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JD.com announced that it and Ali lost the case of "choosing one of the two", and Ali needed to compensate JD 1 billion yuan

JD.com released the results of the "choose one out of two" case against Alibaba. According to the information disclosed by JD.com, the Beijing High People's Court made a judgment that its monopolistic behavior of abusing its dominant market position to carry out "either-or" was established, causing serious damage to JD.com, and ordered JD.com to compensate 1 billion yuan. In an interview, Alibaba responded to the "one of the two" losing the lawsuit and being awarded 1 billion yuan in compensation to JD.com, saying: We have learned the news and we respect the court's verdict.

Apple is working hard to make the Mac associated with the gaming platform

Apple executives have revealed plans to leverage the power of Apple's Silicon technology to transform the Mac into a best-in-class gaming platform. to change its weak position in the gaming industry. Apple's history can be traced back to the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984, which revolutionized the way the mouse was used and indirectly influenced the development of computer games.

NVIDIA has invested heavily in HBM3E memory for the upcoming Hopper H200 and Blackwell B100

NVIDIA will power the AI race in 2024 with next-generation Hopper H200 and Blackwell B100 GPUs, and to secure the supply of HBM3E memory, the company has placed orders worth billions of dollars, and South Korean media Biz.Chosun revealed that NVIDIA has ordered large quantities of HBM3E from companies such as SK hynix and Micron memory, preparing for its next-generation products for the field of artificial intelligence.

According to the news, Microsoft's next-generation Surface laptop has changed a lot and will be the first AI PC in the true sense of the word

According to Windows Central, Microsoft is preparing to upgrade its Surface lineup to add new artificial intelligence features. The upcoming Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 will come with a next-generation neural processing unit (NPU), as well as optional Intel and Arm-based architectures, the source told the outlet.

India warns 9 cryptocurrency platforms including Binance for breaking the law and seeking to block websites

On December 29, it was reported that India's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has issued a warning to 9 unregistered offshore cryptocurrency platforms including Binance, and wrote a letter to India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeiTY) to block the websites of these 9 institutions. In addition to Binance and KuCoin, other virtual asset service providers that have been warned for not registering with India's Financial Intelligence Unit include Huobi, Kraken, Gate.io, Bittrex, Bitstamp, MEXC Global, and Bitfenex.

It is reported that Musk may visit India next month to announce the establishment of Tesla India

Elon Musk is expected to announce the launch of Tesla India at the Gujarat summit in Gandhinagar in January 2024, according to Teslarati, a website dedicated to tracking Tesla news. According to local media reports, Tesla and Musk are in the final stages of negotiations with the Indian government on the land to build the factory, which may be in Gujarat.

Shenzhen NetEase Company has established NetEase and Blizzard composite is expected

Recently, the news of NetEase and Blizzard's "reunion" is flying all over the sky, which has aroused the expectations of countless players, after all, after the two sides re-cooperate, Blizzard's national server will return. Although the secrecy of both sides is very good at the moment, it seems that there are still some small moves that have been discovered.

Faraday Future received a notice from Nasdaq that it would be delisted or not comply with the rules or criteria for continued listing

According to the Financial Associated Press, on December 28, local time, Faraday Future (FF) received a notice from Nasdaq about delisting or not meeting the rules or standards for continued listing. It is worth mentioning that at the end of November two years ago, Faraday Future received a warning letter from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, saying that FF was listed as a non-compliant listed company because it did not submit its third-quarter financial report within the specified deadline.

Apple's Vision Pro is expected to start shipping in large quantities in the first week of next month and hit the shelves as soon as the end of the month

According to the plan, Apple's Vision Pro, which was launched at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June, will be available in the United States early next year, and then expand to more markets. As the new year is about to kick off, the attention to Apple's new product is also increasing, and the outside world is looking forward to the launch of the Vision Pro.

The judge ruled that Elon Musk's X cannot get around California's content moderation laws

A federal judge has denied a request by Company X (formerly Twitter) to temporarily suspend the application of a California law that requires social media platforms to disclose their moderation policies for harmful content. Act 587, passed last year, requires large social media companies to disclose how they moderate content that contains hate speech or racism, extremism or activism, disinformation, harassment, and foreign political interference. In a complaint filed in September, X argued that the law violated the First Amendment right to free speech.

Apple has the worst performance among big tech stocks in 2023 with the longest revenue decline on record

In 2023, Apple's stock price is rising, but it is dwarfed by other big tech peers. That's largely because Apple's revenue has fallen for four consecutive quarters, the company's longest decline since the dot-com bubble burst in 2001.

The Indian stock market has hit an eight-year winning streak with a market capitalization of more than $4 trillion

Not surprisingly, the Indian stock market has seen an eight-year winning streak in 2023 and is poised for further gains, driven by continued inflows from retail and foreign investors, as well as expectations of strong corporate earnings growth. According to a media survey of 10 fund managers and strategists, seven of the respondents expect India's Nifty 50 index to continue to rise in 2024, while two of them predict an increase of more than 10%.

BlackRock and Valkyrie confirm the information of authorized participants of the spot bitcoin ETF and are one step closer to being officially approved

Both BlackRock and Valkyrie Investments have reportedly appointed broker-dealers that will be responsible for channeling cash inflows and outflows if their proposed spot bitcoin ETF is approved by U.S. regulators. This is a major milestone in the competition for the first ETF to track the original cryptocurrency.

The PBOC agreed to change Alipay (China) to no actual controller

Recently, the People's Bank of China's updated information on the change of major matters of non-bank payment institutions shows that it agrees to change Alipay (China) Network Technology Co., Ltd. to no actual controller. Alipay (China) Network Technology Co., Ltd. is wholly owned by Ant Technology Group Co., Ltd.

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NASA's Curiosity rover sent back a time-lapse video capturing the Red Planet's dawn to dusk

NASA's Curiosity rover recorded two time-lapse videos on Mars showing its shadow moving across the Martian terrain. The videos, which were filmed with limited communications, highlight the technical aspects of the rover's camera and provide insight into the mission and exploration that Curiosity is doing.

The new EU regulations come into effect: from 2024, all mobile phones and tablets will use USB-C charging ports

The European Commission said on December 30 local time that from 2024, USB-C will become a common standard for electronic devices in the European Union.

The Juno probe will fly as close as possible to Europa on December 30

NASA's Juno probe will come closest to Jupiter's moon Io on Saturday, December 30, the closest any man-made probe has ever flown past Io in more than 20 years. The flyby is about 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) from the surface of the world, the most volcanic world in the solar system, and the instruments on Juno are expected to generate a lot of data. The orbiter has flown Jupiter 56 times and recorded close encounters with three of the gas giant's four largest moons.

Japanese researchers confirmed the unique advantages of the non-Fokker state

A team of researchers in Japan has discovered important properties of non-Fokker states (iNFS) in quantum technology, revealing their stability through multilinear optics, paving the way for advances in optical quantum computing and sensing. Quantum objects, such as electrons and photons, behave differently than other objects, enabling quantum technology. This is the key to unraveling the mystery of quantum entanglement, in which multiple photons exist in multiple modes or frequencies.

The FASHI Sky Survey project mapped 35% of the target sky area using the FAST telescope

The FASHI Sky Survey has been widely praised in the astronomical community by mapping 35% of the target sky region using the FAST telescope and discovering more than 41,000 extragalactic HI sources. The FAST All-Sky HI Survey (FASHI) is designed to cover the entire sky observable by the 500-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), covering an angle of about 22,000 square degrees between -14 degrees and 66 degrees, with a frequency range of 1,050-1,450 MHz and is expected to eventually detect more than 100,000 HI sources.

Hangzhou cracked a major ransomware case: 4 people have been arrested Criminal gangs use ChatGPT to optimize programs

According to Xinhua News Agency, the reporter learned from the Hangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau in Zhejiang Province on December 28 that the Internet police in Shangcheng District, Hangzhou recently cracked a major ransomware case. On November 20, the Shangcheng Internet Police received a report from a company in the jurisdiction that the relevant servers under the company's name were attacked by ransomware viruses, resulting in the failure of all the company's systems to operate normally, and the other party extorted 20,000 USDT (Tether).

After the GeForce RTX 4090 was added to the export control list, NVIDIA launched the GeForce RTX 4090 D for sale in the Chinese market, with a suggested retail price of 13,000 yuan

Released January 20th. The RTX 4090 D has 14592 CUDA Core cores with a frequency of 2.28GHz-2.52GHz and 24 GB of GDDR6X memory. In comparison, the original RTX 4090 has 16,384 CUDA Cores cores. The new version meets U.S. export control requirements and is expected to significantly reduce AI inference performance, with less significant changes in game performance.

On Thursday, SpaceX launched the U.S. Air Force's mysterious orbiter X-37B using a Falcon Heavy rocket at the Kennedy Space Center

This is the seventh flight of the X-37B. Two hours and 54 minutes later, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base, the shortest interval between two orbital rocket launches in the United States since the mid-1960s. This is SpaceX's 95th and 96th flight so far this year. The U.S. Air Force launched its first X-37B OTV-1 on April 22, 2010, and the vehicle returned to the ground on December 3 of that year. The X-37B's last mission was launched on May 17, 2020, and it landed on November 12, 2022, and flew a record 908 days in orbit. Manufactured by Boeing and carrying five tons and a quarter the size of the space shuttle, the X-37B is considered a space spy aircraft and may have weaponized capabilities, but the U.S. military has been emphasizing that the vehicle is primarily used to test technology in orbit.

Scientists have discovered a new member of the immune system in the thymus: microfolded cells

Recently, researchers in Israel asked Professor David Lo and his graduate student Diana Del Castillo about their expertise in specialized cells known as microfold cells, or M cells. The Israeli team found similar cells in the thymus, an organ located above the heart that makes lymphocytes — white blood cells that play an important role in the immune system and protect the body from infection.

China will surpass Japan in 2023 in terms of vehicle exports, jumping to the top of the world for the first time

According to data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, China's export volume (flash value) increased by 58% year-on-year to 4.412 million units in January~November. Japan's exports increased by 15% in January ~ November to 3.99 million units, and are expected to be only about 4.3 million units in 2023. China's export volume in the first half of the year has already surpassed Japan's, and it will become a reality that the full-year data will be the first. Based on comparable data, this will be the first time since 2016 that Japan has fallen from the top spot in terms of car exports. In 2016, Germany was the number one exporter of cars.

At the 37C3 conference this Wednesday, three researchers from the Technical University of Berlin in Germany demonstrated a voltage fault injection attack on a Tesla car

Using a tool worth about $600, induce a 2-second voltage drop on the circuit board used by Tesla's driver assistance system, Autopilot, to root the system, allowing researchers to extract arbitrary code and user data from the system. The researchers even extracted a deleted video, but it was still recoverable because it hadn't been overwritten. They also unlocked the powerful Elon mode. This mode allows Tesla cars to fully drive themselves without any human supervision. Tesla's Autopilot system comes in different levels and offers different features, with FSD (full self-driving) costing an additional $12,000. Voltage fault injection attacks on cars allow researchers to unlock Autopilot's advanced features for free. Researchers were surprised by how vulnerable Tesla cars were.

Researchers have detected scrub typhus bacteria in scrub worms in North Carolina suggesting a potential public health problem

Researchers have detected the bacteria that cause the serious disease of scrub typhus in North Carolina. This finding has raised concerns about the origin and potential health risks of the disease, and further research is currently underway to assess its impact.

GitHub's chatbot for programming, Copilot Chat, is open to all users—paid users, as well as certified teachers, students, and open-source project maintainers

Copilot Chat is based on OpenAI's large model, GPT-4, which is fine-tuned for software development use cases. Developers can get guidance in real-time with natural language input prompts, such as asking Copilot Chat to explain concepts, detect bugs, or write unit tests. Copilot Chat is integrated into Microsoft's IDE tools, Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio, and is accessible via the sidebar.

6,100 stars in 8 days Open source StreamDiffusion such as Tokyo Industrial and MIT can be commercialized

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, Toyo University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Tsukuba have jointly open-sourced Stream Diffusion, an innovative real-time interactive image generation framework. The technological innovation of stream Diffusion is that it turns the traditional sequential denoising into stream batch denoising, eliminating the long waiting and interactive generation methods, and realizing a smooth and ultra-high-throughput image generation method.

Zhaoxin provides support for "preferred cores" to modernize the processor ecosystem

Zhaoxin, a Chinese x86 CPU developer, is working to add scheduling optimization support to the Linux kernel for its processors with preferred core capabilities. Similar to Intel and AMD's asymmetric core designs, Zhaoxin's chips may have specific high-performance cores that the operating system scheduler should target for critical workloads.

The "Snow Dragon" polar research ship arrived at the Great Wall Station and officially started unloading operations

According to media reports, the Chinese polar research ship "Snow Dragon" has officially arrived at the Great Wall research station in Antarctica on December 28 local time. It is understood that the "Snow Dragon" arrived at the Great Wall Station and will carry out unloading operations. According to the plan, the mission will unload materials, fuel, and ship fixed assets to be scrapped and some garbage back to China.

SpaceX's 2023 ended with a secret Space Force mission completing at least 96 launches throughout the year

SpaceX completed its penultimate launch of the year at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida earlier today. The mission, which marks the company's 95th launch of the year, is the U.S. Space Force's (USSF) USSF-52 space mission. The USSF-52 is a rare mission on SpaceX's mission list, as it was a national security-related space launch that sent an X37-B spacecraft into space. The launch itself was a typical one from SpaceX, with the side boosters of the Falcon Heavy rocket separating and landing on land on time.

Studies have found that fireworks in the New Year can have a significant impact on bird behavior

Research led by Bart Hoekstra, an ecologist at the University of Amsterdam, has shown that fireworks can have a significant impact on bird populations. Using weather radar and bird counting, the study found that when fireworks are set off on Chinese New Year's Eve, bird flight activity increases dramatically, affecting up to 6 miles away.

According to a study published Wednesday in the journal Applied Psychology, moderate gaming is good for physical and mental health

Video games are a popular form of leisure, and many people play them after work. But on the other hand, games are often associated with negative meanings, related to late sleeps and poor sleep quality. In this study, researchers found that playing games after work is a wholesome activity that recharges the mental and physical energy expended during a full day at work. The researchers also pointed out that being overly obsessed with games can lead to too much time in gaming, while moderation can help balance leisure and life. Play can relieve work-related stress and can be a beneficial activity to relieve the stress of daily work.

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