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1. Kepler gas alarm: Detection of carbon monoxide concentration to prevent poisoning

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After Google's 3.2 billion dollar acquisition of smoke alarm device nest, the smart home sector has attracted the attention of hardware manufacturers. Recently, developers to the gas leakage hazards as a breakthrough point, designed a prevention of carbon monoxide poisoning of household equipment keple.

Keple is a gas sensor that can monitor the concentration of gas and carbon monoxide in real time and analyze and alarm. It uses the semiconductor material sensor, in the use process can detect the carbon monoxide the concentration, and according to the concentration different uses the different alarm mechanism: when the gas slightly leaks uses the bell to prompt, when the leakage situation serious sounded the alarm sound.

2. Microsoft Cloud Computing Services Azure World wide Downtime

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Beijing Time August 19 News, according to Bloomberg, Microsoft Cloud Computing Services Azure's main components in Monday, the global large-scale downtime.

Microsoft says the Azure service is currently in a state of disruption because at least 6 major azure components located in multiple data centers around the world are unable to deliver services. Azure allows businesses to get computing resources and run programs over the Internet.

"We have found that the disruption of azure services, including virtual machines, cloud services, Web sites, automation, is working with the engineering team to solve this problem as quickly as possible," said Kristi Lewandowski, spokesman for Microsoft, Christie Levandoski. ”

3. Samsung announces plans to build mobile phone factory in Indonesia

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Beijing time August 19, Samsung Electronics said in Monday that it plans to build a factory to produce mobile phones mainly for the Indonesian market, Reuters reported. Indonesia is now one of the fastest-growing mobile-phone markets in the world.

Samsung has refused to disclose the size of its new plant, which has now established factories in China and Vietnam. Earlier this year Foxconn, Apple's main supplier, said it was considering investing 1 billion of billions of dollars to build plants in Indonesia.

"We have been negotiating with the Indonesian government on this plan to produce mobile phones for the domestic market so that we can meet the needs of local consumers more efficiently," Samsung said in an e-mail statement. ”

4. BlackBerry set up a new department: Hope to open up new financial resources with the company out of trouble

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Beijing time August 19 Morning News, BlackBerry (9.76, 0.17, 1.72%) company announced in Monday, the company has set up a new department dedicated to managing its most promising assets, including cryptographic applications, QNX embedded software and project ion networking equipment platform.

The BlackBerry also announced that Sandip Zinaxou (Sandeep Chennakeshu) would serve as president of the new BlackBerry Technology Solutions division. The department will contain 44,000 patents and the Paratek antenna technology company acquired by the BlackBerry in 2012.

5. Moto s Exposure: 2K screen Top processor

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August 19 Morning News, as Motorola will be Google Foundry Nexus new machine, so in gfxbench and rabbit test in the appearance of the code-named "Shamu" Motorola New machine, has been considered Nexus 6, and according to the latest news, Nexus Shamu officially named Moto S, not the Nexus series, will be the exclusive launch of Verizon, the US operator.

The Moto S cell phone will be equipped with a 5.9-inch touch screen, with a QHD specification (2K) screen resolution, with 骁丽 Dragon 805 processor, with a frequency of 2.65GHz, supplemented by Adreno 420 graphics processing chips, 3GB RAM memory and 32GB storage capacity, Better performance will be shown. The machine will also have 2 million pixel front lens and 12 million pixel main lens, support 4K UHD resolution video recording, provide facial recognition and LED flash and other functions.

6. IPhone 6 parameter exposure: NFC model OK still 1GB RAM

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August 19 Morning News, the domestic microblogging netizen @geekbar founder Lei Brother this time and exposure to new materials, brought the iphone 6 chip schematic, from which I know that the iphone 6 will adopt NXP Company's NFC chip, and running memory is still only 1GB.

Using the NFC chip of the NXP company to adopt the NFC chip of NXP Company

Earlier in Taiwan, the media said that the IPhone 6 would support NFC, using the NXP model PN65V chip, but did not provide strong evidence.

Today, @geekbar, founder of the Chinese Netizen, who has blown up several times about Apple news, unveiled an iphone 6 chip schematic that explicitly instructs the iphone 6 to use the NXP pn65v NFC chip. This is in line with the news from the foreign media, PN65 is also the NFC chip that many Android phones use now.

7. Silicon Valley mergers and acquisitions popular "toothbrush test" investment bank role of marginalization

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The New York Times reported August 19 that the big technology companies in Silicon Valley are increasingly becoming more independent and increasingly marginalized in their mergers and acquisitions.

When Google considers whether it is time to spend tens of millions or billions of dollars to buy a new company, chief executive Larry Page will see if it passes the "toothbrush test". Whether the company's products use as high as you use a toothbrush, at least two times a day, and make your life better, these are signs of a good product.

(Responsible editor: Lvguang)