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Good morning, CSDN readers and friends, "Geek Headlines" is coming, let's take a look at what important news worthy of our technical attention today.
Domestic news
Ministry of Science and Technology: my country's 5G core patents are number one in the world, and 5G base stations exceed 600,000
At the press conference of the State Council Information Office on October 21, Qin Yong, Director of the High-tech Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology, said that my country has achieved the leading position in 5G technology in mobile communications. The number of 5G core patents is the first in the world. 5G is commercially available. At present, the number of 5G base stations in my country has exceeded 600,000, and the number of users has exceeded 110 million.
Alibaba Cloud open-sources the industry's first deep transfer learning framework EasyTransfer for NLP scenarios
Recently, Alibaba Cloud officially open-sourced the deep transfer learning framework EasyTransfer, which is the industry's first deep transfer learning framework for NLP scenarios. The framework is developed by the Alibaba Cloud Machine Learning PAI team, making the development and deployment of model pre-training and migration learning for natural language processing scenarios easier and more efficient.
The China Securities Regulatory Commission approved the IPO registration of Ant Group's Sci-tech Innovation Board
On the evening of October 21, according to a message released by the State Securities Regulatory Commission on its WeChat official account, it agreed to the IPO registration of Ant Technology Group Co., Ltd. on the Science and Technology Innovation Board. The China Securities Regulatory Commission issued a document saying: Recently, in accordance with legal procedures, I will approve the registration of the initial public offering of shares on the Science and Technology Innovation Board of the following enterprise: Ant Technology Group Co., Ltd. The above-mentioned enterprises and their underwriters will negotiate with the Shanghai Stock Exchange to determine the issuance schedule and publish the prospectus documents.
Baidu plans to list in Hong Kong before the end of the year
On October 21, Tencent News exclusively learned that Baidu plans to complete a secondary listing in Hong Kong before the end of this year. This is also another star technology company familiar to retail investors listed in Hong Kong after Ant Group went public in early November. It has been more than three months since Baidu officially launched its return to Hong Kong listing. As early as late July this year, Tencent News exclusively learned that senior executives including Robin Li had met with some investment banks in batches and officially launched the second listing plan for returning to Hong Kong. (Tencent News)
Tencent denies WeChat test voice message progress adjustment
On October 21, it was reported that in the test version of WeChat, the voice message in the chat interface was added with the function of adjusting the voice progress, which can adjust the progress of the voice message. In response, WeChat responded: There is no test.
International news
Microsoft's commitment to employee diversity upgrades: the next CEO may be a minority woman
According to reports, Microsoft recently stated in a document submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that the company has included minority women as potential successors to the next CEO. Microsoft has always stated that the company is committed to promoting employee diversity. Today, Microsoft has further strengthened this commitment, saying that it will look for minority female talents, who may become the successor of the current CEO Satya Nadella (Satya Nadella) in the future. Microsoft stated in the document: "The company's board of directors is committed to actively seeking high-quality women and individuals from minority groups and including them in the talent pool of potential CEO candidates."
Apple iPhone 12’s first teardown video released: Confirmed to use Qualcomm X55 baseband
Ordinary users will not receive the new iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro until tomorrow, but now a dismantling video of the iPhone 12 has appeared online, allowing us to explore its internal structure. The disassembly video (from Century Weifeng Technology) compares the iPhone 12 with last year's iPhone 11. The new iPhone 12 uses an L-shaped logic board, which is longer than the logic board used in the iPhone 11. It can be seen that the iPhone 12 OLED screen is thinner than the iPhone 11 LCD screen, and Apple has also reduced the size of the iPhone 12 Tapic Engine vibration motor. The disassembly also confirmed that Apple iPhone 12 is equipped with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X55 modem, which is consistent with the rumors we heard before the launch of the new phone. X55 provides support for 5G millimeter wave networks and 5G Sub-6GHz networks, as well as 5G/4G spectrum sharing. It is Qualcomm's second-generation 5G chip after X50.
Japan announced that it will strictly supervise Google, Apple and other technology giants
Japan is currently seeking to strengthen antitrust review of major technology companies, including the large technology giants known as "GAFA"-Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon. Japan’s anti-monopoly regulator said that Japan will join forces with the United States and Europe to crack down on any market abuse by the four major technology companies. This sign shows that Japan is laying the foundation for regulating platform operators.
India will launch "cabbage price" 5G mobile phone: the price is less than 500 yuan
Recently, Indian telecom operator Reliance Jio plans to launch a 5G smartphone with a price of 5,000 rupees within a year. According to sources, the price of mobile phones after the launch is even expected to fall further to between Rs 2500 and Rs 3,500. At the Reliance Jio's annual shareholders meeting in July, Mukesh Ambani, president of its parent company, Reliance Group India, announced a plan to design and develop a complete 5G solution and said that once the spectrum is available, it can be tested.
Programmer area
Microsoft releases preview version of Edge for Linux
Microsoft officially released a preview version of Edge for Linux based on Chromium. Interested Linux developers can directly download the .deb or .rpm package from the Edge Insider website (Dev channel). Edge for Linux currently supports Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and openSUSE distributions. The version in the Dev channel is updated weekly. According to Microsoft, the technical preview version is mainly aimed at developers who want to build and test the performance of websites and applications on Linux.
React 17 official version released
On October 20th, the official version of React 17 was released. What makes React 17 different from the past is that it does not add any new features for developers. Instead, this release focuses on simplifying the upgrade of React itself. React 17 makes it easier to embed React into applications built using other technologies. The changes are as follows: add react/jsx-runtime and react/jsx-dev-runtime to the new JSX converter; build component call stacks based on the native framework; allow to specify displayName in the context to improve the stack, etc. For detailed updates, please check https: //reactjs.org/blog/2020/10/20/react-v17.html.