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Hello everyone, a new month has begun. Did you pay the final payment last night?

You don’t have to have money, but you can’t help but read the news in the technology circle (a dog’s head saves his life) .

JD.com WeChat Zero-Balance Wallet crashed during Double 11 Shopping Festival

Everyone’s enthusiasm for Double 11 remains undiminished, as can be seen from the grand occasion of final payment last night:

JD.com and WeChat Zero-Balance Wallet both crashed.

Some netizens said that their business collapsed before they paid the final payment.

Some netizens even said that they had already paid, but the order was shown to be cancelled.

Subsequently, the WeChat team’s official Weibo issued an apology statement:

There was a short-term congestion on the Change Exchange tonight. It has been fully restored. We apologize for the inconvenience to everyone~

PS wants to charge for 15,000 colors

Some colors in PS need to be paid!

According to Vice, starting in November, Pantone will set up a paywall for users on 15,000 colors in Adobe products.

Pantone is an institution that specializes in the development and research of color, and is also a supplier of color systems. The popular color of the year released every year can arouse heated discussions.

Regarding this incident, designer Iain Anderson tweeted that he received relevant notifications when using Photoshop:

Licensing changes between Adobe and Pantone. Open past works with PS, and it will automatically replace unpaid colors with black (even PSD files from 20 years ago) .

Therefore, if you want to use Pantone colors in the future, you will have to pay money. The specific price is: US$59.99/year, or US$7.99/month. Previously, these were borne by software developers, but now they are passed on to users.

As for the implementation of color charging, Pantone has not responded yet.

Twitter cuts 25% of employees in first round

Musk's acquisition of Twitter is over, but his rectification of Twitter has just begun:

Deployed more than 50 people from Tesla to Twitter;

Twitter conducts its first round of layoffs: 25% first.

According to CNBC, Musk has allowed employees from other companies to work at Twitter. More than 50 people are from Tesla, as well as two employees from Boring Company and one from Neuralink (which is developing a brain-computer interface) .

However, it is unclear how Tesla employees will divide their schedules between Tesla and Twitter.

In addition, several Twitter employees also revealed that Musk is now taking a comprehensive look at Twitter, from source code to content moderation and data privacy requirements, in order to redesign the platform.

At the same time, according to the Washington Post, people familiar with the matter revealed that Musk's team is deciding on the first round of layoffs, targeting about a quarter of the total more than 7,000 employees.

Moreover, the layoffs will affect almost all departments and are expected to have a significant impact on sales, products, engineering, legal, and trust and security in the coming days.

RTX4090 can play Genshin Impact up to 13K resolution

Playing Genshin Impact with RTX4090 can reach 13K resolution, and the frame rate can still reach 30FPS at such high resolution.

This is a test conducted by YouTube user Golden Reviewer, who converted a 13760x5760 resolution to 178.32 megapixels per frame (13K) , which is equivalent to 1.4 times that of 8K and 8.5 times that of 4K.

According to tomshardware, in 13K images, the anti-aliasing capability is stronger and all edges look very real. Even in the enlarged game screen, no pixelation can be seen.

△ Image source: YouTube@Golden Reviewer

A triple La Niña event will occur this winter, the first time this century

For the first time this century! This winter may usher in a triple La Nina event .

The so-called La Niña event refers to the phenomenon of continued abnormally cold sea surface temperatures in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific.

The World Meteorological Organization's August forecast shows that the current La Niña event may continue for the next six months.

Specifically, the probability that it will last until September to November 2022 is 70%, and the probability that it will last until December 2022 to February 2023 will gradually decrease to 55%. The current La Niña event began in September 2020 .

La Niña events generally occur every two to seven years, with neutral years in between, and the impact of each La Niña event varies, depending on the intensity of the event, the timing of its development, and its interaction with other climate patterns.

World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General Pietri Taalas said in the latest La Niña event forecast bulletin:

The latest change in the La Nina event will worsen a devastating drought in the Horn of Africa and affect millions of people.

It is worth noting that the three-year La Niña event is special. The cooling effect it brings temporarily slows down the rise in global temperatures, but it will not stop or reverse the long-term trend of global warming.

Two more executives leave Apple

According to Bloomberg, people familiar with the matter revealed that two executives in charge of Apple's online retail stores and information systems departments are about to leave, and these two key departments will also undergo changes.

They are Anna Matthiasson, vice president of online retail, and Mary Demby, chief information officer who has served for about 30 years. They are the highest-ranking managers at Apple besides CEO Cook's executive team.

During her tenure, Debbie was responsible for the infrastructure behind Apple's online services, production and website. Her successor following her departure is currently unclear.

Unlike Debbie, Marciason has only been in her current position for about three years. She previously served as an operating executive at Apple.

It is worth mentioning that about a week ago, news broke that Evans Hankey, Apple’s vice president of industrial design , would be leaving the company, and chief privacy officer Jane Horvath also announced internally that she would also leave the company soon. .