Musk cashed in $6.89 billion; Huang Renxun： If you don’t lay off employees, you will get a raise; China will launch more than 50 commercial satellites this year ｜ Geeks knew.
On August 10th, it was reported that Google publicly criticized Apple on the official website of Android on Tuesday, saying that it failed to improve the user experience of communication between iPhone and Android users. For a long time, some users have complained about green message bubbles in cross-device messages, such as poor compressed video quality, lack of read receipts, and other headaches. Google blames Apple for this, because the latter will convert the information sent between iPhone and Android users into SMS and MMS, both of which were developed decades ago and mainly designed for the plain text era.
Google believes that Apple should use Rich Communication Service (RSC) to realize this function. They believe that this is a "modern industry standard", which can improve users’ experience of sending text messages and making phone calls, and also support emoticons, videos and pictures. Android official website said, "These problems exist because Apple refuses to adopt modern communication standards when sending messages between iPhone and Android phones. Google also encourages visitors to share this topic on social media, including using "@ Apple" to remind Apple, and adding the topic tag of "#getthemessage". (Source: Sina Technology)
On the evening of August 10th, Beijing time, it was reported that Huang Renxun, CEO of NVIDIA, recently assured more than 22,000 employees of the company that NVIDIA would not lay off employees at least in the short term. Although the company issued a preliminary performance warning earlier, it said that its revenue in the second quarter would be lower than previously expected.
NVIDIA issued an early warning on Monday, saying that due to the sluggish game business, revenue in the second quarter is expected to be $6.7 billion, down 19% from the previous month and up 3% year-on-year. The revenue was lower than the $8.1 billion expected by NVIDIA and Wall Street analysts.
In response, Huang Renxun said in an email to employees that the performance in the second quarter was "significantly lower than expected", which was mainly due to the slowdown in the game business. But at the same time, he assured employees that the fundamentals of NVIDIA are still strong and the demand is still strong.
He said, "What does this mean for us? Will we lay off employees? No. On the contrary, we gave you a raise to take care of your families, because all of you are facing severe inflation. (Source: cnBeta)
According to six Form 4 documents published on the website of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and submitted on August 9, Tesla CEO Musk reported the sale of nearly 7.92 million shares of Tesla on the 5th, 8th and 9th local time, with a value of about 6.89 billion US dollars. According to Bloomberg, the transaction reduced the Tesla shares directly held by Musk to about 155 million shares. According to statistics, in the past 10 months, Musk has sold Tesla shares worth about $32 billion. (Source: Interface News)
On August 10th, it was learned from several independent sources that Yi Wei, the former senior vice president of Meitu Mobile, had joined the Weilai mobile phone team as the head of the software department.
A source said that at present, Yi Wei "can’t see the specific (rank) in Weilai, only the code name". "Weilai’s mobile phone team has more than 300 people, and the background of employees includes OPPO, Meitu and Huawei," a person familiar with the matter said. According to the recruitment website, Weilai has released a large number of positions that are strongly related to the mobile phone business, including Camera App development engineer, Android engineer, and smart watch product manager. The above-mentioned person said that the salary offered by Weilai to the mobile phone team was "mostly increased by 10%-20%".
In this regard, Li Bin, CEO of Weilai, responded: Now we have to work hard and tell you when the mobile phone is made. (Source: 36Kr)
On the afternoon of August 10th, a number of people familiar with the matter revealed that the blade battery supplied by BYD has been delivered to Tesla’s super factory in Berlin, Germany, which is also the first super factory in Tesla to use BYD battery. It is expected that Tesla vehicles equipped with BYD blade batteries will be off the assembly line within one month at the earliest (that is, from the end of August to the beginning of September). It was also learned from another source that the Shanghai super factory, which has received much attention, has no plans to use BYD batteries for the time being.
A number of insiders who did not want to be named confirmed the authenticity of this news. A BYD source revealed that BYD supplied Tesla with blade batteries and shipped them to Europe. At the same time, the first batch of Tesla vehicles equipped with BYD blade batteries can be rolled off the assembly line at the Berlin factory within one month at the earliest. A person from Tesla Giga Shanghai said that at present, we have not seen any BYD battery on the production line in the Shanghai Super Factory, nor have we heard about the relevant plans. (Source: Sina Technology)
On August 10th, in response to recent rumors that Tik Tok Platform and some head anchors signed hundreds of millions of gambling agreements, the relevant person in charge of Tik Tok E-commerce said that this was false news and there was no similar gambling agreement. E-commerce in Tik Tok encourages merchants and talents to obtain platform traffic by supplying good goods, displaying good content and providing good services. Earlier, there were rumors that the gambling agreement of this year’s super-head anchor was driven by both the platform and the brand. (Source: Netease Technology)
On August 10th, at the 2022 World 5G Conference, Liu Liehong, the chairman of China Unicom, said that China operators provided cost-effective services, while the traffic broke out, the traffic revenue only increased by 0.7%, the one-month package was cheaper than take-away food, the average tariff was half that of foreign countries, and the ARPU value (average income per user) was equivalent to 18% of that of the United States, so it was impossible to significantly decrease against the law. (Source: Tiger Sniffing APP)
Recently, Lenovo Group began to intensively recruit automotive R&D talents. Open positions include autopilot engineering director, in-vehicle infotainment system director, senior hardware/software manager, etc. In addition, LR VC Lab related positions are also opened. This is considered by the outside world that Lenovo may participate in building a car.
In this regard, Yang Yuanqing, chairman and CEO of Lenovo Group, responded at the performance meeting that Lenovo has no plan to build a car, and the recruiter is doing forward-looking research. (Source: Beijing News)
On August 10th, the black cat complaint platform showed that there were more than 1,000 complaints about the stranger social App "Heart Encounter" owned by Hong Kong stock listed company "Cloud Music", which mainly involved false propaganda, induced consumption, unreasonable titles and pornography.
The black cat complained that netizens reported that when they met a beautiful woman as bait, they took the charge of words, voices, videos and other related levels, recharged gold coins in cash, and then deducted them by chatting. They would always charge without paying attention to each other, and some information in the App was pornographic. Some netizens said that the girlfriend on the platform has been tempting users to communicate in depth, constantly charging money to brush intimacy, saying that WeChat or telephone can be displayed. As a result, the number has been blocked and the girlfriend cannot be contacted. (Source: AI Finance and Economics)
On the morning of August 10th, Yu Bing, senior vice president of Aauto Quicker and head of StreamLake, revealed that Aauto Quicker focused on AI and audio and video services, and developed a cloud-based intelligent video processing SoC chip SL200 and its solution for live video on demand applications. At present, it has been successfully streamed and is undergoing online internal testing.
Yu Bing pointed out that the launch of the chip will help to further enhance the technical strength of the industry and help customers and enterprises to bring higher profits with lower computing costs. According to its introduction, the chip is still in the small-scale testing stage, and it will take some time for mass production. (source: cnBeta)
In 2020, Amazon launched a palm scanning payment technology called Amazon One, which allows users to pay by directly scanning their palms. This technology has been applied in some stores in the United States before. Now, according to The Verge, Amazon is expanding this technology to 65 whole foods supermarkets in California, which is Amazon’s largest promotion to date.
This technology is called Amazon One. Customers can use Amazon One self-service machine to take photos and add palm information in stores that support this technology, and also need to provide their mobile phone number and debit card (credit card). After the setting is completed, you can take the items to the front desk to check out. You don’t need to take out your wallet or mobile phone. You just need to hover your palm over the device to complete the payment and leave. (Source: IT House)
On August 10th, at 12: 50 today, China successfully launched 16 satellites, including Jilin No.1 high-scoring 03D09 star and YunYao No.1 04-08 star, at Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. These 16 satellites are mainly used in commercial remote sensing, atmospheric imaging and other fields.
According to CCTV, China launched 36 commercial satellites in 2021, and more than 50 commercial satellites will be launched this year. With the increasing demand for commercial satellites, the production and launch of commercial satellites in China are also accelerating. China’s commercial aerospace has formed the development of the whole industrial chain from research and development to launch, operation and application.
Jia Hongguang, deputy general manager of Changguang Satellite, said: At present, its orders mainly come from universities, enterprises and local governments in China, among which there is a great demand in the field of natural resource monitoring, and 60 customized orders for satellites are being implemented.
He believes that by the end of 2023, the total number of satellites will reach 140, and it will exceed 300 by the end of the 14 th Five-Year Plan. (Source: IT House)