“Tech Last Night and This Morning” time, hello everyone, and now it is Sunday, August 11, 2024. Today's important tech news includes:
According to The Paper, a salesperson at a NIO 4S store in Shanghai told reporters that starting from August 11, the cancellation of the car purchase subsidy will make the price difference of discounted models at least 10,000 yuan ($1,445). In addition, brands such as Li Auto and FAW-Volkswagen also spread the news of “shrinking discount amplitudes”. >>View details
Learned from CATL, the new energy life square jointly created by CATL and car companies opened in Chengdu on the morning of August 10. According to the official introduction, the square has 41 brands and more than 70 popular new energy models as the first batch to settle in, creating the first “most comprehensive” new energy vehicle brand hall in the world. It is expected that by the end of 2024, the number of settled models will exceed 100. >>View details
The violent sorting of couriers can be described as repeated prohibitions. Recently, a netizen released a surveillance video showing that a sorter in a logistics sorting center in Baiyun District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, threw the packages on the cargo platform hard on the conveyor belt. Due to excessive force, some small courier items directly fell on the ground. The related video has triggered a topic that currently ranks third in real-time heat on Weibo with a reading volume of 2.341 million. >>View details
The official X (Twitter) account of NovaLauncher announced in the early morning of August 9 that its development team has carried out large-scale layoffs, and finally from a team that originally had dozens of people to only one full-time developer - the founder and original developer Kevin Barry. >>View details
According to the disclosure of the Qinghai fire department, at 19:05 on August 7, the Golmud City Fire Rescue Detachment received an alarm that a couple driving an off-road vehicle got stuck in a sand pit near Xiaokusai Lake in Golmud City and requested fire rescue. When their family assisted in reporting the alarm, they were already in a state of lost contact, and 12 hours had passed since the incident.
On August 8 at 8 a.m., the fire department received a satellite phone (specific model unknown) from the trapped people and obtained the precise location coordinates of the trapped. Under the guidance of the public security and local guides, after nearly two and a half hours of off-road driving, the trapped people and vehicles were found at an altitude of 4,570 meters on the east side of Xiaokusai Lake. >>View details
Huawei Terminal Customer Service responded: “The AI erasure function is currently only supported by HUAWEI Pura70 series / HUAWEI nova 12 Ultra starlight version / nova Flip phone. For the follow-up support situation of other models, please pay attention to the official news of Huawei.” >>View details
A blogger closely related to BYD, “Northward Uninterrupted Power Supply”, recently posted two domestic preview pictures of BYD's first pickup truck, SHARK, indicating that this car will land in the domestic market. Before this, BYD SHARK had already been launched in Mexico in May. >>View details
X (Twitter) blogger @phantomofearth posted at noon on August 10 that a banner appeared in the built-in “Paint 3D” application of the Windows operating system, “Starting from November 4, 'Paint 3D' will no longer receive version updates and will not be provided in the Microsoft Store.”
Neowin, a foreign media, reported that in fact, the original design purpose of “Paint 3D” was to completely replace the old “Paint” application on Windows 10. >>View details
The official SAIC Volkswagen public account announced on the morning of August 10 that the Passat family sold 20,533 units in July and became the sales champion of mid-to-high-end sedans. From January to July this year, the Passat family has achieved a cumulative sales of 126,486 units in total. >>View details
Hongmeng Zhixing announced on the evening of August 9 that the luxury car Xiangjie S9 had a breakthrough of 4,800 large orders within 72 hours after its listing. Subsequently, Yu Chengdong, the managing director of Huawei, chairman of the Terminal BG, and chairman of the Smart Car Solution BU, expressed his congratulations in the circle of friends. >>View details
A netizen Lic posted on the Famiboards forum, showing the shipping list of Nintendo Switch 2, indicating that the game console is standard with a 60W charger and is equipped with some heat dissipation related accessories. >>View details
That's all for today. Tech Last Night and This Morning, see you tomorrow.