Top 14 Tech News for December 11 and 12

As the year draws to a close, Converseer brings you the top 14 tech news for December 11 and 12, 2024, and the important technology news are:

1. Tencent QQ Premium Member 9 will be launched in March next year: starting from 788 yuan for permanent activation, reservations are now open

According to feedback from IT Home colleagues, Tencent QQ recently opened reservations for VIP9 (Premier Member 9), and VIP9 will be officially launched in early March 2025.

Tencent QQ Premium Membership was launched in 2019 and currently has exclusive monthly service discounts, super-fast QQ growth acceleration, QQ group exclusive identity nameplate, an exclusive colourful identity logo, QQ profile card DIY and other privileges.

2. A man driving a Tesla with Autopilot on crashed into a fire truck and died. His family filed a lawsuit

At around 4 a.m. on February 18, 2023, 31-year-old Genesis Giovanni Mendoza Martinez crashed into a parked fire truck while driving a Tesla car with Autopilot on, and died. His family has sued Tesla, claiming that its Autopilot system caused their loved one’s death.

3. The return of the “music phone”: vivo Y300 and AAC jointly create a new generation of super speakers, with a hole directly opened in the camera module

vivo officially announced on December 11 that the vivo Y300 mobile phone will be released at 14:30 on December 16, and will work with AAC Technologies to create a new generation of super speakers.

From the official poster, we can see that the vivo Y300 places the speaker in the middle of the rear camera module, which looks very distinctive and retro, and it seems to focus on the external audio experience.

4. OPPO and the police cracked down on a new type of fraud by artificially destroying the motherboard of a mobile phone to get a new phone for profit

On the evening of December 10, @OPPO Legal Department official Weibo forwarded a case announced by the official Weibo of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, saying that in this case, OPPO joined forces with the police to strike hard against new types of fraud crimes that infringed on the company’s rights and interests. One day in March 2023, Yang from Guancheng Hui District, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, discovered a method that could instantly burn out the motherboard of a mobile phone without damaging it. So he began to cooperate with Yang and others, buying mobile phones under warranty at low prices, artificially destroying the motherboard of the mobile phone and sending it to the manufacturer, exchanging it for a new phone and selling it to customers to earn high profits… Recently, the Guancheng Hui District Procuratorate filed a public prosecution against Yang and four others for suspected fraud in accordance with the law. At present, the case is under further trial.

5. Avita 06 convertible version revealed, with five doors and no B-pillar

Since the afternoon of December 10, netizens and bloggers have successively exposed the real car spy photos of a new model of Avita – the convertible version of Avita 06.

6. BYD Formula Leopard “Titanium 3” will be launched in the first half of next year, and other hard-core family models will be launched later

BYD Formula Leopard officially released the first issue of “Answering Netizens’ Questions” on December 11, answering questions about the first car in the new series, “Titanium 3”. The new car will be launched in the first half of 2025, and other hard-core family models will be launched later.

7. Tesla Cybertruck electric pickup truck completed the calculation and declaration of energy consumption by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, with a range of 618km

Tesla Cybertruck electric pickup truck completed the calculation and declaration of energy consumption by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on December 11. Data shows that Cybertruck consumes 22.6 degrees per 100 kilometres and has a range of 618km.

8. Xiaomi Vela system code is officially open source, OpenVela is available on GitHub

The OpenVela operating system is tailor-made for the AIoT field, with lightweight, standard-compliant, secure and highly scalable as its core features. Vela is named after the Latin word for sail, which is also the name of the constellation Vela in the southern sky. Xiaomi chose this name because it hopes to work with developers to embark on a journey to the stars and the sea.

9. Railway 12306: A third-party platform publicly announced that “Spring Festival travel ticket rush has begun” and “tickets can be booked as early as 90 days in advance”, which is purely marketing hype by the platform.

The official WeChat account of “Railway 12306” released an announcement on December 11, saying that a third-party platform publicly claimed that “Spring Festival travel ticket rush has begun” and “tickets can be booked as early as 90 days in advance”, which is purely a marketing hype of the platform and has nothing to do with the Railway 12306 platform.

10. China Association of Automobile Manufacturers: New energy vehicle sales in November reached 1.512 million units, a year-on-year increase of 47.4%

The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers released data on December 11, showing that in November, the production and sales of new energy vehicles reached 1.566 million and 1.512 million respectively, up 45.8% and 47.4% year-on-year respectively. The sales of new energy vehicles accounted for 45.6% of the total sales of new vehicles.

11. Musk: If Tesla becomes the world’s most valuable company, Bill Gates may go bankrupt due to short-selling

Elon Musk posted on X platform on December 11 that if Tesla’s stock price continues to rise to a certain level, all short sellers in the world will be eliminated, including Bill Gates, the former richest man in the world.

12. Realme Neo7 mobile phone released: Dimensity 9300+ processor, 7000mAh battery, initial price starting from 2099 yuan

Realme Neo7 was officially released on December 11. The new phone is equipped with a Dimensity 9300+ processor and a built-in 7000mAh Titan battery. It has three colours and is priced at 2,199 yuan, with a starting price of 2,099 yuan for the first release.

13. The two departments: By the end of 2027, the rate of genuine software in the education system will be significantly increased, and genuine operating system software, office software and anti-virus software will be fully used.

The Ministry of Education and the National Copyright Administration issued the “Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Legalization of Education System Software”. The notice proposes that by the end of 2027, a long-term mechanism for the legalization of education system software will be basically established, the legalization rate of education system software will be significantly improved, and genuine operating system software, office software and anti-virus software will be fully used. The use of software without the authorization of the software copyright owner will be basically eliminated. The copyright protection awareness of education system staff, teachers and students has generally increased, and respecting and protecting intellectual property rights has become a conscious action of teachers and students.

14. Apple iOS 18.2 official version released: camera control adds two-stage shutter, improves “Photos”, etc.

Apple pushed the iOS 18.2 update (internal version number: 22C152) to iPhone users on December 12. This update was 22 days after the last official version was released.

Source: IT Home