Apple sold nearly 60 million AirPods last year

9to5mac, citing the Strategy Analytics report, states that Apple achieved nearly 100% year-on-year sales growth for AirPods in 2019. These 60 million sets of AirPods sales accounted for more than 50% of the global true wireless headset transaction volume. The second and third place Samsung and Xiaomi each had a market share of less than 10%. From the perspective of revenue, the revenue generated by Apple products accounts for 71% of the total sales of true wireless headphones worldwide.

Overall, the true wireless headset market revenue has increased by more than 200% in the past year, and the scale is expected to exceed $ 100 billion by 2024.

Tesla will set up China R & D Center

Tesla ’s official WeChat tweet announced that Tesla will set up a design R & D center in China to achieve the transformation from “Made in China” to “Designed in China” to create a “Chinese style Tesla” and is now recruiting design talent . Earlier this month, Tesla announced the official launch of the Model Y project in China.

WeChat gray test subscription number paid

Yesterday, WeChat announced the gray-scale test subscription number payment function. After the qualified person is successfully opened, the operator can set a charge for some or all of the original article, and the user can read the full text after purchasing the article.

According to the report, subscriptions that have been registered for more than 3 months, no serious violations in the past 3 months, and have published at least 3 original articles can be paid. At present, the payment function is being tested in grayscale, and subscription numbers that meet the above opening conditions will have the opportunity to be grayscaled.

Japan launches faceless companion robot to bring comfort to the elderly

Japanese company Vstone launches the faceless robot doll Hiro-chan, which is mainly used as a “cure communication device” for lonely elderly people. It will be set aside with itselfThe longer the time, the “worse feeling becomes worse”, and the different levels of crying sounds, as soon as they are picked up, they will make happy laughter. It is said that Hiro-chan can produce more than 100 types of sounds, which can naturally express the transition from happiness to sadness.

But why design a faceless one? First, if it is designed as a fixed happy expression, it will be weird when it makes a cry, and vice versa. Second, Vstone believes that people can imagine projecting the faces they want onto a doll. Hiro-chan is priced at 5,500 yen, about RMB 350.

Huawei ’s 5G mobile phone shipments exceed 6.9 million units

Huawei’s official website Weibo tweeted that as of the end of December 2019, Huawei’s worldwide shipments of 5G mobile phones had exceeded 6.9 million units.

Xianyu: “Annual Meeting Prizes” has been searched over a million times, and mobile phones still sell the fastest prizes

The Economic Data for the Free Fish Annual Meeting states that the keyword “annual prizes” has been searched more than a million times, an increase of 108% over last year.

The most popular gifts for the annual meeting are the evening dress, mobile phone, and Bluetooth headset. The Bluetooth headset has the highest turnover rate, reaching 78%. The fastest prize is the mobile phone, which can be sold within three days. The five cities with the most sellers are Bei, Shang, Guang, Shenzhen, and Hangzhou.

Apple Acquisition of AI startup Xnor.ai

CNBC news, Apple acquires AI startup Xnor.ai. Xnor is a Seattle company separated from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. It focuses on developing technologies that allow software to run better on devices based on limited computing power, reducing the need for large cloud services. rely. According to GeekWire, the acquisition involved $ 200 million and Xnor has 54 employees.

Tesla launches Cyberbertuck Memorial T-shirt

Tesla launched the Cybertruck Commemorative T-Shirt on the official mall. The front pattern is the shattered glass at the press conference, and the back is the Cybertruck logo. The price is $ 45.

Baby Yoda costs up to five million with a “doll”

Mashable cites “Entertainment Weekly” as saying that the “Doll” props used to shoot the “Baby Yoda” character in the Disney + TV series “Mandalorian” cost up to $ 5 million.

Since the Mandalorian was broadcast, Baby Yoda has become a favorite character among netizens, spawning a large number of meme and arousing a huge Purchasing needs around .

“Love Apartment 5” apologizes for plagiarism paintings

Sina Entertainment News, after a netizen suggested that the eighth episode of “Love Apartment 5” was suspected of plagiarizing the painting of the well-known UP host “Old Tomato”, the crew official issued an apology yesterday, saying that the fault was caused by poor supervision.Mistakes, relevant paragraphs have been modified, and corrected snippets went online yesterday.

Netizen: “However, domestic big-ups will go to court, or is it safer to copy American dramas?” “Do you copy the eggplant to apologize and write to the audience?” Take a look at episode eight again. “

On January 16, 2019, Yu Min, the father of the two bombs and one star medal, the “Father of Hydrogen Bombs” in China, died.

In the 1960s, Yu Min and a group of scientific workers began the exploration of the hydrogen bomb theory under the organization of Qian Sanqiang. Due to the high confidentiality and importance of this task, Yu Min had to remain anonymous . Once during the period, when Yu Min and Deng Jiaxian communicated the research progress, they still used the secret code “Squirrel” to indicate that the research work had made a breakthrough. With the progress of the research work, Yu Min independently completed the most critical basic configuration design in the design of hydrogen bombs, which is also one of the only two basic configurations of hydrogen bombs in the world. Therefore, it is called “Yu Min configuration” . About two and a half years ago, the first atomic bomb exploded in China. On June 17, 1967, the first hydrogen bomb exploded in China, with an explosion equivalent of 3.3 million tons.

In 1999, Yu Min was awarded the “two bombs and one star” meritorious medal for his great contribution to the research of hydrogen bombs, and he is also known as the “father of hydrogen bombs” in China. On January 16, 2019, Yu Min died of illness at the age of 93 in Beijing.