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The shares fell as much as 7.6%, the biggest intraday decline since March.</p>\n<p>Other operators fell in sympathy, with Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. tumbling as much as 7.1% and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. sinking 6.4%. Disney, whose business is more diversified, lost 1.9%. The cruise companies all sold shares during the pandemic to raise funds while they were shut down.</p>\n<p>Disney indefinitely delayed a trial cruise of its Disney Dream set for Tuesday after getting inconsistent results in its coronavirus testing. The ship was to sail with 300 volunteer crew members in a demonstration to U.S. authorities that it could manage under new virus protocols.</p>\n<p>Royal Caribbean successfully launched its first revenue-generating sailing out of the U.S. this past weekend. 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The shares fell as much as 7.6%, the biggest intraday decline since March.\nOther operators fell in sympathy, with Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. tumbling as much as 7.1% and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. sinking 6.4%. Disney, whose business is more diversified, lost 1.9%. The cruise companies all sold shares during the pandemic to raise funds while they were shut down.\nDisney indefinitely delayed a trial cruise of its Disney Dream set for Tuesday after getting inconsistent results in its coronavirus testing. The ship was to sail with 300 volunteer crew members in a demonstration to U.S. authorities that it could manage under new virus protocols.\nRoyal Caribbean successfully launched its first revenue-generating sailing out of the U.S. this past weekend. 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But if you're in the country, like in the middle of nowhere and you're getting pathetic internet service, then it's definitely a competitor.\"</p>\n<p>For billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk - founder of electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Inc - the success of <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a> of his biggest bets may come down to just how many people like Joyce are out there.</p>\n<p>Musk on Tuesday is expected to discuss Starlink's progress in a speech at the Mobile World Congress telecommunications event, an audience with a lot a stake in fate of Starlink. If the service is successful, it could vastly expand the reach of broadband internet around the world, connect Tesla vehicles, and even provide a new platform for traders and others with exotic internet needs, people familiar with the Starlink plan said.</p>\n<p>But to do that, it must avoid the fate of similar satellite ventures that have preceded it.</p>\n<p>\"Not bankrupt, that would be a big step,\" Musk said last year. \"That's our goal.\"</p>\n<p>SpaceX's Starlink division launched its \"Better Than Nothing Beta program\" in the United States last October, with data speeds up to a competitive 150 megabits per second. Early reviews are mixed, with some users complaining of the problems that have always plagued satellite internet: sensitivity to weather.</p>\n<p>Recent heat waves have caused new problems.</p>\n<p>\"I'm gonna have to spray it with a garden hose to reboot my internet... That just feels so wrong,\" a Reddit user who said he lives in Arizona posted earlier this month, along with an error message saying \"Offline: Thermal shutdown\" and \"Starlink will reconnect after cooling down\".</p>\n<p>SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell in April said the firm has \"a lot of work to do to make the network reliable\". The company on Tuesday did not have an immediate comment.</p>\n<p>Service should improve with more satellites and other improvements: Starlink has launched over 1,700 of its 260 kilogram satellites so far, and envisions more than 40,000.</p>\n<p>The economics are daunting nonetheless. Musk has said Starlink could serve less than 5% of internet users and still generate $30 billion a year in revenue. Critics called that wishful thinking.</p>\n<p>\"Is the demand there for tens of millions of subscribers at that price point?\" asked analyst Tim Farrar, president at TMF Associates. \"In most parts of the world, if you said to someone, your broadband service will cost you 100 U.S. dollars a month, they'd be like, incredulous.\"</p>\n<p>He said there might be wealthy people in isolated areas, \"but there's just not very many of those people\".</p>\n<p>He said Starlink would also struggle for enough capacity to support that level of demand, especially as people are consuming more data for video streaming. That would mean \"significant additional expenditure on upgrading the satellites and adding more satellites.\"</p>\n<p>RURAL SUBSIDIES</p>\n<p>Pricing pain could be eased by nearly $900 million in Federal Communications Commission subsidies earmarked for Starlink for bringing the internet to rural areas.</p>\n<p>Jonathan Hofeller, SpaceX's vice president, said COVID-19 highlighted the need for \"access to quality internet\" anywhere on the globe.</p>\n<p>Perhaps more importantly, Starlink said it can drive costs down by building its own terminals and satellites. It has hired engineers from chipmakers Broadcom Inc, Qualcomm Inc and others to design its own communications chips, a person familiar with the matter said - an approach similar to that taken by Tesla.</p>\n<p>Starlink has more than halved the terminal cost from $3,000 and expects it to be in a range of a few hundred dollars within the next year or two, Shotwell said in April.</p>\n<p>\"Lowering Starlink terminal cost, which may sound rather pedestrian, is actually our most difficult technical challenge,\" Musk tweeted last year.</p>\n<p>Starlink also benefits from SpaceX's low-cost launch capability.</p>\n<p>\"When you own pieces of the stack, you can do really technically sophisticated things at an affordable cost,\" said Misha Leybovich, a former Starlink sales director.</p>\n<p>Still, competition promises to be fierce. Amazon.com Inc subsidiary Kuiper has a directly competing project, while OneWeb - a collapsed satellite operator rescued by the British government and India's Bharti Group - has vowed to be in the game as well. Terrestrial telecom providers, meanwhile, are racing to deploy high-speed, fifth-generation (5G) broadband services.</p>\n<p>The rapid spread of wireless and terrestrial broadband, along with high prices, were significant factors in killing previous low-Earth-orbit satellite ventures. Motorola-backed <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/IRDMB\">Iridium Communications Inc</a> went through bankruptcy after billions of dollars in investment, while a similar fate met Teldesic, backed by Microsoft Corp founder Bill Gates.</p>\n<p>SpaceX, Amazon and a number of others have \"created quite a race that no <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE.U\">one</a> is absolutely sure whether there is a big enough market for it,\" Iridium Chief Executive Matthew J. Desch told Reuters. (Reporting by Hyunjoo Jin and Supantha Mukherjee; Editing by Jonathan Weber and Christopher Cushing)</p>","source":"yahoofinance","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Musk set to tout Starlink progress as cost, demand hurdles linger</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nMusk set to tout Starlink progress as cost, demand hurdles linger\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-06-29 13:20 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/focus-musk-set-tout-starlink-050041439.html><strong>Reuters</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>June 29 (Reuters) - Don Joyce, a Nokia director working from home at a remote lake cottage in Canada, recently abandoned his painfully slow phone-line internet in favor of satellite broadband service ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/focus-musk-set-tout-starlink-050041439.html\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"TSLA":"特斯拉"},"source_url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/focus-musk-set-tout-starlink-050041439.html","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5f26f4a48f9cb3e29be4d71d3ba8c038","article_id":"2147485958","content_text":"June 29 (Reuters) - Don Joyce, a Nokia director working from home at a remote lake cottage in Canada, recently abandoned his painfully slow phone-line internet in favor of satellite broadband service Starlink, offered by Elon Musk's SpaceX.\nStarlink, which cost him C$600 dollars (US$486) for hardware and a lofty C$150 monthly subscription, provides \"blindingly fast\" speeds when uploading videos or streaming movies, he said.\nBut the beta test customer said he experiences dropouts during calls on Microsoft Teams and Zoom.\n\"If you're in the city and you have alternatives, I wouldn't recommend it. But if you're in the country, like in the middle of nowhere and you're getting pathetic internet service, then it's definitely a competitor.\"\nFor billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk - founder of electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Inc - the success of one of his biggest bets may come down to just how many people like Joyce are out there.\nMusk on Tuesday is expected to discuss Starlink's progress in a speech at the Mobile World Congress telecommunications event, an audience with a lot a stake in fate of Starlink. If the service is successful, it could vastly expand the reach of broadband internet around the world, connect Tesla vehicles, and even provide a new platform for traders and others with exotic internet needs, people familiar with the Starlink plan said.\nBut to do that, it must avoid the fate of similar satellite ventures that have preceded it.\n\"Not bankrupt, that would be a big step,\" Musk said last year. \"That's our goal.\"\nSpaceX's Starlink division launched its \"Better Than Nothing Beta program\" in the United States last October, with data speeds up to a competitive 150 megabits per second. Early reviews are mixed, with some users complaining of the problems that have always plagued satellite internet: sensitivity to weather.\nRecent heat waves have caused new problems.\n\"I'm gonna have to spray it with a garden hose to reboot my internet... That just feels so wrong,\" a Reddit user who said he lives in Arizona posted earlier this month, along with an error message saying \"Offline: Thermal shutdown\" and \"Starlink will reconnect after cooling down\".\nSpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell in April said the firm has \"a lot of work to do to make the network reliable\". The company on Tuesday did not have an immediate comment.\nService should improve with more satellites and other improvements: Starlink has launched over 1,700 of its 260 kilogram satellites so far, and envisions more than 40,000.\nThe economics are daunting nonetheless. Musk has said Starlink could serve less than 5% of internet users and still generate $30 billion a year in revenue. Critics called that wishful thinking.\n\"Is the demand there for tens of millions of subscribers at that price point?\" asked analyst Tim Farrar, president at TMF Associates. \"In most parts of the world, if you said to someone, your broadband service will cost you 100 U.S. dollars a month, they'd be like, incredulous.\"\nHe said there might be wealthy people in isolated areas, \"but there's just not very many of those people\".\nHe said Starlink would also struggle for enough capacity to support that level of demand, especially as people are consuming more data for video streaming. That would mean \"significant additional expenditure on upgrading the satellites and adding more satellites.\"\nRURAL SUBSIDIES\nPricing pain could be eased by nearly $900 million in Federal Communications Commission subsidies earmarked for Starlink for bringing the internet to rural areas.\nJonathan Hofeller, SpaceX's vice president, said COVID-19 highlighted the need for \"access to quality internet\" anywhere on the globe.\nPerhaps more importantly, Starlink said it can drive costs down by building its own terminals and satellites. It has hired engineers from chipmakers Broadcom Inc, Qualcomm Inc and others to design its own communications chips, a person familiar with the matter said - an approach similar to that taken by Tesla.\nStarlink has more than halved the terminal cost from $3,000 and expects it to be in a range of a few hundred dollars within the next year or two, Shotwell said in April.\n\"Lowering Starlink terminal cost, which may sound rather pedestrian, is actually our most difficult technical challenge,\" Musk tweeted last year.\nStarlink also benefits from SpaceX's low-cost launch capability.\n\"When you own pieces of the stack, you can do really technically sophisticated things at an affordable cost,\" said Misha Leybovich, a former Starlink sales director.\nStill, competition promises to be fierce. Amazon.com Inc subsidiary Kuiper has a directly competing project, while OneWeb - a collapsed satellite operator rescued by the British government and India's Bharti Group - has vowed to be in the game as well. Terrestrial telecom providers, meanwhile, are racing to deploy high-speed, fifth-generation (5G) broadband services.\nThe rapid spread of wireless and terrestrial broadband, along with high prices, were significant factors in killing previous low-Earth-orbit satellite ventures. Motorola-backed Iridium Communications Inc went through bankruptcy after billions of dollars in investment, while a similar fate met Teldesic, backed by Microsoft Corp founder Bill Gates.\nSpaceX, Amazon and a number of others have \"created quite a race that no one is absolutely sure whether there is a big enough market for it,\" Iridium Chief Executive Matthew J. Desch told Reuters. (Reporting by Hyunjoo Jin and Supantha Mukherjee; Editing by Jonathan Weber and Christopher Cushing)","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":279,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"hots":[{"id":159105963,"gmtCreate":1624945558352,"gmtModify":1703848574556,"author":{"id":"3587018467509677","authorId":"3587018467509677","name":"Muskmelon","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3587018467509677","authorIdStr":"3587018467509677"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Wonder why","listText":"Wonder why","text":"Wonder why","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/159105963","repostId":"1113711731","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1113711731","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1624937958,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1113711731?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-06-29 11:39","market":"us","language":"en","title":"NIO Stock Is Going Nuts. This Is the Best Explanation.","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1113711731","media":"Barrons","summary":"Stock in Chinese electric vehicle maker NIO is on fire. While a surge in the volume of options tradi","content":"<p>Stock in Chinese electric vehicle maker&nbsp;NIO&nbsp;is&nbsp;on fire. While a surge in the volume of options trading isn’t a perfect explanation for the rally, it certainlyhelped shares soaron Monday.</p>\n<p>NIO (ticker: NIO) stock gained almost 10% Monday and shares are up 28% over the past month. The&nbsp;S&amp;P 500,for comparison, rose 0.2% Monday and is up 2% over the past month. Call options volume, which rose almost 200% on Monday compared to Friday, is perhaps the biggest reason NIO shares might be more volatile.</p>\n<p>Call options give the holder the right to buy a stock at a fixed price. (Buying a call is a bullish take on the underlying stock.) Brokers will sell and trade options contracts because they want to earn a commission on a trade. But brokers don’t want to be short a call option, which means they’ll have to take a loss if the stock rises.</p>\n<p>One way brokers can hedge options positions is to buy the underlying stock. If a broker sells a call and buys the stock, they can earn the options commission and, if the stock rises, they can deliver the stock purchased to the call holder. In that scenario, the broker doesn’t have to buy shares at a higher price. That process is one way higher-than-average call buying can drive buying in the underlying stock.</p>\n<p>Other factors don’t seem to be at play. Wall Street, for example, can’t be credited with the rally. The average analystprice targetfor NIO stock is up about 1% over the past month and not much has happened to those targets since the companyreported earningsat the end of April. Looking back to that point, the average analyst price target has gone up about $1 to a little more than $59 a share.</p>\n<p>News doesn’t seem to be a credible reason for NIO’s rally, either. The last release on NIO’s website is fromJune 1when the company reported May deliveries. Those numbers relieved investors because the electric vehicle company maintained second-quarter delivery guidance despite a global automotive semiconductor shortage that has roiled the entire industry.</p>\n<p>NIO shares are now up 1% year to date. It’s been a wild ride so far in 2021. Based on recent trading, the ride will continue.</p>","source":"lsy1601382232898","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>NIO Stock Is Going Nuts. 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This Is the Best Explanation.\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-06-29 11:39 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.barrons.com/articles/nio-stock-options-volume-51624921009?siteid=yhoof2><strong>Barrons</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Stock in Chinese electric vehicle maker NIO is on fire. While a surge in the volume of options trading isn’t a perfect explanation for the rally, it certainlyhelped shares soaron Monday.\nNIO (ticker: ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.barrons.com/articles/nio-stock-options-volume-51624921009?siteid=yhoof2\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"NIO":"蔚来"},"source_url":"https://www.barrons.com/articles/nio-stock-options-volume-51624921009?siteid=yhoof2","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1113711731","content_text":"Stock in Chinese electric vehicle maker NIO is on fire. While a surge in the volume of options trading isn’t a perfect explanation for the rally, it certainlyhelped shares soaron Monday.\nNIO (ticker: NIO) stock gained almost 10% Monday and shares are up 28% over the past month. The S&P 500,for comparison, rose 0.2% Monday and is up 2% over the past month. Call options volume, which rose almost 200% on Monday compared to Friday, is perhaps the biggest reason NIO shares might be more volatile.\nCall options give the holder the right to buy a stock at a fixed price. (Buying a call is a bullish take on the underlying stock.) Brokers will sell and trade options contracts because they want to earn a commission on a trade. But brokers don’t want to be short a call option, which means they’ll have to take a loss if the stock rises.\nOne way brokers can hedge options positions is to buy the underlying stock. If a broker sells a call and buys the stock, they can earn the options commission and, if the stock rises, they can deliver the stock purchased to the call holder. In that scenario, the broker doesn’t have to buy shares at a higher price. That process is one way higher-than-average call buying can drive buying in the underlying stock.\nOther factors don’t seem to be at play. Wall Street, for example, can’t be credited with the rally. The average analystprice targetfor NIO stock is up about 1% over the past month and not much has happened to those targets since the companyreported earningsat the end of April. Looking back to that point, the average analyst price target has gone up about $1 to a little more than $59 a share.\nNews doesn’t seem to be a credible reason for NIO’s rally, either. The last release on NIO’s website is fromJune 1when the company reported May deliveries. Those numbers relieved investors because the electric vehicle company maintained second-quarter delivery guidance despite a global automotive semiconductor shortage that has roiled the entire industry.\nNIO shares are now up 1% year to date. It’s been a wild ride so far in 2021. Based on recent trading, the ride will continue.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":451,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":159109526,"gmtCreate":1624945218265,"gmtModify":1703848566952,"author":{"id":"3587018467509677","authorId":"3587018467509677","name":"Muskmelon","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3587018467509677","authorIdStr":"3587018467509677"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Great news","listText":"Great news","text":"Great news","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/159109526","repostId":"2147485958","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2147485958","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1624944041,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2147485958?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-06-29 13:20","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Musk set to tout Starlink progress as cost, demand hurdles linger","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2147485958","media":"Reuters","summary":"June 29 (Reuters) - Don Joyce, a Nokia director working from home at a remote lake cottage in Canada","content":"<p>June 29 (Reuters) - Don Joyce, a Nokia director working from home at a remote lake cottage in Canada, recently abandoned his painfully slow phone-line internet in favor of satellite broadband service Starlink, offered by Elon Musk's SpaceX.</p>\n<p>Starlink, which cost him C$600 dollars (US$486) for hardware and a lofty C$150 monthly subscription, provides \"blindingly fast\" speeds when uploading videos or streaming movies, he said.</p>\n<p>But the beta test customer said he experiences dropouts during calls on Microsoft Teams and <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ZM\">Zoom</a>.</p>\n<p>\"If you're in the city and you have alternatives, I wouldn't recommend it. But if you're in the country, like in the middle of nowhere and you're getting pathetic internet service, then it's definitely a competitor.\"</p>\n<p>For billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk - founder of electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Inc - the success of <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a> of his biggest bets may come down to just how many people like Joyce are out there.</p>\n<p>Musk on Tuesday is expected to discuss Starlink's progress in a speech at the Mobile World Congress telecommunications event, an audience with a lot a stake in fate of Starlink. If the service is successful, it could vastly expand the reach of broadband internet around the world, connect Tesla vehicles, and even provide a new platform for traders and others with exotic internet needs, people familiar with the Starlink plan said.</p>\n<p>But to do that, it must avoid the fate of similar satellite ventures that have preceded it.</p>\n<p>\"Not bankrupt, that would be a big step,\" Musk said last year. \"That's our goal.\"</p>\n<p>SpaceX's Starlink division launched its \"Better Than Nothing Beta program\" in the United States last October, with data speeds up to a competitive 150 megabits per second. Early reviews are mixed, with some users complaining of the problems that have always plagued satellite internet: sensitivity to weather.</p>\n<p>Recent heat waves have caused new problems.</p>\n<p>\"I'm gonna have to spray it with a garden hose to reboot my internet... That just feels so wrong,\" a Reddit user who said he lives in Arizona posted earlier this month, along with an error message saying \"Offline: Thermal shutdown\" and \"Starlink will reconnect after cooling down\".</p>\n<p>SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell in April said the firm has \"a lot of work to do to make the network reliable\". The company on Tuesday did not have an immediate comment.</p>\n<p>Service should improve with more satellites and other improvements: Starlink has launched over 1,700 of its 260 kilogram satellites so far, and envisions more than 40,000.</p>\n<p>The economics are daunting nonetheless. Musk has said Starlink could serve less than 5% of internet users and still generate $30 billion a year in revenue. Critics called that wishful thinking.</p>\n<p>\"Is the demand there for tens of millions of subscribers at that price point?\" asked analyst Tim Farrar, president at TMF Associates. \"In most parts of the world, if you said to someone, your broadband service will cost you 100 U.S. dollars a month, they'd be like, incredulous.\"</p>\n<p>He said there might be wealthy people in isolated areas, \"but there's just not very many of those people\".</p>\n<p>He said Starlink would also struggle for enough capacity to support that level of demand, especially as people are consuming more data for video streaming. That would mean \"significant additional expenditure on upgrading the satellites and adding more satellites.\"</p>\n<p>RURAL SUBSIDIES</p>\n<p>Pricing pain could be eased by nearly $900 million in Federal Communications Commission subsidies earmarked for Starlink for bringing the internet to rural areas.</p>\n<p>Jonathan Hofeller, SpaceX's vice president, said COVID-19 highlighted the need for \"access to quality internet\" anywhere on the globe.</p>\n<p>Perhaps more importantly, Starlink said it can drive costs down by building its own terminals and satellites. It has hired engineers from chipmakers Broadcom Inc, Qualcomm Inc and others to design its own communications chips, a person familiar with the matter said - an approach similar to that taken by Tesla.</p>\n<p>Starlink has more than halved the terminal cost from $3,000 and expects it to be in a range of a few hundred dollars within the next year or two, Shotwell said in April.</p>\n<p>\"Lowering Starlink terminal cost, which may sound rather pedestrian, is actually our most difficult technical challenge,\" Musk tweeted last year.</p>\n<p>Starlink also benefits from SpaceX's low-cost launch capability.</p>\n<p>\"When you own pieces of the stack, you can do really technically sophisticated things at an affordable cost,\" said Misha Leybovich, a former Starlink sales director.</p>\n<p>Still, competition promises to be fierce. Amazon.com Inc subsidiary Kuiper has a directly competing project, while OneWeb - a collapsed satellite operator rescued by the British government and India's Bharti Group - has vowed to be in the game as well. Terrestrial telecom providers, meanwhile, are racing to deploy high-speed, fifth-generation (5G) broadband services.</p>\n<p>The rapid spread of wireless and terrestrial broadband, along with high prices, were significant factors in killing previous low-Earth-orbit satellite ventures. Motorola-backed <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/IRDMB\">Iridium Communications Inc</a> went through bankruptcy after billions of dollars in investment, while a similar fate met Teldesic, backed by Microsoft Corp founder Bill Gates.</p>\n<p>SpaceX, Amazon and a number of others have \"created quite a race that no <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE.U\">one</a> is absolutely sure whether there is a big enough market for it,\" Iridium Chief Executive Matthew J. Desch told Reuters. (Reporting by Hyunjoo Jin and Supantha Mukherjee; Editing by Jonathan Weber and Christopher Cushing)</p>","source":"yahoofinance","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Musk set to tout Starlink progress as cost, demand hurdles linger</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nMusk set to tout Starlink progress as cost, demand hurdles linger\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-06-29 13:20 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/focus-musk-set-tout-starlink-050041439.html><strong>Reuters</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>June 29 (Reuters) - Don Joyce, a Nokia director working from home at a remote lake cottage in Canada, recently abandoned his painfully slow phone-line internet in favor of satellite broadband service ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/focus-musk-set-tout-starlink-050041439.html\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"TSLA":"特斯拉"},"source_url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/focus-musk-set-tout-starlink-050041439.html","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5f26f4a48f9cb3e29be4d71d3ba8c038","article_id":"2147485958","content_text":"June 29 (Reuters) - Don Joyce, a Nokia director working from home at a remote lake cottage in Canada, recently abandoned his painfully slow phone-line internet in favor of satellite broadband service Starlink, offered by Elon Musk's SpaceX.\nStarlink, which cost him C$600 dollars (US$486) for hardware and a lofty C$150 monthly subscription, provides \"blindingly fast\" speeds when uploading videos or streaming movies, he said.\nBut the beta test customer said he experiences dropouts during calls on Microsoft Teams and Zoom.\n\"If you're in the city and you have alternatives, I wouldn't recommend it. But if you're in the country, like in the middle of nowhere and you're getting pathetic internet service, then it's definitely a competitor.\"\nFor billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk - founder of electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Inc - the success of one of his biggest bets may come down to just how many people like Joyce are out there.\nMusk on Tuesday is expected to discuss Starlink's progress in a speech at the Mobile World Congress telecommunications event, an audience with a lot a stake in fate of Starlink. If the service is successful, it could vastly expand the reach of broadband internet around the world, connect Tesla vehicles, and even provide a new platform for traders and others with exotic internet needs, people familiar with the Starlink plan said.\nBut to do that, it must avoid the fate of similar satellite ventures that have preceded it.\n\"Not bankrupt, that would be a big step,\" Musk said last year. \"That's our goal.\"\nSpaceX's Starlink division launched its \"Better Than Nothing Beta program\" in the United States last October, with data speeds up to a competitive 150 megabits per second. Early reviews are mixed, with some users complaining of the problems that have always plagued satellite internet: sensitivity to weather.\nRecent heat waves have caused new problems.\n\"I'm gonna have to spray it with a garden hose to reboot my internet... That just feels so wrong,\" a Reddit user who said he lives in Arizona posted earlier this month, along with an error message saying \"Offline: Thermal shutdown\" and \"Starlink will reconnect after cooling down\".\nSpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell in April said the firm has \"a lot of work to do to make the network reliable\". The company on Tuesday did not have an immediate comment.\nService should improve with more satellites and other improvements: Starlink has launched over 1,700 of its 260 kilogram satellites so far, and envisions more than 40,000.\nThe economics are daunting nonetheless. Musk has said Starlink could serve less than 5% of internet users and still generate $30 billion a year in revenue. Critics called that wishful thinking.\n\"Is the demand there for tens of millions of subscribers at that price point?\" asked analyst Tim Farrar, president at TMF Associates. \"In most parts of the world, if you said to someone, your broadband service will cost you 100 U.S. dollars a month, they'd be like, incredulous.\"\nHe said there might be wealthy people in isolated areas, \"but there's just not very many of those people\".\nHe said Starlink would also struggle for enough capacity to support that level of demand, especially as people are consuming more data for video streaming. That would mean \"significant additional expenditure on upgrading the satellites and adding more satellites.\"\nRURAL SUBSIDIES\nPricing pain could be eased by nearly $900 million in Federal Communications Commission subsidies earmarked for Starlink for bringing the internet to rural areas.\nJonathan Hofeller, SpaceX's vice president, said COVID-19 highlighted the need for \"access to quality internet\" anywhere on the globe.\nPerhaps more importantly, Starlink said it can drive costs down by building its own terminals and satellites. It has hired engineers from chipmakers Broadcom Inc, Qualcomm Inc and others to design its own communications chips, a person familiar with the matter said - an approach similar to that taken by Tesla.\nStarlink has more than halved the terminal cost from $3,000 and expects it to be in a range of a few hundred dollars within the next year or two, Shotwell said in April.\n\"Lowering Starlink terminal cost, which may sound rather pedestrian, is actually our most difficult technical challenge,\" Musk tweeted last year.\nStarlink also benefits from SpaceX's low-cost launch capability.\n\"When you own pieces of the stack, you can do really technically sophisticated things at an affordable cost,\" said Misha Leybovich, a former Starlink sales director.\nStill, competition promises to be fierce. Amazon.com Inc subsidiary Kuiper has a directly competing project, while OneWeb - a collapsed satellite operator rescued by the British government and India's Bharti Group - has vowed to be in the game as well. Terrestrial telecom providers, meanwhile, are racing to deploy high-speed, fifth-generation (5G) broadband services.\nThe rapid spread of wireless and terrestrial broadband, along with high prices, were significant factors in killing previous low-Earth-orbit satellite ventures. Motorola-backed Iridium Communications Inc went through bankruptcy after billions of dollars in investment, while a similar fate met Teldesic, backed by Microsoft Corp founder Bill Gates.\nSpaceX, Amazon and a number of others have \"created quite a race that no one is absolutely sure whether there is a big enough market for it,\" Iridium Chief Executive Matthew J. Desch told Reuters. (Reporting by Hyunjoo Jin and Supantha Mukherjee; Editing by Jonathan Weber and Christopher Cushing)","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":279,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":159107282,"gmtCreate":1624945772546,"gmtModify":1703848577183,"author":{"id":"3587018467509677","authorId":"3587018467509677","name":"Muskmelon","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3587018467509677","authorIdStr":"3587018467509677"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Technology limitations","listText":"Technology limitations","text":"Technology limitations","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/159107282","repostId":"1136324953","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1136324953","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1624934427,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1136324953?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-06-29 10:40","market":"us","language":"en","title":"SoftBank Halts Production of $1,800 Pepper Humanoid Robot","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1136324953","media":"Bloomberg","summary":"SoftBank Group Corp.has suspended production of its Pepper robot, shelving for now a project Masayos","content":"<p>SoftBank Group Corp.has suspended production of its Pepper robot, shelving for now a project Masayoshi Son once personally championed as a symbol of his conglomerate’s ambitions in AI and technology.</p>\n<p>The Japanese company halted assembly of the 198,000 yen ($1,790) robot in August after inventory piled up, but may decide to resume production in future, a SoftBank spokeswoman said. It’s now in discussions with its French robotics unit, which employs about 330 people, on potential job reductions, she said. Reutersreportedearlier, citing unidentified sources, that SoftBank plans to cut roughly 50% of those positions in France by September.</p>\n<p>Pepper, SoftBank’s first foray into robotics, was marketed from 2014 as a home companion and store assistant. Touted as the first machine endowed with emotions, the company marketed Pepper aggressively from the U.S. to Japan, promising the gadget was sophisticated enough for tasks usually handled by clerks, receptionists and translators.</p>\n<p>While the robot was capable of expressing human-like body language, maintaining eye contact and engaging in limited small talk, it never caught on. Now, it looks like Pepper -- assembled by Taiwanese iPhone-makerHon Hai Precision Industry Co.-- is destined to joinHonda Motor Co.’s soccer-playing ASIMO andSony Group Corp.’s QRIO humanoids as the latest cool-but-impractical robot to come out of Japan.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a49b9c229e18ec7547949433a075e520\" tg-width=\"1000\" tg-height=\"666\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Pepper reminds travelers to social distance at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, in 2020.Photographer: Noriko Hayashi/Bloomberg</span></p>\n<p>SoftBank’s robotics group was created through the 2012 acquisition ofAldebaran Robotics SA. Its French engineers weresaidto have clashed with managers in Tokyo, including over complaints about unwieldy software. Pepper’s main selling point — the emotion engine — became a stumbling block after engineers found the robot pivoted between different states too rapidly and unnaturally. Only 27,000 units were ever made, Reuters reported.</p>\n<p>In 2018, SoftBank introduced a more practical robot called Whiz, which cleans floors for businesses. Although Pepper can move on wheels, it typically stays in place and lacks the sophistication of Whiz’s movement. When Pepper debuted,accordingto SoftBank executives, people frequently asked if it could vacuum.</p>","source":"lsy1584095487587","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>SoftBank Halts Production of $1,800 Pepper Humanoid Robot</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nSoftBank Halts Production of $1,800 Pepper Humanoid Robot\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-06-29 10:40 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-29/softbank-mothballs-once-hyped-1-800-pepper-humanoid-robot><strong>Bloomberg</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>SoftBank Group Corp.has suspended production of its Pepper robot, shelving for now a project Masayoshi Son once personally championed as a symbol of his conglomerate’s ambitions in AI and technology.\n...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-29/softbank-mothballs-once-hyped-1-800-pepper-humanoid-robot\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"SFTBY":"软银集团"},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-29/softbank-mothballs-once-hyped-1-800-pepper-humanoid-robot","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1136324953","content_text":"SoftBank Group Corp.has suspended production of its Pepper robot, shelving for now a project Masayoshi Son once personally championed as a symbol of his conglomerate’s ambitions in AI and technology.\nThe Japanese company halted assembly of the 198,000 yen ($1,790) robot in August after inventory piled up, but may decide to resume production in future, a SoftBank spokeswoman said. It’s now in discussions with its French robotics unit, which employs about 330 people, on potential job reductions, she said. Reutersreportedearlier, citing unidentified sources, that SoftBank plans to cut roughly 50% of those positions in France by September.\nPepper, SoftBank’s first foray into robotics, was marketed from 2014 as a home companion and store assistant. Touted as the first machine endowed with emotions, the company marketed Pepper aggressively from the U.S. to Japan, promising the gadget was sophisticated enough for tasks usually handled by clerks, receptionists and translators.\nWhile the robot was capable of expressing human-like body language, maintaining eye contact and engaging in limited small talk, it never caught on. Now, it looks like Pepper -- assembled by Taiwanese iPhone-makerHon Hai Precision Industry Co.-- is destined to joinHonda Motor Co.’s soccer-playing ASIMO andSony Group Corp.’s QRIO humanoids as the latest cool-but-impractical robot to come out of Japan.\nPepper reminds travelers to social distance at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, in 2020.Photographer: Noriko Hayashi/Bloomberg\nSoftBank’s robotics group was created through the 2012 acquisition ofAldebaran Robotics SA. Its French engineers weresaidto have clashed with managers in Tokyo, including over complaints about unwieldy software. Pepper’s main selling point — the emotion engine — became a stumbling block after engineers found the robot pivoted between different states too rapidly and unnaturally. Only 27,000 units were ever made, Reuters reported.\nIn 2018, SoftBank introduced a more practical robot called Whiz, which cleans floors for businesses. Although Pepper can move on wheels, it typically stays in place and lacks the sophistication of Whiz’s movement. 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The shares fell as much as 7.6%, the biggest intraday decline since March.</p>\n<p>Other operators fell in sympathy, with Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. tumbling as much as 7.1% and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. sinking 6.4%. Disney, whose business is more diversified, lost 1.9%. The cruise companies all sold shares during the pandemic to raise funds while they were shut down.</p>\n<p>Disney indefinitely delayed a trial cruise of its Disney Dream set for Tuesday after getting inconsistent results in its coronavirus testing. The ship was to sail with 300 volunteer crew members in a demonstration to U.S. authorities that it could manage under new virus protocols.</p>\n<p>Royal Caribbean successfully launched its first revenue-generating sailing out of the U.S. this past weekend. In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Chief Executive Officer Richard Fain said Monday that he expects most of the company’s ships to be sailing by year-end and that he was “amazingly happy” with bookings he’s seeing for the next two years.</p>","source":"yahoofinance","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Cruise Shares Tumble; Disney Delays Tuesday’s Trial Sailing</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nCruise Shares Tumble; Disney Delays Tuesday’s Trial Sailing\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-06-29 11:36 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cruise-shares-tumble-disney-delays-192455813.html><strong>Bloomberg</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>(Bloomberg) -- Cruise stocks fell after industry-leader Carnival Corp. announced an additional stock sale and Walt Disney Co. delayed a trial sailing.\nCarnival is selling as much as $500 million in ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cruise-shares-tumble-disney-delays-192455813.html\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"CCL":"嘉年华邮轮","DIS":"迪士尼","RCL":"皇家加勒比邮轮","CUK":"嘉年华存托凭证"},"source_url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cruise-shares-tumble-disney-delays-192455813.html","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5f26f4a48f9cb3e29be4d71d3ba8c038","article_id":"2147263832","content_text":"(Bloomberg) -- Cruise stocks fell after industry-leader Carnival Corp. announced an additional stock sale and Walt Disney Co. delayed a trial sailing.\nCarnival is selling as much as $500 million in stock, according to a filing Monday, with proceeds earmarked for the repurchase of its Carnival Plc shares and for general corporate purposes. The shares fell as much as 7.6%, the biggest intraday decline since March.\nOther operators fell in sympathy, with Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. tumbling as much as 7.1% and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. sinking 6.4%. Disney, whose business is more diversified, lost 1.9%. The cruise companies all sold shares during the pandemic to raise funds while they were shut down.\nDisney indefinitely delayed a trial cruise of its Disney Dream set for Tuesday after getting inconsistent results in its coronavirus testing. The ship was to sail with 300 volunteer crew members in a demonstration to U.S. authorities that it could manage under new virus protocols.\nRoyal Caribbean successfully launched its first revenue-generating sailing out of the U.S. this past weekend. In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Chief Executive Officer Richard Fain said Monday that he expects most of the company’s ships to be sailing by year-end and that he was “amazingly happy” with bookings he’s seeing for the next two years.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":324,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"lives":[]}