TikTok wants to encroach on e-commerce. (Image: Bloomberg) TikTok wants to repeat the success of Douyin – the version of TikTok exclusively for the Chinese market. Only in the first year, Douyin earned 26 billion USD in e-commerce transactions. According to Bloomberg, TikTok has started a partnership with a number of brands so that they directly sell products to millions of users right on the app. It is not clear when TikTok will officially announce the feature. A representative of Hype, one of the brands TikTok partnered with, confirmed the experiment. According to images provided to Bloomberg, Hype’s booth in TikTok displayed a range of products with photos and selling prices. ByteDance – TikTok’s parent company – is actively exploring the Chinese e-commerce market in the hope of writing another glorious medal in the company’s history right before the IPO. The company aims to process more than $ 185 billion of global e-commerce transactions by 2022 based on the reach of TikTok and Douyin. Unlike Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance’s app is well known globally. Founder Zhang Yi Ming wants to use it as a stepping stone to the online shopping game. ByteDance remains a slowdown in China’s “social commerce” market, where celebrities sell products to followers. In the email, TikTok said it is experimenting and learning, and constantly discovering many new ways to add value. Currently, the major social networking companies are scrambling for online retail market share, a market expected to generate $ 5 trillion in sales this year. In May 2020, Facebook introduced a new tool to improve the shopping experience on Facebook and Instagram. Pinterest also jumped into the e-commerce market when it brought buyers to the seller’s website. For its part, TikTok has challenged the online shopping market through promotional campaigns with Walmart and Shopify. Businesses often mark products on TikTok content, with a link that leads buyers to their own website, but all of it takes place within the TikTok application. TikTok wants to lock users down more tightly by allowing brands like Hype to run booths on the platform, take orders and interact directly with buyers. TikTok hopes to sell more ads to sellers, increase traffic and eat commissions. In December 2020, Zhang told TikTok employees that e-commerce, when combined with short videos and livestreams, offers even greater opportunities outside of China. The company has quietly built up a team of engineers in Singapore to develop its e-commerce business. It is very likely that TikTok will successfully re-establish with videos suggested by artificial intelligence when it comes to shopping online. Du Lam (According to Bloomberg)

On the morning of May 9 (Beijing time), the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) confirmed that the fragments of Long March 5B had fallen into the Indian Ocean near the Maldives, the rest was loaded. fire in the atmosphere. The Truong Chinh 5B missile carrying parts for the Chinese space station was launched in Hainan province on April 29. Photo: Reuters. “They are jealous of China’s progress” In addition to the confirmation of the missile falling into the sea, the Chinese media said that Western newspapers are exaggerating the incident, discrediting the country’s space exploration program. “Their hype and smear are in vain”, CNN citing a Chinese source, saying that American scientists are “acting against conscience” and “anti-intellectual”. “These people are jealous of the advancement of Chinese aerospace technology… Some of them are even using loud words to interfere with our future missile launch missions, with the goal of building stations. private universe “, this page says. Earlier, the director of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) Bill Nelson criticized China after debris from the Long March 5B rocket fell into the Indian Ocean. “It is clear that China has not met the standard of responsible space waste,” said Nelson in a statement on May 9. Compared to Russia (formerly the Soviet Union) or the US, China is a latecomer in the space field. They launched their first satellite in 1970, 13 years behind the Soviet Union and 12 years behind the US. In recent times, the field of Chinese space exploration has been invested more and more strongly. They are the first country to send a probe into the dark of the Moon in 2019, before bringing some rock samples on the Moon back to Earth by the end of 2020. The reason China wants to build a space station On the US side, this country has taken action that China sees as “hostile”, to prevent its space mission. Since 1999, the United States has imposed a restriction on exports of satellite technology to China. In late 2011, the US Congress also passed laws restricting cooperation between NASA and China. That is why Chinese astronauts are not allowed to board the International Space Station (ISS), the only space station in orbit to be completed, operated by cooperation between the US and Russia, Europe, Japan and Canada. The Long March 5B is the largest space object to return uncontrollably to Earth in nearly three decades. Photo: ABC. That is the reason why China plans to build the Tiangong (Tian Cung) space station, which means “heavenly palace”. In late April, the Long March 5B was launched to bring the first module to the space station. But then, the rocket fell into a state of uncontrollability until it was gradually pulled down by Earth’s gravity. Although criticizing the West for “bluffing” the Long March 5B out of control, the Chinese media and experts have ignored the explanation of why the missile makes the world worried. According to the CNN , the Earth’s launch and landing phases of the missile can be predicted. When falling into orbit, manufacturers often equip controls to direct missiles into the sea or keep them in a “graveyard orbit”, which helps them hover in space for decades. This is the second incident related to the Truong Chinh 5B missile. Last year, a 12-meter debris of the missile crashed into a village on Cote d’Ivoire, damaging businesses and homes. Estimated to weigh more than 20 tons, the Long March 5B is the largest space object to return to Earth uncontrollably in nearly three decades. SpaceX’s test missile explodes again when it lands on the launch pad SpaceX’s Starship SN9 rocket landed and exploded on 2/2. This is the first phase prototype of a reusable rocket line that will help send people to Mars.

Covid-19 shows that the future of the world is biological, not digital. (Source: CNN) Millions of people around the world are viewing images of desperation in many parts of India as infection rates exceed 300,000 cases per day. Reports show severe hypoxia in the South Asian country with a double-strain variable, accompanied by images of corpses waiting on pavements, when crematoriums become overwhelmed, even. in the capital New Delhi. At the end of March, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a draft report on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic with findings that many have come to expect: SARS-CoV-2 virus may have been Spread from animals to humans. It can be said that the uninteresting cause has caused the biggest global turmoil in a century, and just as it has caused many earlier pandemics in history: Human card in nature. At the same time, the world may be coming to the end of an era of digital hype. Sharp warning For years, it has been said that digital technology will lead the world to a future without scarcity. Yet the reality of the pandemic is a sharp warning about how the real world can reverse fantastical, unrealistic delusions. Every new technological advance promises a fundamental transformation of society, eliminating inefficiencies and inequality and empowering people through division of labor. Blockchain technology, artificial intelligence and 3D printing technology are hailed as the leading flags bringing about major changes in lifestyles and working, not only in developed countries but also in underdeveloped countries. lice in countries with no basic living conditions. The belief in technology may even be reflected in the Western response to the pandemic. Instead of considering the social commitment citizens engage in – placing the collective interest above individual rights by requiring masks and implementing other restrictions – and having a strong public health response, rapidly to control the Covid-19 outbreak, Western countries were again hoping to develop vaccines as a last resort, and at the cost of large-scale economic disruption and commodity disruption. hundred thousand people died. In the US alone, a study has shown that hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved during a pandemic if previous regulations on blockades, masking and social segregation were strictly enforced. . The SARS-CoV-2 virus has caused global chaos because of its ability to enter the human body through biological transmission and disrupt the functioning of organs in the body. Vaccines that prevent viruses are seen as a mechanism that promotes the human body’s natural response to infection. If humans want to avoid another global health disaster, humans need to restrain their growth, stop attacking natural and biological systems based on the argument that all other living entities must be subordinated. for human development. The need for economic development has destroyed the natural world so much that disasters such as the Covid-19 pandemic are more likely to occur as population and human greed lead to self-exploitation. course more. The time has come to stop these attacks. Maintain integrity and resonance Human survival depends on maintaining the integrity and resonance of natural systems and internal biological processes. That includes habitats, objects that enter the human body (pollutants and viruses), things people consume (water, air and food), and the biological effects of waste produced by children. maker. During the early months of the pandemic, reports showed that the Earth was benefiting from reduced greenhouse gas emissions, as the majority of the middle and upper classes could study remotely and work from home. However, the switch to working from home is not without consequences for the environment. The more secluded lifestyles have to depend on people who work in the real world, produce and process food, feed the groceries and deliver food to people at home. Goods ordered online still have to be transported by means of transport such as ships, vehicles and need to be delivered by the delivery person. Meanwhile, infrastructure in the real world has been deeply affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Essential workers around the world, whether in hospitals, meat packers in the US, construction sites in Singapore or glove manufacturers in Malaysia, have all been hit hard by the boom. Play by Covid-19. This suggests that we not only need to limit encroachment on the natural world, but also need to invest more in basic protective measures (also known as “guaranteed resilience”) such as supply. safety and assurance of food, water, sanitation, housing, a good public health system and access to energy. Forecasts suggest that the human population will peak 10 billion by 2064, and greater pandemic risks will accompany other man-made threats, from climate change and biodiversity loss to Vulnerable food systems and limited available land. Digital technologies can play a role in mitigating and countering such threats only when people are imbued with the fact that human existence is fragile and fully dependent on a suitable biosphere. The sooner people realize that truth, the sooner people can be sure that technology development efforts are put into ideas that really help people, and not in utopian plans. should come from the narrow definition of human evolution. 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The management of the audio app Clubhouse has raised fresh money from investors. On the one hand, this is intended to cope with the rush of users over the past few months. Clubhouse wants to “welcome more users”, strengthen its infrastructure and “support” the providers of the discussions. The rapid growth meant that the servers were overloaded, and the algorithms were not designed for the high number of users. According to the company, around ten million users are currently on the platform every week. On the other hand, the capital injection should also serve to drive the growth course further. So far, Clubhouse has been above target in this regard: Clubhouse has “grown faster than expected,” the company said.

Success arouses desire

The audio-based social network app had already completed a financing round in January. As reported by financial news agency Bloomberg, Clubhouse is now worth around four billion dollars. That corresponds to around 3.3 billion euros and is four times as much as in January. The success of the app developed by Alpha Explorations in the USA last spring arouses desires and imitators. According to media reports, the news service Twitter is said to have recently been interested in a purchase, and Facebook is said to be working on a clubhouse clone. Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg recently had a look in the virtual salon himself, and Tesla boss Elon Musk was also a guest – this of course increases the attractiveness of the audio offering. Listen to important people once: Many clubhouse users are likely to know these or similar wishes.

Privacy advocates warn

But the success story also has its downsides. Data protection advocates repeatedly express serious concerns. A relevant incident occurred only recently. In a hacker forum, data from 1.3 million clubhouse users emerged. Clubhouse denied being hacked. The data is publicly visible in the profile information that has been tapped in bulk, including name, user name, user ID, profile photos and contact lists. Sensitive data such as credit card information were not included. Such information could be used for targeted phishing attacks, warns the consumer advice center. The data can also be used to create fake accounts in social networks and practically carry out identity theft. The consumer association also criticizes the fact that conversations are recorded and evaluated on the servers in the USA. In addition, the app would have access to all saved contacts in the phone book.