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Dealers who were able to hit their sales target will be rewarded with 666 yuan or roughly $93 for each car they sold. Given that BYD sold over 3 million EVs and hybrids, it is expected to out over 2 billion yuan, or roughly $281.7 million…

Drew Angerer / Getty Images A year ago, there was little holiday cheer at Affirm. The point-of-sale lender was confronting rising interest rates, recession fears and weakening consumer spending. Affirm shares ended 2022 down 90%, wiping out billions of dollars in market value.Affirm investors are wrapping up 2023 in a much different mood.The stock skyrocketed 430% in 2023, as of Wednesday's close, outperforming all other U.S. tech companies valued at $5 billion or more. The next-best performer was Coinbase, which shot up…

Gabriel “Sleepy” Huerta has been identified by testifying witnesses and confidential informants as an influential member of the Mexican Mafia, the prison-based organization that controls Latino gangs behind bars and on the streets of Southern California. But in a case brought this month, prosecutors accused Huerta of getting involved in a mundane squabble: A lost gun that led to a beat-down on the streets of his old neighborhood.Already serving 17 years to life for second-degree murder, Huerta, 64, is now charged with…

We already know David Corenswet is our new Superman, but who is DC’s new Batman? You know, the new, new Batman. Because Robert Pattinson is the old new Batman… Whatever. The point is someone has already thrown their name into the hat, and the fans are all for it. Reacher star Alan Ritchson is swirling as a prime contender for the part of the rebooted DCU’s Dark Knight, thanks to DC superfan and filmmaker Kevin Smith recently shouting him out as a great choice (he called Jack Reacher “Batman without a cape”). In an…

Last updated: December 1st, 2023 at 16:03 UTC+01:00 America's chip ban on Huawei has left the company unable to source advance chipsets, but it's working hard to find a way around these sanctions. It has already come up with a custom 7nm 5G-enabled chipset, thereby eliminating concerns that Huawei may no longer be able to make 5G phones after the ban. A state investment fund has reportedly become a close collaborator of Huawei in its mission to bypass these sanctions and build an independent chip network that the…

Chinese startup Li Auto sold more cars in October than Tesla's China business did in October, according to the China Passenger Car Association.Nurphoto | Getty ImagesBEIJING — Chinese startup Li Auto sold more cars than Tesla's China business did in October, according to the China Passenger Car Association.The startup sold a record 40,422 cars in October, far more than Tesla did at 28,626, association data showed Thursday.Li Auto also forecast it would keep delivering cars at a similar pace in the fourth quarter: Between…

Josh Ye / Reuters: Tencent reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to ~$21.4B, in line with ~$21.37B est., and net profit down 9% YoY to ~$5B, beating ~$4.7B est., as game sales recover — China's Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) said third-quarter revenue climbed 10%, as its games business staged a robust recovery … Josh Ye / Reuters: Tencent reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to ~$21.4B, in line with ~$21.37B est., and net profit down 9% YoY to ~$5B, beating ~$4.7B est., as game sales recover …

A team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge has developed a new technique that uses high-energy lasers to fine tune the properties of 3D-printed metal without compromising the complex shapes it forms.Additive or 3D printing is proving an increasingly powerful tool for engineering and manufacturing, but it's far from a panacea. In fact, it often has some major drawbacks that require new approaches to overcome.3D printing metal usually involves a machine that lays down thin layers of metal alloy in the form of…

Ben Otto / Wall Street Journal: JD.com reports Q3 revenue up 1.7% YoY to ~$33.98B, beating ~$33.81B est., and net profit up 33% YoY to ~$1.09B, beating ~$952M est., aided by cost controls — The bottom line was also boosted by nonoperating income — Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com beat analyst estimates for quarterly profit … Ben Otto / Wall Street Journal: JD.com reports Q3 revenue up 1.7% YoY to ~$33.98B, beating ~$33.81B est., and net profit up 33% YoY to ~$1.09B,…

Earlier this year, Danny Brown entered rehab. “My aunt had died, and my family was asking me for the money to put on a funeral,” he says. “But I didn’t have the money, and I didn’t know how to tell them. They knew I’d had the money. But I’d just pissed through it, getting fucked up and sniffing it up. I felt like a failure.”This was not even the rapper’s lowest moment. In 2020, living in his native Detroit, he was well aware that he could overdose on drugs contaminated with fentanyl – a powerful synthetic opioid – but he…