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Huawei Harmony OS2 has more than 30 million users, and gree will introduce hongmeng
According to media reports, the company’s official weibo account, Harmony OS2 has surpassed 30 million users since the upgrade began. Gree chairman Dong Mingzhu recently said, We will introduce Hongmeng OS in the future. Gree, one of the world’s top 500 traditional Chinese home appliance companies, has the largest market share in China’s air conditioning market, the report said. As the company is also in the smartphone business, it is highly likely to apply Hongmeng System to smartphones.
The iOS app tracking transparency feature allows mobile advertisers to target Android users more
As Apple implemented a framework on iOS, mobile advertisers began spending more to target Android users, which severely affected the amount of data that advertisers could collect on iPhone and iPad users. According to the Wall Street Journal, advertisers began reducing their spending on Apple’s platform in April after the company introduced its App Tracking Transparency framework, which requires all apps on iPhone and iPad to get user consent before tracking the activity of other apps. Without proper user tracking, advertisers will have significantly less data about users’ interests, preferences, and so on.
Amazon failed to build its own Android app store: Evidence that Google is a monopoly
In the latest multistate antitrust lawsuit against Google over its app store, prosecutors have found a strange victim on their side: Amazon. Amazon is one of only a handful of companies worth more than Google. Amazon also has an app store. Amazon started building its own Android app store more than a decade ago, but it hasn’t had much success. Amazon’s name has been mentioned more than 20 times in Google’s lawsuit, which aims to prove that even a well-funded and powerful tech giant like Amazon can’t resist Google’s grip on the smartphone operating system. It is unclear whether Amazon has complained to antitrust investigators about Google’s actions. Amazon has yet to comment.
Vivo has called on App developers to check and correct themselves, and will remove or freeze apps that do not comply with privacy requirements
Vivo released a notice on its App’s violation of users’ rights and interests by illegally collecting and using personal information. At present, App’s illegal collection and use of personal information, excessive claim of rights, frequent harassment and other violations of users’ rights and interests still emerge one after another, and the control situation is increasingly severe. In view of the above situation, we urged the developers on the basis of the relevant App privacy compliance requirements of its App launch of self-check, platform will last the whole library App privacy compliance special screening, screening process, such as privacy not compliance problems found App, will take including but not limited to the shelves, applied to freeze, disposal measures, such as account freeze Please note.
Tencent deployed facial recognition to recognize minors playing games at night
Tencent has announced the deployment of facial recognition to identify minors who play games after 10pm. Minors are banned from playing games between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m., and some use adult accounts to get around the restrictions. Tencent’s new game feature, called “Zero Point Cruise,” is aimed at those who evade the restrictions: For accounts that play for longer than a certain amount of time at night and whose real names are adults, we will focus on face screening. Those who refuse or fail face verification will be treated as minors, put under the anti-addiction supervision of Tencent’s game health system and kicked out. This feature has been available in more than 60 products, including Honor of Kings and Peace Elite, and will be gradually covered in more games in the future.
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Boycott the Copilot? A developer decided to quit GitHub after a dispute over the copyright of the code
GitHub Copilot, an AI-writing tool, was released about a week ago and has already caused quite a bit of controversy. This conflict and controversy has led to a lot of dissatisfaction with Github, and some developers have even started to boycott Github. The reason for this contradiction is that GitHub Copilot uses copyrighted code as training data. The product puts copyrighted source code into users’ software without informing them of the license of the source code, which leads to unlicensed and unlicensed misuse of the copyright owner’s work.
Microsoft has announced the discontinuation of the SQL Server on Windows Containers Beta project
Microsoft has announced in an official community announcement that SQL Server on Windows Containers Beta has been suspended, and at the same time, Docker Hub repos “Microsoft/MSSQL-server-Windows-Express” and “Microsoft/MSSQL-server-Windows-Developer” and tags in these repositories will be removed, And the images in these repositories will not be downloaded. The project was launched in 2017 to make it easier for developers to connect to SQL Server instances from inside or outside the same container.
Mozilla has stopped developing and supporting Firefox Lite
Firefox Lite is a new lightweight Android browser released by Mozilla in 2018. Based on Chromium WebView, not Mozilla’s own rendering engine; This sets it apart from Firefox for Android and many Of the Chromium-based Android browsers because one of the focus of development is privacy. The web browser comes with a Turbo mode that blocks known trackers and ads, an option to block loading images, and a component to highlight coupons on specific websites. The browser was discontinued on June 1, 2021, and will be discontinued on June 30, 2021. Firefox Lite will not receive any updates, security or other information after June 30, 2021.
The Qt 6.2 Beta was released
Qt 6.2 Beta is now available, the first Beta of its 6.2 series. Qt 6.2 includes all of the widely used Qt add-on modules and is the first release in the Qt 6 family to provide long-term support for commercial licensors. The Qt 6.2 release offers a number of new features, such as 3D particles, that allow you to create exciting 3D user experiences with Qt Quick 3D. In addition to the new features, Qt 6.2 also restores support for additional modules that Qt 6 had not previously provided.
Visual Studio Code 1.58 released
Visual Studio Code, or VS Code for short, has released version 1.58 of its latest version. Some of the highlights are: Terminals in the editor: Create or move terminals to the editor area; Workspace Trust: Quickly customize Workspace Trust Settings, disable restricted mode banners; Editor Scrollbar customization: Sets the scrollbar visibility, width, and click navigation behavior. Markdown previews KaTeX support; Editor Settings optimization: support for multiple check boxes and enumerated drop-down menus; Sticky debug environment selection: The debugger remembers the user’s previous environment selection, etc.
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Aurora Note | Preliminary exploration of new features in iOS 15 Push
WWDC 21 was held by Apple at 1 am Beijing time on June 8, 2021. At the event, the new version of iOS 15 was unveiled. The theme of iOS is Focus, Connect, and Explore.
For those of you who are interested, the Focus mentioned in this topic is the new notification change in iOS 15. This article is about the new push feature in iOS 15.
How to Operate: How to Dig deeper into the value of push
With the disappearance of demographic dividend, how to grow rapidly is a problem and challenge that every enterprise must face. Acquiring users quickly not only means increasing the number of users, but also means that you can compete faster.
“Wine is also afraid of deep alley”, customer push is a effective method to help propaganda, but in almost every enterprise to use push, think cell phones are a variety of push news every day take turns to “bomb”, in this case the user will only be harassed and cannot be transmuted, even to the enterprise produces hate behind the push. Each of these approaches has a cost, and “the best is the best,” which requires that operators not only avoid harassing users, but also pursue the best push approach with the highest ROI. That is to find the optimal push channel and formulate the optimal push policy.
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