Aurora Developer Weekly【No.0723】

IT news in a week

Many companies donated nearly 2 billion yuan to help Henan natural disasters ruthless, there is love in the world!

According to incomplete statistics, more than dozens of companies have donated more than one million yuan for the Henan rainstorm disaster, with a total donation of nearly 2 billion yuan. Among them, Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, Baidu, Meituan, Didi, Pinduoduo, Muyuan, Foxconn and other companies have donated RMB 100 million or more.

Google, Volkswagen and Toyota are developing car operating systems

Internet giant Google is developing its Android car operating system (AAOS), hoping to integrate its rich Android ecosystem into cars. By the end of 2021, automakers including Volvo and General Motors (GM) will launch 10 models. The AAOS system will be adopted. Volkswagen plans to release a new operating system VW.OS2.0 in 2024, and increase the proportion of models equipped with self-developed software systems to 60% by 2025. Toyota will open its operating system Arene OS and software development kits to third-party software developers through the open source social media GitHub, allowing them to design related applications and join its exclusive application ecosystem.

IPhone 13 series enters mass production, many Apple foundries begin to recruit workers

According to media reports, the production of the iPhone 13 series has quietly begun, and the foundry is currently actively recruiting workers to prepare for the next larger order. According to the latest news, the new iPhone 13 will be released in September. Compared with the 75 million iPhone 12 series produced last year, the iPhone 13 has increased by 15 million units this year (the output of the new phone will increase to 90 million units before the end of this year). , The demand has increased by 20%. In terms of foundry, foreign media said Foxconn will still undertake most of the business, including all iPhone 13 Pro Max, 68% of iPhone 13 and close to 60% of iPhone 13 Pro.

The world's richest man Bezos completes his first space flight journey

Blue Origin, founded by the world's richest man Jeff Bezos, carried out the 16th launch of the "New Shepard" (New Shepard) aircraft at around 21:10 on Tuesday (July 20) Beijing time. This is the first manned mission. The traveling crew includes 4 people, Jeff Bezos himself, his brother Mark Bezos (Mark Bezos), 82-year-old female pilot Wally Funk (Wally Funk) and Oliver Daeman, 18 years old from the Netherlands. After that, the capsule released three parachutes by itself after a few minutes of continuous flight in space, and finally landed smoothly under the action of gravity.

OpenAI announces the disbandment of the robotics team

On July 21, OpenAI, the world's largest artificial intelligence non-profit organization, disbanded its robotics team and announced the indefinite termination of exploration in the field of robotics. Wojciech Zaremba, co-founder of OpenAI, said that resources have been transferred to other areas where achievements are easier.

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2021 Developer Ecosystem Survey: JavaScript is still the most popular language

Development tool company JetBrains recently conducted a survey in 183 countries/regions, and more than 31,743 developers answered questions. Survey results show:

JavaScript is the most popular language – 69% of respondents have used it in the past 12 months, and 39% of respondents designated it as their primary programming language.

In terms of overall usage, Python is more popular than Java (52% vs. 49%), and as a major language, Java is more popular than Python (32% vs. 29%).

Microsoft Edge browser launched on Win11 App Store

Microsoft recently quietly put its own Edge browser on the Win11 app store. Users can search for "Microsoft Edge Browser" in the Win11 app store and download it with one click. In addition, the Edge browser extension is also available in the Win11 app store. Users can browse and find the Edge browser extension in the Win11 app store just like searching for apps, just like the old version of the Edge browser. The Win10 app store does not yet Launch Edge browser.

Google: Developers can request more time to complete Google Play payment policy compliance

Google Android developers officially stated that developers can apply for more time to complete Google Play payment policy compliance. In September last year, Google elaborated on the payment policy and clearly specified the time requirements for developers to adopt the Google Play settlement system. At that time, Google gave developers a year to implement the update. Google today pointed out that after considering the feedback from developers of different team sizes, it provides developers with the option to extend the application for 6 months, that is, the deadline for payment policy compliance can be postponed to March 31, 2022. And starting from July 22nd, developers can apply for an extension through the Help Center.

PuTTY 0.76 released, SSH/Telnet program

PuTTY is a free and open source program that integrates virtual terminal, system console and network file transfer. It supports a variety of network protocols, including SCP, SSH, Telnet, rlogin and raw socket connections, and it can also connect to serial ports. The software name "PuTTY" has no special meaning. v0.76 is a bug fix and security version. It fixes the error in 0.75; it also adds a new configuration option as an additional defense against malicious or compromised SSH server authentication prompt spoofing.

Chrome 92 released

The Chrome team recently announced that Google today pushed the 92 version of the Chrome browser to desktop users. The specific version number is 92.0.4515.107. This will be launched in the next few days or weeks. This update brings a new phishing Detection technology can increase the detection speed by nearly 50 times while reducing power consumption by 50 times. In addition, Google also indicated in the update log that Chrome 92.0.4515.107 contains many fixes and improvements, solving 32 vulnerabilities, of which 13 are moderately severe and 9 are highly severe.

Aurora Zone

Aurora and Onion Group jointly create a new experience of quality life

Recently, Aurora Mobile (NASDAQ: JG), China's leading mobile developer service provider, announced a cooperation with ONION GLOBAL (Stock Code: OG). The two parties will complement each other's advantages in digital new retail and achieve win-win cooperation to jointly create a new global brand consumer experience.

After this cooperation with ONION GLOBAL Onion Group, Aurora will help ONION GLOBAL Onion Group to improve its digital operation capabilities through intelligent push services supported by artificial intelligence and machine learning technology. The achievement of this cooperation further demonstrates that Aurora's powerful artificial intelligence technology has been fully implemented in the cross-border e-commerce field and has been widely used, demonstrating Aurora's strong leadership position in the field of cross-border services.

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