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No more fear of broken screens! Within five years, mobile phone screens will be able to "self-heal"
Analysts at CCS Insight, a global technology research and consulting firm, predict that smartphones with "self-healing" screens will start appearing on the market by 2028. The way to achieve this is to add "nanocoating" to the surface of the screen. When the screen is scratched, a chemical reaction occurs with a new material exposed to air that repairs the scratch.
Source丨Tencent Technology
Foreign media said that India arrested a Chinese employee of Vivo, accusing him of suspected money laundering, and the company responded
According to foreign media reports, citing two people familiar with the matter, India's financial crime agency recently arrested four industry executives, including a Chinese citizen, an employee of Chinese smartphone maker Vivo, accusing him of suspected money laundering. Vivo denied the allegations, saying in a statement that it was "firmly committed to ethical principles and committed to legal compliance." We are deeply concerned about the recent arrest warrant. We will exercise all available legal options".
Source丨Tencent Technology
China has successfully developed the "Chapter 9 No. 3" quantum computing prototype: solving specific problems is 100 million billion times faster
A few days ago, a research team composed of Pan Jianwei and Lu Chaoyang of the University of Science and Technology of China, in cooperation with the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Parallel Computer Engineering Technology Research Center, announced the successful construction of a quantum computing prototype of 255 photons "Chapter 9 No. 3". This achievement once again refreshes the world record of optical quantum information technology, solving the Gaussian boson sampling mathematical problem is 100 million billion times faster than the world's fastest supercomputer, and an important step on the road to developing quantum computers.
Source丨Daily Economic News
Tech companies
Southeast Asia's development setback? After Indonesia, Malaysia considered introducing a TikTok e-commerce ban
The Malaysian government is considering a policy similar to that of the Indonesian government, considering banning e-commerce transactions on social media platform TikTok. The policy comes in response to consumer concerns about pricing competition and data privacy issues on the TikTok Shop.
Source丨The Paper
The conflict may affect the Israeli chip industry: Intel's plan may be affected, and the tower is in trouble
If the Palestinian-Israeli conflict continues to expand, the number of Israeli conscripts will increase significantly, which will first affect the operation of local Israeli start-ups, and other technology companies and semiconductor companies will also be affected to varying degrees. Especially in the construction of high-tower semiconductors and Intel in Israel, the expansion or long-term of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict will have a greater impact on the originally pressured high-tower semiconductors and disrupt Intel's Israeli fab investment plan.
Source丨Jiweinet
Apple issued a press release: iOS 17.1 will fix the French iPhone 12 radiation problem
Apple recently issued a press release that it will release an iOS 17.1 system update for iPhone 12 users in France, reducing the energy transmission power when the device is removed and placed on a static surface, so as to meet the relevant test requirements of the French National Frequency Authority.
Source丨IT House
Analyst agency: HTC may withdraw from the VR market in 2026 due to reduced revenue and increased competition
According to CNBC, analysis firm CCS Insight claims that HTC may withdraw from the VR field in 2026. The analyst firm believes that due to reduced revenue and increased competition from Meta, Sony and Apple, HTC may eventually exit the VR space in 2026 and "sell the results of its previous exploration to other players in the field."
Source丨IT House
AI weather vane
NVIDIA's hardware roadmap exposed! A number of upgraded AI chips will come out next year
A few days ago, a hardware roadmap for NVIDIA in the next few years was exposed by foreign media SemiAnalysis, including its upcoming H200, B100 and "X100" GPUs. The roadmap shows one thing: Nvidia is separating its Arm-based products from those based on Intel x86.
Source丨CaiLian News
Adobe introduced the new Firefly Image 2, so that Xiaobai can also use the graphics software
Adobe has officially released the Firefly Image 2 model, which is a new product that uses AI to generate images. Compared to the previous generation, it increases model capacity and significantly improves image generation quality and speed. It produces images with higher resolution and with more vivid colors and color contrast.
Source丨AI Future points north
OpenAI scientist's latest speech: GPT-4 is about to surpass the inflection point, and 1000x performance is bound to emerge
OpenAI scientist Hyung Won Chung recently shared the trend of soaring ability to scale up large model parameters, predicting that GPT-4 is about to surpass the inflection point and achieve a significant jump in performance. In addition, he also raised the importance of novel perspectives in AI research, and emphasized that "inductive biases" that limit further expansion should be actively sought in the process of model expansion.
Source丨Shin Zhiyuan
Smart new products
An inflection point for the PC industry! Qualcomm officially announced the Snapdragon X series chip: benchmarking against the Core i9
Qualcomm recently announced its next-generation chip plan for PCs and launched a new naming system "Snapdragon X" series. Qualcomm's senior vice president and chief marketing officer said that the series will have outstanding advantages in terms of performance, AI, 5G connectivity and battery life. According to Qualcomm, if the Snapdragon 8cx is aimed at Intel Core i5, then the Snapdragon X series is benchmarked with Intel Core i9.
Source丨Fast Technology