Morning Post｜WeChat adds a new message notification banner/iPhone 14 Pro Max lens bulge arouses heated discussions/Musk responds to selling Bitcoin
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- Tesla sells 75% of its bitcoin holdings
- The president of Hengchi said that Hengchi's big sale is a foregone conclusion
- WeChat launches message banner feature
- Haagen-Dazs drops vanilla ice cream
- UK is too hot, Google, Oracle's cloud data centers go offline
- Apple's butterfly keyboard lawsuit settles for $50 million
- STEPN: True decentralization is difficult to achieve in the early days of Web3
- iPhone 14 Pro Max lens is seriously bulged
- Nubia Z40S Pro officially released
- Huawei WATCH FIT mini small square watch is on the shelves
- Three brands of Zara parent company are about to withdraw from China
- disney doll summer dress up
- JW Anderson's "Pigeon Tote"
- The Lord of the Rings: The Ring of Power premieres September 2
- "Dragon Family" premieres August 21
Tesla sells 75% of its bitcoin holdings
Tesla announced its second-quarter earnings on July 20. As of the end of the second quarter, Tesla had converted roughly 75% of the bitcoin it purchased into fiat, the earnings report showed. The conversion added $936 million in cash to its balance sheet.
Tesla disclosed in February 2021 that it had invested $1.5 billion in Bitcoin. But this year, the impairment of bitcoin has affected Tesla’s profitability in the second quarter, and the value of Tesla’s digital assets has shrunk to $218 million.
During the earnings call, Musk said he was selling his bitcoin holdings to improve his cash position and remained open to increasing his bitcoin holdings in the future. Tesla may resume accepting bitcoin after wrapping up an investigation into the renewable energy needed to mine the currency.
In addition, the financial report also shows that in the first half of 2022, Tesla has delivered 564,000 vehicles worldwide.
In terms of production capacity, Tesla’s California factory has an annual production capacity of 650,000 vehicles, the Shanghai factory has an annual production capacity of more than 750,000 vehicles, and the Berlin factory and Texas factory each have a production capacity of more than 250,000 vehicles.
Tesla said it believes the second half of this year will see record production as the Shanghai and Fremont plants reach their highest monthly production ever, and new plant capacity continues to climb.
A few days ago, Hengchi 5, the first model of Evergrande Motor, opened for pre-sale, and the luxury version is priced at 179,000 yuan.
Liu Yongzhuo, president of Hengchi New Energy Vehicle Group, said in an interview that after the pre-sale press conference, the market reaction was better than expected.
It is reported that Hengchi 5 is positioned as a compact SUV, equipped with a permanent magnet synchronous motor developed by Bosch, with a maximum power of 150kw, and a lithium iron phosphate battery from CATL, with a cruising range of 602 kilometers under comprehensive conditions.
However, according to Tech Planet, an insider of Hengchi Auto revealed that the current price of Hengchi 5 is at a loss. Hengchi hopes to drive sales through low prices to promote follow-up business development. Therefore, the price of 179,000 may only be temporary and may face price increases in the future.
As of July 20, the cumulative order volume of Hengchi 5 was 37,210 units.
In addition, people familiar with the matter revealed that Evergrande Property distributed the sales assessment task of Hengchi 5 internally on July 11, and the specific sales assessment indicators were determined according to the number of owners in the community.
Source: 36kr & Tech Planet & The Paper
WeChat launches message banner feature
The iOS WeChat client (the latest version 8.0.26) updated two relatively useful small functions yesterday.
The first is the "Message Banner" function. When you browse the content in WeChat (such as official account articles, WeChat video accounts), the received friend messages will be pushed as a banner. Click to view the message content directly. and reply directly.
It should be noted that this feature is currently disabled by default and needs to be manually turned on in "Settings – Message Notification – Message Notification Banner".
The second is that the WeChat input box supports full-screen input. When entering multi-line text in the input box of the WeChat chat window, a small arrow will appear on the left side simultaneously. Press it to display the text in full screen, which is convenient for users to edit and process a large amount of text.
Recently, the European Union's Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) notified the French Haagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream product to detect "ethylene oxide".
Ethylene oxide is a carcinogen that can be used in the manufacture of household cleaners, personal care products, etc., and is currently widely used in washing, pharmaceutical, printing and dyeing industries.
Allegedly, related products have been distributed to more than 80 countries and regions including China.
A relevant Tianjin Customs staff member said that various market supervision departments across the country have now received recall notices. "Although not all the recalled products are faulty products, there are risks."
Not long ago, the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration announced that two batches of Häagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream exported from France were found to have trace amounts of ethylene oxide.
However, General Mills China, the importer of Haagen-Dazs, responded: "None of the two batches of products involved in the Taiwanese import this time were sold in mainland China."
Source: Morning News
Recently, high temperature and heat waves have continued to ravage European countries such as the United Kingdom. Both Google and Oracle's cloud data centers in London said a few days ago that some websites were down due to problems with their cooling systems.
On its service page, Oracle noted that "unreasonable temperatures" affected cloud services and network equipment at its south London facility.
Google said on its cloud service health website that the cloud data center failure affected a "small fraction" of Google's cloud computing users, and the problem remains unresolved. The WordPress website hosting service says a Google data center failure has disrupted its services in Europe.
The World Meteorological Organization said on the 19th that this round of hot weather will continue at least until next week and may cause more deaths. In addition, extreme high temperature weather will become more and more common around the world in the future, and this situation is likely to continue until 2060.
Source: Bloomberg & CCTV News
According to WSJ reports, Apple recently agreed to pay $50 million (about 340 million yuan) to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by customers over defects in the "butterfly keyboard".
Apple first introduced the butterfly keyboard on the fourth-generation MacBook in 2015, making the MacBook thinner but also making the keys more prone to breakage and failure.
This new design, which Jony Ive originally called "slim, precise and durable," has caught Apple in a round of criticism in recent years.
In 2019, Ai Faner also wrote an article denouncing Apple's butterfly keyboard. We believe that .
STEPN: True "decentralization" is difficult to achieve in the early days of Web3
In April of this year, the Web3 unicorn project began its first head-to-head confrontation with token speculators.
STEPN focuses on Move To Earn (money while exercising). After users use tokens to buy a pair of NFT virtual sneakers, they can start to earn new tokens (GST or GMT) through offline running, and then use the obtained tokens to continuously Upgrade your shoes.
The economic model of "Game Token GST + Governance Token GMT" actually borrows from another classic chain game Axie Infinity. It is this dual-token mechanism that leaves room for the project team to intervene and control the system.
Dual Token Model
In the face of big-money players pushing up the price of shoes, STEPN first changed the cost of producing shoes from 200$GST to 200$GMT, and then to 100$GST+100$GMT – which made a lot of hoarding for forging shoes Speculators of the coin suffered huge losses.
However, the frequent intervention of the mechanism by the project team also caused other users to criticize STEPN for "not enough Web3, not enough decentralization".
In this regard, Jerry, a joint creator of STEPN, bluntly stated in an interview with " " that true "decentralization" was difficult to achieve in the early days of Web3.
In fact, because STEPN relies on platform fees, NFT royalties and other income. Under free development, the more prosperous the market is, the more the project team will earn.
STEPN game application page
However, because each user's position is different, or even conflicting, "it is difficult to form a vote through a single position at an early stage, and it is difficult to cast an effective decision."
Therefore, in the process of early Web3 exploration mode, active participation, intervention, and tuning are actually necessary.
However, for the long-term and stable development of the project, STEPN will start to fix the "rules", explaining in advance what kind of situation and what kind of mechanism will be triggered, and the temporary intervention will be reduced accordingly.
iPhone 14 Pro Max lens is seriously bulged
The iPhone 14 Pro Max lens has been getting a lot of attention lately. The source of this news first came from an analysis forecast in March. Ming-Chi Kuo said that the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max camera modules have become larger because they will be equipped with a new 48-megapixel camera system.
The previously leaked iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max designs show that the iPhone 14 Pro's camera has a raised height of 4.17 mm, which is 0.57 mm higher than the iPhone 13 Pro camera module.
The Nubia Z40S Pro is equipped with the first-generation Snapdragon 8+ processor, equipped with a 6.67-inch flexible straight screen, and adopts a pass-through cold-sealed heat dissipation system, with a large 3062-square-millimeter VC heat dissipation plate.
The Nubia Z40S Pro large battery version starts at 3399 yuan, and the Nubia Z40S Pro 120W super fast charging version starts at 4299 yuan. In addition, a limited edition model of the Lingcage was also launched. (product play)
On July 20, Huawei WATCH FIT mini smart watch was officially launched on Huawei Mall.
Huawei WATCH FIT mini adopts a classic square dial design, uses a 1.47-inch AMOLED screen with a resolution of 194 * 368, and is equipped with a light gold metal case, providing three colors: frost white, mocha brown, and taro purple.
The watch itself weighs 20 grams, and can last up to 14 days on a single charge under typical usage scenarios.
At present, the new product has started pre-sale, priced at 399 yuan.
Source: Fast Technology
Bershka, Pull&Bear and Stradivirus, which are owned by Zara's parent company Inditex Group, recently announced that they will close their online channels.
Early last year, the three brands closed all offline stores in China. This means that the three brands will completely withdraw from China.
After their exit, Inditex also has ZARA and home furnishing brands ZARA HOME, Massimo Dutti and underwear brand Oysho in China. ZARA remains the top-selling brand among them.
Source: Ideal Living Lab
Recently, Disney official teamed up with "World Fashion Garden ELLE" to release the "Disney Friends Summer of Fruits" electronic issue special, revealing the summer limited new clothes of Disney friends.
The new clothes take summer fruits as the fashion theme, fully showing the warm atmosphere of Disney.
After adopting bold elements such as bicycle faucets and skateboards, JW Anderson recently launched a pigeon-shaped handbag "PIGEON CLUTCH BAG".
The handbag is 3D printed to the size of a real pigeon, and details such as eyes, claws, beaks, and feathers are also reproduced. The wings on both sides are open and closed positions, which can store items in the pigeon.
The new model is now officially available in stores and on the official website, priced at $890.
Source: Hypebeast
Finally, let's take a look at the battle of the two epic fantasy IPs in September.
The Lord of the Rings: The Ring of Power premieres September 2
Set thousands of years in Tolkien's The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, the show tells the story before "The Lord of the Rings". The rise of evil in Middle-earth, from the Misty Mountains to the Elven capital, Númenor, all races must confront long-standing fears. The show is currently scheduled for a second season.
"Dragon Family" premieres August 21
The abbey of Saint-François, built in 1480, faced renovations, and architect Amelia tavella chose to use "copper" to repair and expand the previously collapsed part of the abbey.
As a metal, "copper" can emphasize the stability of the building through a simple and powerful geometric structure; it also has a soft luster, so that the combination of metal and granite does not appear too abrupt in the natural environment.
The transition from non-porous to perforated treatment echoes the natural trend of stone façades
The reflective effect of copper also adds a mysterious, sublime atmosphere to the church.
Cutouts in the copper walls help bring in light, replacing traditional church windows
Repairing and building on top of the ruins is a mutual embrace of the past and the present. The two are not for you to survive, but to blend with each other.
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