Gates donated another $20billion, Google cloud switched to arm, and twitter employees were warned by CEO musk. Today, more big news is here

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Today's big news

Twitter CEO Warn employees not to be distracted by litigation

According to Sina Technology ,Twitter CEO Praag · Agraval （Parag Agrawal） Warned employees on Tuesday local time , The company's lawsuit against musk may distract a lot of energy , And keep employees focused .

He wrote in an email to employees ：

The next few weeks will be filled with news and noise about the case , Including speculation from the media and analysts . Some of them help explain this complex process , But many guesses are distracting .

Twitter On 7 month 12 Musk was formally prosecuted on the th , Ask him to fulfill the acquisition agreement signed at the end of April .

before ,7 month 8 Japan , Musk Twitter They were not provided with relevant information about spam accounts , For breach of contract , Terminate the transaction .

However ,Twitter I don't buy this statement , And apply to the Delaware court for enforcement .

The small smart screen is trapped “ Privacy door ”

According to investor website , In recent days, , Baidu's well-known product Xiaodu smart screen has been exposed to violate consumers' privacy .

7 month 1 Japan , Ms. Yang from Benxi, Liaoning Province is in the B & B room , I found that Xiaodu smart speaker captured a video of myself walking in the room in the nursing mode , And there are many private videos of tenants checking in .

The landlord didn't know about it , After communicating again, Ms. Yang chose to call the police .

7 month 5 Japan ,“ Small degree and small degree ” The official Weibo released a statement on this incident , Make a formal response , Support the women involved in safeguarding their rights .

It is said that the small smart screen will not automatically turn on the camera and “ Nursing assistant ” function , Only the device administrator has permission .

And to emphasize , If the Xiaodu product is in standby or not waked up , Xiaodu will never automatically collect , Identify users and surrounding audio and video information .

△ Figure note ： come from “ Small degree and small degree ” Microblogging

It is worth mentioning that , Xiaodu products are widely used in hotels , according to 6 Data released at the end of the month , The number of hotel rooms equipped with smart service of Xiaodu assistant has reached 40 Ten thousand rooms , The business scale ranks first in the industry .

Nature Cover explores dog ancestors

Nature The cover of the latest issue is Francis Crick Institute 、 Max Planck Institute of evolutionary anthropology, Germany 、 Large international joint research teams from Oxford University and other institutions explore the wild ancestors of dogs .

The origin of domestic dogs can be traced back to gray wolves , But when on earth 、 Where and how to domesticate are still the focus of debate .

After exploring, the research team found , Dogs have more than one ancestor , It's two . Gray wolves are domesticated independently in Asia and Europe , But only the former contributed to the ancestors of modern dogs .

Results show , Dogs are genetically most similar to ancient Siberian gray wolves , But they are not direct ancestors .

The first author of the study 、 Francis Crick Institute Anders Bergstrm say ：“ This basically shows , Dogs may have been domesticated somewhere in Asia .”

however , A small number of dogs in Africa and the Middle East and Europe have been found to have additional genetic contributions from the Western gray wolf population ,Bergstrm Say ：

The largest number of second ancestral sources is in one from Israel with 7000 Found on ancient dogs with a history of years .

There are still many problems to be solved ：

We still cannot judge whether there are two independent domestication events , Then there is the merger of these two populations , Or there is only one domestication process , Then there is a mixed population from wild gray wolves . therefore , It is also necessary to determine the geographical origin of canine partners .

Gates will donate again this month 200 Billion dollars

Local time 7 month 13 Japan , bill · Gates announced on his personal blog , Bill and Melinda will be presented this month · The Gates Foundation donated money 200 Billion dollars .

bill · Gates plans to donate all his wealth to the foundation ：

I'll fall off the list of the world's richest people , And finally quit . I'm not giving this money at all a sacrifice .

Besides , Bill and Melinda · The Gates Foundation also announced , Plan to 2026 The annual grant expenditure will be increased to 90 Billion dollars , It is higher than that before COVID-19 50%.

bill · Gates' donation exceeded that of him and Melinda · Frankie · The donation Gates made last summer 150 A $billion joint commitment , Plus the donation from Buffett , These two donations will bring the total capital of the Gates Foundation to about 700 Billion dollars .

The foundation says , The new donation will encourage the Gates Foundation to increase its investment in existing areas of concern . Including global health and development focusing on low - and middle-income countries 、 Gender equality and education project , And work in the field of education and economic mobility in the United States .

Google cloud announced the adoption of ARM chip ： Pressure Intel and AMD

According to Sina Technology ,Alphabet Its Google cloud division announced on Wednesday local time , They will begin to adopt a system based on ARM Technology chips , Become another large-scale technology company to join this transformation wave , To Intel and AMD Bring more pressure .

Google said its new service will be based on Ampere Computing Of Altra chip .Ampere Computing It also sells chips to companies such as Microsoft and Oracle .

ARM Is a chip design company headquartered in Cambridge, England , The company announced that it would IPO.

2018 year ,ARM Started for a long time by Intel and AMD The leading data center provides chip technology . thereafter ,ARM Technology appears in large data centers around the world （ Amazon 、 Microsoft 、 Alibaba 、 Baidu, etc ）.

With Google joining ARM camp , Almost all large cloud service providers have now begun to provide services based on ARM Cloud computing services .