"Tokyo 8 minutes" stunning world to see the next Olympic black technology
At the closing ceremony of the Rio Olympics, "Tokyo 8 minutes" opened a world of science and technology and "secondary element," Doraemon, Super Mario, and the Great Skywing... In the closing ceremony of the "8 Minutes of Tokyo" performance, the world entered The "secondary element" world of technology and animation. This kind of performance is very Japanese. Indeed, the Tokyo Olympic Games after 4 years may not only belong to sports but also to animation and technology.
According to a column in the “Gizmodo†website, according to “Asahi Shimbunâ€, the Olympic Village in the Tokyo Olympics will be the first “robot village†in history. At present, a 60-foot tall giant statue has already been completed.
By 2020, in the face of athletes and tourists from all over the world, intelligent robots here will complete services such as language translation and navigation.
"Robot Taxi Plan" may become a reality. In August of this year, Japan’s DeNA and ZMP launched the first robotic autonomous taxi, which is expected to provide services during the Olympic Games.
It is reported that NHK plans to broadcast 2020 Olympic Games with 8k HD resolution. In October of this year, Japan Sharp will start selling 8K TVs at a price of US$125,000. According to plan, such TVs will appear more in Japanese families in 2020.
In addition, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation of Japan stated that it has developed a technology to create floating 3D images, people can walk around this image, not just sitting on the screen to watch the projection.
In the “Gizmodo†column, a Japanese company named ALE plans to create an artificial meteor shower across the sky at the Tokyo Olympics. The company is working with a Japanese university to design and launch a cubic microsatellite to simulate the rare nature. Meteor shower.
According to the "Wall Street Journal" report, the Tokyo government plans to spend 40 billion yen (about 2.1 billion yuan), in the next five years, increase the use of hydrogen as an energy source and use it to the Olympic Games, to achieve the Tokyo Olympics Olympic Village 6000 The building uses only hydrogen fuel cells for energy.
Uber claims Lyft worth only $2 billion Lyft counterattack is not selling on smearing
After Uber thinks Lyft's $2 billion worth of reports were published on major media platforms, a source close to Lyft was very angry about Uber's actions. He pointed out that this is not Uber's first attempt to interfere with Lyft's business.
"Uber is trying to use unpleasant tactics to influence our business. Bloomberg's report is a typical example," said a Lyft spokesperson. "Lyft is not selling the company. We have sufficient funds to achieve profitability."
However, informed sources said that Lyft has a fiduciary duty to its investors, even if it does not need to sell the company, it will consider every reasonable offer. Lyft has a long way to go to get up to Uber, and its biggest advantage may be that it is Uber's only major opponent in the United States.
Microsoft acquires artificial intelligence virtual assistant technology company Genee
Microsoft announced on Monday through an official blog that it has signed an acquisition agreement with Genee, an artificial intelligence itinerary planning startup. The latter founders Ben Cheung and Charles Lee will join Microsoft. The specific transaction amount between the two parties was not announced. Founded in 2014, Genee is a conference scheduling service company that provides artificial intelligence algorithms. Its services can effectively simplify the cumbersome and time-consuming aspects of meeting arrangements, especially for large multi-person meetings.
"We believe that Microsoft has always been the industry leader in the areas of personal and enterprise productivity, artificial intelligence, and virtual assistants. So we look forward to bringing our own pursuits and expertise into this team to achieve the most cutting-edge Voice and smart services," said the founder of Genee.
Apple acquires personal health data recording platform Gliimpse
Apple confirmed today that it has acquired personal health startup Gliimpse and continues to be close to health and fitness. The company completed the acquisition earlier this year. Gliimpse is a personal health platform that collects various health and fitness related data for use by users and personalizes their own fitness data and share.
The company was founded by entrepreneur Anil Sessi in 2013 when he saw his sister is fighting against breast cancer, giving it inspiration and creating an easy way to track health data. Currently, Gliimpse allows users to record daily emotional states, track test results and pain levels, and inform physicians that this platform uses multiple technologies to protect user privacy and ensure that each user's data is stored securely. These features make Gliimpse more inclined to provide health care experience for users of diabetes, cancer and other diseases
NASA Detector Captures Mars 360-degree Panoramic Video
According to the Daily Mail, NASA's Mars Curiosity probe recently captured a 360-degree panoramic video of Mars surface, showing that it looks very much like the Earth's landscape. This video was shot on August 5 by the Curiosity Mars Rover and was posted on its website by NASA on the 20th. The video shows desert-like landscapes scattered with eroded flat-topped mountains and hilly landscapes that look very much like the American Southwestern landscape.
In fact, the surface of Mars in the video belongs to the "Murray Formation" and is mainly composed of sediments from the bottom of the lake. NASA stated that the dark flat-topped mountain on the left side of the Curiosity robot arm is only about 15 meters high and about 90 meters away from the detector.
Face recognition is not safe. Scientists crack with a few photos
According to foreign media reports, a research team from the University of North Carolina recently used a number of photos collected on social media (Facebook) to generate a flat 3D model for display on mobile phones using special computer synthesis and rendering techniques. . They then used this model for testing and found that as many as 4/5 of the tested security systems could be easily deceived within 55% to 85% of the measured time. What's more, the photos they can collect on Facebook are very limited and their quality is not guaranteed. Some of them are only 45-degree-angled faces.
Expert 3D Printed Skull Recreates Mummy's Look 2,000 Years Ago
According to Hong Kong’s “Eastern Net†reported on August 21, before the absence of a camera, the ancients could only rely on portraiture and text to describe the appearance of the record. Nowadays, with advanced technology, experts in Melbourne, Australia, have computer-scanned a 2000-year-old mummy to reshape their skull shells with 3D printing to restore the face of the ancient Egyptian young woman. According to reports, the University of Melbourne studied a female mummy named Meritamun who was estimated to have died between 18 and 25 and was buried before 2000.
Android nougat online, only Nexus users can download
According to foreign media reports, Google's latest Android 7.0 version (also known as Nougat nougat) was formally launched today. Android 7.0 is currently only available for Nexus devices, including Nexus 6, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus 9, Nexus Player, and Pixel C. The Android One push will wait a few more weeks. Android 7.0 launched beta in May of this year, adding many new features, including multi-window multitasking, battery-powered modes, increased Daydream support for Google's VR platform and many new emoticons.