"Silicon Valley Connection" Quantum optical hard disk breakthrough progress storage time increased 100 times times

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1. Google translation will be upgraded: real-time listening and translating text

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Last month, Microsoft's video telephony service, Skype, began testing real-time translations between English and Spanish users. Google is also expected to release an upgrade of its translation applications soon. The text version of Google's translation currently offers translations in 90 languages and has been able to interpret a few common languages. After this upgrade, the app automatically identifies whether a user is speaking a common language and automatically converts it to text.

This technique of translating a language into another language may not work well. When using the service, users need to wear headphones, and only when the speaker stops to listen to what the other person is saying, can play the best effect. The whole experience was like two phone salesmen using walkie-talkies.

2. FB growth stalled but "dry son" Instagram growth fast

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In Friday, according to data from the Pew Internet Research project, Instagram was the fastest-growing mainstream social network for adults in the United States in 2014. The proportion of American adults using Instagram is 26%, 9% higher than in 2013.

Of all the mainstream social media, Instagram is growing faster than Pinterest (up 7%), LinkedIn (up 6%), and Twitter (up 5% per cent year-on-year). On the other hand, Facebook's penetration rate in adults in the United States has not increased further, maintaining a 2013-year level unchanged, or 71%.

3. Quantum optical hard disk breakthrough progress storage time increased 100 times times

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Scientists have recently developed a prototype of a quantum hard disk that can be stored up to 100 times times faster, the Science Daily reported. The 6-hour storage time recorded by the team is a major step towards a secure global data-encryption network based on quantum information, which can be used for bank transactions and personal mail.

4. Super cookie can cause the privacy mode failure can still track user information

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A software developer in London has discovered a string of code that can perform ordinary sessions in the browser's privacy model, which will result in the failure of the privacy model. Currently, all major browsers provide privacy protection mode. In this mode, the website cookies cannot track the user's identity. Google Chrome, for example, offers features called "Incognito", while Firefox offers a "Privacy window" feature.

5. Sony Entertainment CEO: currently not considered selling music distribution business

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According to a leaked email, Michael Lynton, the chief executive of Sony Entertainment, has said Sony has no plans to sell its music distribution business, foreign media reported Lynton. Sony's music distribution business is also the world's largest business unit in the field, running 2 million of songs and controlling the copyright of The Beatles ' songs.

6. The Gospel of injured patients with spinal cord: EPFL successfully let paralyzed rats walk again

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Over three years of research and development, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) finally succeeded in letting paralyzed rats walk again. The semi-automatic electronic implant stimulates the bottom of the spinal cord through electrical pulses and chemicals, and after a period of training, it can control the body's freedom to walk. Scientists say while the experiment has succeeded in allowing paralyzed rats to walk again, the current technology is not suitable for long term use, but as the research progresses in the future, people with walking disorders can walk again.

7. US Cloud storage Services Box Restart IPO financing 160 million USD

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The US cloud storage Services Box submitted an updated prospectus to the US Securities and Exchange Commission in Friday announcing the resumption of the IPO process. A few months ago, Box announced that it would postpone the IPO.

The prospectus shows that box plans to sell up to 12.5 million shares of a-class common stock with an IPO price range of 11 to 13 dollars. In this share price, the company will raise up to 162.5 million U.S. dollars, the market value of up to 1.55 billion U.S. dollars.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)