"Silicon Valley Link" Zuckerberg tells the beginning of the start of Wal-Mart "Silicon Valley" can be successful

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1. Cloud Face application Lock: Face unlock "brush face" seconds into the phone

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Face recognition is not new, Google released Android 4.0 when the face recognition function, but more than a year ago, the function is not only not popular, but because the photo can also unlock the finger as a joke.

October 16 this year, by the face++++ team developed "Cloud Face application Lock" on-line. This unlock app, with its "quick" selling point, does not seem to be disappointing. In addition to the first use of the need to spend a few seconds with a front camera to record your avatar, the rest of the time can be "brush face" seconds into the phone, faster than password, pattern and so on to unlock the way. In addition to the still picture can deceive the identification system easy to unlock the problem, I use photos in the face of the cloud application lock test two times, have not unlocked success.

Cloud Face application Lock is face++ launched the first consumer-oriented products. Prior to this, it has been providing developers with free face detection, identification, analysis, data and other face recognition services. The introduction of Cloud face application lock is to promote the Face++ brand, on the other hand, in order to attract more research and development staff, the use of face++ face recognition technology. Inchi mentions that if you are interested in face recognition technology, even small white users without the basics of programming can be used in face++ to create applications that are related to face recognition, such as matching tools for couples.

2. Yahoo hires the New York Times columnist to build a web of consumer technology

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Yahoo is planning to launch a consumer technology website with the help of the New York Times columnist David Berg David Pogue, according to TechCrunch, a technology blogger, reported October 22. Berg himself confirmed the news by Twitter, saying he would leave the post after 13 years as a science journalist for the New York Times.

The news about this consumer technology website is still mysterious, but it's still possible to find out from Berg's Twitter one or two: "In fact, the site is not all, I also write columns and blogs every week, and make video." But my team and I have bigger plans for a variety of virtual and real-world innovations. ”

3. Is Amazon stepping down to Wal-Mart's "Silicon Valley" success?

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Can you imagine a family that was forced to compete with talented engineers in Silicon Valley, had to advertise in space like highway billboards, desktop football tables, even inside the company with Rihanna (Rihanna) and Bieber (Justin Bieber) and other famous singers to name their own meeting room retail company? In fact, such a "wonderful" company is indeed real, and it is the largest retailer in the United States-Wal-Mart.

For years, Wal-Mart has almost never taken the so-called "threat from the competition" as a matter of fact, but with the advent of the Internet and the development of science and technology, the company has deeply felt the huge threat from the online retailer Amazon. In response, Wal-Mart responded by launching the @walmartlabs Laboratory project in 2011, which is primarily responsible for developing the company's social and mobile business strategy and trying to integrate physical stores and E-commerce.

4. How Facebook is made: Zuckerberg talks about starting a business

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The first question Zuckerberg was asked was, what was the first program he developed? Interestingly, it is not Facemash (the predecessor of Facebook), but marshalling Graph (he has accused the famous Hollywood writer Alan Sorkin of his film "The Social Network" (The Social receptacle). He set up Apache and SQL Servers to practice developing new programs. At that time, 2000 users from Harvard University were using his services and entering their course information.

Marshalling graph ultimately sets the foundation for Facebook's developer ecosystem, because he wants to build a foundation where others can use his technology to develop applications and services. Zuckerberg said he was focused on directing communities to build core assets.

5. Google launched the "Google Media tools" website for journalists

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Beijing time October 22 Morning News, Google (1003.3,-8.11,-0.8%) launched a "Google Media tool" website to attract major media reporters, to provide them with a one-stop platform to visit and learn a lot of Google services.

The tool not only includes Google search trends and Google Maps and other conventional tools, but also to provide reporters with more details to help them use Google to enrich the various topics of the report. The tool was first unveiled at the Online News Association ' 13 Digital news conference last week, and the company announced its opening for more groups in Monday. Google Media tools not only aggregate Google's services links, but also through a number of subdivisions to obtain detailed information, including Google's transparency report work, or how to use Google Maps API to customize the map and achieve data visualization. The site also provides a dedicated information page for journalists and news organizations to help users learn how to spread themselves on Google's platform.

6. Google to provide business users with map services: The realization of data visualization

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Beijing time October 22 Morning News, Google (1003.3,-8.11,-0.8%) Monday launched a professional version of Google Maps engine (Google Maps Engine Pro) of the latest mapping tool, can be on the map to achieve enterprise data visualization, So that the major enterprises have become map carvers.

This is a cloud-based software tool that helps companies organize delivery paths, warehouse locations, sales areas, etc. to make up for the lack of spreadsheets and huge databases. The tool is designed to address a number of geographically related issues: better design the shuttle route by knowing where the employee resides on the map, or find out on the map whether a customer resides in a high-risk area to help the insurance company set premiums. The aim of this product is to help companies dig more value from existing geographic data. Google executives said in Monday that if such data could be plotted on a map, it would be easier for companies to make decisions.

7. Google search automatic complement function highlight sex discrimination

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According to Adweek, the U.N. Women's agency (UN Women) recently released a series of feminist ads, which are Google's search auto complement. Ads show that in the U.S. region Google Search bar Input "Women shouldn ' t", search automatic completion function will prompt "Women should not have rights", "women should not have the right to vote" and so on.

Google's search automatic completion results from a large number of Google user search content analysis, automatic completion of the full function of the tip is a large proportion of users search for content. Since Google has branches all over the world, and each region has a different culture, the results of Google's search automatically complement each area differently. For example, use Google HK, enter "Women shouldn ' t", the results show not only women should not work, should not have the right to vote, and other similar content, as well as "women should not wear bras" so that no gender discrimination results.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)