Gao Dongzhen, president of Samsung’s IT mobile division, said that the Galaxy Fold production may be less than the expected 1 million units.
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Uber’s biggest loss since the disclosure of financial data in 2017
It was learned that Uber released its latest quarterly earnings report: revenue of $3.17 billion in the second quarter, up 14% year-on-year, and net loss of $5.24 billion, an increase over the same period last year. Uber’s share price fell 12% after the market’s biggest loss since Uber disclosed its financial data in 2017.
The official website of the State Market Supervision Administration showed that five auto companies, including Toyota Motor, Beijing Hyundai, Guangqi Honda, Jiangling Motors and FAW-Volkswagen, announced a recall plan and recalled nearly 634,000 vehicles. Toyota has a problem with the brush holder molding die of the pump motor, recalling 4,715 vehicles; Beijing Hyundai recalled 400,377 vehicles due to abnormal engine oil level under low temperature conditions; Guangqi Honda was mistakenly designed due to the air flow rate at the engine intercooler outlet. 222,674 vehicles; Jiangling Motors recalled 1,587 vehicles due to the deviation of the dimensions of the rear seat belt frame lock teeth and the design requirements; FAW-Volkswagen recalled 4,605 vehicles due to technical errors in the engine plant. (Product play)
Tesla: The price of the vehicle will be raised in September
In response to media reports that Tesla may raise the price in China, Tesla’s relevant staff said: “It has been determined that the price of the vehicle will be raised in September, and the Tesla Model 3 will stop supplying China after the long battery life. (“Securities Times”
WhatsApp or a major security vulnerability that allows hackers to tamper with user chat messages< /p>
Check Point, an Israeli network security company, said the researchers found three ways to change the conversations of WhatsApp users. First, use the “quote” function in the group dialog to change the identity of the sender of the message; second, allow the hacker to change the text that others have replied to. Third, it allows one person to send a private message to a member of another group, pretending to be a public information person sent to everyone. This way, when the target individual replies, everyone in the conversation can see it. According to Check Point said that the third way has been fixed. (Tencent Technology)
Samsung Gaodong: Galaxy Fold production may not reach the expected 1 million units< /p>
Samsung officially released the Galaxy Note 10 series in New York. In a media interview after the meeting, Gao Dongzhen, president of Samsung Electronics IT Mobile, said that Galaxy Fold production may be less than expected by 1 million units. Earlier, Samsung officially announced on July 25 that after “improving” the screen protection of Galaxy Fold, the foldable phone will be re-released in September. (Phoenix Technology)
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Apple Autopilot new patent exposure, can send automatic parking instructions
A few days ago, the US Patent and Trademark Office officially announced 54 patent applications filed by Apple. The patent documents show that Apple may develop a new system that allows iPhone users to drive to autonomous vehicles. Send destination additional instructions. The system allows the user to issue precise parking instructions to the vehicle, such as “Parking near the Best Buy supermarket.” Moreover, the user can also fine-tune the instructions by gesture operation on the touch screen of the iPhone. (Techweb)
Investment and financing
Molecular interaction has completed Tencent TOPIC Fund tens of millions of RMB A+ roundsFinancing
Molecular interaction is a comprehensive media company with a pan-quaternary IP incubator development as its core. Its business includes comics IP incubation, content marketing, animation production, and derivative development. Previously, the company had obtained tipping point capital and A-round investment in Rugao Capital and 10 million angel round financing. Molecular interaction has launched a new round of financing plan. The two consecutive rounds of financing will be mainly used for film and television and gamification development of series IP, and will expand the derivatives business and lay out offline consumption scenarios.
Xinchao Media received nearly RMB 1 billion in strategic investment, Jingdong led the investment
Jingdong Group and Xinchao Media announced that after reaching a deep strategic cooperation, the two companies will use the technologies of big data and AIOT to refine the granularity of offline advertising and realize the offline advertising “people, goods, field and time”. Accurate match. Trend Media is an offline media digital company that has deployed more than 100 cities across the country, with 700,000 elevator TVs and 200 million family members. (Tencent Technology)
It was learned that on August 8, Jingdong Group completed a strategic investment in the life of daily necessities chain stores, and Jingdong will also establish a supply chain joint venture with Life Care. In addition, the future of life-saving overseas expansion is expected to merge with JD.com’s overseas retail infrastructure. Life is worry-free is the offline low-cost living home chain store located in the third- and fifth-tier cities. The store mainly sells its own branded product “Life-free LATTLIV”.
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WeChat Life Payments “Payment Reminder” function, first to land in Sichuan Province
After the user subscribes to the payment reminder function through the WeChat platform, the system can receive the system reminder in time when the electricity fee is insufficient or the fee is owed. The State-owned Sichuan Electric Power Company’s electricity-using residents can use the subscription reminder to quickly open this function on the payment completion page of WeChat Pay for “Life Payment”. After successfully opening the payment reminding function, when the user’s electricity bill balance is insufficient or owed, the power company can notify the user to pay the fee in time through the life payment public number or WeChat service notification. The user can close or re-enable the payment reminder function through the “payment setting” at the bottom of the homepage of the living payment. (Tencent Technology)
Uber’s new autopilot patent monitors passenger stress levels
Uber, a US-based car company, filed a patent application related to passenger pressure monitoring to the European Patent Office. Uber mentioned in the application that in the future, its self-driving taxis will be equipped with sensors to monitor passengers’ anxiety levels. The new monitoring technology uses sensors such as temperature, speed, and infrared cameras, as well as on-board devices such as microphones to monitor heart rate, body temperature, sweat levels, and other physical indicators, as well as the number of passengers looking out the window. (Phoenix Technology)
Improve and upgrade the group chat feature
It is learned that recently, the quick-talking group has enhanced the group chat function portal, and the user can choose whether or not the group chat appears in the personal homepage. In addition, the quick hand also upgrades the group chat function, the user can post group announcements, can specify transaction messages, etc. The group chat function already has the basic functions of the WeChat group and the QQ group. At present, quick group chat can be added by search, or can be invited by group members. The audited group chat can also be shared to social platforms such as WeChat, QQ and Weibo.
Other important news
The film “Where is the devil’s angel”, the box office broke through 3 billion
It was learned that according to the cat’s eye box office data, as of August 8, the movie “Where the Devil’s Angels Comes into the World” box office has exceeded 3 billion. Since the first day of the film, the film has won the domestic single-day box office champion so far.
The National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee drafted the “Information Security Technology Mobile Internet Application (App) Basic Specification for Collecting Personal Information (Draft)”, which is open to the public for comments. The draft specification states that App operators should fulfill their personal information protection obligations and take necessary security measures to protect the security of users’ personal information. When users agree to the App to collect the minimum information of a service type, the App shall not be subject to the user’s refusal to provide the least information. Personal information refuses to provide content such as this type of service. (First Financial)