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In "Technology of the week", CTOnews.com reviews the major events in the technology industry in the past week (October 2-8). Here's the broadcast:

1. Xiaomi's official website suggests that Xiaomi is expected to launch extended-range models on October 2. According to the news, several positions related to cars have been quietly launched on Xiaomi's official recruitment website. It is worth noting that several positions on the launch are related to add-on cars.

Specifically, the positions launched this time include extended range system design and development engineer, fuel system engineer, engine mounting bushing engineer and so on. > > View details

2. The 2023 Nobel Prize will be announced since October 2, the annual Nobel Prize "opening week" officially kicked off, and six major awards will be announced one by one.

On the afternoon of October 2, Beijing time, the Caroline College of Medicine in Sweden announced the 2023 Nobel Prize winners in physiology or medicine-American scientists Katalin Karik ó and Drew Weissman. According to reports, the two scientists have made a major discovery in nucleoside base modification, which has enabled the development of an effective mRNA vaccine against COVID-19, and they will share a prize of 11 million Swedish kronor (about 7.34 million yuan). > > View details

On October 3, the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics was announced to Pierre Agostini (Pierre Agostini), Ferenc Klaus (Ferenc Krausz) and Anne Luril (Anne L'Huillier) for their "experimental method of generating attosecond light pulses to study the dynamics of electrons in matter". > > View details

On October 4th, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decided to award the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov for their contributions to the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots. > > View details

The Nobel Prize for Literature in 2023 was officially announced on the evening of October 5. John Fosser, a writer from Norway, won the prize. According to public sources, John Jon Fosse was born in 1959 and has won the Scandinavian National Theatre Award, the Norwegian Arts Council Honor Award, the Nordic Award from the Swedish Academy and the International Ibsen Award. > > View details

Google Pixel 8 / Pro phone officially launched with a new generation of Tensor G3 chip at MadeByGoogle 23: Keynote event on October 4, Google officially launched a new series of Pixel 8 phones. This series of phones are equipped with Google's self-developed Tensor G3 processor (based on Samsung 4nm technology, 1 × Cortex-X3, 4 × Cortex-A715, 4 × Cortex-A510) and Titan M2 security chip, all support face / fingerprint recognition and IP68 waterproof and dustproof, pre-installed Android 14, and provide 7-year Android major software updates.

Google Pixel 8

8+128GB version 799 euros / US $699 / 24900 New Taiwan dollars (about 5627 yuan)

Verizon version (millimeter wave support) $799

8+256GB version US $759 / NT $26900 (about 6079 RMB)

Google Pixel 8 Pro

12+128GB version 1099 euros / US $999 / 33900 New Taiwan dollars (about 7661 yuan)

12+256GB version US $1059 / NT $35900 (about RMB 8113)

The 12+512GB version is $1179 (about 8618 yuan)

12+1TB version $1399 (about 10227 RMB) > > View details

4. Some users of Apple iPhone 15 / Pro models reported that there was a sound breaking problem in the external playback. On October 5, the fever problem of Apple iPhone 15 Pro has not stopped, and many users have reported that there is a sound breaking problem in iPhone 15 series loudspeakers. In the Reddit community, a number of iPhone 15 users commented that after the volume was turned up, the audio would be distorted and broken, especially in the handset speaker. > > View details

5, Samsung One UI 6 official release: control center UI improvements, new fonts, lock screen clock custom in the early morning of October 6 Samsung developer conference, Samsung One UI 6 officially released, officially brought a series of improvements introduction. The slogan of One UI 6 is "Open Galaxy your way". Some of the new features mentioned by the company include the improved Quick Panel drop-down center, One UI Sans exclusive fonts (to improve readability), and the new AI photo editing tool. > > View details

6. Samsung released Exynos 2400 chip: CPU speed up 70%, equipped with RDNA3 GPU Samsung demonstrated a number of new semiconductor technologies and chips at the System LSI Tech Day 2023 event held on October 6, among which the protagonist is the Exynos 2400 processor. Samsung said that the CPU performance of Exynos 2400 is 70% faster than that of Exynos 2200. On the GPU side, the new chip is also equipped with Xclipse 940 GPU based on AMD's latest GPU architecture, RDNA3, and previous leaks said the new chip had six WGP (workgroup processors) in its GPU. > > View details

7. Intel demonstrates core Ultra generation 1 notebooks: turn off the CPU / GPU module and use the SoC module to play 1080p video Intel officially released a video on October 6, demonstrating the video playback information of notebooks equipped with Core Ultra 1 (Meteor Lake) processors. > > View details

8. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: plans to promote the opening of telecommunications business to private capital as a whole, broaden the participation channels and scope of private enterprises, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology openly solicited opinions on "opinions on innovating the Management of the Information and Communications Industry and optimizing the Business Environment (draft for soliciting opinions)". The opinion paper points out that the opening up of telecommunications services will be expanded. We will expand the opening up of telecommunications services to the outside world in an orderly manner, explore pilot projects in areas such as free trade ports, and expand the opening up of value-added telecommunications services on a pilot basis. We will make overall efforts to promote the opening of telecommunications business to private capital, increase support for private enterprises to participate in business and service innovation such as resale of mobile communications, and promote the reform of satellite Internet business access system step by step and stage by stage. we will continue to broaden the channels and scope for private enterprises to participate in telecommunications business operations. > > View details

9. The Apple App Store is now disguised as porn learning software and will be diverted to gambling websites. According to thepaper.cn, a software called "Learning XX Alphabet" on Apple's App Store App Store was found to be a pornographic video app. It is reported that the software is classified as over 4 years old and will guide users to gambling and other pornographic websites.

In response, Apple customer service responded that it would immediately report back to the App review team and deal with it seriously.

However, after the incident was exposed, Apple delayed taking the software off the shelves, and a search found that the software could still be downloaded and installed. Many netizens urged Apple to take it off the shelves. Apple's official customer service replied again: attach great importance to this issue, will give feedback, there is a special team to deal with. > > View details

10, the new Z790 motherboard Wi-Fi 7 network card exposure: Qualcomm, MediaTek, Intel three solutions with Intel Core 14 generation desktop processor is about to launch, the motherboard manufacturers' new Z790 motherboard is also on the market, most of them are equipped with the latest Wi-Fi 7 wireless network card. "kuroberu" exposed the Wi-Fi 7 plan of several manufacturers' Z790 motherboard on October 7.

In terms of parameters, Qualcomm, MediaTek and Intel's Wi-Fi 7 program can reach a maximum speed of 5.8Gbps. Intel B202 wireless network card only supports the 160MHz band, the maximum speed is 2.4Gbps. > > View details

Sources say Microsoft plans to buy Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion on October 13. According to foreign media The Verge late Friday, a source familiar with Microsoft's plans revealed to The Verge that Microsoft is preparing to complete its 20-month acquisition of Blizzard for $68.7 billion (about 502.197 billion yuan) on October 13 (next Friday).

According to previous plans, October 6 was the deadline for CMA's provisional approval of the deal, and CMA's final decision is expected next week. If there are no unexpected changes at the last minute, Microsoft will successfully complete the deal. > > View details

12. Intel hinted that Microsoft will launch Win12 next year to stimulate PC replacement demand. At the Citigroup analyst meeting last month, Intel Chief Financial Officer David Zinsner talked about next year's Windows update, suggesting that consumers may upgrade their computers because of the new version of Windows, and the "Windows update" he is talking about is likely to be Windows 12. > > View details

13. MediaTek Tianji 9300 processor performance exposure: CPU / GPU double kill Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 digital blogger @ Digital chat site revealed the latest news of MediaTek Tianji 9300 on Weibo on October 8. It is said that the latest prototype frequency of the chip is 3.25 GHz ±, and the CPU schedule is 1 "X4" 3 "X4" 4 "A720 Magi GPU is Immortalis G720 MC12. The digital blogger revealed that in Anbunny V10, Tianji 9300 has more CPU and GPU than Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. > > View details

14. Xiaomi loses another "general": partner Zhang Feng will leave, and large home appliance business will be restructured. According to the afternoon news of Sina Technology on October 8, Xiaomi announced the latest structural adjustment internally. Zhang Feng, partner of Xiaomi Group, Senior Vice President and President of the Department of large Household Appliances, will leave. In an internal email, Xiaomi said Zhang Feng would leave after completing the job handover in December this year for personal reasons. With the change of Zhang Feng, the department of large household appliances he is in charge of has also ushered in a restructuring. > > View details

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