A global conference on the digital economy has opened in Beijing. The event was organized by the People's Government of Beijing, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Industry and Informatization of the People's Republic of China, as well as the State Chancellery of Internet Information, China Daily reports.

In four hours of work, 5 million users have registered in the analogue of Twitter from Meta — the new social network Threads. This was announced by the co-founder of Meta Corporation Mark Zuckerberg on his page in Threads.

The Lyndon Johnson Space Center of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration has launched an experiment to simulate the presence of people in the conditions of Mars.

The original 2007 iPhone with 4 GB of internal memory in intact factory packaging was put up for auction by chipboard Auctions. The value of the lot was $100,000.

Fusion electric bike with built-in artificial intelligence was presented in China. It is developed by Utopia.

In Russia, they began to monitor the condition of patients using messengers. An innovative system for remote monitoring of patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) using messengers was developed by specialists of the I. M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, the Izvestia newspaper reports.

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta company will launch a new Threads platform based on Instagram, which will become a direct competitor to Elon Musk's Twitter, writes the BBC.

Apple has decided to reduce plans for the release of augmented reality headsets Vision Pro from 1 million to 400 thousand units in 2024, writes the Financial Times.

Apple plans to introduce new features in the new versions of AirPods wireless headphones. Furthermore, AirPods will be taught to measure body temperature through the auricle, and they will be charged from the USB-C port.

China's telecom operators are demonstrating progress in using next generation 6G wireless mobile communication technology, China Daily reports.