"Silicon Valley Link" Skype launches real-time voice translation function

In the daily link to the Silicon Valley, the most fresh information! The "Silicon Valley" here refers to the typical and innovative business representatives abroad.

1. Europe into Google "muddy" and the 20 million dollar privacy penalty

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Europe has never been born a big internet company, and Europe's crackdown on US internet companies, especially Google, is making the US and the world incomprehensible. Europe has become Google's troubled "muddy market."

A few days ago, Google just announced the closure of the news search aggregation service in Spain. According to U.S. media reports, Google will also be in the Netherlands, because of personal privacy protection problems facing 19 million of dollars of fines.

2. The Pirate Bay resurgence Why "pirates" can never be wiped out?

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December 16, according to the Washington Post website, since last week by the Swedish police search, the infamous file-sharing search site Pirate Bay on the line, but as before the people's prediction-it was resurrected! It is understood that the Pirate Bay content document is now in the oldpiratebay.org "Resurrection", and the latter by the Resurrection file sharing site IsoHunt fans created.

3. Skype launches real-time voice translation function

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When chatting with foreign friends, if you do not understand each other's language, it is also difficult to communicate. But technology can solve some of the problems. Skype recently launched a real-time voice translation function for registered users. This real-time speech translation function can be used in the video call, direct analysis of the voice and then translated.

In the first stage, however, only Spanish and English languages are supported, and other languages will have to wait. In addition to voice translation, there is a real-time translation of text, and text translation support more than 40 languages.

4. Apple, Amazon, etc. Microsoft: US government should not interfere with data stored overseas

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In Monday, technology companies, including Apple, Amazon, At&t and more than 20 companies, collectively voiced their solidarity with Microsoft in opposition to the Federal Court's request for Microsoft to provide data from its overseas users to store data in Ireland, Reuters reported. At the end of July this year, a judge in the New York Region ruled that a criminal search warrant required Microsoft to submit e-mails and other account information that its users had stored in the Irish data center to the U.S. government. The search warrant is still in a secret state and it is not clear what it is.

5. Google enhanced Google Shopping function sword refers to the Amazon market

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December 16, according to the Wall Street Journal website, Google plans to enhance its E-commerce service by enhancing Google's shopping service capabilities, and direct competition with Amazon. Google has contacted retailers to negotiate a "buy" button to make it easier for users to use Google's online shopping service, a feature that is very similar to Amazon's market-friendly "one-click ordering" feature, according to people familiar with the matter.

So far, Google shopping has linked shoppers to the merchant's Web site through links to search results, but Google wants users to stay on their own pages longer than recommending them to other sites.

6. The Netherlands developed a leaf acoustic system so loud it could kill people.

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The great European Acoustic Facility (LEAF) can never be used in any concert in the world. This acoustic facility, built in the name of science, produces only noise. And it's not just noise, it can kill, if you're just standing in the noise chamber of its exploding spectrum, the noise shock wave from the leaf's work can separate your skull from the torso. Fortunately, there are no reports of leaf killings.

This noisy machine is mainly used for scientific research and testing, such as testing the rocket shell can withstand the launch of the engine noise impact, the leaf simulation of this noise up to 154 db, is a jet engine noise more than four times times, equivalent to the human ear exploding a giant firecrackers, can almost let the entire skull exploded, If you survive, you may soon die, because in order to simulate a rocket engine, there is little oxygen or nitrogen in the leaf's work room.

7. Vice media next year or launch a big takeover: consider IPO

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Shane Smith, US digital content company Vice Media CEO Chene Smith, said in an interview with the Financial Times that the company would launch a "deal spree" next year with the possibility of IPOs (IPO).

Vice Media is the main selling point of video content, the company also revealed that they have appointed James Schwab (James Schwab) as the co-president, he has worked for DreamWorks and Discovery Channel and other companies as advisers.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)