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[Preface] intelligent era ended the first half, the second half began
2019 has just begun, Microsoft publicly stated that any users of its Windows 10 phones (once known as Windows Phone), should instead use an iPhone or Android phone.
This is not a sudden decision, Microsoft's last public priority emphasizing mobility strategy be traced back to 2014, "mobile first and cloud first" slogan has long been "a cloud and intelligent edge first" strategy replaced, Windows Phone, although " times "to be renamed Windows 10 phones, but ultimately could not escape the fate" after December 10, 2019, Microsoft will not continue on Windows 10 (mobile operating system) for technical support. "
2019, from the launch of Microsoft's mobile operating system MeeGO original nearly 10 years, the acquisition of Nokia's mobile division also passed nearly six years, but in the end time just proves Microsoft lost Android iOS Apple and Google in the mobile business, but not give Microsoft bring success in any sense.
Looking back 10 years, Microsoft's mobile strategy, the reasons for its failure probably could write a thick Business School Case Studies, but the choice at this time "to leave the mobile operating system market," and perhaps "smart phone market potential of nearly economy exhausted "not unrelated: As previously" Yunqi Technology review "said, the smart phone has passed its peak, the market has not yet found the next par smartphone products, intelligent era has ended the first half, but the second half has not been start, coupled with the market pattern has been formed two iOS and Android systems divide and conquer situation, at this time still invest human and material resources to support the smart phone market is clearly no economic benefit at all.
But the second half of the smart era look like? Here we continue to make a bold guess: half of the smart times will be showing "AIoT as Services over 5G" a situation in which consumers of the future, through 5G communications networks, local and global connectivity to any service, in conjunction with IoT perception and service capabilities, consumers will get high-quality consumer experience provided by AI, cloud computing as key data, calculate power and connectivity platform, this all into service form.
1, Microsoft intends to end support for Windows Phone Canceled
[Abstract] According to CNBC news reports, Microsoft said that any users are still using its Windows 10 phones (once known as Windows Phone), should instead use an iPhone or Android phone. Specialize in reporting news of Microsoft's information website Thurrott, Windows 10 was first discovered changes that occur phone support pages. Microsoft said that in the December 10, 2019, the company will stop sending the phone's "security updates, non-security patches, free support options and assist Microsoft's free technical content updates." This means that, after December 10, Microsoft Windows 10 does not continue to carry out technical support.
[Comment] Xiaoyun "With the end of the Windows 10 operating system supported by mobile, we recommend that customers use Microsoft supported by Android or iOS devices." Microsoft announced the cancellation of Windows Phone support position, which means the company after ten years Windows mobile strategy suffered a major setback, before that, Microsoft had a grand plan to install Windows on mobile devices and, indeed, the acquisition of Nokia's mobile division. Of course, Microsoft stopped Windows mobile strategy is not declared the company's mobile strategy a complete failure, because Microsoft has been fully turned to new areas: cloud computing to support the broad prospects for the mobile market, and derive income and growth.
2, Swiss researchers have developed flexible nanobots
[News Summary] According to VentureBeat reported that the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) and the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) Researchers inspired by the bacteria, can develop a flexible robot with swimming in body fluids, or it may be the future life-saving drugs to hard to reach places your body. This robot biocompatible, capable of changing shape as desired, and can be in the narrow blood vessels without affecting the speed. The first author of the paper · Selman Sakar (Selman Sakar), said he and his colleagues used a variant --kirigami origami (origami) technology to design and folding exterior structure.
[Comment] Xiaoyun robot is called the key hydrogel nanocomposite, belongs to a nanomaterial-filled, hydrated, cohesive polymer network which has good flexibility. Meanwhile, researchers have not filled miniature sensors and actuators within the cell micro robot, but the addition of the magnetic nanoparticles in the nano-composite material, in response to changes in ambient electric field. Then, these robots can be "programmed" in advance according to an instruction or modification, or by navigation to fluid flow through the chamber, but more critical is that the robot breakthrough threshold cost, the cost of materials is very low, at relatively reasonable the cost of production.
3, CB Insights CEO: AI changes usher in the industry changes
[News Summary] CB Insights co-founder and CEO Anand Sanwal speech a few days ago, he thought a lot of people do not really recognize the power of technology to bring one of the changes brought about by the AI market competition is accelerating. For companies, speed is very important. For example, the S & P 500 Index company's life cycle, for example, in the 1950s - 1960s, usually between a company's life expectancy is 60 years, but now probably less than 20 years. In addition, he believes that two of the AI changes brought about is the impact of technology brings more and more deeply. At the same time, he also believes that China's AI development is very promising, "China's government is supporting the development of artificial intelligence, which is different, which is why the development of China's artificial intelligence so fast."
[Comment] Xiaoyun Today, almost all companies say they are technology companies, including General Motors, Goldman Sachs or an advertising agency or a food company, and the logic behind this is simple: technology and data has become a leading business development the key factor, even redefining the market competition, product architecture, business models and the organizational structure of enterprises, for many enterprise managers, technology and data will become part of their new "business sense", they also need to be more rational analyze the market competition rules, and this analysis, to some extent, the birth of a new algorithm.
4, the European Union or the upcoming third penalty Google monopoly
[News Summary] Bloomberg reported, Alphabet, a subsidiary of Google will soon face the European Union out of the third antitrust penalties. According to an anonymous insider, the EU competition commissioner, Margaret? Weiss Tagg (Margrethe Vestager), will announce a service antitrust penalties against Google AdSense ads in the coming weeks. This marks the punishment, this US tech giant for up to eight years of antitrust investigations orgasm. The EU had said in 2016, Google through its AdSense service search products hinder competition online advertising, these ads are placed on retailers, telecom operators as well as newspapers and other sites. Although AdSense European market share of more than 80%, but in Google's total advertising revenue in 2015, its share of less than 20%, this proportion has always been a steady decline since 2010.
[Comment] Xiaoyun July 2018, the EU imposed a record fine of 4.3 billion euros on Google, and asked the company to change the bundle on Android mobile devices to search and install the browser application way. A year ago, due to regulatory agencies accused of manipulating Google search results to thwart the small shopping search service, Google again fined 2.4 billion euros. In other words, before the EU has fined Google for $ 6.7 billion, while the most noteworthy is that, because AdSense actually has gradually been replaced by other Google products, fine with AdSense will not cause Google long-term injuries, the effectiveness of EU fines arising from its own significance and how much, it is worth thinking.
5, Japan launched a new satellite is expected in spring next year the first is "man-made meteor shower."
[News Summary Recently the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency successfully launched Epps Dragon 4 solid-fuel rocket, the seven satellites into space, the most concern is a meteor can be manufactured satellite is expected in spring next year may for the first time staged a "man-made meteor shower." The highlight of the launch of start-up companies by the Japanese Space ALE R & D can be manufactured artificial meteor ALE-1 satellite. Satellite length and width of 60 cm, a height of about 80 cm, weighing about 68 kg. After releasable satellite into orbit in a specified space of about 1 cm in diameter, weight in grams of specific metal particles, capable of forming a burning effect thereof meteor into the atmosphere.
[Comment] According Xiaoyun orbit satellites, the artificial meteor can request "staged" throughout the world, in the designated areas 200 km in diameter can watch the ground, it is expected in the spring of 2020 in the near Hiroshima, Japan manufacturing over the first "artificial meteor shower," Interestingly, according to Japanese media reports, there have been orders from the Middle East an appointment for the child birthday. At the same time, SpaceX company also completed the January 33rd recovery Falcon rocket, two things are today, on behalf of the rapid development of commercial space in the past was considered unattainable only by the will of the state to complete science and technology initiative, has become the company's services business, which mining has a very important reference for the commercial potential is still considered "closed, out of reach" of the industry.
6, the US government intends to allow the UAV night operation
[Abstract] According to Reuters news, the US government has put forward many proposals on the rules governing UAVs, including UAV will allow operations in densely populated areas, and to cancel at night require special permission from the requirements of these long-awaited initiatives are expected to help accelerate the commercial use of small UAVs in the United States. These proposals are affiliated by the US Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) drafted after fears that the drone may be hazardous to aircraft and densely populated areas. US Secretary of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao (Elaine Chao) said that the Department of Transportation is very clear public concern about UAVs in terms of security and privacy.
[Comment] Xiaoyun from logistics, security, and services to the entertainment industry, unmanned aerial vehicles are entering more and more business scene, without stifling innovation, enhance the value of UAVs, reasonable, open UAV management (and production) specification and match the security system, reduce the risk of small UAVs to other aircraft and ground personnel and property constituted imminent. At the same time, there is need to consider supporting the UAV operator training and testing and how to reduce public concern about the commercial UAV.
7, Cadillac will push against the Tesla electric car
[News Summary] In mid-January Cadillac showed off its first electric car, Steve Carlisle The company's president, Cadillac's new electric car combines the qualities of luxury and innovation, will highlight its long mileage (300 miles) performance advantages. Meanwhile, Cadillac's official website revealed that the brand in 2021 will maintain the tempo six months to launch a new model. It is noteworthy that, GM previously announced on January 11, Cadillac will be the first based on its upcoming "BEV3" platform models. Vehicle platform is mainly manufactured on the basis of the vehicle, the system includes a battery, other structural and mechanical components. BEV3 platform flexibility, while suitable for a variety of models, different models offer front-wheel drive, rear-wheel drive and all-wheel drive modes.
[Comment] Xiaoyun high probability of view, Cadillac's first electric car will be based on General Motors (GM's Cadillac brand) of BEV3 platform, but also by traditional automakers General Motors powerful "platform", accelerate brand electric car to market and diversification. In the traditional depot, platform means a strong capacity to diversify models, it can be based on "reuse" platform can design and manufacture different models of electric vehicles, BEV3 common platform so that the battery pack is part of achieving great flexibility and scale production, thereby reducing the unit cost of production, which is the difference between General Motors and other traditional depot and Tesla: traditional depot's strategy is to "platform + model", Tesla only "model", in terms of cost, terms of speed to market, production difficulty at a disadvantage.
8, the US Department of Defense project because Google exit AI AI mad dug Silicon Valley talent
[Abstract] According to Wired News reported that the US military is struggling to make progress in artificial intelligence (AI) field. Senior officials of the United States Department of Defense believe, AI will be key to ensuring the United States to victory in future wars. But the Department of Defense's internal documents and interviews with senior officials have indicated that the Department of Defense since been abandoned and fall into a technology giant hobbled dilemma. To get rid of this dilemma, the United States Department of Defense began a competition for AI talent war. Current US Department of Defense's Defense Digital Services (DDS), head of Chris Lynch (Chris Lynch) even said: "Without the help of the best talent in the industry, we will not hire those who have the strongest ability, first, develop the ability to perhaps as much as we expected product. "because the" AI technology is too important, even if less need to rely on professional experts, will continue to advance work in this area. "
[Comment] Xiaoyun June 2018, Google announced its withdrawal from the US Department of Defense's controversial Project Maven project, Project Maven is a large-scale US military for the first time to explore the use of AI in the war project. The project uses Google AI software to improve the efficiency of video analysis to help identify military targets intelligence analyst from the video clip. In October, thousands of Google employees signed a petition calling for the company to terminate cooperation with the US military on the project. US Department of Defense's attitude is very clear: a strategy document to be disclosed, wrote "unmanned systems technology will support the development and deployment of autonomous systems possible, these systems can independently select the target, and attack with deadly force." . Technology "moral" is just to create maps and extending those moral, ethical discussion of AI, in the final analysis, or discussion of human morality.
9, Amazon launched AWS centralized backup service
News [Abstract] Recently, the company announced the launch of Amazon Web Services AWS Backup, which is a fully managed centralized backup services that enable customers to more quickly and easily across AWS services and on-site data backup. AWS backup by providing customers with a single service to configure and audit their AWS resources backup, automated backup scheduling, setting retention policies, and monitoring the most recent backup and recovery, so that the protection of storage volumes, database and file system easier. Initially, AWS backup with Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and AWS storage gateway integration, support for other services planned for the future.
[Comment] Xiaoyun As stated in the news, as companies will be more and more applications migrate to the cloud, their data can be distributed across multiple services, including databases, block storage, object storage, and file systems. While cloud service providers These services provide backup feature, but customers often create custom scripts to automate scheduling, execution retention policies, and integration of backup activity across multiple services, in order to better meet business and compliance needs. In other words, the future of cloud service providers should be more to the integration (or inclusion) is calculated traditional IT architecture, data, network, security and other architectural paradigms, these paradigms or may not be optimized in line with cloud characteristics of the times, but behind there are often regulatory compliance or user habits and other needs.
10, US research team developed can chat AI self-learning
[News Summary Recently, Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research Institute and Stanford University researchers have developed a joint training data can be extracted from the self-improvement of the dialogue chat AI, through experimental tests, compared to the general chat AI, its dialogue accuracy rate of 31%. The results of published article entitled: paper "Learning from Dialogue after Deployment! Feed Yourself, Chatbot", the research team mentioned in the paper, when the dialogue is well under way appears to the user's reply will become chat the new training samples AI simulation, when the agent consider themselves an error, it will seek feedback, and learn to predict feedback, which will further enhance the dialogue ability of AI chat.
[Comment] Xiaoyun team of experts showed a more advanced chat AI: can reply upon satisfaction by imitating humans, or by asking them not satisfied with their feedback, and increased ancillary tasks prediction feedback to improve their conversation skills. And also it proved to categorize customer satisfaction is very important to the process of self-learning tasks, such as self-study process, will be significantly better than the method based on model uncertainty. In addition, the team has not "monopoly" This achievement, the paper they are involved in data collection, and training model by opening up the code of ParlAI Facebook platform.