The selection of the fourth batch of reserve astronauts in my country has recently started
According to the China Manned Space Engineering Office, in order to meet the needs of the follow-up mission of the manned space project, the selection of the fourth batch of reserve astronauts in my country has been started recently.
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A total of 12 to 14 reserve astronauts will be selected this time, including 7 to 8 space pilots, 5 to 6 space flight engineers and payload experts, including about 2 payload experts.
Aerospace pilots are selected from among the active pilots of the three armed forces, aerospace engineers are selected from scientific research and engineering technicians engaged in aerospace engineering and related fields, and payload experts are selected from scientific researchers engaged in space science research and application-related fields.
The selection of reserve astronauts, organized and implemented by the China Manned Space Engineering Office, is expected to be completed in about one and a half years, and it is the first time to select load experts in Hong Kong and Macau. (Source: CCTV News)
LG New Energy plans to build 4 new factories in North America by 2025
China, Japan and South Korea currently control more than 90% of the world’s automotive power battery market, so the United States passed a subsidy bill for electric vehicles to attract major manufacturers to build factories.
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According to foreign media reports, South Korean car battery maker LG Energy Solution plans to operate six factories in North America by 2025 to compete with the world’s largest power battery maker CATL.
In other words, LG New Energy will build 4 joint venture factories in North America, and it is planned to cost nearly 14 billion US dollars in the next three years, which will increase LG New Energy’s production capacity in the North American market from the current 7% to 45%.
LG will spend nearly $14 billion over the next three years. By 2025, LG New Energy expects North American production capacity to increase from about 7% currently to 45%. CEO Kwon Young-soo called the North American market its “primary focus.” (Source: IT House)
Apple appoints new vice president to oversee maps, services and chips
On October 2nd, Apple appointed new leaders for some of its businesses, and now the maps, services and chip teams all have new vice presidents.
In addition to the roughly 100 vice presidents among its 160,000 employees, Apple has now picked four more to become vice presidents across three areas of the company.
This position is two levels below a C-level executive and is one of the highest-level positions an employee can achieve within Apple.
Max Muller is now vice president overseeing the entire map business, which includes things like Find My, and others involved in location detection and navigation, Charlie Zhai and Fabian Klass are vice president-level executives at Silicon’s chip business, and Payam Mirrashidi has Becomes VP of Engineering for Services, reporting to Eddy Cue. (Source: IT House)
Toyota cuts October production target by 6.3% to 750,000 vehicles due to semiconductor shortage
According to foreign media reports, due to a shortage of semiconductors, Toyota announced that it will cut its production target for October by 6.3% to about 750,000 vehicles.
And just a week ago, Toyota announced a global production target of about 800,000 units in October (which is already about 100,000 units below its monthly average production plan), and the news also deepened the market that the shortage of chips will continue to hinder its production. Concerns about production in the second half of the fiscal year ending March 31 next year.
However, Toyota said recently that its production target of 9.7 million vehicles for the current fiscal year has not changed, but also said the outlook remains uncertain due to a global chip shortage and the ongoing epidemic.
Separately, Toyota’s rival Honda Motor said last week that it would cut vehicle production at two Japanese plants by up to 40% in early October due to ongoing supply chain and logistical issues including chip shortages.
Previously, Japanese automakers had signaled that the chip shortage was easing, but it was unclear when it would be resolved. (Source: Aijiwei)
Huawei P60 series uses Snapdragon 8 Gen2: see you as soon as March next year
In September of this year, the Huawei Mate 50 series was released after a lapse of two years. With the features of Huawei’s self-developed XMAGE image, Beidou short message, and Huawei Kunlun glass, the new phone was snapped up by many consumers after its launch, and some models appeared in the market. A rare phenomenon.
According to Huawei’s new phone iteration strategy, the next flagship new phone will be the Huawei P series, and the Huawei P60 series is expected to be launched in March-April 2023.
According to reports, the Snapdragon 8 Gen2 uses TSMC’s 4nm process, “1+2+2+3” eight-core architecture design, consisting of one X3 super core, two A720 large cores, two A710 large cores and three A510 high-efficiency cores The core composition, and the GPU upgrade from Adreno 730 to Adreno 740, will bring more powerful performance.
If nothing else, the Huawei P60 series will be equipped with Huawei XMAGE images, making it the first show on the P series. (Source: Fast Technology)
China Mobile has opened more than 1.1 million 5G base stations
In the first half of 2022, China Mobile’s 5G-related investment reached 58.7 billion yuan. So far, China Mobile has opened more than 1.1 million 5G base stations nationwide, accounting for more than 50% of the country’s 5G base stations.
According to the relevant person in charge of China Mobile, in the past 10 years, China Mobile has completed fixed asset investment of 2 trillion yuan, and fiber-to-the-home coverage has reached 600 million households.
At the same time, China Mobile actively implemented the national “East and West” project deployment, and the number of cloud servers increased from 240,000 to 600,000.
It is understood that from 2012 to 2021, China Mobile’s cumulative operating income reached 7.2 trillion yuan, of which main business income was 6.5 trillion yuan. In 2021, operating income will achieve double-digit growth of 10.3%, a new high in 10 years. (Source: Xinhua News Agency)
Intel’s self-driving business Mobileye files for U.S. listing, valued at up to $30 billion
Mobileye Global, Intel’s self-driving technology business, filed for an initial public offering (IPO) on Friday, seeking to buck the trend.
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Currently, the U.S. IPO market is facing its worst since the financial crisis more than a decade ago.
Mobileye will issue Class A shares on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker symbol “MBLY,” with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley serving as underwriters, according to Mobileye’s filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The company did not disclose how many shares it plans to sell, but documents show Mobileye will remain controlled by Intel after the IPO.
Intel expects Mobileye’s IPO valuation to be as high as $30 billion (about 213.5 billion yuan), lower than initially expected. (Source: Pinwan)
Google Japan’s sand sculpture Gboard keyboard adds a “single row” physical shape
A year after the “Tea Cup Edition” was launched, Google Japan has introduced a new physical form factor for Android’s default keyboard app: “Gboard Bar,” a keyboard with a very sandy design concept that arranges the keys in a straight line, “so you don’t have to Look around”.
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Officials call it a “minimalist design” with a length of 1650mm. The advantage is that it takes up very little vertical desktop space, so it’s “convenient even on a desk with a mountain of documents.” As for the horizontal space…
The official spec sheet lists the width as “enough for a cat to walk on,” while the height is also “a comfortable thickness.”
It’s important to note that it’s a spoof, and it’s not a spoof at the same time, as the documentation on GitHub lets you actually build a keyboard like this yourself. (Source: cnBeta)
Intel A770 and A750 benchmarks show improvements on OpenCL and Vulkan APIs
Intel will open the performance evaluation of Arc A770 and Arc A750 graphics cards at 21:00 on October 5th, which are also the two top models of Intel’s first-generation new discrete graphics cards. The positioning competitor is… RTX 3060.
Their benchmark scores have already appeared in the GeekBench database, well, not very good.
Both tests were paired with an i9-12900KS processor, ROG Z690 APEX motherboard, and 32GB DDR5 memory. Interestingly, the core frequency detection is up to 2.4GHz.
In the Vulkan test, the A770 16GB scored 73536 and the A750 8GB scored 66609, a difference of about 10.4%.
The Vulkna test is biased towards gaming, while the OpenCL test is biased towards computing, the former is naturally more valuable, so using this as a benchmark, compared to the RTX 3060, the A770 is a mere 1.2% worse, and the A750 is 10.5% lower.
Of course, this is still different from the real game performance, just wait for the evaluation. (Source: Fast Technology)
New concept nuclear-powered airliner 80 minutes from New York to London?
According to reports, Spanish designer Vinales has envisioned a new concept airliner called the “Hyper Sting”.
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Powered by a cold fusion nuclear reactor, the airliner carries 170 passengers and travels at a high speed of more than three times the speed of sound, or 2,486 mph, almost twice as fast as Concorde. It only takes 80 minutes to fly from New York in the United States to London in the United Kingdom.
The name “Super Spur” comes from the shape of this new concept airliner. Vinales said the fuselage of the airliner is like a “super thorn” with a very sharp “nose” that will have the function of controlling the airflow (pressure/velocity) in the front in order to redistribute it to the central section and the plane on the wing.
However, to turn the new concept airliner into reality, a breakthrough in cold fusion reactor technology is first needed. A likely production date would be beyond 2030, and it wouldn’t be cheap. (Source: Southern Metropolis Daily)
NASA Ingenuity Helicopter Finds Foreign Object It Dropped on Mars
Footage from the Mars Helicopter’s navigation camera shows a small foreign object debris (FOD).
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During the 33rd flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, a small foreign object debris (FOD) was seen in footage from the Mars Helicopter’s Navigation Camera (Navcam).
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter obtained this image using its navigation camera. The camera is mounted on the fuselage of the helicopter and tracks the ground directly downward during flight.
This image was acquired on November 6, 2021 (Perseverance rover mission No. 254), at a local mean solar time of 12:06:00, the day of Ingenuity’s 15th flight.
However, all telemetry data from this flight and post-flight status review showed no signs of damage to the Ingenuity. Ingenuity and the Perseverance Mars 2020 team are currently working to determine the source of the debris. (Source: cnBeta)
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