"Silicon Valley Connection" WhatsApp will soon launch voice call function

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1. Do not forget! Amazon plans to launch its second-generation fire Phone in 2016

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Although Amazon's first smartphone, Fire Phone, is recognized as a failed product, the electronics giant has no intention of giving up. Amazon is planning to launch its second-generation Fire Phone smartphone in 2016, a recent report said.

The report said Amazon had already started planning another smartphone months earlier, but had decided to start again, seeing the failure of its first attempt.

2. U.S. judge sentenced Facebook to face user privacy litigation

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In the early hours of December 25, Beijing time, Phillis Hamilton, a district judge in Oakland, Calif., ruled that Facebook had to face a class-action lawsuit accusing the company of monitoring information sent to friends for advertising purposes. Thus violating the privacy of users.

Hamilton rejected some of the charges against Facebook under California law in Tuesday, but largely vetoed Facebook's request to dismiss the lawsuit.

3. Research and development of atomic thickness of new materials or to help develop ultra-thin devices

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Beijing time December 22 according to ScienceDaily, an atomic-grade thin material developed by the University of Rice in the United States may lead to the development of the thinnest imaging platform at present. The synthesis of two-dimensional materials based on metal-sulfur compounds may be the basis for ultra-thin equipment, researchers at the University of Rice said. One such material, molybdenum disulfide, has been widely studied for its detection of light properties, but the copper indium selenide (CIS) also shows the same extraordinary potential.

4. WhatsApp will launch the voice call function

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WhatsApp has been around for a long time now, Android users have two versions to choose from, one version is available through the Google Play store, the other is through the WhatsApp website directly download, if you want to know the latest updated version and update content, You can go to the official website to download the latest version. The version currently downloaded from the official website provides a new feature that allows users to view the traffic that their voice calls use, including inbound and outbound traffic data.

5. Ireland: The United States needs to work with its partners to view e-mails stored on the Dublin server

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Microsoft has been battling a U.S. court order. The order requires Microsoft to open its server in Dublin, Ireland, and allow the U.S. government to visit an e-mail that was stored on the server in December 2013. Now, the Irish government has announced that the United States authorities, if they want to access data stored in Ireland, must cooperate with the Irish Government.

The current controversy has focused on the fact that U.S. court-issued search warrants cannot be enforced abroad, and court orders cannot cover data stored overseas. In a court document, Ireland stated that it would consider and process requests for access to data, but that United States courts must respect their sovereignty.

6. Stripe will publish API to support Bitcoin payment

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The online payment service provider stripe by Paul Graham is about 5 years old, with a current valuation of nearly $3.6 billion trillion. It spares no effort to embrace paying for technological innovation-for example, to support Apple Pay.

These days stripe updated the Bitcoin Payment integration guide-it's not sudden-I remember this March, the industry has a voice: "Stripe is trying to add the function of bitcoin payment." "In its home project, Christian Anderson, Bitcoin pays for long-term attention and investment. Because (or, after all), online merchants are unlikely to turn to Bitcoin in a twinkling.

7. The world's first incubator for virtual reality River was born

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Recently, VC company Rothenberg Ventures launched the world's first dedicated to virtual reality entrepreneurs of the Incubator River, currently open to apply. This foray into virtual reality, the company made enough to prepare. After investing in the 3D view service provider Matterport in 2013 and altspace the 2014 virtual reality software company, they appeared to have more confidence in VR.

Since VR is still in the experimental phase, the incubator will provide more than 700 square meters of office space for entrepreneurs in San Francisco. To make the conference more experiential, they chose to release and organize attendees to experience new products at the company's annual founder's conference in April 2015 and the SVVR (Silicon Valley virual Reality) conference in May. More importantly, River will regularly organise industry elites and provide some help to these early entrepreneurs, who will be of great importance for sustained and stable community-type communication.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)