Weekly IT news overview
Leeco logo updated: show “Boss makes Cars in America”
Recently, the logo of the Android version of LeEco APP has been replaced with the words “Boss makes cars in America”, hinting at Jia Yueting, founder of LetV, who makes cars in America. Letv official reply: Since the Spring Festival, with the upgrade of the APP version of LetV, we have changed the APP icon five times, hoping to show the users who care about Letv that despite the current difficulties, the original intention of LetV to provide users with high-quality film and television content has not changed. In addition, Lev wrote a doggy poem: “There have always been masters in folk circles who named me Optimistic, Luo Pang douyin played Zhen Huan, and the boss made The Car America.
Qualcomm: Will take a stake in ARM if Nvidia’s acquisition fails
U.S. chip giant Qualcomm said it is open to the idea of investing in British chip designer Arm if regulators block Nvidia’s $40 billion acquisition of the company. Cristiano Amon, Qualcomm’s incoming chief executive, said his company would be willing to buy a stake in Arm, along with other industry investors such as SoftBank, if its current owners listed the company on the stock market rather than selling it to Nvidia.
Byd Wang Chuanfu: advised Lei Jun not to build cars is misread, and millet to negotiate cooperation
Wang Chuanfu, CEO and president of BYD, said it was a media misunderstanding that BYD urged Lei not to build cars, adding that Xiaomi and BYD have a good working relationship because BYD makes a lot of phones for Xiaomi. He also said BYD supports Xiaomi’s future development in the auto business, and will not only support, but also cooperate, and is currently negotiating some projects. ‘It’s important to choose a strategic direction, to avoid detours,’ he said.
The 2021 Apple Design Awards are here. Original Gods, League of Legends
It’s time for the annual Apple Design Awards. Over the past 20 years, more than 250 developers have received the awards. This year, Apple honored 12 more apps and games from developers around the world. The Original Gods and League of Legends won awards for visual excellence and technological innovation respectively.
70,000 people cheated out of 22.1 billion yuan in South Korean cryptocurrency scam
According to south Korean police, at least 70,000 people have been swindled out of about 3.85 trillion won, more than double the country’s total losses from cryptocurrency crimes over the past four years, making it the country’s biggest cryptocurrency scam in recent years. Under the guise of cryptocurrency investments, exchanges have been luring investors out of their money since August last year with short-term returns of 300% and using the funds of new investors to pay the investment returns of old users, which is a typical Ponzi scheme. Most of the victims were elderly people who were recruited by acquaintances and had little knowledge of cryptocurrencies. They invested their pensions and even mortgaged their property, including an elderly person who invested a total of more than 5.7 million yuan with a family of 12, and others who still believe they can make money back and do not want to report the scam to the police.
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Apple has admitted to interfering with the App Store algorithm by manually increasing search rankings for its apps
A 2019 WSJ/NYT survey found that Apple’s own apps consistently ranked ahead of competitors in the App Store. Apple claims it has done nothing wrong, saying its search ranking algorithm contains 42 variables and denying that it manually boosts rankings. But emails disclosed in Epic v. Apple’s lawsuit prove that Apple manually boosted search rankings for its own apps. In a 2018 email from Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney about Apple ranking its Files app ahead of Dropbox, Debankur Naskar, the executive in charge of app Store search, responded that the company had removed manual ranking. Matt Fischer, vp in charge of the App Store, revealed in an email that he’s not in favor of boosting the Files App rankings. Apple has now responded that the Files App’s higher ranking than Dropbox was the result of an error.
Microsoft has revealed that the on-off sound of Windows 11 is expected to return
In the latest warm-up, Microsoft has managed to slow down the startup music of Windows 95/XP/7 by 40 times (4,000%) to exactly 11 minutes, again hinting that the new Windows may be called Windows 11. Windows 8 from the beginning, the system boot sound was cancelled, the new preheat, it seems to mean that the switch sound will return, after all, distance from the launch of Windows 8 exactly 10 years, Microsoft CEO Nadella to Win11 positioning is the most important Windows update in the last 10 years.
In addition, the Windows 11 screenshots revealed so far show major changes to the taskbar. Microsoft has centered app ICONS, cleaned up the tray area, and included a new start button and menu.
Grafana 8.0 release: Enhanced monitoring new features, integrated alert system
Grafana Labs announced the release of Grafana 8.0, its data visualization web application platform, at its developer conference. The Grafana 8.0 product update has improved visualization, enhanced streaming panel functionality, and added a new unified alert system. A new Grafana Tempo 1.0 version of the project’s large-scale distributed tracing back end was also released.
In 2023, with the elimination of 32-bit, ARM will fully shift to 64-bit CPU architecture
ARM’s cortex-X2 /A710/A510 architecture is based on the recent release of the ARMv9 instruction set. This is a larger update to the ARMv8 that launched a decade ago, and a full move towards 64-bit instruction sets. ARM has made it even more clear that it intends to upgrade its instruction set to 64-bit. In an official statement, it stated that by 2023, all of ARM’s core architectures will be 64-bit and 32-bit instructions will be obsolete. As for the concerns that moving away from 32-bit would lead to compatibility issues, ARM believes that 64-bit is a mature technology and that moving into a pure 64-bit era is ok.
Google open source universal translator for holomorphic encryption
Google has announced that it is open source the first universal translator for fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) under the Apache License 2.0. Holomorphic encryption allows specific algebraic operations on the ciphertext to still result in encryption, just as the same operations on the plaintext are performed and the result is encrypted. This technology can retrieve and compare encrypted data without decrypting the data. Homomorphic encryption technology fundamentally solves the confidentiality problem when entrusting data and its operation to a third party. Today’s files are typically encrypted for transfer and storage and decrypted for use, creating security vulnerabilities that FHE addresses. FHE can also use sensitive data to train machine learning models in a private way.
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How do investors play with uncertainty in 2021?
“It was the worst year of the last decade, but it could be the best year of the next decade.” Meituan Wang Xing’s words are often quoted when people express concern about the uncertainty of the future. Experienced a significant cooling of the capital market in 2019 and the epidemic in 2020, the uncertainty of venture capital market further intensified. In 2021, has the investment and financing market come out of the winter? Will life get better or worse for primary market investors? Data can tell us everything.
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