Tesla Cyberrut prototype car appears

A Tesla Cyberrut prototype car was found on public roads in Palo Alto, California, with a new exterior rearview mirror design.

Cyberrut is close to the early production stage. According to Franzvon Holzhausen, the chief vehicle designer of Tesla, the car manufacturer has finalized the design of the vehicle. From the picture, it seems that the Tesla Cyberrut prototype car has adopted a new exterior rearview mirror design, which is triangular, to adapt to the car's very futuristic appearance design.

Amazon's net investment loss of electric pickup truck is 2.3 billion dollars

Amazon disclosed the fourth quarter and full year financial results of fiscal year 2022. In the fourth quarter of 2022, Amazon's revenue was $149.04 billion, up 9% year on year (compared with the same period of the previous year). Excluding the impact of exchange rate changes, it was up 12% year on year, higher than the $145.4 billion expected by Wall Street.

It is worth noting that in the fourth quarter of 2022, Amazon's pre-tax valuation loss of its investment in the common stock of Rivian, an electric pickup manufacturer, was $2.3 billion, while the pre-tax valuation gain of the investment in the fourth quarter of 2021 was $11.8 billion.

Netflix will promote electric vehicles in the new play

Netflix, one of the largest streaming media in foreign countries, announced that it would promote electric vehicles of General Motors and other auto companies in its future programs.

The streaming media service announced an agreement on Thursday to display electric vehicles including Chevrolet Bolt, electric GMC Hummer pickup truck and Cadillac Lyriq in its TV series and movies "where relevant to the plot".

Apple can realize user interface gaze navigation

Apple's patent for "devices, methods and graphical user interfaces for gaze based navigation" was announced recently.

The summary shows that the present disclosure relates to devices, methods and graphical user interfaces for gaze based navigation. In some embodiments, the electronic device expands the content item according to the detection of the user's gaze. In some embodiments, the electronic device scrolls the text of the content item based on determining that the user is reading the content item.

Google will launch ChatGPT service of "search partner"

According to reports, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, Google's parent company, said that Google would launch a large AI based language model similar to ChatGPT in "the next few weeks or months".

Pichai revealed on the earnings conference call that users will soon be able to use the language model in the form of "search partner". Before that, Google just released its fourth quarter financial report on Thursday. "Our AI journey has just begun, and the best scenery is still behind," he said.

WeChat has supported the registration of "small number"

According to the feedback of netizens, WeChat has fully opened the function of using the same mobile phone number to register auxiliary accounts. As early as last year, WeChat has been testing the function in a small scale in grayscale.

In order to register an auxiliary account, WeChat needs to meet the following two conditions: WeChat needs to register for more than two years, and WeChat has no seal record in the last year.

Former CEO of Twitter pushed Web3 social application Damus

On February 1, Jack Dorsey, the former co-founder of Twitter, tweeted that Damus, a social product based on the decentralized social media protocol Nostr, had been launched in the Apple App Store and could be downloaded by anyone. In just two days, the app has risen to the top of the free social networking list of the iOS App Store in the United States and attracted more than 600000 users to register.

In the Internet community, Damus has a very special way of making circles. Since February 1, many WeChat and Twitter users have found a large number of "unknown long characters" in their circle of friends and information flow, which is what makes Damus different from other social platforms.

Apple's revenue and profit fell in the first quarter

Apple released the first quarter report of fiscal year 2023 (i.e. the fourth quarter report of fiscal year 2022 as of December 31), and its revenue and profit fell. Apple's share price rose 3.71% on the same day, and as of the press release, its after-hours share price was 145.94 US dollars, down 3.24%.

According to the financial report, Apple's total net sales in the first fiscal quarter was $117154 million, down 5% year on year, lower than the market expectation of $121104 million, and this was the first year-on-year decline in Apple's revenue in the quarter since 2019.

TSMC announced to open the use of technology to the academic community

The official website of TSMC announced the launch of the university FinFET project, which aims to cultivate future semiconductor chip design talents and promote global academic innovation. In this project, teachers, students and academic researchers of the Open University use the process design kit (PDK) of the industry's most successful FinFET technology to upgrade their chip design learning experience to the advanced 16nm FinFET technology.

This project also provides university and college leading chip researchers with multi-project wafer services using 16nm (N16) and 7nm (N7) processes to accelerate the introduction of influential innovative research into practical applications.

Yahoo, LINE and ZHD will merge

Japan's Z Holdings (ZHD), which owns Yahoo and LINE, announced on February 2 that the three enterprises of ZHD, Yahoo and LINE plan to merge in 2023. ZHD was integrated with LINE in March 2021 and became a wholly-owned subsidiary.

Later, the improper management of personal information of LINE was exposed, and priority was given to improving the system. The ID intercommunication between Yahoo and LINE, which was supposed to be the key to integration, was postponed to 2023. The growth of the main advertising business slowed significantly. The performance growth is slow, and the current share price is also low.

Global Vice President of Xiaomi Group resigns

Manu Kumar Jain, global vice president of Xiaomi Group, announced his resignation in a social media tweet. He said that Xiaomi has a strong leadership team in the world and hopes that the global team of Xiaomi will achieve greater success in the future.

It is understood that Manu Kumar Jain was the co-founder of an e-commerce portal. He joined Xiaomi Group in 2014. He has been the head of Xiaomi's business in India for a long time. He is an important executive of Xiaomi in the Indian market. He has served for more than 9 years.