"Silicon Valley Link" Microsoft's second round of layoffs will start this week and spread to all business groups

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1. Microsoft's second round of layoffs will start this week and spread to all business groups

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Sources say Microsoft is to start a new round of layoffs this weekend. The layoffs are part of a 18,000-person layoff plan announced by the company in July.

Microsoft executives said in July that the company would cut 18,000 jobs around the world, including 1.25万来 's Nokia handheld devices and services business from Microsoft.

2. Boeing and SpaceX to carve up NASA's 6.8 billion dollar bill

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According to foreign media reports, the United States Space Agency (NASA) said in Tuesday that Boeing and Space X will sign a $6.8 billion worth of crew delivery contracts. Boeing received 4.2 billion dollars in the contract, while SpaceX the remaining 2.6 billion dollars. The goal is to send astronauts from the United States to the International Space Station in the future to get rid of Russia. Boeing's selected aircraft is CST-100, SpaceX for Dragon V2.

"The contract will open a new chapter in NASA and human space travel," said Charles Bolden, NASA director. Outsourcing the mission by sending astronauts to space could give NASA more time to study the Mars Landing program. ”

3. Chasing Apple Tv:roku streaming media set-top box US sales burst

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According to foreign media reports, Roku today released some of the latest operating data, the most notable of which is its streaming media set-top box sales. Its product sales in the United States has reached 10 million.

The company's first product was launched in May 2008. Roku said that since then, its users have accumulated streaming of 5 billion hours of content. It is developing quite rapidly, and it also estimates that this year alone, the content stream of its users will be up to 3 billion hours long. This is a good illustration of the rapid growth in the U.S. market for viewing Web content in the living room.

4. Icloud.com formally opened two steps to verify the landing authorization mechanism

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Now, Apple officially opened a two-step authentication mechanism for the Icloud.com Web site, and when users want to access the ICloud. com Web application, they need to enter the authentication code for the login. Applications such as mail, contacts, calendars, reminders, Pages, numbers, and Keynote can be accessed only when the user enters the correct authentication code. But looking for an iPhone feature is still available.

5. Apple confirms that NFC only supports Apple Pay services

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An Apple spokeswoman confirmed in an email to the media that the NFC chips in the iphone 6 and iphone 6 Plus could only be used by Apple Pay services.

Like the Touch ID on the iphone 5S, Apple does not want third-party developers to touch their NFC chips, at least for the first year after Apple's pay service is launched. While Apple did not disclose future plans for NFC chips, unlike the Touch ID on the iphone 5S, Apple did not advertise the NFC chip as an important selling point, but simply introduced it as a component of Apple Pay.

6. Mail.ru announces acquisition of Russia's largest social networking site VKontakte

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Russia's Internet giant, Mail.ru, said in Tuesday that it had spent $1.47 billion to buy all the rest of VKontakte, the country's biggest social network. As the deal took place, Mail.ru major shareholder, Russian billionaire Alischer Usmanov (Alisher B. Usmanov) and minority investor representatives United Capital Partner, The controversy over how the future VKontakte should be developed and the legal disputes that have ended.

7. Qualcomm takes out Safeswitch technology provides hardware-based smartphone suicide switch

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In smartphones and tablets, Qualcomm is now the top mobile chip manufacturer. The California legislature has previously made the "suicide switch" a law requiring smartphones sold in California jurisdictions to be equipped with remote erasure to deter increasingly rampant smartphone thefts. Qualcomm takes out Safeswitch technology, providing a hardware-based smartphone suicide switch, and if device manufacturers and operators adopt this technology, Qualcomm will be able to continue to expand its lead in mobile chips.

8. Qualcomm acquired AI image recognition company Euvision

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Qualcomm, the US communications giant, is on hand to Euvision Technologies, an AI image recognition technology company headquartered in Amsterdam, Holland. The name may not be well known, but the company's app Impala for IOS and Android operating systems is interesting--in short, it can read and recognize photos from users ' phones, and then categorize them into different named folders.

9 Google will close photo-sharing service Panoramio

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Google announced in Tuesday that it would phase out photo-sharing services Panoramio as New Street View services allowed users to browse photos on a map, according to CNET, a technology website. Google bought Panoramio in 2007.

Ivan Lampport Rapoport, the product manager for Panoramio and Street View, said Panoramio did not have enough choice of images to meet the needs of Google Maps.

Euvision, produced by a research project at the University of Amsterdam, has its own machine vision algorithm. Although the company currently offers Impala software only to consumers, its technology may have better applications in larger, higher-scale, enterprise-class cloud services, such as the excavation of image data for social networking sites, and even assisting law enforcement agencies to find clues.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)