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Tencent and iQiyi modify the advanced on-demand rules: 3 yuan per episode, no more extra 50 yuan for 6 episodes

On December 17, amid controversy across the Internet, Tencent Video and iQiyi revised their advanced on-demand rules. Tencent Video members can still watch 6 episodes in advance, but they can enjoy an additional 3 yuan per episode for advanced on-demand rights, instead of paying an additional 50 yuan to watch 6 episodes. iQiyi also revised its advanced on-demand rules. VIPs can watch 6 episodes in advance and watch 6 more episodes at 3 yuan per episode. After the revised rules, some netizens said, "The 3 yuan price is still acceptable." But some netizens also said that charging more than VIP membership is still unreasonable.

Previously, Wang Juan, vice president of Tencent Video, responded to the controversy over the advance on-demand broadcast of Joy of Life. She said: (Tencent Video) was not considerate enough about the members’ notifications and their consumption psychology. This is our bug and where we did not do well. Dai Ying, vice president of iQiyi, said, “Our original intention was to meet users’ more diverse content needs, but we may not have done it well. In the future, we hope to consider users’ psychology more and do a good job in scheduling and notification.”

Pinduoduo responds to the "fake foreign wine" incident: the store involved was closed on September 6, and actually sold 3 bottles of fake wine

On December 18, Pinduoduo responded to the recent "Hennessy" fake foreign liquor incident on the platform. Pinduoduo responded that the platform proactively conducted online inspections and found clues that three bottles of fake liquor were actually sold, and the store involved was closed on September 6.

Recently, there were media reports that a consumer bought fake wine from the Pinduoduo store "Qi Luo Nightclub Wine and Beverage Store" this summer and filed a complaint. After investigation, Suzhou police confirmed that the wine the consumer bought was fake and arrested the suspect several months ago. According to reports, at least 2,000 bottles of fake Hennessy brand wine may have flowed into the market in this case, and the store has been closed. The lawyer also said that the suspect involved may face criminal penalties.

In response, Pinduoduo said that the store was closed by the platform on September 6 for allegedly selling counterfeit goods of two wine brands. A total of 5 bottles of "Hennessy" were sold before the store was taken off the shelves, of which 2 orders were refunded and 3 orders were actually sold.

Pinduoduo said that after discovering the problem, Pinduoduo officials grayed out the store and made it invisible in searches, and sent sampled products to the brand involved for confirmation. On September 6, the store's products were confirmed to be counterfeit by the brand, and the platform imposed a third-level penalty on the store and closed it down. (Phoenix Network Technology)

Pinduoduo applied for the "10 billion subsidies" trademark and is currently awaiting substantive review

According to Tianyancha data, on October 18, Pinduoduo's operating entity, Shanghai Xunmeng Information Technology Co., Ltd., applied for the "10 billion subsidies" trademark, which belongs to Class 35 - Advertising Sales. Currently, the "10 billion subsidies" trademark is still awaiting substantive review.

Tencent's WeChat and QQ products have been adapted to dark mode

On December 17, WeChat brought support for Android 64-bit in version v7.0.9, and supported setting Moments permissions directly when adding friends. Now WeChat Android beta version 7.0.10 has been updated and released, which already supports Android 10's dark mode and supports automatically following the system's dark mode.

Previously, Tencent QQ v8.2.0 also supported the system dark mode of Android 10 and iOS 13. For IM chat applications, the dark mode seems to be more friendly at night. The original Windows Phone version of WeChat supported the system-level dark mode very early. (IT Home)

Fortune's 2019 Business Person of the Year announced: Alibaba's Zhang Yong selected, Microsoft's Nadella ranked first

Fortune magazine announced the 2019 Business Person of the Year, and Alibaba Group Chairman and CEO Zhang Yong was selected. Also selected were Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Australian FMG Group CEO Elizabeth Gaines, Estee Lauder Group President and CEO Frederick Fabrizio, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, Yum China CEO Terri Wat, etc. (Sina Technology)

Alipay and WeChat responded to 3D mask cracking facial recognition: If there is fraudulent use, you can apply for full compensation

Earlier reports said that the US artificial intelligence company Kneron used high-quality 3D masks to successfully deceive facial recognition systems and complete shopping payment procedures, including China's WeChat and Alipay. In response, the Alipay team said that they had tried to contact the company to obtain detailed information, but the other party removed the news and video without providing more information; WeChat responded that it has currently adopted a number of technologies that can effectively resist attacks such as videos, paper, and masks. In addition, both Alipay and WeChat stated that if face-swiping payment results in fraud, full compensation can be applied for. (IT Home)

Transsion Holdings: Recently received 90.05 million yuan in government subsidies

Transsion Holdings (688036) announced on the evening of December 17 that the company and its holding subsidiaries have received a total of 90.05 million yuan in various types of income-related government subsidies since July 1, and a total of 6.07 million yuan in government subsidies that have been publicly disclosed but not yet received. (36Kr)

6G / Integrated Circuits are included in the list. The Chinese Academy of Engineering released the 2019 "Top Ten Trends in the Development of China's Electronic Information Engineering Science and Technology"

The Information and Electronics Department of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the China Information and Electronics Engineering Technology Development Strategy Research Center released the "Top Ten Trends in China's Electronic Information Engineering Technology Development (2019)" in Beijing on December 17, aiming to promote and guide the high-quality development of my country's electronic information engineering technology field. The "Top Ten Trends" released this time include:

• Information technology is fully integrated into the production and life of human society, and is constantly intersecting and integrating with various industries;

• Supercomputing systems are moving from the post-P-class era to the Exa-class era;

• Intelligent manufacturing is gradually becoming the core area of ​​the new industrial revolution;

• The development of blockchain technology is rapidly heating up, and its application scenarios are constantly enriched;

• The construction of 5G mobile information networks is accelerating, and the research and development of 6G is accelerating;

• The national territory has changed from "land, sea, air and space" to "land, sea, air and space + cyberspace", and the right to control the network has become a new security means for countries to compete fiercely;

• The development of the integrated circuit industry has entered the post-Moore era;

• Data fluidity has become a fundamental characteristic of data;

• The global smart sensor market is in a rapid growth trend, and distributed smart sensor networks are entering a rapid development stage;

• Electromagnetic field theory is constantly intersecting and integrating with other disciplines. (Xinhua News Agency)

Panda Interactive Entertainment, owned by Wang Sicong, was ordered to pay 3.6 million yuan to Tencent

On December 17, the People's Court of Nanshan District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, made a judgment on the contract dispute case between Tencent and Panda Interactive Entertainment. The former operating entity of Panda Live, Shanghai Panda Interactive Entertainment Culture Co., Ltd. (Panda Interactive Entertainment), must pay the plaintiff Tencent a licensing fee of 3 million yuan and interest and liquidated damages of 600,000 yuan within ten days.

The content of the judgment shows that the "2017 Competition Copyright Cooperation Agreement" signed by Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. and the defendant Shanghai Panda Interactive Entertainment Culture Co., Ltd. on January 1, 2017 was terminated on March 15, 2019. Shanghai Panda Interactive Entertainment Culture Co., Ltd. must pay the plaintiff Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. a licensing fee of 3 million yuan and interest and a penalty of 600,000 yuan within ten days from the date of effectiveness of this judgment. (The Paper)

Investors withdraw, car owners are in danger, Ideal Auto enters a "troublesome winter"

After Ideal Auto officially started delivery in December, the cooperative banks that provided car purchase finance solutions refused to lend to car ordering users, forcing car owners to turn to their own financial channels. Subsequently, some car owners who successfully picked up their cars also encountered dangerous incidents such as "emission system failure", "accelerator failure while driving, and the vehicle speed can only be controlled by cruise control on the highway", and "power battery failure and breaking down on the elevated road".

According to public information, on December 13, the operating entity of the new car-making force Ideal Auto, Beijing CHJ Information Technology Co., Ltd., underwent industrial and commercial changes: a number of investors withdrew from the company, and the company's registered capital was reduced from 915 million yuan before the change to 683 million yuan.

This is also the largest collective exit of investors since Ideal Auto was founded in April 2015. The company's registered capital has also dropped by more than a quarter. (Observer.com)

Apple AirPods Pro has become a "hot item" and has been sold out across the US network

Apple's new Bluetooth noise-cancelling headphones AirPods Pro have been selling like hot cakes since their launch in October, and were sold out before the Christmas holiday. Ives predicted at the time that Apple would ship 65 million pairs of AirPods in 2019, and possibly 85 million to 90 million pairs by 2020. AirPods Pro were out of stock at Apple stores in November, and are currently out of stock on most retailers' official websites and physical stores. (Sina Finance)

Not all Mac Pros are made in the United States. European buyers received Mac Pros made in China

Recently, a French buyer ordered an Apple Mac Pro desktop computer and it was delivered, with the device marked as made in China and shipped from China. In July, foreign media reported that Apple was preparing to transfer the manufacturing of the new Mac Pro computer from Austin, USA to China. Previously, the Mac Pro computer was the only major device assembled by Apple in the United States.

Google considered exiting the public cloud business but ultimately decided to fight for the top two spots

According to US technology media The Information, in early 2018, executives of Google's parent company Alphabet debated whether the company should exit the public cloud business, but ultimately set a goal of occupying the top two positions in this field by 2023.

The report said some employees believed that if Alphabet failed to achieve this goal, the company might exit the public cloud market altogether. The company has set a five-year capital expenditure budget of $20 billion, partly to achieve the goal of becoming one of the top two in the public cloud field. (Sina Technology)

Chrome 79 Android version exposed a bug, some users lost data

Not long ago, Google launched the official version of Chrome 79 and pushed the software to PC and mobile users. Not long after the updated browser was used, some Chrome users on Android complained to Google. They said that after installing Chrome 79, the user data of other apps on their phones were lost and cleared.

After emergency handling, Google has stopped updating Chrome 79 on Android. Google said that the browser developers forgot to move the content of localStorage or WebSQL to the new Chrome 79-related file directory when updating from Chrome 78 to Chrome 79, which eventually caused some users to be unable to access the data stored in the old version of the App. This serious BUG (the Chromium BUG tracker marked it as a catastrophic major problem) caused Google to suspend the push of Chrome 79 on the Android system. (IT168)

Tesla's next product may be a pure electric city bus

According to foreign media reports, according to Tesla's product strategy plan, there is still a model to be determined that may be released in the future. This is also a product in the second part of Tesla's overall plan: a pure electric city bus based on the Model X platform. Foreign media said that various information shows that Tesla has not given up the product plan of pure electric buses, especially since Tesla is currently deploying autonomous driving fleets and tunnel transportation, so pure electric buses are likely to be released in conjunction with these two projects. (Autohome)

Masayoshi Son suggests that artificial intelligence be included in Japan's college entrance examination: Without the exam, students won't learn well

Masayoshi Son, CEO of Japan's SoftBank Group, said on Tuesday that Japanese students "will not study (a subject) if they are not required to. Let's make artificial intelligence a compulsory subject, and then Japanese students will catch up." Son pointed out that compared with countries such as the United States, Japan's GDP and (ranking) of artificial intelligence-related patents are getting bigger and bigger. In other words, he believes that Japan's level of technological development in artificial intelligence does not match Japan's economic level. "Japan has lost the past, but may be losing the future." (Tencent Technology)