Famous sci-fi writer Ni Kuang dies at 87
Hong Kong media reported that Ni Kuang, a well-known science fiction writer who wrote the novels “Wesley” and “Yuan Zhenxia”, passed away in Hong Kong on the afternoon of July 3 at the age of 87. At present, Ni Kuang’s family has not confirmed the matter or explained it to the public.
Ni Kuang is famous in the Chinese world for his science fiction novels, but in the course of his creation, he has covered a wide range of fields, including martial arts novels, detective novels, supernatural stories, etc., with a large number of works. Among them, the “Wesley” and “Yuan Zhenxia” series are the most famous, and together with Jin Yong, Huang Zhan and Cai Lan, they are known as the “Four Talents of Hong Kong”.
In addition, Ni Kuang has also created more than 300 movie scripts, and from 1989 to 1990, he went to the screen and co-hosted the Asian TV “Undefended Tonight” program with Huang Zhan and Cai Lan. (Source: Network Synthesis)
Weilai’s monthly delivery hit a new high, and many investment banks responded to the details of the Grizzlies short report
Recently, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Daiwa Capital Markets and other international investment banks refuted the details of the short-selling report.
The short-selling report released by the Grizzlies pointed out that as of September 2021, Weilai and Wuhan Weineng Battery Assets Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Weineng”) sold 40,000 batteries through related transactions. According to the ABN prospectus, the number of BaaS orders for ABN is 19,000, so it is believed that Weilai has over-sold batteries to Wei, thus exaggerating its own operating income and net profit.
Daiwa Capital’s research report shows that Wei Neng’s purpose is to use its 19,000 battery assets for ABS (asset-backed securities) financing, so 19,000 BaaS (battery-as-a-service) users are reported. At the same time, Daiwa Capital estimates that according to NIO’s sales (84,000 units) from the fourth quarter of 2020 to the third quarter of 2021, as of September 2021, NIO can have 40,000 BaaS users.
JPMorgan Chase believes that each battery held by Wuhan Weineng has corresponding basic subscribers. The data shows that as of December 31, 2021, more than 50% of NIO’s new users choose the BaaS solution. In 2021, NIO will deliver a total of 91,429 new vehicles, with more than 45,000 new BaaS users.
According to the delivery data in June, NIO delivered a total of 12,961 new vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 60.3% and a record monthly delivery volume. In the second quarter of 2022, NIO delivered a total of 25,059 new vehicles, an increase of 14.4% year-on-year, and positive year-on-year growth for nine consecutive quarters. The final delivery result exceeded the delivery guidance for the second quarter of 2022. (Source: First Finance and Economics)
Core business faces challenges, executives say Meta will have a tough second half
Facebook parent Meta warned its employees that the company will continue to experience challenges related to its core online advertising business amid a weak economy and expect a very difficult second half of the year. Meta Chief Product Officer Chris Cox detailed the company’s current financial woes in an internal memo.
Cox reiterated a statement made by Meta CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg during a post-Q1 earnings call with analysts detailing how Apple’s privacy updates to the iPhone last year have affected Meta. negative impact on business. He added that the company is in a “serious period of crisis and is facing enormous difficulties”, stressing that the challenges facing the company are unlikely to disappear anytime soon.
Cox said in the memo that the company needs to execute strategy flawlessly in a slowing growth environment. Teams should not expect a large number of new engineers and budget commitments, and must focus more on priorities, deliberately measuring which work can have an impact, and in the company Internally invest in developer efficiency and speed and run leaner, more efficient teams. (Source: Sina Technology)
Reports say Huawei is on a hiring spree in Russia
According to the Russian newspaper Kommersant, citing the job search service platform hh.ru, Huawei is actively recruiting new employees in Russia. In the first half of this year, Huawei had 814 vacancies, an increase of 49% over the same period last year and 545 last year.
Huawei has more than quadrupled the number of job openings in the sales field, and if the company hires 27 employees in 2021, it is already 117 this year. In addition, Huawei Russia is actively recruiting experts with high levels of expertise in the fields of information technology and communications (a 33% increase in vacancies), equipment maintenance and installation specialists (a 186% increase), as well as university students and interns ( increased by 132%). The company also increased the number of open positions for electronics production and maintenance specialists by 233%.
Since the Russian-Ukrainian war, many large technology companies have announced to stop supplying to Russia. Among them, Apple announced to stop selling products in Russia; Microsoft announced to suspend the sale of all new products and services in Russia; Intel and AMD have also suspended supply to Russia. and Belarus. (Source: IT House)
ByteDance acquires virtual social company Wave Particle Technology to lay out social metaverse subdivision track
ByteDance’s investment in the Metaverse recently added more leverage, acquiring a technology company called “Beijing Wave Particle Technology Co., Ltd.” (hereinafter referred to as “Wave Particle Technology”), a technology company focused on the two-dimensional virtual social world.
Ma Jiesi, the founder of Wave Particle Technology, changed Maimai’s personal authentication to “the person in charge of the ByteDance Pico Social Center” in May. After the acquisition of Wave Particle Technology, the original team of more than 50 people was integrated into the Pico social center as a whole. Ma Jiesi once joined the VIVE team under HTC as the head of VR industry applications; he also served as the senior director of VR and AR at Xiaomi, leading the cooperation between Xiaomi and the international VR headset giant Oculus, and jointly launched the Oculus GO China version, the Xiaomi VR all-in-one machine.
This acquisition means that ByteDance has begun to deploy the social metaverse. Previously, ByteDance has invested in games, VR hardware, content ecology and other metaverse subdivisions. (Source: Network Synthesis)
Tesla plans to downsize board, activist investor group asks SEC to investigate
Activist investor SOC Investment Group has asked federal financial regulators to investigate Tesla as it plans to reduce the size of its board of directors from eight to seven and eliminate independent directors.
Tesla announced in its proxy statement in June that Oracle founder Larry Ellison is not planning to run for re-election at this year’s annual shareholder meeting, and the company is not planning to nominate anyone to replace him. SOC Investment Group urged the SEC to reject Tesla’s application.
SOC Investment Group argues that Tesla’s plan and that its CEO Elon Musk continues to use social media to post material business information without the pre-approval of a securities lawyer violates the agreement between Tesla and Musk. Terms of a 2018 settlement with the SEC. (Source: Sina Technology)
Steve Jobs was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
On Friday, local time, U.S. President Joe Biden announced the list of 17 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, including the late Apple co-founder and Pixar co-founder Steve Jobs. ).
The award, the nation’s highest civilian honor, is presented to an individual who “has made exemplary contributions to American prosperity, values or security, world peace, or other important social, public or private causes.”
“His vision, imagination and creativity led to inventions that have and will continue to change the way the world communicates, as well as the computing, music, film and wireless industries,” the White House said in a statement. (Source: Network Synthesis)
Xiaomi Mi 12S Pro image configuration announced: three Leica professional optical lenses, all 50 million pixels
It was reported on July 3 that the Xiaomi imaging strategy upgrade and Xiaomi new product launch conference will be held tomorrow, when the new Xiaomi 12S series will be officially released. This afternoon, following parameters such as screen and charging, Xiaomi officially announced the image configuration of the Xiaomi Mi 12S Pro.
Mi 12S Pro is equipped with three Leica professional optical lenses, including professional main camera, portrait main camera and ultra-wide-angle main camera, to achieve full focal length coverage.
Xiaomi founder, chairman and CEO Lei Jun said that the Xiaomi Mi 12S Pro achieves Leica native dual image quality, full focal length Leica images, three Leica professional optical lenses, and all 50 megapixels, “making mobile photography more professional.” (Source: IT House)
NASA plans to launch Artemis 1 moon mission in late August to early September
NASA successfully completed a refueling refueling exercise for its SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on June 20, and said it is aiming for a launch from August 23 to September 6 as the Aretmis 1 lunar mission window period.
Under the Return to the Moon program, NASA developed Project Artemis to build the SLS launcher platform, the most powerful rocket launch system NASA has built since the 1960s. The entire SLS launch system is about 30 stories high, weighs about 8.8 million pounds, and has a maximum payload of 27,216 kilograms. NASA will use this to carry a new generation of spacecraft Orion.
The Artemis project is divided into three phases, divided into the unmanned phase Artemis 1, the first manned flight Artemis 2, and the manned moon landing Artemis 3. (Source: Techweb)
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