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A notice issued by the Sichuan provincial government on August 14 showed that industrial electricity companies were required to suspend production in an all-round way. The time is August 15th to 20th. The target involves 19 of the province’s 21 cities (including autonomous prefectures), and it is expected that more than half of Sichuan’s approximately […]

More and more automakers are embracing touchscreens, and physical buttons are becoming less common in cars. But one test found that drivers took far less time to complete tasks with physical buttons than with a touchscreen . The Swedish car magazine “Vi Bilägare” tested the human-machine interface systems of 11 cars, measuring the time it

Combining the natural language conversational capabilities of a virtual chatbot with a physical bot, Google demonstrated a robot waiter that can bring soda and chips to its employees in a break room . The robot is not ready for commercial use, it can only do a few simple actions, and it does not even integrate

Excessive consumption of soft drinks may impair memory, according to a study published in the journal Experimental Gerontology. In the experiment, the researchers gave 2, 8, and 14-month-old Wistar rats a cola soft drink or water (control group) for 67 days, participated in a maze to measure their spatial memory, and then killed the rats

Tencent announced its results for the second quarter ended June 30 (PDF): total revenue was 134 billion yuan, down 3% from the same period last year; net profit was 28.1 billion yuan, down 17% year-on-year. The decline in Tencent’s revenue is not surprising , as regulatory pressure on its gaming business is mounting, and the

Microsoft plans to release the next major update to Windows 11, v22H2, on September 20. The new version will have new changes in the user interface, including: Start menu App folder, taskbar drag and drop, new touch gestures and animations, Live Captions function to help the hearing impaired, PC voice control tool Voice Access, task

Young people in the UK are spending more time on TikTok than watching broadcast TV, according to a report by Ofcom on Wednesday. The report highlights a widening generation gap in media habits. In its annual survey of consumer trends, Ofcom found that 16- to 24-year-olds watch an average of 53 minutes a day of

The National Climate Center confirmed that, considering the average intensity, impact range and duration of high temperature and heat wave events, the comprehensive intensity of regional high temperature events from June 13 to the present has reached the strongest level since complete meteorological observation records began in 1961 . The duration of this regional high

NASA has announced that it plans to launch the Space Launch System (SLS), a lunar rocket, on August 29. The location is at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, within the two-hour launch window from 8:33 a.m. ET. SLS is a heavy-duty rocket designed for the manned moon landing project Artemis. The launch code is

Google has won a key lawsuit, and the Supreme Court of Australia has ruled (PDF) that it is not a publisher. In the lawsuit (PDF), the plaintiff is Melbourne lawyer George Defteros, who searched a search engine for a link to a news item about him, published in The Age newspaper in 2004, saying Defteros

Scotland has become the first country in the world to offer free period supplies . Nearly two years after parliament approved the Period Products Act in 2020, Scots now have free access to period products as part of a global effort to end “period poverty”. In addition to Scotland, similar measures are being considered in

High temperatures are frequent all over the world. The United Kingdom experienced the first high temperature of over 40ºC on record. India and Pakistan experienced heat waves earlier this March. Hundreds of cities in China were hit by heat waves last week, with temperatures exceeding 40ºC in some cities. Why is this year so hot

The Cyberspace Administration of China released a list of domestic internet information service algorithms (docx) last week, and major Chinese internet companies disclosed details of the algorithms they use to the cyberspace administration. The list contains 30 filing algorithms, including the push algorithm and information search algorithm of NetEase News, the content recommendation algorithm of