"Silicon Valley Wired" IOS 8 official release California begins to test unmanned vehicles

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1. IOS 8 Official Release! Upgrade Strategy First know

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According to foreign media reports, Apple in the U.S. Eastern Time 17th 1 o'clock in the afternoon (Beijing time 18th 1 o'clock in the morning) released the iOS 8 operating system on time. Users can choose to download software updates through the General Options menu in their settings, or download updates via itunes.

The new iOS 8 upgrade file itself is more than 1GB, and the required free space (for file Exchange) is up to 5.7GB. Different types of equipment, space requirements vary, some models of the ipad even up to 7GB. The new version introduces HealthKit health applications, an application that collects user health data. Accessibility Share app lets you share itunes-purchased items, calendar messages, and text messages with your family. IOS 8 also improved the notification center, and the Spotlight search feature also adds functionality to the search for native applications. In iOS 8, users can also install a third-party keyboard.

2. Apple found that the HealthKit leak will not be launched with iOS 81

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Apple said this week that the company had recently discovered a loophole in the new application HealthKit in iOS 8, so the release of the app would be postponed.

As part of iOS 8, Apple was due to officially release HealthKit in Wednesday. HealthKit is a data storage application that supports information from a variety of devices. This information can be provided to physicians, application developers, and others, with the user's permission.

Apple said in a statement: "We found a loophole that has prevented us from releasing iOS 8 o'clock today to provide HealthKit applications." We are quickly fixing this vulnerability through software upgrades and will provide HealthKit applications by the end of this month. “

3. Apple to upgrade Apple TV to introduce beats Music, home sharing services

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With the release of the new iOS 8 operating system for tablets and mobile phones, Apple also launched the 7.0 version of Apple TV upgrades in Wednesday, according to CNET, a technology blogger.

The biggest change in the Apple TV upgrade was the addition of a new music app, Beats Music, which was purchased by Apple earlier this year. The application interface is similar to the other applications of Apple TV: album covers with grid thumbnails, accessible playlists, and personalized customization options.

4. Google CEO's new project: Efficient airport to solve air transport problems

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Larry Page is ambitious and growing. Now Google, under his leadership, has begun to develop unmanned cars, artificial intelligence, robotics, aging and drones. At Google, these jobs are called the "Moon Landing" project.

The latest issue that page wants to address is the inefficient airport. "Page has discussed with friends and colleagues the desire to build an airport that is more efficient than the existing airport," the information reporter Amire Everati (Amir Efrati) wrote in a story. For example, page has put forward the idea of Hyperloop super high-speed rail, can shorten the time of San Francisco to Los Angeles to 30 minutes, he thinks the plane can have the same efficiency, but the problem is the airport. Other transport experts have expressed similar views. But it is unclear how page plans to build such an airport. ”

5. Cisco wants to buy cloud service provider Metacloud speed up the interconnection cloud process

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According to foreign media reports, Cisco wants to buy cloud service provider Metacloud, the specific terms of the deal has not been disclosed. But Cisco said the move would push the Intercloud interconnection cloud project to an accelerated pace.

Cisco issued the following statement:

The Metacloud cloud platform based on OpenStack will accelerate Cisco's strategic process of building the world's largest interconnected cloud Intercloud. Intercloud is designed to create a global, security-level cloud platform that meets the strong needs of the IoT by working with key partners to efficiently respond to customer requests.

6. Sony will lay off 15% to focus on the mobile device sector

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According to foreign media reports, Sony company president Hirai Wednesday, will be in March 2015, cut the Mobile Equipment division 15% of the staff. Hirai has told reporters that Sony wants to expand the mobile division, but now its strategy has changed.

Sony has just revised its annual earnings forecasts and will lose more than $2.1 billion trillion in the fiscal year to March next year. This is mainly due to the Sony mobile Devices Business department will generate 1.7 billion of dollars in losses. Sony Mobile said it had previously overestimated revenue from smartphones and tablets and has now decided to accept the facts and make a loss forecast.

7. Rackspace abandoned the sale plan, the price plummeted by 17%

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Rackspace, a listed company in the Cloud computing field, has been bogged down in the fog of the company's future development strategy, following the departure of CEO Lanham Napier this February. Recently, the company appointed President Taylor Rhodes to replace Napier after the departure of the company's joint founder and chairman of the Board of Directors Graham Weston, as the company's CEO.

On the same day, according to the U.S. Science and Technology media Re/code reported that Rackspace officially abandoned the company began in May to sell + privatization retreat plan. Previously, the public speculated that IBM, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard and CenturyLink planned to buy Rackspace, and CenturyLink was close to the final stage of the negotiations, but was not able to talk about it for unknown reasons. After the announcement, Rackspace stock (Nyse:rax) after the price has plummeted by more than 17%.

8. The United States in California to start the public test unmanned vehicles

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local time in Tuesday, the California Vehicle Management Center (California Department of Motor vehicles) earlier released the policy on allowing self-driving car road test formally entered into force. The policy will be a legal solution to the controversy over whether driverless cars can travel on public roads.

According to the plan, each of these licences is only 150 dollars and can be used by up to 10 driverless cars and 20 test drivers.

However, the request for this permission is very strict, it stipulates that only designated employees of specific unmanned vehicle manufacturers can apply for, unmanned vehicles need to obtain at least 5 million U.S. dollars insurance to deal with injuries, death and property losses, test drivers to obtain a driver's license must be full 3 years, there has been no accident caused by human injury. At the same time, the automatic vehicle road permit is valid for one year and the manufacturer must reapply to the California Vehicle Management Center after the expiry of the license.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)