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Bad news! The “hand of God” became history with the death of Diego Maradona

Argentinian soccer legend Diego Maradona said goodbye to fans and the world of soccer at the age of 60 on The early morning of Nov. 26. Maradona’s sudden death, believed to have been caused by a cardiac arrest, has shocked the world of football and saddened many people.

From: qq.com

Foreign media: The US has extended byteDance’s Sale order for TikTok by another seven days

The Trump administration agreed on Wednesday to extend TikTok’s U.S. spin-off by another seven days after an executive order ordered byteDance to sell the short video App, according to a legal filing. The Trump administration had already granted ByteDance a 15-day extension of its August executive order, which expires on Friday. TikTok said the order’s latest expiration date is December 4. Under pressure from the US government, ByteDance had been in talks for months to finalise deals with Walmart and Oracle to move TikTok’s US assets into the new entity. The Treasury Department had no immediate comment on Wednesday. Bytedance has submitted a new proposal aimed at addressing the U.S. government’s security concerns, said a person familiar with the matter, who declined to give details. The company previously disclosed on November 10 that it had submitted four proposals, including one in November that sought to address US concerns by “creating a new entity wholly owned by Oracle, walmart, and TikTok’S US investors to handle TikTok’s US user data and content moderation”. What TikTok submitted in November was actually a US “surrogate operation” proposal, but it was not accepted by the US, according to TikTok’s previous complaint. After TikTok filed another lawsuit against the US government on November 10, the two sides are understood to be back in talks about a “surrogate operation” solution. From: TechWeb

Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. applied for quantum chips and other patents

On the afternoon of November 26, Tianyan App shows that recently, Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co., LTD added a number of patent information, including “quantum chip, quantum processor and quantum computer”. The application date is September 2020 and the application announcement date is November 2020.

Abstract of the patent shows that this application relates to the field of quantum technology, on the one hand, the surface code structure of M row × N column is used to make the quantum bits have good connectivity; On the other hand, flip architecture is used to realize the separation of the layout between quantum bits and other components. By integrating the above two aspects, a larger number of bits and accuracy can be achieved at the same time to achieve the goal of improving the computing power of quantum chip. Source: Ifeng.com

Meituan takeout launched the “Boat Together Plan” to improve the rider experience from four aspects: job security, experience improvement, career development and life care

November 26, Meituan takeout seventh anniversary and “rider experience and ecological construction” communication will be held in Beijing. “Meituan takeout has recently held 53 forums for riders, and has been improving the implementation of 43 key issues, including the pick-up and delivery mechanism and appeal mechanism, collected from the forums.” Meituan, senior vice President, home of President in achieving king said, “on this basis, the Meituan take-out today launched fellowship program, aimed at the social from all walks of life, from listening to the rider, voice began, continue to push to improve products and services, Meituan take-away from job security, promotion, career development experience and life care four level of improving the rider experience and ecological construction.” The fellowship program’s first focus on the rider is take-away food distribution industry experience and ecological construction plan of action, Meituan take-away merchants hand in hand, customers, partners, such as chain upstream and downstream, and collaborative more social forces, to discuss, action, improving the rider experience and construction of ecological industry, to reassure the rider work, has obtained feeling and happiness, further implement take-out ecological all parties. From: Play

Baidu is suing Siwei For infringing the copyright of electronic maps, seeking 90 million yuan in compensation

On November 26, Navinfo Co., Ltd. announced that the company was sued by Baidu to stop infringing the copyright of Baidu’s electronic map works and unfair competition, and pay 90 million yuan in compensation. According to the announcement, On November 25, Siweto received the lawsuit materials from Beijing Haidian District People’s Court, Materials according to the first plaintiff Beijing webex technology co., LTD. And the second plaintiff baidu baidu online network technology (Beijing) co., LTD. In the first defendant four-dimensional at Beijing technology co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as the “four dimensions at”), the second defendant four dimensional figure new copyright infringement and unfair competition disputes, to the Beijing haidian district people’s court to lodge a civil action, and to begin. As early as October 23, baidu to the haidian district people’s court in Beijing, baidu think four dimensional figure new without permission, use the copyrighted works of map, constitutes copyright infringement, robbed should belong to the baidu competition opportunity to weaken the competitive advantage of baidu, destroyed the market competition order, constitutes unfair competition. Baidu believes that Siwei Should immediately stop infringing the copyright of Baidu’s electronic map works and unfair competition, including but not limited to immediately stop using relevant electronic map works and related services on computer and mobile terminals. At the same time as the statement, the court ordered Siwetuxin to compensate economic losses and reasonable expenses of 90 million yuan. From: 36 krypton

Sogou input method 10.19 version release: new Japanese nine keys, small language keyboard number increased to 90+

Recently, Sogou input method updated to 10.19 version, in the existing 16 small language keyboard on the basis of the new Japanese kana nine keys and German, Thai, Bulgarian, South African and other more than 70 foreign languages keyboard. It is understood that after the update, sogou input method support language keyboard types have jumped to 90+ number, become the current domestic support language keyboard more complete, cover users more extensive input method products.

From: Bubble net

Saleforce plans to acquire Slack for more than $17 billion

CRM company Salesforce plans to buy office software company Slack, according to media reports. It would be one of the industry’s biggest software deals ever. Salesforce’s offer represents a premium to Slack’s closing price of $17bn yesterday. The two sides are still in negotiations and may not reach a deal.

Source: Ifeng.com

News that IBM will cut 10,000 jobs in Europe, the UK, France and Germany are the hardest hit

IBM is reportedly planning to cut about 10,000 jobs in Europe to reduce costs in its slow-growing services division and prepare for a spin-off of the unit. The wide-ranging cuts will affect about 20% of the workforce in the region, according to people familiar with the matter. The UK and Germany will be most affected, while Poland, Slovakia, Italy and Belgium will also be affected. Meanwhile, there were separate reports that IBM would cut about 2,000 jobs in the UK and Ireland and between 1,180 and 1,385 in France. There were also reports that IBM would cut about 2,300 jobs in Germany. From: Moscow (

Disney (DIS.us) announced 32,000 job cuts in the first half of 2021

Disney (DIS.us) announced it will lay off 32,000 employees in the first half of 2021, mainly at its theme parks, Zhitong Finance APP has learned. The layoffs are up from 28,000 the company announced in September, mainly because of a health incident that limited attendance at Disneyland. The 32,000 layoffs include 28,000 previously announced cuts, a Disney spokesman confirmed. From: Zhitong Finance

Amazon’s cloud service AWS went down, affecting many enterprises

Amazon’s cloud service AWS (Amazon Web Services) is down, affecting many enterprises (customers).

At around 3 p.m. Edt on Wednesday, Amazon Cloud Services said it was continuing to work to resolve an issue with its data software products and related services across the Eastern United States. From: TechWeb

The astronauts aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station are doing well and are expected to return in six months

Photo notes: From left to right: Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, Michael Hopkins and Soichi Noguchi. The four astronauts aboard SpaceX’s manned Dragon spacecraft are in good condition at the International Space Station. They will spend up to six months on the International Space Station before returning to Earth aboard the Dragon spacecraft. From: Tencent Technology

A new development in NASA’s plan to return to the moon: work has begun on a giant rocket that will make its first flight next year

NASA has begun assembling the first Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on a launch pad and plans to make its maiden flight next year. SLS is a key part of NASA’s Artemis return to the moon, a giant rocket that will take American astronauts to the moon, with the agency’s first manned mission scheduled for 2024. The SLS consists of a giant core platform that is 65 meters tall and has four engines flanked by two solid fuel boosters. Together, they generate 8.8 million pounds (3,992 tons) of thrust, enough to carry astronauts into orbit. A rocket would then take them to the moon.

From: Tencent Technology

Developer Information

Google has improved the way Android 12 updates: ART is an optional upgrade without vendor control

While most phones upgrade quickly to the latest version of Apple’s iOS, Android updates are fragmented, depending on the vendor’s support or not. On Android 12, Google will further improve the update so that the ART runtime can be upgraded as a standalone module. One of the most core function of ART in the android system, responsible for android app bytecode transformation cost, instruction, if this feature is turned into modular, so Google can through the Play store your update system, need not go OEM channel, also not constrained by vendors, help to improve the uniformity of the android system. From: Moscow (

The Android runtime may become part of the Android 12 mainline module

Google’s Project Mainline is an efficient way to modularize parts of the operating system developers need. Since Android 10, these modules have been seen as separate parts of the broader version. It aims to simplify the update by decoupling the core part from the main system. A new change in the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) suggests that the Android Runtime will most likely be part of the Mainline module in Android 12, xDA-Developers has noted. From: Moscow (