Fat Jiu Technology IT News - 20231214

The "new crown dividend" has almost disappeared, and Pfizer's reset of revenue guidance has caused a stock price crash

Eastern time on Wednesday, Pfizer announced that its revenue in 2024 may be about $5 billion lower than Wall Street's expectations. That caused its shares to plunge more than 8%, the lowest since 2014. The pandemic brought record sales to Pfizer, and as the pandemic ended, Pfizer's stock price was knocked back to shape.

Tesla recalls more than 2 million vehicles The bulls said the cost was almost zero and the impact on the stock price was zero

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said Wednesday that Tesla is recalling more than 2.03 million vehicles because the Autopilot system is not effective in preventing faulty operation. The recall affects nearly all Tesla on U.S. roads, but it has had little impact on the company's stock price. Tesla's shares closed up 0.96% at $239.29 on Wednesday after falling nearly 3% at one point during the session. The stock is up about 71% year-to-date.

Musk: I hope Bezos spends less time bathing and driving yachts to focus on sending people to space

On December 14, Elon Musk's biographer Walter Isaacson said that the billionaire hopes that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (Jeff Bezos) will "leave his hot tub and yacht" and focus more on his space tourism company Blue Origin.

THE ROBOT DOG "HOUND" SET A NEW GUINNESS WORLD RECORD FOR THE 100-METER DASH IN 19.87 SECONDS

A FOUR-LEGGED ROBOT DOG NAMED HOUND SHOWED UNPRECEDENTED AGILITY AND SPEED, RUNNING THE FASTEST 100-METER SPRINT EVER FOR A QUADRUPED ROBOT, AND SETTING A NEW GUINNESS WORLD RECORD IN THE PROCESS. The robot dog was designed and manufactured by the Dynamic Robot Control and Design Laboratory of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). The 99-pound (45-kilogram) robot dog started at a standstill and ran 100 meters at an average speed of 11.26 miles (18.12 kilometers) per hour in 19.87 seconds.

NetEase's market capitalization surpassed Meituan's to become the fourth largest Internet company in China by market capitalization

At the close of the Hong Kong stock market on December 13, NetEase's market value reached HK$542.5 billion, surpassing Meituan's market value of HK$513.3 billion, becoming the fourth largest Internet company in China by market capitalization. It is reported that in front of NetEase are Tencent, Pinduoduo and Alibaba. According to the report, in February 2021, when the valuation of Chinese concept stocks as a whole rushed to its peak, Meituan was about four NetEase, and two years and ten months later, NetEase surpassed Meituan.

Rumor: Ubisoft Shanghai is working on a new installment in the Might & Magic series

According to X user Kurakasis, developer Ubisoft recently registered two domain names, mightandmagicfates.com and might-and-magic-fates.com, which translate to Might and Magic: Destiny, which may hint that Ubisoft is working on a new title in the series, with the last canonical title in the Might & Magic series going back to 2014's Might & Magic 10: Legacy.

The 2024 New Year's Day holiday train ticket purchase calendar is released, and the official teaches you to improve the success rate of buying tickets

According to the official account of "China Railway", today, the official release of the 2024 New Year's Day holiday train ticket purchase calendar, and at the same time introduce how to improve the success rate of ticket purchase. According to the calendar, tickets for the first day of the New Year's holiday will be available on December 16 (this Saturday), that is, December 30, December 17 (this Sunday) for December 31, and December 18 (next Monday) for January 1, 2024.

Apple's stock market capitalization exceeded $3 trillion and hit a record high

Tech stocks broadly rose, driven by market bets that the Federal Reserve will soon start cutting interest rates as inflation slows, with Apple Inc (AAPL. US) shares closed at record highs on Wednesday. Apple shares closed up 1.7% at $197.96, surpassing the previous closing record set in July. Apple's stock price has risen 52% so far this year, reaching a market capitalization of about $3.08 trillion, cementing Apple's position as the world's most valuable company.

The Epic Store, with 80 million monthly active players, is playing catch-up with Steam

Recently, Epic boss Tim Sweeney (Tim Sweeney) was interviewed by foreign media TheVerge, talking about a number of topics, including the Epic Store. When asked if the Epic Store would be just a game store or an app store, Sweeney said that it was a store operated by Epic Games, and that there were already a lot of non-game products, such as the Brave browser, Unreal Engine creation tools, and so on, and they could put any app anyone wanted.

Xiaomi Auto's official Weibo officially opened The first model will be launched in the first half of 2024

On December 14th, it was reported that Xiaomi car manufacturing has been attracting much attention, and today's "Xiaomi Auto" official Weibo was officially opened, and the account was certified as Xiaomi Automotive Technology Co., Ltd., and the account avatar has not been added yet, nor has any content been released yet. According to the current information, the first model of Xiaomi Auto will be officially launched in the first half of 2024, and it is expected to hold a press conference at the end of this month to officially release the Xiaomi Auto brand.

TSMC is already developing a 1.4nm process and is expected to be mass-produced from 2027 to 2028

After the mass production of the 3nm process technology and the start of OEM A17 Pro, M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max chips for Apple, the focus of TSMC's process technology R&D and mass production will shift to the more advanced 2nm process technology, which is planned to be mass-produced in 2025. Judging from the latest reports from foreign media, in addition to promoting the 2nm process technology for mass production in 2025 as planned, TSMC is also developing the 1.4nm process technology. The world's three largest semiconductor manufacturers are competing to see who will be the first to mass-produce 2nm chips. TSMC is widely seen as sustaining its leading position in the field, but Intel and TSMC see the next leap in chip manufacturing as an opportunity to close the gap. TSMC has presented prototype test results for its 2nm process N2 to major customers such as Apple and Nvidia. South Korea's Samsung is offering its 2nm process prototype at a reduced price to attract the interest of big customers such as Nvidia. Intel, the former chip giant, plans to produce the next generation of chips by the end of next year. This schedule predates TSMC. TSMC says the N2 chip will be mass-produced in 2025. TSMC says its N2 process is progressing well and will lead the market in transistor density and energy efficiency once launched. In the foundry market for advanced chips, TSMC has a 66% share, compared to Samsung's 25%. Samsung sees this as an opportunity to close the gap. Samsung was the first to mass-produce 3nm chips last year, but the yield rate was lower than customer expectations, and the yield rate of its simplest 3nm chip was only 60%.

The Changping Line of the Beijing Metro suddenly broke down, some trains were stopped and delayed, and some passengers were injured

On the evening of December 14, the official Beijing Metro continuously released a message: At present, there is no electricity on the contact rail of the upward section of the Changping Metro Line from Xierqi to the Life Science Park (bound for Changping Xishankou), and some trains are temporarily stopped and some trains are delayed.

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Moderna rose more than 9% pre-market to jointly develop a vaccine with Merck to significantly reduce the risk of skin cancer recurrence

The personalized vaccine, jointly developed by Merck and Moderna, has shown exciting new results in a study that significantly improved a patient's chances of becoming skin cancer-free over a three-year observation period. The companies are understood to be on Thursday saying that patients with severe melanoma treated with the vaccine, along with Merck's cancer drug Keytruda, had a 49 percent lower risk of death or cancer recurrence compared to those treated with Keytruda alone.

Chinese astronomers led the discovery of the shock gradient phenomenon of red supergiant star explosion for the first time

Recently, Tsinghua University, scholars and astronomy enthusiasts from many research institutions at home and abroad, such as the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have worked closely to successfully capture and study the ultranova SN2023ixf extremely early shock radiation signal that erupted in the M101 galaxy. The research results were published online in Nature on December 14, 2023, under the title "Shock Wave Flashes Erupting from a Red Supergiant Surrounded by Dust".

AI models consume a lot of electricity, and Microsoft is betting on nuclear energy, using it to power its AI business.

According to WSJ, Microsoft has used U.S. nuclear regulatory and licensing documents for the past six months to train its large language model, a move aimed at speeding up the paperwork required to approve the construction of civil nuclear power, which often takes years and costs millions of dollars. Tech giants such as Microsoft and Google have recently been considering the use of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), a low-cost, modular nuclear power design that are not currently in operation in the United States. SMRs are still expensive to license and build. Using AI to draft nuclear regulatory documents doesn't seem like a good idea, with the software giant saying it will ensure that AI doesn't trigger a nuclear reactor meltdown, and it won't let AI handle nuclear code.

The world's largest one-way tunneling under construction, the main structure of the high-speed rail tunnel has been completed, and the maximum underwater depth is 89 meters

The official document of China Railway said that the main structure of the shield launch shaft of the Chongtai Yangtze River Tunnel, the largest one-way shield diameter high-speed rail tunnel under construction in the world, has been successfully completed. The next step is shield assembly, commissioning, starting, and tunneling. According to reports, the Chongtai Yangtze River Tunnel connects Chongming District, Shanghai and Taicang City, Jiangsu Province, with a total length of 14,250 meters and a maximum design speed of 350 kilometers per hour

Russia's invasion has taken a huge toll on Ukraine's scientific community, reducing total research time by 20%

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been going on for almost two years and has wreaked havoc on all aspects of Ukrainian society, and science is no exception. Researchers reported Monday in the journal Humanities Social Sciences Communications that Ukraine's total time spent on scientific research has decreased by about 20 percent since the war began, nearly two years ago. To make matters worse, since the start of the war, there has been a brain drain from Ukraine in research, and the scientists who remain have been struggling to fill the gap.

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