� BYD After being written off by EV giant Tesla , BYD dethroned them as the world ’ s top seller of electric cars earlier this year . BYD has little brand recognition outside China , despite selling some 641,000 vehicles in the first half of 2022 .

One year after making its Protein Structure Database ( AlphaFold DB ) freely available to the world , AlphaFold has released its predictions for the shape of all proteins known to science .

In partnership with EMBL ’ s European Bioinformatics Institute ( EMBL-EBI ), AlphaFold expects its database to grow from 1mn to over 200mn structures as research continues .

This advancement in artificial intelligence ( AI ) will transform scientific knowledge on a global level . As researchers continue using the AlphaFold DB to gain fresh insights into proteins , our knowledge of bacteria , plant and animal structures will increase – as will our understanding of how to overcome important global issues , such as sustainability and disease .

Already , more than 500,000 researchers have made use of the AlphaFold DB to begin tackling global issues . From plastic pollution to antibiotic resistance , protecting honey bees to looking deeper into the origins of life itself , the possibilities of AlphaFold DB ’ s uses are endless .

� APPLE Apple reported higherthan-expected profit and sales , with demand for iPhones holding steady . Sales and profit for the quarter were US $ 83bn and US $ 1.20 a share , according to Apple , surpassing Wall Street expectations .

� META Meta , Facebook ’ s parent company , has reported a loss of US $ 2.8bn on Reality Labs , its metaverse project . The metaverse arm has now missed on profits for the second quarter in a row .

� ALPHABET Alphabet reported weakerthan-expected earnings and revenue for the second quarter . Revenue growth in the quarter slowed to 13 %, a drop from 62 % a year earlier , when the company was benefitting from a rise in consumer spending amid the post-pandemic reopening of society .

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