"Silicon Valley Link" Facebook plans to test drone projects to provide network services in the air next year

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1. Digital Currency Gospel: PayPal announces attempts to accept Bitcoin payments

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According to foreign media reports, PayPal announced today that it has cooperated with three leading Bitcoin payment companies to support the virtual currency in a limited amount.

North America sells music, games, ringtones and other digital products, and can now accept bitcoin payments via PayPal. PayPal said it "brought convenience to our digital retailer, one-stop service, and a more relaxed test of the new form of payment." ”

2. Global PC sales slump: Samsung announces withdrawal from European notebook market

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Samsung will stop selling notebook products in Europe because of "market demand", a bulletin released this week showed.

"We will quickly adapt to market demand," a Samsung spokesman said. In Europe, from now on, we will stop selling notebooks including Chromebook. This decision is specific to the region and does not reflect the situation in other markets. ”

3. Philips intends to split: lighting business or independent listing in 2016

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Beijing time September 24 Morning news, the Netherlands Philips said in Tuesday, the company will split in half, stripping has a 123-year history of the lighting business.

It was one of the most recent restructuring operations of the Dutch giant, which had previously issued conservative profit warnings, and the organization was too bloated. Philips said the company would merge the medical and consumer electronics sectors into one company and would remain the core business of Philips. At the same time, the company also plans to ditch the lighting business, the earliest possible to promote the business in 2016 independent listing.

4. Google or due to a monopoly by the European Union penalty Division 6 billion U.S. dollars

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In Tuesday, the departing member of the European Commission's Competition Commission warned that the antitrust dispute between Google and the European Commission would intensify, and that the amount of fines facing Google could exceed Microsoft's € 1.7 billion.

Joaquín, Almunia Almunia, a member of the European Commission's Competition Commission, told the European Parliament that it would receive a "dissent statement" unless Google changed its proposal to settle the complaint, and if so, Google would face a fine of about 6 billion dollars, Equivalent to the company's global total revenue of 10%.

5. German business incubator initial public offering to raise $1.8 billion

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German start-up business incubator Rocket Internet Tuesday announced that The company set its IPO pricing range at € 35.50 to € 42.50 (about 45.7 to 54.7 dollars) per share, the deal is planned to raise up to € 1.4 billion ($ 1.8 billion trillion) of money, which could make it the biggest IPO deal in the German market this year.

Rocket, based in Berlin, said the company would sell up to 32.9 million new shares in the IPO deal, with a quote period starting tomorrow and ending October 7. Based on the median value of the IPO pricing range (and assuming the underwriters exercise the option of excess placements), the market capitalisation of the Somewhere (Samwer), which was set up seven years ago, will reach 6.2 billion euros (about 8 billion US dollars).

6. Google unmanned car first person to resign

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Google X, the company's research laboratory, lost another executive, and Sebastian Thrun, the first executive responsible for self-driving cars, Sebatian Trons, according to the Wall Street Journal's online report.

Thrun is the first person in charge of Google's self-driving car project. Google's self-driving car project was created in 2009 and then integrated into Google X. Thrun assisted Astro Thelles (Astro Teller) to create Google X.

7. Facebook plans to test unmanned aerial network services next year

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Google has also announced plans for the operation of the New Mexico State after it applied to the FCC to test Titan drones, saying it will start testing its drone program next year.

Facebook now has two ways to push the project forward, one to launch its own connectivity laboratory and the Internet.org project, led by incumbent CEO Zuckerberg. Laboratories primarily provide relevant technical support for global interconnection goals, while Internet.org is a global network deployment. The whole process sounds very simple: drones carry communications devices such as wireless hotspots up to 60000 feet, providing network support to consumers on the ground. Because of the use of solar panels so can fly in the sky for months or even years.

8. Scientists predict the 2020 human "soul" can be written to the computer

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According to foreign media reports, in 2020, we may have a "digital twins", relatives and friends can talk to it, together to dinner, especially when someone died, his digital twins will still be with their loved ones, to bring comfort to the pro. John Smart, founder and futurist of the Accelerated Research Foundation, said that we would have "digital twins" for the next 6 years, and that it could be programmed to program some information or even talk to someone else about the character's behavior.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)