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The Apple Vision Pro is confirmed to ship on February 2

Apple has finally confirmed the release date of the Apple Vision Pro in the United States, and after a short pre-order period, it will begin to reach users on February 2.

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Apple has released two lens collections for its upcoming Apple Vision Pro, one for the Reader model and the other for Zeiss prescription lenses, both at significantly lower prices than expected. According to Zeiss's collaboration with other companies, it was previously rumored that the Apple Vision Pro would come with prescription lenses that cost between $300 and $600. Now, Apple has announced the shipping date for the Vision Pro, while also revealing that the add-on for correcting refraction will cost $99 or $149.

Is the national server coming? "World of Warcraft" and other Blizzard games are resurrected on the official Weibo

Recently, some players discovered that the official Weibo of the national server of "Overwatch", "World of Warcraft" and "Hearthstone" have opened VVIP members, and VVIP is a creator-managed membership system launched by Weibo in July 2023.

Blizzard Game Official Bo Resurrection Department Oolong: Weibo Automatically Gives Members The return of the national service is still indefinite

Today, some netizens reported that Blizzard's official Weibo of "World of Warcraft", "Overwatch" and "Hearthstone" were all re-launched, and Weibo VVIP members were opened at the same time. This matter has caused heated discussions, and many netizens speculated: "Is the national service about to return?" However, according to the response of Sina Games' official WeChat, the opening of the above-mentioned game official Weibo membership is purely "oolong".

How hot are China's EV exports? Freight rates are soaring and hard to find

On January 8, Beijing time, China's electric vehicle exports boomed the international shipping market, leading to a shortage of car carriers and pushing freight rates to record levels. In 2020, automotive factories around the world were idle due to the pandemic. Shipping companies scrap old ships because demand is so low, but many new car carriers are not expected to be operational in the next three years. However, the faster-than-expected recovery in global automotive demand, coupled with China's massive EV exports, has left the shipping industry facing a shortage of key vessels.

Meituan's market share in Hong Kong has risen to second in the market

Following the completion of a comprehensive layout in Hong Kong, China in October 2023, Meituan exposed the first report card of its food delivery platform KeeTa. The Financial Associated Press reporter learned from Meituan that up to now, KeeTa has a total of more than 1.3 million users to download and register, and at the merchant operation level, the average monthly growth rate of merchants on the KeeTa platform has exceeded 30%, and nearly 10,000 merchants have settled in. In terms of November orders, KeeTa accounted for about 30.6% of the total orders in Hong Kong, and its market share has surpassed Deliveroo's 27.9%, and later became the second largest in Hong Kong.

Bitcoin spot ETFs will have their final moments this week, will the SEC give them the green light?

This week, the deadline for a series of high-risk events for Bitcoin is approaching, marking the culmination of a years-long effort to launch a Bitcoin spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the United States. According to reports, companies interested in issuing bitcoin ETFs have until Monday morning to submit final changes to their applications in Washington. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has until January 10 to take action on at least one of these applications, and cryptocurrency industry insiders speculate that regulators will use the day to announce a series of decisions at the same time.

Disney suspends "Steamboat Willie" YouTube third-party rendition video copyright complaints

Significant: Disney has officially withdrawn its copyright complaint against Steamboat Willie, a third-party video on YouTube. On Thursday, Mashable reported that YouTuber cartoonist and voice actor Brock Baker was the subject of a copyright complaint from Disney almost immediately after uploading a video on his channel with more than 1 million subscribers.

Running 1100 kilometers, Liu Qiangdong's off-road vehicle was successfully delivered to Ms. Li in Xi'an

Jingdong officially announced that after 1100 kilometers of travel from Beijing to Xi'an, Liu Qiangdong's off-road vehicle "Dongfeng Mengshi M50" was finally successfully handed over to Ms. Li in Xi'an! It is reported that on the evening of December 31, during the live broadcast of Hunan Satellite TV's 2023-2024 New Year's Eve concert, Jingdong will send Liu Qiangdong's car, which is also his favorite off-road vehicle - Dongfeng Mengshi M50.

China Eastern Airlines C919 domestic large aircraft flies to Beijing-Shanghai route, with a ticket price starting from 704 yuan

China Eastern Airlines App issued a document that the airline's Beijing-Shanghai route will officially launch the C919 model tomorrow. Flight number C919 is "MU5137", which departs from Shanghai Hongqiao at 15:30 and lands in Beijing Daxing at 17:55, and the economy class ticket price starts at 704 yuan. The return flight number is "MU5138", which flies from Beijing Daxing at 19:15 and lands in Shanghai Hongqiao at 21:10, with an economic fare of 736 yuan.

The 81st Golden Globe Awards were announced: the movie "Oppenheimer" won many awards

According to media reports, the winners of the 81st American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards were officially released. Among them, "Oppenheimer", directed by Christopher Nolan, became the biggest winner of this year, winning 5 awards. In detail, in addition to "Oppenheimer" winning the Best Film at this year's Golden Globe Awards, Cillian Murphy won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor with "Oppenheimer";

Linux kernel 6.7 official release: KVM adds support for Loongson Nearly 20,000 submissions

Today, Linus Torvalds, author of the Linux kernel, announced the official release of Linux Kernel 6.7, bringing a number of new features and improvements, including KVM's added support for Loongson's LoongArch virtualization. Linus Torvalds said that the release has more than 17,000 non-merge commits and more than 1,000 merge commits, making it one of the largest kernel releases ever.

Tata Corporation and Pegatron announced a joint investment of more than US$1 billion to expand iPhone production in Tamil Nadu

The government of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu has announced investment agreements with international technology companies, including $1.5 billion dedicated to iPhone production. Following the $125 million acquisition of Wistron's iPhone factory in 2023, India's Tata Electronics has agreed to invest $1.4 billion to build a so-called mobile phone assembly business. Wistron's former factory is located in Karnataka, while the new deal is with neighbouring Tamil Nadu.

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China Meteorological Administration: 2023 is the warmest year on record

According to the latest data released by the National Climate Center of the China Meteorological Administration, 2023 will be the hottest year since meteorological records began in the world, breaking the warmest record. 2023 is 0.14°C higher than the previous record year (2016), and the global average temperature from June to December has continuously exceeded the historical extremes for the same period.

The United States ushered in the second wave of new crown infections CDC warned: JN.1 has become the world's most mainstream new crown virus

With the rapid spread of the JN.1 variant, the current level of coronavirus infections in the United States has reached the second-highest level since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, second only to the peak level of the Omicron virus outbreak in early 2022. At the same time, the number of related emergency room visits, hospitalizations and deaths continues to rise. According to CDC data, the JN.1 variant currently accounts for about 62% of the total number of new crown infections in the United States, and has become the most mainstream new crown variant in the world.

Saudi Arabia discovers world-class gold mine with veins up to 125 kilometres long

Saudi Arabia's national mining company (Maaden) recently announced the discovery of several gold deposits south of the production mine Mansourah Massarah, which stretch for 125 kilometres, and are world-class super gold deposits! Samples show that two random drilling sites are located 400 metres below the mine Mansourah Masala, where there are high-grade gold deposits of 10.4 grams and 20.6 grams per tonne of gold, respectively, implying a high density of gold in the ore tested at these sites.

MIT's innovative ion-irradiated nanoparticle engineering has the potential to advance sustainable energy development

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and their colleagues have demonstrated a way to precisely control the size, composition, and other properties of nanoparticles, which are key to the response of various clean energy and environmental technologies. They achieved this using ion irradiation. Ion irradiation is a technique that bombards materials with beams of charged particles. This work demonstrates the control of key properties, and the nanoparticles fabricated with this method have superior performance over those fabricated by conventional methods.

Macrophages engineered with the Rac protein could provide advantages for future cancer treatments

The researchers found that adding an excitable form of the protein Rac2 to macrophages, immune cells that engulf pathogens, causes macrophages to engulf T cells. This new technology has the potential to improve the efficacy of an emerging cancer therapy.

Google began disabling third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users as planned

Affected users will receive a notification when they open Chrome on their desktop or Android device, and the browser will unlock Tracking Protection. According to Google's plan, after the initial testing, Google will gradually expand the scope until third-party cookies are completely disabled for all users. Google Chrome is currently the browser with the largest market share, and Google is also the largest online advertiser, and its plan to eliminate third-party cookies and alternative cookie options has raised concerns that it may gain an advantage over its competitors. The alternative Google is testing is the Privacy Sandbox, which tracks users' interests and allows advertisers to display ads based on interests, while users can manage and group their interests.

Researchers analyzed the mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2-ACE2 mutations in different variants at the atomic level

Unraveling the secrets of COVID-19: A breakthrough study reveals the intricate biomechanics behind the evolution and spread of the virus. Richard Feynman famously said that everything living beings do can be understood by the shaking and oscillating of atoms. This week, the journal Nature Nanotechnology published a groundbreaking study that reveals the evolution of coronaviruses and their variants by analyzing the behavior of atoms in proteins at the interface between viruses and humans.

When spectroscopy meets shale: Scientists recognize the important role of terahertz waves in resource extraction

Researchers from the China University of Petroleum have provided comprehensive insights into the application of terahertz spectroscopy to characterize oil shale. At present, the understanding of the oil-producing potential of oil shale and the dynamic process of organic matter pyrolysis is still unclear, resulting in the relatively slow progress of its development technology. As an emerging evaluation method in the field of oil and gas resources, terahertz (THz) spectroscopy has reflected its research and application value in many aspects due to its fingerprint characteristics, low energy consumption, strong penetration, and wide frequency band.

Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux 6.7 on the kernel mailing list

The release of this version was delayed by a week due to the New Year's holiday. Key new features include: removed support for Intel Itanium architecture, the first part of the new futex2 API, futex support for io_uring, BPF exception mechanism, bcachefs file system, TCP authentication option, kernel same page merge smart scan mode, Landlock security module network support, Nouveau driver initial support for NVIDIA GSP firmware, and much more 6.7 (updating).

The latest round of U.S. missions to the moon tomorrow also marks the first launch of the ULA Vulcan rocket

The first U.S. mission to the moon since the Apollo program will lift off tomorrow, and it will be launched into space by a new generation of rockets called Vulcan. The Vulcan is powered by two methane engines and the longest single-stage solid rocket booster ever built. Astrobiotics' Peregrine mission appears to have piled up a lot of news before it left the ground. This will not only be the first U.S. mission to the moon in more than half a century, it will also be the first U.S. mission to the moon using a privately owned and operated spacecraft, and will also deploy the first U.S. private lunar lander.

For the first time, astronomers have observed the rotating disk of matter from a star outside the Milky Way

For the first time, astronomers have discovered evidence of a rotating disk of matter around a huge, young star near the Milky Way. Megan Reiter, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University, was part of the research team who announced the discovery in a study published in Nature.

Time Entropy: The Clock Puzzle Limiting the Future of Quantum Computing

Quantum computers need precise time measurements to manipulate quantum states, but new research reveals a fundamental limitation: clocks cannot achieve perfect resolution and accuracy at the same time due to their limited energy and entropy generation. This creates inherent limitations to the capabilities of quantum computing. With the development of quantum technology, overcoming these time measurement challenges will become crucial and potentially lead to new discoveries in quantum mechanics.

Unprecedented astronomical discovery: stellar corpses show signs of activity

Groundbreaking observations by a team of researchers led by Cornell University have revealed recurring high-energy flares from star corpses after a star explosion, challenging existing theories of star death and highlighting the possible role that black holes or neutron stars may play in this rare, intense phenomenon. The explosive death of a distant star left behind an active stellar corpse, which is believed to be the source of multiple high-energy flares detected over the past few months.

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