2018年6月27日 星期三

Facebook has halted its internet drone project,


Facebook has halted its internet drone project, which it had originally envisioned as a way of bringing more people online.

2018年6月18日 星期一

谷歌今天宣布將以5.5億美元,現金投資中國電商品牌京東

美國科技巨頭谷歌今天宣布將以5.5億美元,現金投資中國電商品牌京東,雙方未來還將達成廣泛的合作。谷歌高層指出,新的協議初步不會涉及谷歌在中國的任何重大新倡議。

2018年6月15日 星期五

App Maker, Google's low-code tool for building business apps,






App Maker | Google Developers

https://developers.google.com/appmaker/
Build apps that fill gaps, like accelerating business workflows or scaling internal operations, with G Suite's low-code development environment. App Maker is ...

App Maker - Custom Apps For Your Business | G Suite - Google

https://gsuite.google.com/products/app-maker/
Create powerful cloud apps for your business with App Maker, included as a ...

App Maker, Google's low-code tool for building business apps, comes ...

https://techcrunch.com/.../app-maker-googles-low-code-tool-for-building-business-ap...
21 hours ago - It's been a year and a half since Google announced App Maker, its online tool for quickly building and deploying business apps on the web.

G Suitened with helping of Google's App Maker • The Register

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/15/goggle_app_maker/
6 hours ago - After a year and a half of gestation in its Early Adopter program, Google's low-code application development environment App Maker has been ...

Google makes G Suite's App Maker generally available | ZDNet

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-makes-g-suites-app-maker-generally-available/
21 hours ago - Google on Thursday is bringing App Maker, its developer tool for G Suite, into general availability. App Maker is a low-code environment ...
只要少量、甚至不需要程式語言就可以完成應用程式開發!曾推出測試版的低門檻開發工具 App Maker 正式上線啦。


TECHNEWS.TW|作者:TECHNEWS 科技新報

Google 低門檻開發工具 App Maker 正式開放,不寫程式碼就能完成開發
Google 曾於 2016 年 11 月推出低門檻線上開發工具 App Maker,用於網路快速構建和部署商業應用程式。這款工具內建大量模板(主要是 G Suite 及合作夥伴的整合服務),可讓用戶以少量(甚至不需要)程式語言,靠拖曳 UI 即可完成.....

2018年6月8日 星期五

美問Alphabet谷歌、推特 ,數據有無給華為?

美問谷歌推特 數據有無給華為?

美國一向認為華為與中國共產黨淵源頗深,會對國家安全形成威脅。如今臉書被爆數據分享給華為,人們需不需要擔心其他公司也一樣?
    
Mobile World Congress Barcelona Matebook Spanien (picture-alliance/dpa/Q. Garcia)
華為十分神秘,其背後是否有共產黨指示、或是資金支持,都不得而知
(德國之聲中文網) 臉書用戶數據分享給中國公司,引发軒然大波。下一個問題是: Google跟Twitter呢?
參議員華納 (Mark Warner) 對外表示,針對另外兩家世界級科技公司-谷歌母公司Alphabet與推特,他已經去函詢問他們與中國是否有任何形式的資料共享合同。他隨後將信件公開。他宣稱中國共產黨與華為、中興的關係一直是美國對於國家安全顧慮的重點
谷歌週四透過電子郵件发表一篇聲明,「我們與世界各地的製造商都有簽訂合同,包括華為。我們特別為華為提供特殊服務,而我們的合同也有隱私權政策與訊息安全的相關條款。」其母公司Alphabet 先前承認與華為、小米、騰訊都有策略性夥伴關係。
推特拒絕回應。
2018年,以全世界計,臉書有21.9億活躍用戶,谷歌有14億注冊用戶,推特則有3.3億活躍賬戶。
Huawei P20 smartphone (Reuters/F. Fuentes)
華為手機性價比高,在歐洲廣受好評
美國情報員不用華為手機
2012年,法新社報導,出於這兩家企業進行經濟間諜活動以及為軍方蒐集情報的疑慮,美國國會情報委員會做成一份調查報告。草案中稱,華為和中興兩家中國企業可能受到中國政府的操縱,因而"不可信賴"。報告認為,華為、中興承接美國業務或收購美國公司,都有可能威脅到美國的安全。報告得出的結論是,"中國有手段、機會和理由利用電信企業達到惡意的目的"。
盡管華為和中興始終否認與中國官方有關係,也無法改變華為總裁任正非是中國共產黨員的事實,也無法撇清華為是否為中國共產黨所支持。如今華為在歐洲、中國獲得歡迎,但在美國,電信業者都拒絕在店鋪販售華為設備,美國情報員也沒有一個會使用華為手機
Facebook和中國公司共享數據又惹風波
臉書Facebook與多家中國技術集團共享一部分用戶數據,證實了《紐約時報》的相關報告。
全球各地大約有60家公司與Facebook簽署了共享某些用戶數據的合同,例如亞馬遜、蘋果、黑莓、HTC、微軟和三星。然而其中最引美國注目的是四家中國公司: 中國手機製造商華為、OPPO、TCL,以及電腦製造商聯想。
雙方的合作旨在讓Facebook用戶在移動設備上登錄並使用帳戶的各種功能。《紐約時報》報導指出,臉書用戶友人的數據也可能會在未經過其允許的情況下被獲取。這一點在社群網站上引起爭議
臉書指出,逾一半存有爭議的數據合作關係已經結束,與華為的合作將止於本週。
羅法/夏立民 (綜合報導)

2018年6月6日 星期三

歐盟擬就安卓反壟斷案處罰Alphabet至多110億美元

報道:歐盟擬就安卓反壟斷案處罰Alphabet至多110億美元

Facebook證實與中國科技公司有數據分享協議

Facebook證實與中國科技公司有數據分享協議

Facebook Inc. 周二稱,其與至少四家中國電子產品公司有數據合作,其中包括電信設備生產商華為技術有限公司。該公司稱,計劃在本周內結束與華為的數據分享合作關係。




 Facebook’s data sharing extended to at least four Chinese companies, our investigative team found. One is the smartphone giant Huawei, which has been flagged as a security threat by U.S. intelligence.
The revelation comes on the heels of the team’s report that Facebook opened data spigots for device makers including Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Samsung, raising concerns about whether it is adhering to even its own privacy policies.
Facebook, banned in China since 2009, and Huawei denied improper use or storage of the data, but Facebook said it would end its arrangement with Huawei within a week.

Microsoft sinks a data center off the Scottish coast



This underwater data center has enough storage for around 5 million movies, and is as powerful as thousands of desktop PCs.



THEVERGE.COM|作者:TOM WARREN

Microsoft sinks a data center off the Scottish coast
The data center includes 864 servers and 27.6 petabytes of storage

A new ceramic could help hypersonic planes take off


London to Sydney in two hours?

2018年6月4日 星期一

Microsoft’s $7.5 billion purchase of GitHub will provoke a developer backlash






Financial Times

The $7.5bn price tag is significantly higher than lossmaking GitHub’s valuation after its previous fundraising round in 2015, when it was valued at around $2bn.









FT.COM
Microsoft plans to buy the code-sharing platform GitHub for $7.5bn

分析:Microsoft’s $7.5 billion purchase of GitHub will provoke a developer backlash https://trib.al/ZNTHwko



...Why this matters: Microsoft says it’s been the most active organization on GitHub, and that it wants it to operate independently. But why, then, is it paying so much for the business, which was last valued at $2.5 billion in 2015?
The most plausible answer is that the company will significantly influence the way the platform operates to its advantage, and get an invaluable overview of the projects being worked on across it. That will propbably spook big software companies like Google and Facebook, which won’t like the idea of developing their code on a platform controlled by a rival. Some coders are already expressing misgivingsabout the deal as well. Unless Microsoft treads carefully, some could flee to rival repositories like BitBucket or GitLab, which has seen a big spike in traffic since news of the deal broke.

2018年6月2日 星期六

Google to scrub U.S. military deal protested by employees


Reuters


Alphabet Inc's Google will not renew a contract to help the U.S. military analyse aerial drone imagery when it expires in March, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday, as the company moves to defuse internal uproar over the deal.


REUTERS.COM

Google to scrub U.S. military deal protested by employees - source

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