oxford University, praised the academics that MBZUAI has attracted. He also noted, with admiration, how quickly the university was established, calling it 'probably the best thing that can happen to the region.' At the same time, despite all its resources and promise, there are steep challenges ahead. Compared to 140-year-old Stanford, which has more than 17,000 students and 150 graduate programs, MBZUAI is building everything from scratch, doesn't yet have name recognition, and is reliant on government funding that doesn't come with any permanent guarantees. Some tech practitioners and scholars may also be reluctant to move to the UAE, where it is forbidden to criticise the country's government or leaders and acts of dissent carry a minimum sentence of five years in prison. That is not unique – China, for instance, enforces similar laws– but it does contradict the image that the UAE is trying to present to the world. The country 'doesn't invite criticism,' said Melissa Nisbett, a reader at King's College London who studies cultural politics. 'In fact, it clamps down on it.' Moreover, she added, should research fall outside the boundaries of what's seen as acceptable, that could lead to trouble. 'You think of the world's first AI university as something boundary-pushing and exploratory,' Ms Nisbett said. So far, this hasn't been an issue. Both Mr Baldwin and Ms Churchill described free expression as a 'core value' of the school, rejecting the notion that censorship might be an problem. 'This is a clean slate,' Mr Baldwin said of the MBZUAI approach. 'Are there boundaries?' Ms Churchill said from a roomy campus lounge arrayed, like many places in the country, with portraits of Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed and his late father, the UAE's founder. 'Yes,' she said, 'but there are everywhere.' BLOOMBERG Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
