Geek Daily Issue 76: Meituan loses the lawsuit and compensates Ele.me for 1 million yuan; Huawei Mate X2 debuts in seconds; Cook wins 800 million year-end award

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Domestic news

Meituan loses the lawsuit and compensates Ele. 1 million

Recently, the Intermediate People's Court of Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province issued a judgment on the former Zhejiang Jinhua Meituan’s practice of requiring some merchants to enter into exclusive transactions with them. The civil judgment issued showed that the unfair competition conducted by Beijing Sankuai Technology (Meituan) Co., Ltd. Jinhua Branch harmed the legitimate rights and interests of Lazas Company and should bear civil liability. The court gave full support to Shanghai Lazas Information Technology Co., Ltd. (Ele.) requesting Beijing Sankuai Technology Co., Ltd. (Meituan) to compensate 1 million yuan in economic losses.

Huawei Mate X2 launched in seconds! The scalper quoted 45,000, and the first batch of stocks may have 200,000 units

The price of Huawei Mate X2 rose sharply in a short period of time on the first day of launch. A scalper said, "The latest spot price is 45,000 yuan." At 10:08 on the 25th, Huawei's folding screen mobile phone Mate X2, priced at 17,999 yuan, was on sale for the first time. Before the launch, more than 3.75 million people in Huawei Mall made reservations for this phone. Many users who participated in the rush said: "I sold out without even opening the webpage. It's simply too difficult."

Some reporters learned that just after the rush to buy Huawei Mate X2, there was a new quotation in the scalper market-an increase of 10,000, and there was no spot. As for the spot, a scalper said, "The latest price is 45,000 yuan." The 256GB version of Huawei Mate X2 is priced at 17,999 yuan, and the 512GB version is priced at 18,999 yuan. Regarding the stocking volume of Huawei Mate X2, Yu Chengdong said that "the stock is adequate and the production capacity has been improved every week and every month." According to relevant reporters learned from the industry chain, the first batch of Huawei Mate X2 stocks is about 200,000 units.

Redmi K40 series released, as low as 1999 yuan

On the evening of February 25th, Redmi released the new Redmi K40 series. Redmi Product Director Wang Teng released the Redmi K40 standard version on the spot, the world’s first Snapdragon 870, and also supports LPDDR5 + UFS3.1 + WiFi 6, Redmi K40 There are multiple version price information: 6GB+128GB is priced at 1999 yuan, 8GB+128GB is priced at 2199 yuan, 8GB+256GB is priced at 2499 yuan, and 12GB+256GB is priced at 2699 yuan (pre-special price of 2499 yuan). Subsequently, Lu Weibing released the K40 Pro and K40 Pro+, both equipped with the Snapdragon 888 processor, the former priced at 2799 yuan, and the latter at 3699 yuan (12+256GB version).
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Also released at the same time are the RedmiBook notebook series (15.6-inch Pro and 14-inch Pro), Redmi 86” TV and other series of new products.
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Women's official website bought an Apple phone but received Apple yogurt

On February 24, Ms. Liu from Hefei, Anhui Province, reported that she bought an iPhone 12 Pro Max for 10,099 yuan on Apple’s official website on February 16. It was opened on the 18th and found that there was only a box of apple-flavored sour milk. Ms. Liu stated that no obvious signs of unpacking were found when picking up the package. The postal EMS company stated that the waybill has stated that the item was missing and is cooperating with Apple's investigation. On the 25th, the Hefei police filed a case for handling.

The new results of the Tsinghua team are published in Nature: It is expected to solve the problem of independent research and development of lithography machines

On February 25th, Professor Tang Chuanxiang's research group from the Department of Engineering Physics of Tsinghua University and a collaborative team from the Helmholtz Berlin Materials and Energy Research Center (HZB) and the German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology (PTB) were on "Nature" Published a research paper entitled "Experimental demonstration of the mechanism of steady-state microbunching", reporting a new type of particle accelerator light source "Steady-state microbunching" (Steady-state microbunching, SSMB)’s first principle verification experiment.

Based on the SSMB principle, high-power, high-repetition frequency, and narrow-bandwidth coherent radiation can be obtained, and the wavelength can cover the band from terahertz to extreme ultraviolet (EUV), which is expected to provide broad new opportunities for photonic science research. "my country's independent research and development of EUV lithography machines still has a long way to go. The EUV light source based on SSMB is expected to solve the most core problem of "stuck neck" in independent research and development of lithography machines." Tang Chuanxiang said.

Security company says Flash China version will install advertising program*

Adobe stopped updating and distributing Flash Player after December 31, 2020. After that, Chongqing Heavy Orange Network Technology Co., Ltd. exclusively distributes and maintains Flash Player in mainland China through the website flash.cn. After receiving multiple security warnings related to Flash China Edition, the security company Minerva Labs analyzed it and found that in addition to installing Flash, the Flash China Edition also downloads and runs a file named nt.dll, whose main functions are similar. Adware, but it is not ruled out that it can be used for other malicious purposes. Flash China version mainly affects Chinese users.

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International news

Apple confirms: Apple Music will not launch a free version

According to foreign media Musically, Apple’s senior director of global music publishing Elean Segal has confirmed that Apple will not launch an ad-based free version of Apple Music.

Segal worked with representatives of Spotify and Amazon on the Digital, Culture, Media and Sports Commission in the UK to answer questions from British MPs on the economics of streaming media services. Three representatives were asked about their subscription prices and their views on launching free services.

Both Spotify and Amazon offer free versions of their music streaming services, however, this free version includes frequent advertising interference and limited in-app features. Regarding whether Apple will launch a free version with ads for Apple Music, Segal said that the revenue of the free version is not enough to "support a healthy overall ecosystem" and "it does violate our basic values ​​of privacy ." When asked whether there are commercial advertisements for the service, Apple emphasized: "Apple Music is zero advertising." Apple Music's ad-free listening experience has always been the focus of Apple's promotion.

Android 12 brings a new theme system, which can be automatically set according to the color of the wallpaper

Recently, Google has released the first developer preview version of the latest generation of Android system Android 12 to Pixel devices. Now according to reports from Android Authority, Android 12 will bring a brand new, wallpaper-based theme system, which can greatly improve the appearance of the Android system.

The theme system of Android 12 is nicknamed "Monet". It is obvious that its main feature is that it can automatically set the theme of the system according to the main color of the wallpaper. If you set a purple paint wallpaper, it will be dyed purple in the notification panel, settings, and lock screen. If you switch to an orange light spot wallpaper, it will change to a peach-yellow theme layout.

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Apple CEO Cook's year-end award 800 million

At the online Apple shareholders meeting held recently, Apple shareholders voted to approve the compensation plan for Apple's executives, including CEO Tim Cook's compensation plan.

The documents show that Cook's overall compensation has increased by 28% in 2020, reaching US$14,769,259. This includes a base salary of 3 million U.S. dollars, a performance reward of 10.731 million U.S. dollars and other subsidies of more than 1,038,200 U.S. dollars.

The stock package plan for Cook is that if Apple meets certain performance goals, the plan will allow him to obtain 1 million new shares. According to this plan, Cook will be rewarded with 1 million Apple shares. If calculated according to the closing price of US stocks on February 24, this year-end bonus is worth 125 million U.S. dollars (approximately 800 million yuan).

Qualcomm encountered an antitrust lawsuit in the UK, claiming US$683 million

US chip giant Qualcomm was recently sued by British consumer rights agency Which? accused of abusing its dominant position in the patent and licensed chip market.

Which? is the most well-known large independent consumer rights protection agency in the UK. The agency claims that Qualcomm's dominance enables it to charge excessively high fees to smartphone manufacturers such as Apple and Samsung, and these fees are eventually passed on to consumers.

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Programmer area

Apache Software Foundation expels TinkerPop co-founder

The Apache Software Foundation expelled Marko Rodriguez, the co-founder of the TinkerPop project, on the grounds that the Twitter post violated the Foundation's code of conduct . Marko Rodriguez’s main Twitter account has been blocked for violating the site’s rules. It is not clear which of his comments violated the rules for the time being. Rodriguez claimed that he had received death threats for his remarks. He co-founded the TinkerPop project, a graph database and analysis framework 11 years ago. After his expulsion, The Register reported that a foundation board member Niclas Hedhman resigned in protest.

Source code was stolen by hackers, "Cyberpunk 2077" version 1.2 bounced

The 2020 3A game masterpiece "Cyberpunk 2077" has been spit out after the release of a large number of BUGs, and the number of refunds worldwide exceeds 2 million. The CDPR official has previously officially issued an apology to players around the world, and announced a BUG repair schedule, which shows that the official will greatly improve the game experience through two major version updates.

However, according to the latest official news, the 1.2 version of "Cyberpunk 2077" originally scheduled to be released in February will usher in a bouncing ticket. The CDPR official issued an article in the early hours of this morning: "Although we really want to release the 1.2 version update of "Cyberpunk 2077" within the stated time, due to the recent cyber attack on the studio’s IT architecture and the body of the 1.2 version Considering the quantity, we need more time."

It is understood that "Cyberpunk 2077" was hacked on February 8th, and the source of such content as "Cyberpunk 2077", "Gunt of the Witcher" and "The Witcher 3" sub-era remake was stolen. Code.

TypeScript 4.2 released*

TypeScript 4.2 has been released. The content of this update is as follows:

  • Smarter type alias protection;
  • Support the rest element in the tuple type to be placed in any position;
  • The inspection of the in operator is stricter;
  • Support abstract construction signature;
  • Support --explainFiles option, etc.

For more details , please click to visit Microsoft's official website announcement

Qt Creator 4.14.1 released

Qt Creator is currently updated to version 4.14.1. There is no functional update this time, mainly focusing on functional bug fixes.

  • Fixed the problem of copying from the JavaScript positioning filter to the clipboard in General;
  • Fixed the problem of highlighting and repeating search results in Eating;
  • Fixed the crash problem of environment settings in the search results in Projects, etc.

Updated to version 4.14.1, there is no functional update this time, mainly focusing on functional bug fixes.

  • Fixed the problem of copying from the JavaScript positioning filter to the clipboard in General;
  • Fixed the problem of highlighting and repeating search results in Eating;
  • Fixed the crash problem of environment settings in the search results in Projects, etc.

For more details , please click to visit Qt official announcement

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