Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos inspects the New Shepard launch facility in West Texas. A spot on his upcoming flight is up for auction. Photo: EPA This will be the first manned flight conducted by Bezos’ space company, Blue Origin. The flight is scheduled to take place on July 20, the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon. Bezos and his brother Mark, a former advertising executive and volunteer firefighter, will join the flight with the winner of the ship’s airfare auction, with the lowest bid of $2.8 million. USD. In an Instagram post, billionaire Bezos said he had dreamed of traveling into space since he was 5 years old. “I will go on that journey with my brother. The best adventure, with my best friend,” declared the Amazon founder. With an estimated personal fortune of $186.2 billion, Jeff Bezos is one of several billionaire entrepreneurs driving a “new space race,” each pumping billions of dollars into private startups. Their aim is to develop low-cost, commercialized space travel. But while Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson is expected to make a suborbital flight later this year, and SpaceX’s Elon Musk has vowed to “die on Mars,” it’s Bezos who’s the one. Win the race to be the first of this hit trio of billionaires to reach the edge of space. Watch Blue Origin successfully launch and land a reusable New Shepard space rocket (Source: CNBC) Mr Musk has yet to comment on Bezos’ latest statement, while Branson congratulated his rival, saying their two companies are “opening up to space”. “Congratulations to Jeff Bezos and his brother Mark for announcing their plans to go into space. Jeff started Blue Origin in 2000, we started Virgin Galactic in 2004 and now both are opening up access to space – incredible!” Branson tweeted. personal. Musk and Bezos are said to have been head-to-head on several projects over the past decade. Elon Musk sees his tech giant as an “imitation” in some of Amazon’s business ventures, while Bezos mocks the SpaceX CEO’s plans to send people to Mars. Bezos’ company Blue Origin was founded in 2000, touting itself as a means of providing cheaper access to space through the use of reusable rockets – namely the New Shepard that flew 15 times. Jeff Bezos’ space tourism project with Blue Origin is competing with a similar program being developed by Space X, the rocket company founded and run by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and the company. Virgin Galactic is backed by Richard Branson. In April 2017, Bezos revealed that he invests about $1 billion in Amazon stock in Blue Origin every year. Blue Origin’s spaceship system consists of a pressurized crew capsule mounted on top of a reusable New Shepard booster. During the first manned flight into space, the crew aboard the New Shepard will spend at least 10 minutes hovering in zero gravity inside the capsule. Bezos founded Blue Origin in 2000. The upcoming space flight is the culmination of more than two decades of forays into space for Jeff Bezos, who announced plans to step down as Amazon’s CEO just now. 15 days before flight date. Instead, he will become Executive Chairman of the company he founded in his garage in 1994 – allowing him “time and energy” to focus on other business ventures. Blue Origin named its space rocket program New Shepard after astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American to fly into space exactly 60 years ago. The upcoming flight will mark a major milestone in the mission to take paying customers beyond space. However, for now, Elon Musk’s SpaceX seems to be leading in the space billionaire race with multiple launches of NASA equipment to the ISS and a partnership to send tourists to space by 2021. On February 6, 2018, SpaceX launched a rocket to orbit Mars, more than 220 million km from Earth, and NASA selected two astronauts to join the first manned Dragon mission performed by SpaceX. . Watch the video of SpaceX’s Starship rocket being launched and successfully landed for the first time on May 5, 2021 (Source: SpaceX): SpaceX has also begun sending a series of 60 satellites into space to help form its Starlink network. Mr. Musk hopes the program will build a network of interconnected satellites around the Earth, thereby providing free Internet to everyone around the world. Meanwhile, billionaire Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic are taking a different approach to conquering space. Virgin Galactic has repeatedly performed successful test flights of the Unity spacecraft. The first time took place in December 2018 and the last time took place on February 22 this year. More than 600 wealthy clients to date, including celebrities like Brad Pitt and Katy Perry, have booked $250,000 for one of Virgin’s spacewalks. Richard Branson introduces SpaceShipTwo, a spaceship with room for six passengers and two pilots. Photo: Reuters Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo can carry six passengers and two pilots. Each passenger has a seat with two large windows – one on the side and one above. Passengers will become “astronauts” when they reach the Karman line, the boundary of Earth’s atmosphere. The spacecraft will then make a sub-orbital journey with about six minutes of weightlessness. The whole flight took about 1.5 hours.

At two o’clock in the morning Beijing time on the 16th, the Chinese team will usher in the Syrian team, the last opponent of the World Preliminary Group Stage at the Sharjah Stadium in the UAE. The Syrian team has already qualified ahead of schedule, and the Chinese team will also be locked in the group as long as they get one more point. Qualifying places. However, the Chinese team has unified their minds and will not adopt conservative tactics in the last game. They will definitely go all out to win the opponent.

Due to the large-scale rotation of the national football team against the Maldives, it is not difficult to guess the starting lineup of the national football team in this game against the Syrian team. Yan Junling and Wu Lei are definitely the main players in the iron fight and will not be rotated. On the defensive line, Wang Shenchao, Jiang Guangtai and Zhang Linpeng, who were rotated in the last rotation, will start the field. At the right back position, due to tomorrow’s serious injury, Tang Miao will start the field and Ji Xiang will be the alternate.

If there are no accidents in the midfield, Wu Xi and Zhang Xizhe will continue to start, assisted by Wu Xinghan and Jin Jingdao. However, in the game against the Philippines, such a midfielder did not achieve the expected results. In the second half, Li Tie also decisively adjusted the lineup before winning the opponent. In this game against Syria, Li Tie is likely to continue to use the 433 formation to attack opponents. In this case, midfielder Wu Xi will partner with Jin Jingdao as a double defensive midfielder. Wu Xi is responsible for control and Jin Jingdao is responsible for sweeping and intercepting. Zhang Xizhe advanced to the front midfielder and was responsible for organizing the offense.

If you change to 433, then Wu Xinghan and Wu Lei will continue to serve on the left and right wing sides and serve as wingers. Exxon was alone in the middle, serving as a center. For Wu Lei’s performance as a winger, the head coach seems very satisfied. In the match against the Maldives, he still insisted on arranging Wu Lei’s starting field and playing the right winger in the whole team rotation. It seems that he also intends to find another feeling for playing Syria. Wu Lei really lived up to expectations, only playing 45 minutes to complete a goal and an assist. (Sohu Sports Pei Li)

Predicted starting: 433

Goalkeeper: Yan Junling

Defensive line: Wang Shenchao, Zhang Linpeng, Jiang Guangtai, Tang Miao

Midfielder: Jin Jingdao, Wu Xi, Zhang Xizhe

Strikes: Wu Xinghan, Exon, Wu Lei

The Vietnamese team was led by the Dubai police force from the hotel to the Zabeel stadium to participate in the match against the UAE team. The Nissan GT-R is a used supercar model. The Nissan GT-R in the Dubai police payroll belongs to the R35 generation, the “heart” of the car is a 3.8L twin-turbo V6 engine. This engine block is capable of producing 565 horsepower, maximum torque of 632 Nm. Nissan GT-R is capable of accelerating from 0-100 km / h in just 2.9 seconds, the maximum speed that this supercar model can achieve is 305 km / h. Meanwhile, the UAE delegation to the stadium was led by a Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S. This is a sports car of the German brand that has been added to this city’s police staff since the end of 2019. Mercedes equips this high-performance model with a 4.0L V8 engine, producing 639 horsepower. Power is transmitted to 4 wheels through a 9-speed automatic transmission. Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S can accelerate from 0-100 km / h in 3.2 seconds before reaching a maximum speed of 315 km / h. The Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S is patrolled at tourist attractions in Dubai. The police of this country also intended to add to the collection a Tesla Cybertruck. Dubai police have a total of 15 supercar models from “grass cars” like the Nissan GT-R to hypercar models like the Bugatti Veyron, McLaren 650S…

According to the point of view of beauty experts at Missosology, this ranking criterion is not only based on each evening dress, but also on the girl’s charisma, how the contestant walks on the stage, is attractive. audience’s attention. First place belonged to Amanda Obdam, Miss Thailand, Amanda was commented on as extremely calm, confident and showed the elegance and elegance of the dress. Miss India Adline Castelino deserves 2nd place. Adline always radiates the aura of a Royal character. Missosology highly appreciates Miss India, even saying that Adline will be crowned the highest position of Miss Universe this year. Bianca Lorena Tirsin, Miss Romania ranked 3rd, this position is not too difficult to understand. Bianca has always been considered one of the contestants with an excellent performance at this year’s Miss Universe, not only in the evening gown performance. 4th place belongs to Miss Costa Rica Ivonne Cerdas. Ivonne owns a hot body, beautiful curves standard “goddess”, the tight dress helps to enhance her beautiful body. Janick Maceta Del Castillo, Miss Peru took 5th place. She wore a dress like those inlaid with thousands of sparkling stars that hugged Janick’s every curve. Although this is a see-through design, it still feels extremely luxurious and sophisticated. Miss Curacao Chantal Wiertz came in 6th place. Chantal also wore a sparkly tight dress, although not as brilliant as Miss Peru, but she was also praised for her perfect performance. 7th place belongs to Miss Puerto Rico – Estefania Soto Torres. The flowing emerald dress, with a classic design, makes Estefania seem to radiate the aura of a Greek goddess. 8th place continues to belong to a representative from Latin America, Miss Venezuela Mariangel Villasmil. Miss Universe continues to send Miss Universe this time an excellent representative, it would be remiss to ignore Miss Venezuela in this ranking. Miss Cameroon Angele Kossinda ranked 9th. It is undeniable that the representative from this African country had an extremely perfect performance at Miss Universe. Angele is also the contestant who won 1st place in the best national costume chart according to Missosology. Miss Finland Viivi Altonen also reached 2 Missosology’s rankings for both important national and evening costume contests. She wore a glittering dress with an extremely striking yellow color. Vivii took 10th place. Miqueal-Symone Williams, Miss Jamaica came in 11th place with a beautiful pink carnation dress. If anyone has thoughts about dark skin, they should not wear pink, then take a look at Miqueal-Symone, the combination of two shades of brown and light pink on the evening dress is praised as extremely perfect for the skin. Beautiful brown attracts her eyes. The fact that Miss Nepal Anshika Sharma ranked 12th caused a lot of controversy, because her dress model was not really excellent. Experts said that despite this, she had an extremely beautiful performance. Miss Nicaragua Ana Marcelo won 13th place also thanks to her smart performance and her way of posing to hide her flaws. Ana has a rather small shoulder, but she knows how to pose by putting her hands together to give the viewer a feeling that her shoulders are bigger, creating a more beautiful curve for her body. Christina Lasasimma, Miss Laos is the second Southeast Asian representative to reach the top, she is in a rather modest position of 14th. It is undeniable that Miss Laos this year is extremely excellent, she always wins attention thanks to outstanding beauty and extremely confident demeanor. Miss UK Jeanette Akua “closed” the Top 15, she was praised for mastering the stage and mastering her evening dress extremely skillfully, attracting special attention from the audience. Unfortunately, Miss Khanh Van did not enter this chart, however, this is only the opinion of the Missosology page, not the final result of BTS Miss Universe. JEANIE According to Missosology

Zhilavie | Text The 2020 epidemic has caused economic stagnation around the world, but it has promoted the prosperity of the game industry. The “2021 Mobile Game Market Report” released by APP Annie shows that consumers will spend US$143 billion on mobile apps in 2020, of which US$100 billion will come from games; users spend 296 billion hours of gaming hours, a year-on-year increase of 35%. The most outstanding performance among the major game companies is the sandbox game platform Roblox. Most of the users of this platform are elementary and middle school students under the age of 16 (as of the end of the third quarter of 2020, Roblox had 31.06 million daily active users, of which 54% were elementary school students under 12 and 13% were 13-16 years old). After the outbreak, schools were closed and more children had more time to play Roblox. In 2020, the number of Roblox daily active users increased by 85% year-on-year, and the time spent by users increased by 124% year-on-year. On March 10, 2021, Roblox landed on the New York Stock Exchange through a direct listing, becoming the fifth company to choose this way to go public after Spotify, Palantir, Slack, etc. On the first day of listing, Roblox had an opening price of US$45, an increase of 54.4% that day, and a closing price of US$69.50. The market value once soared to US$40 billion. “Bull Queen” Cathie Wood added about 520,000 shares to boost Roblox’s strong performance that day. The product manager of an American asset management company said that Roblox’s popularity on the first day of listing reflects the listing of other game companies and a wider range of technology companies in the past six months, and the demand in the secondary market is high. After listing, Roblox’s market value was as high as 45 billion U.S. dollars at one time, which was 53% higher than the financing valuation in January this year. Roblox was valued at 29.5 billion U.S. dollars at that time, and it raised 520 million U.S. dollars. Roblox’s market value once surpassed the old game company Electronic Arts (EA), and has been higher than Take-Two. The above two companies have significantly higher revenues and are profitable, while Roblox has been losing money for many years, and the loss has continued to expand. Data source: company financial reports, CNBC, US stock research agency It is really puzzling that such a company can go public and still have such a high market value. Why is Roblox so popular in the market? Why would investors chase such a highly valued company? 1 Roblox “meta universe” concept stock Many people may be unfamiliar with “Metaverse”, but those who have watched the popular movie “Number One Player” in 2018 must remember the “Oasis” game, which is the future “Metaverse” world. The term “meta universe” originated from the 1992 novel “Avalanche” by science fiction writer Neal Stephenson. The book describes the term “meta universe” as a virtual world parallel to human reality and society. With the rapid development of 3D, VR and AR technologies, the “meta universe” is gradually evolving into the “real world” in the virtual environment. People in the real society can use digital identities to entertain, consume, socialize, and create in the virtual world. , Earn money, etc., you can also shuttle between different scenes. With the help of the epidemic, the boundary between the virtual world and the real society is slowly being broken. In April 2020, American singer Travis Scott held a concert in the sandbox game “Fortnite”, which was watched by more than 12 million players. The concert lasted for about 10 minutes. The realistic character modeling, stunning game scenes, and the changing venues (from land, water to outer space) with the sound of singing presented a rich sense of hierarchy, giving players a strong sense of immersion. It’s unprecedented. In addition, the University of California, Berkeley held a graduation ceremony in Microsoft’s “Minecraft”. Graduates participated in virtual images. In addition, the world’s top AI academic conference held the 2020 seminar on Nintendo’s “Animal Crossing”, and speakers played manuscripts and delivered speeches in the game. Games are not only an entertainment to pass the time and a spiritual sustenance to escape from reality, but also an extension of the real world. For the popular track of “Meta Universe”, in addition to game companies, many Internet companies have already deployed. Facebook acquired virtual reality company Oculus for US$2 billion in 2014. Facebook CEO Zuckerberg said that VR will first change the game, then digital social, and then the world. Facebook has launched a beta version of the VR social platform “Horizon”, and plans to release the first AR glasses in the second half of this year. Among the many companies that have entered the track, Roblox is the first company to include “Meta Universe” in its prospectus, and is known as the “Meta Universe” concept stock. Roblox mentioned that some people call our category “meta universe”, a term that is usually used to describe the persistent, shared, three-dimensional virtual space in the virtual universe. With the emergence of more and more powerful computing devices, cloud computing, and high-bandwidth Internet connections, the “meta universe” will gradually become a reality. In addition, Roblox also proposed eight key features leading to the “meta universe”, namely Identity, Friends, Immersiveness, Low Friction, Variety , Anywhere (anywhere), Economy (economy), Civility (civilization). This is also the first commercial company to try to describe the characteristics of “meta universe” in general. Data source: Roblox Roblox co-founder and CEO David Baszucki once stated that “meta universe” is a virtual space where people can spend a lot of time working, entertaining and learning. He has also talked about the vision of the “meta universe” many times, “When you study the civil war, long ago, you would study the encyclopedia. Now, people will watch videos or books. In the future, imagine that you can participate in the civil war. , Experience and understand for yourself.” “In the future, Roblox users will not only be able to read books about ancient Rome on the platform, but they can even visit the historical city reconstructed in the’meta universe’ and wander around the city.” A 21-year-old game developer who has been creating in Roblox for 10 years believes that Roblox will become a realistic version of the “Oasis” in “Ready Player One”. Although the current Roblox is far from being as realistic as the “oasis”, and even a bit rudimentary, some basic elements that constitute the “meta universe”, such as virtual scenes, reality clones, social networks, and economic systems, already exist. The development of the “virtual playground” has been established. During the epidemic, Roblox’s explosive growth kicked off the “meta universe”, allowing the market and investors to see more possibilities for Roblox. The hurricane of Roblox’s market value has also completely ignited the “meta universe”. Game companies with related concepts are more likely to obtain high valuations than established game manufacturers. Even the non-game industry wants to catch the “meta universe” concept. The social software Soul recently stated that it is a “social meta-universe.” An investor described the enthusiasm of this concept in the capital market by “hearing’meta universe’, with two eyes shining”. However, Baszucki, who has many years of entrepreneurial and management experience and experienced the ups and downs of user-generated content (UGC) games, said that this is still a way away from the fully immersive digital community originally envisioned. So, how did the highly anticipated Roblox gain the favor of children step by step? 2 Roblox sticks to long-term goals Open the Roblox application, and at first glance, you will think that this is a Lego-style sandbox game. In fact, in addition to the 3D client for players as a whole, Roblox also has Studio toolsets for developers and cloud services to ensure the effective operation of the platform. Roblox has built a UGC game platform. Developers can use the tools in Studio to create games or various experiences, and even benefit from them. Players can play games and socialize in this virtual world. Many Roblox users are both developers and players. As early as the end of the last century, Roblox co-founder Baszucki had a deep understanding and practice of educational technology. In 1989, Baszucki founded an educational technology company called Knowledge Revolution. They established an online laboratory and developed a software that simulates a physical experiment environment. Students can use the software to simulate levers, ramps, pulleys, and ejections. Physical experiments such as sports. Baszucki found that children not only use this software to solve physical problems, but also use it to try to simulate crashes, building collapses, etc. He said that the fun of experiments is that students can set experiments and explore independently. Compared with the content in the physics book, the children’s own creativity is more interesting. In 1998, Knowledge Revolution was acquired by engineering software development company MSC Software for US$20 million and turned it into engineering simulation software. After that, Baszucki invested in Friendster and got in touch with and understood social networks earlier than Facebook and MySpace. The above experience of Baszucki laid the two core foundations for the creation of Roblox, namely the toolbox and social scenes that support creativity, plus his interest and accumulation in virtual environments, games, education, digital identity, and the future of technology. Roblox in 2004 The company was born. In view of the gradual development of various aspects of the market, such as the adoption of broadband, the improvement of hardware, the development of multiplayer games, the recovery of the Silicon Valley ecosystem, etc., around 2004, large-scale games ushered in a period of vigorous development, and various game companies have tried various Kind of development strategy. In the early days, Roblox did not have a distinctive direction or vision. Baszucki recalled that we had a few false starts, but in the end we thought that we must make a completely unified product. In the end, Roblox decided to make a UGC game platform. However, in that era of enthusiastic gaming, it is not easy not to imitate a successful company and stick to its own position. Due to the very high degree of overlap of the user group, the number of users of “Minecraft” released in 2009 quickly surpassed Roblox, and in 2013 its paying users reached 10 million. Early Roblox employees recalled that friends, acquaintances, and colleagues chatted in your ears and said, maybe you can do this. Roblox’s vice president of technology said that this requires a certain amount of perseverance, not just copying “Minecraft”, and then saying that this is a better game, and we want to do more than just a game. The managing partner of Greylock Partners said that I rarely see people like Baszucki who are focused on mission, vision and long-term vision. He was under tremendous pressure, and when he truly understood what needed to be realized, he never wavered. After clarifying the company’s positioning, Roblox created game development tools, operated servers that support these tools, established a portal website, and built social systems such as communications, message boards, and private messages. Because the Roblox game engine is very simple to use, and the game characters similar to Lego blocks are very attractive, many young players have begun to try to make their own games. Gradually, a variety of games full of fantastic ideas appeared on the Roblox platform, including all kinds of role-playing, shooting, simulation and construction games. At the same time, the company has also developed some regular entertainment games for players, and the Roblox game library has become more and more substantial. When there were enough players and game developers on the platform, the company stopped its own game development in 2008 and launched the virtual currency Robux on the platform. In 2013, Roblox provided developers with virtual goods. After that, Roblox continued to optimize this set of real-world currency trading systems. For developers, Robux can be earned in four ways, namely, selling paid games developed by themselves, earning players’ time sharing on free games developed by themselves, paying for content and tools transactions between developers, and selling virtual games on the platform. commodity. For example, 21-year-old Alex has been creating games on Roblox since he was 9 years old. At the age of 17, he made a game “Prison Break” which has been played 4 billion times in total, relying on the skins and props in this game. Waiting for sales, Alex can earn millions of dollars every year. At the same time, Roblox is actively deploying the VR field. Since the opening of the VR function in 2016, it has gradually realized the cross-platform and cross-device adaptation of VR games. Players can experience VR games through computers, mobile phones, Xbox, and Oculus. Roblox has always paid great attention to the improvement of game technology and picture quality. In recent years, Roblox has devoted more energy to educational expansion and globalization. Roblox opened the summer programming summer camp activities, provided teachers with free online programming courses, purchased offline programming training courses, etc. In 2019, Roblox and Tencent formally reached a strategic cooperation to introduce Roblox into China. Tencent brings it into the school as a STEAM education course and teaches programming on the Roblox platform. On the road to globalization, Roblox hopes that in the future, users from different countries can chat and interact in their native language. The company has invested a lot of resources in research and development, using machine learning, crowdsourcing and traditional methods to help developers complete translation work as much as possible. Recently, Roblox has provided localization services for the first 150 games with translation in 5 languages. Currently, Roblox has landed in 180 countries and supports 11 languages. Since the launch of the game platform, there has been no viral inflection point or rapid realization of early investors. Roblox has been laying the foundation for its long-term development. For example, in order for the platform to run with native-level performance on devices such as iPhone, Android and Xbox, and require only a few engineers to maintain it, Roblox took hundreds of engineers to implement it for three years. The senior engineering director of the project said, I don’t know how many companies of our size are willing to spend such a long time and so many engineers to do this. For another example, because the Roblox team has maintained compatibility with existing games during continuous updates, almost all games developed on Roblox can still be played. After 15 years of development, in April 2019, Roblox’s monthly active users reached 90 million, bidding farewell to slow growth and entering a period of rapid development. 3 Challenges facing Roblox After the outbreak, Roblox increased activities such as viewing nearby players, online meetings, Party Place, and virtual concerts, which further promoted the development of online social networking and enhanced user stickiness. Sensor Tower data shows that in 2020 Roblox will have 160 million downloads on dual platforms (Apple Store, Google Play), and mobile platform revenue will exceed $1.1 billion, making it one of the “billion dollar clubs.” After years of development, Roblox has grown into a world-class gaming platform, and its monthly active users have surpassed its long-term competitor “Minecraft” (Roblox was 150 million in July 2020, and in October of the same year, “Minecraft” was 131 million). Niko Partners analysts said that millions of Roblox developers can create games on the platform and provide them to other users to play. This model creates a unique community that not only attracts new users, but also improves Old user stickiness. UGC creation is difficult to reflect value in the short term, but in the long term it may form an unimaginable huge potential and a difficult-to-replicate model. Industry insiders believe that the mutual promotion of UGC content and community effects is one of the main reasons for Roblox’s growth. Even with such results, Roblox still faces severe challenges. No one knows what will happen to the Roblox platform when the epidemic is over and the school reopens and the children return to real life. Roblox’s chief financial officer said that with the relaxation of epidemic restrictions, we expect the growth rate in 2021 to be much lower than the growth rate in 2020, but we believe that most of our core indicators will show absolute growth throughout the year. The game industry has never lacked competitors. Soon after Roblox went public, social gaming platform Rec Room completed a new round of financing of US$100 million, with a total valuation of US$1.25 billion. Founded in 2016, Rec Room currently has 15 million users, revenue has increased by 566% in the past year, there are more than 5 million exploreable game rooms, and more than 2 million players have created content. In addition to games, Rec Room has become the first choice for many activities, such as digital gatherings, creative courses, brainstorming, weddings, etc. The target user age of Rec Room is older than Roblox, and it allows players with zero programming skills to create games. Rec Room, which belongs to the concept of “meta universe”, will become Roblox’s biggest threat in the future. The industry generally believes that Roblox needs to change its low-age user structure to enhance profitability. At present, Roblox’s users are mostly teenagers, which shows that the existing platforms, including game graphics and character design, are not attractive to older users, and it is difficult to reverse the long-term loss of money. Even if the games on the platform are gradually satisfying the needs of more user groups, and the gender ratio of users is more balanced, due to the lack of adult players, Roblox’s size is difficult to match with game giants such as Activision Blizzard and EA. After all, the purchasing power of adults is even greater. Stronger, higher user value. Few companies are like Roblox, both a game engine and a game platform. Whether facing competition or optimizing user structure, Roblox needs to develop ideas and grasp the rhythm in various aspects such as development tools, user communities, and new technology introduction. Roblox is still a long way from the “meta universe”, the immersion shown in the movie, and the digital community for all, and there is still a long way to go. In the future, if Roblox’s user ecology achieves innovative development and reengineering, as users of primary and middle school students grow up and become more paying players and more creative developers, they can continue to stay on the platform and form a certain This kind of inheritance and virtuous circle, Roblox may lead children into the real “meta universe” world.

This is the 7th consecutive year, Viettel stands at the business position with the most awards. Although the year Sao Khue Awards had many nominations (294 records) and the first prize in the 18-year history of the organization, Viettel still accounted for 12% of the total number of nominees. With the mission of pioneering and key building a digital society, Viettel brings to Sao Khue 2021 products with 4.0 technology using Big Data technology such as the Data Operating System; Viettel AI Open Platform – Artificial intelligence platform, Cloud electronic one-stop system; … telecommunications network management solutions. ViettelSale’s sales management software of Viettel Post Corporation made a strong impression on BTC when the impressive growth figure of 5108% compared to 2019 (from a revenue of more than 7 billion VND in 2019 to 375 VND billion in 2020). S-tracking ship management system is in the top 10 best Sao Khue products. Products to help management agencies and fishermen trace the origin of seafood, limit illegal exploitation; Emergency warning when there is an incident, support the fastest rescue and rescue; Two-way communication between fishermen and relatives on shore. S-Tracking is being used by more than 3500 ships and boats, bringing the value of ~ 100 billion VND. The Sao Khue Award in 2021 with the theme “Digital transformation impulse – Connect and Share” attracted 9 units from 6 areas of digital transformation of Viettel Group to participate. Sao Khue is an annual award established in 2003 by the Vietnam Software and Information Technology Services Association (Vinasa), for outstanding software products and services of domestic enterprises. Sao Khue title 2020 focuses on digital transformation products that promote connection and sharing in Vietnam. In 2017, Viettel had 10 winning products, in 2018 there were 14 products, in 2019 there were 12 winning products and in 2020 Viettel had 21 winning products.

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The sinking market is becoming the backbone of online book consumption. On April 20, Pinduoduo released the “2020 Duoduo Reading Report” (hereinafter referred to as the “Report”), which demonstrated the new trend of online book consumption through platform big data analysis. The report shows that in 2020, consumers’ book orders on Pinduoduo will increase by more than 189%. Among them, Guangdong, Shandong, Henan and other populous provinces accounted for the top three in the country, while Xinjiang, Tibet and other large northwestern regions have the fastest growth rate. At the same time, book orders from rural areas increased by more than 180% year-on-year. Books as standard products are a category that cannot be bypassed by e-commerce platforms. After the epidemic, the scale of online book sales has further expanded. Relevant data shows that in the first quarter of this year, book retail sales increased by more than 30%, which was higher than the growth rate of national merchandise retail sales. The number of online market sales increased by 20% year-on-year. Pinduoduo, which has nearly 800 million active buyers, has made efforts to include the book category as a key subsidy, aiming at the sinking market to find increments. It is understood that on April 15th, Pinduoduo’s “Duo Duo Reading Month” announced the launch of a 50 million yuan reading fund, and dozens of publishing houses and book companies have jointly provided special subsidies for Chinese and foreign classics and best-selling books. Guangdong has the most “spelling books” Rural book transactions increased by more than 180% Since 2014, “Read for All” has been included in the government work report eight times in a row. The 2021 government work report pointed out that it is necessary to promote the integrated construction of urban and rural public cultural service systems, innovatively implement cultural benefits for the people, and advocate universal reading. Data from the Pinduoduo platform shows that reading for the whole people has gradually become a habit of new consumer groups. To a certain extent, in terms of geographical distribution, Guangdong, Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu and Hebei have become the places with the most “spelling books”, which is inseparable from the huge population base of each region. Reading does not distinguish between regions. Xinjiang and Tibet surpassed Shanghai and Beijing to become the regions with the fastest increase in the order volume of “Jianshu”. With the full popularity of online shopping, the Northwest has shown a higher enthusiasm than the first-tier cities in the acquisition of knowledge. The report also shows that the book order volume and transaction volume from rural areas both increased by more than 180% year-on-year; among them, the book order volume and book transaction volume growth rate of rural primary and secondary schools exceeded 152%. At the same time, thanks to the smooth flow of the “last mile” of rural logistics and the convenience of mobile payment, there has been “strong convection” of agricultural products entering cities and knowledge to the countryside, and more people are “struggling” to get rich and build beautiful villages. Readers in rural areas love to use fragmented time to read reference books. The report shows that this group of people are particularly fond of tool books. Among them, “Electrician’s Handbook”, “Vegetable Planting Collection”, “New Technology of Sheep Raising”, “Introduction to Car Maintenance” and “Efficient Pig Raising Technology” are among the most popular books. Science and technology, learning and teaching aids, etc. The fastest growth in category sales Paper books are the first choice for many people to read deeply. The 2020 Shanghai National Reading Survey Report shows that “the need for in-depth reading” and “the need for repeated reading” have become the two most important reasons for choosing paper books for reading. The report shows that in 2020, Pinduoduo will sell 100,000+ classic books, a year-on-year increase of 124%. This may be related to the increased reading time of consumers during the epidemic and the clear purpose of reading books. Specific to different types of books, the report shows that the sales of science and technology, learning aids, fiction and literature, and tool encyclopedia books grew the fastest last year. The most popular books on the platform cover four categories: inspirational, teaching aid, children, and poetry. Among them, the top 5 best-selling books after deduplication are “Murphy’s Law”, “Quan Excellent Golden Scroll”, “Three Hundred Tang Poems”, “Bad Habits Please Go Away”, and “365 Night Bedtime Stories”. It is worth noting that “Murphy’s Law” is the most sought after, because the law is not limited to a certain discipline, but describes a phenomenon in life. Specifically, it is related to people “the more they fear, the more they come.” “The experience fits well. This also aroused the user’s curiosity and helped the book top the bestseller list. While consumers love culture, they also love science. The report shows that the sales of science and technology books grew the fastest last year, with a year-on-year growth rate of over 282%; followed by learning aids, novels and literature, and tool encyclopedias, which increased by more than 202%, 170%, and 155% respectively. At the same time, for more and more young users, the four classics are indispensable. The report also shows that among the literary and fiction book orders, the post-95s and post-00s accounted for over 40%, which has exceeded the proportion of readers born after the 75s. Among them, the four famous novels and literature steadily ranked first in this category, followed by “Red Stars Shining on China”, “Twenty Thousand Miles under the Sea”, “How Steel is Made”, and “The Pickup of Flowers in the Morning” and so on. Classic masterpieces add 10 billion subsidies Minimum 2.5 yuan per book As the first vertical category to be e-commerceed, the e-commerce penetration rate of books has exceeded 60%. Online is undoubtedly an important position for book sales, and the scale of sales continues to expand. Especially under the influence of the epidemic, users’ demand for books has increased. Relevant data shows that in the first quarter of this year, book retail sales increased by more than 30%, which was higher than the growth rate of national merchandise retail sales. The number of online market sales increased by 20.84% ​​year-on-year. It is worth noting that as Amazon China previously stopped selling paper books, the domestic book e-commerce pattern has changed. While players consolidate their positions, they intend to attract users through more diverse gameplay. It is understood that on March 31, Pinduoduo officially launched the “Duoduo Reading Month” large-scale knowledge inclusive action, centered on the concept of “good books at affordable prices for all people”, set up a 50 million reading fund, and strengthened cooperation with authoritative publishing houses and book dealers. . Up to now, more than 2,700 publishing houses, book companies, and channel merchants have entered the platform such as Dangdang, CITIC Publishing House, Knowledge Publishing House, and Motie. From April 15 to April 30, “Duo Duo Reading Month” launched a large-scale tens of billions of subsidy activities. More than a dozen senior editors received the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Hugo Prize, the Mao Dun Prize for Literature, and the best-selling list on the Internet. A list of more than a thousand high-quality books was screened out, and genuine classics were subsidized on the basis of low prices across the entire network. Among them, “Historical Records”, “Wanli Fifteen Years”, “Country China”, “Social Contract Theory”, “A Brief History of Chinese Philosophy”, “Flying Bird Collection” and thousands of genuine good books are listed on the 10 billion subsidy channel. This is 2.5 yuan. The person in charge of “Duo Duo Reading Month” stated that the “Knowledge Inclusive Action” is dedicated to “reading with classics”. The subsidized books are from the Commercial Press, Sanlian Bookstore, People’s Literature Publishing House, CITIC Publishing House, Zhonghua Book Company, etc. Many classic masterpieces. It is understood that users can “buy” books at preferential prices from the reading list compiled on the platform through the Pinduoduo APP’s tens of billions of subsidy channels or search for “Reading Month” and “Duodu Reading Month”. Industry insiders pointed out that this is the largest “knowledge inclusive action” carried out by Pinduoduo to date. “In the past year, the e-commerce penetration rate of the book industry has been close to 60%, but there are still a large number of emerging reading groups that have not been fully satisfied.” , Voucher issuance threshold, no need to compare prices, direct subsidies, in order to further lower the reading threshold, promote the inclusive of knowledge, so that more “book spellers” can truly enjoy the joy of reading. The above-mentioned person in charge also mentioned that in the next step, the platform will continue to increase subsidies for genuine good books, meet consumer demand in various ways, provide diversified support for the introduction of high-quality creators, and work with all parties to promote ” Fair consumption and universal knowledge”. Written by: Southern Metropolis reporter Huang Pei

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From the disk observation, the Australian stock market ended its two consecutive days of decline today. From the perspective of sectors, all sectors generally rebounded, getting rid of the impact of the sharp drop in the e-commerce group Redbubble.

ASX200 Today’s chart

Today, the exchange volume of ASX stocks reached 5 billion shares, and the turnover reached 7.2 billion Australian dollars. The price and volume were significantly reduced compared with yesterday. 724 stocks rose, 614 fell, and 415 closed flat.

The Australian dollar fell to 77.00 US cents yesterday and then rebounded, and today it is consolidating around 77.50 US cents. As of press time, the highest is 77.65 cents and the lowest is 77.39 cents.

To a certain extent, the difference between the above two benchmark indexes was caused by the sharp decline of Redbubble. Redbubble is a component of the common stock index, but has not yet been included in the ASX200 index. The company announced today that the CEO hopes to sacrifice profits to stimulate revenue. This move caused investor dissatisfaction, causing the stock to plummet 23% to 4.24 Australian dollars, the lowest closing price since November last year.

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In terms of sector performance, the medical sector led the gains with a 1.7% increase, followed closely by the information technology sector, which rebounded after weakening on Wednesday. Among the 11 major sectors, only two experienced declines. Among them, the energy sector fell by 0.7%, and the utility sector declined slightly.

In terms of individual stocks, Megaport, a network-as-a-service (NaaS) service provider, performed the best today, with its stock soaring 9.7% to A$12.84, a two-month high. The company’s first quarter results show that it is expected to achieve its revenue target for this fiscal year. Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) analysts said that thanks to the support of new customers, including two large media customers, the company is expected to achieve about A$80 million in revenue this fiscal year.

Construction and engineering company Monadelphous was the second-best performing stock today, with its share price rising 5.8% to A$11.93. This was followed by resources company Westgold Resources, whose share price climbed 5.7% to A$2.40, a new high since January.

Mining company Pilbara performed the worst among the ASX200 stocks, dropping 10.8% to 1.15 Australian dollars today. Macquarie analysts said the company’s third-quarter performance indicators were mixed. Spodumene production was 7% higher than market expectations, but shipments were blocked and sales were 9% lower than expected.

Security Group (AMP), which changed its CEO this month, also performed poorly. The stock fell 3.4% today and closed at A$1.12.

After the sudden resignation of CEO Brett Redman, the energy group AGL’s share price fell by nearly 2.9% to A$8.80, a record low since 2004.

The share price of Lynas, a leading rare earth company, fell continuously, and today fell again sharply by 4.2% to A$5.31, the lowest level since February.

Reference: Australian Financial Review

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1 The global stock market underperformed, the Australian market continued to decline, the financial sector led the decline, and Nuix plunged by more than 15%

2 Investors profit-taking, the market erases the three-day gains, raw materials and financial sectors lead the decline, the market is not pessimistic

3 The Australian Index is once again close to historical highs, new highs are in sight, bank stocks are sought after, energy stocks are weak

4 This week, the broader market rose, technology stocks led the gains, and the Australian index hit a new record high after the epidemic is just around the corner

5 The employment data is stronger than expected, the Australian index will rise again, and the raw material sector is trending strongly. The historical high is not far away.

6 The economy is expected to be optimistic, and the market will hit another 7000 points. Technology stocks soared. Many stocks hit record highs.

“Ping An’s technology strategy continues to deepen, and its technology business maintains rapid development.” The relevant person in charge said. It is reported that as of the end of March 2021, the company’s number of scientific and technological patent applications has increased by 1,100 from the beginning of the year, reaching a total of 32,500, ranking it among the top international financial institutions.

“Ping An of China was the first to implement digitalization in China’s insurance industry, and the investment was the largest, and the results were the best. In the past, the effect of technology investment was obvious, so the income of the technology sector has gradually increased substantially.” China Insurance and Insurance and Insurance Group of Wudaokou School of Finance, Tsinghua University Zhu Junsheng, research director of the Pension Research Center, spoke highly of Ping An’s technology sector and believed that this was a positive result of the company’s firm implementation of its digital transformation strategy over the past years.

At the same time, according to the first quarterly report, Ping An achieved operating profit of 39.120 billion yuan attributable to shareholders of the parent company, an increase of 8.9% year-on-year; annualized operating ROE (return on equity) reached 20.0%.

In terms of customer operating performance, the first quarterly report showed that as of the end of March this year, the number of Ping An’s personal customers exceeded 220 million, an increase of 1.0% from the beginning of the year; among them, the number of individual customers holding contracts with multiple subsidiaries was 84.57 million, accounting for 38.3. %. In the first quarter of 2021, the scale of group business comprehensive financial financing increased by 84.9% year-on-year.

Business value increased by 15.4% year-on-year to 18.980 billion yuan; operating profit increased steadily by 4.2% year-on-year to 25.580 billion yuan. At the same time, according to a quarterly report, Ping An’s life insurance reform project has entered the stage of comprehensive promotion and implementation. In this regard, Zhu Junsheng commented that it will take time for Ping An’s personal insurance reform strategy to pass down, and the reform effect is gradually showing.

In terms of property and casualty insurance business, in the first quarter of 2021, Ping An Property and Casualty’s comprehensive cost ratio was 95.2%, a year-on-year decrease of 1.3 percentage points; operating profit was 5.119 billion yuan, an increase of 15.2%; the “Ping An Good Car Owner” APP is the largest car in China Service APP, as of the end of March this year, the number of registered users exceeded 133 million, an increase of 5.1% from the beginning of the year.

Regarding the decline in the comprehensive cost rate of Ping An Property & Casualty Insurance, Zhu Junsheng analyzed that the company’s strong risk control management and good customer segmentation led to a decline in the comprehensive cost rate. Therefore, it still achieved better operating performance under the background of the comprehensive reform of auto insurance.

In terms of asset allocation of insurance fund investment portfolios, the first quarterly report shows that as of March 31, 2021, the scale of Ping An Insurance’s investment portfolio reached 3.78 trillion yuan, an increase of 1.1% from the beginning of the year. At the same time, the annualized net investment rate of return on the company’s insurance fund investment portfolio in the first quarter was 3.5%, and the annualized total investment rate of return was 3.1%.