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According to reports from several Russian media outlets, on the 4th day of February at 11:30:08 Moscow time (3:30:08 AM Eastern Time), 59-year-old Oleg Kononenko surpassed the record previously held by his compatriot Gennady Padalka. Padalka had spent 878 days, 11 hours, 29 minutes, and 48 seconds in space before retiring in 2017 after completing five spaceflight missions.

Elon Musk's startup company, Neuralink, has recently announced the successful execution of the first human brain chip implantation surgery, marking a significant breakthrough in the field of brain-machine interface technology. According to Musk's social media platform X, the surgery was completed on the 28th, with the patient being a paralyzed individual who is currently showing promising signs of recovery.

After two failed attempts, Japan successfully landed a spacecraft on the surface of the moon on the early morning of January 20, local time. With this achievement, Japan became the fifth country to complete a “soft landing” on the moon, following the United States, the former Soviet Union, China, and India.

Intel CEO Gelsinger said at the Davos Forum that China is about 10 years behind the global semiconductor industry in wafer manufacturing.

It's not that China can't continue to innovate, but semiconductors are a highly interconnected industry that includes lenses from Zeiss, equipment from Ashmore, chemicals and resists from Japan, and photomasks from Intel," Gelsinger said, adding that U.S. export sanctions will temporarily limit China's semiconductor process development to less than seven nanometers, putting its technology a decade behind the industry.

According to a study in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, commercially available bottled water contains an average of 240,000 plastic particles per liter, which is a hundred times higher than previous studies. According to experts, these potential nanoplastics are harmful synthetic chemicals that can enter the bloodstream through the digestive tract and lungs and penetrate vital organs, threatening our health.

U.S. private space robotics company Astrobotic said that the lunar lander "Peregrine", which lifted off with the new "Vulcan" rocket on August 8, has lost too much fuel and has no chance of making a soft landing on the moon, which is undoubtedly a major blow to the U.S.'s hopes of sending a lander to the moon for the first time in the past 50 years!

This year's (2024) Consumer Electronics Show (CES) will be held in Las Vegas from January 9-12, U.S. time. This year, the world's largest consumer electronics show, which is also the annual wind ball of the technology industry, is entering its 52nd year. According to the official website, more than 4,000 technology companies are exhibiting at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, and more than 130,000 people are expected to visit the show.

Space Exploration Technologies (Space X) conducted its second test launch of the unmanned space vehicle "Starship" into space on 18th, U.S. local time, however, it exploded and lost contact a few minutes after takeoff, and the spacecraft lost its signal afterward.