Aurora Developer Weekly【No.0827】

IT news in a week

Byte Beat Acquired Pico for 5 billion yuan to enter VR
According to media reports, ByteDance will acquire Pico for RMB 5 billion to formally enter VR. If true, this move seems to be the same as Facebook's acquisition of Oculus in 2014. Pico is a leading domestic VR hardware manufacturer. According to an IDC report, Pico will rank first in China's VR market share in 2020. In March this year, it completed a round of financing of RMB 242 million in B+. And in May this year, the new generation of VR all-in-one Pico Neo 3 was released, and the sales volume exceeded 10 million in 24 hours. Apart from the hardware, Pico is also working on the VR content ecosystem.

announced the change of its name to "Zhiwen Group": its existing App names remain unchanged
Hello Group Inc. (formerly Momo Inc.) officially announced the launch of the new Chinese name "Zhiwen Group" (formerly Momo Technology), and its existing App product names remain unchanged. At the same time, the company's new brand visual identity was unveiled.

Xiaomi sets up an apartment management company: apartment for employees to enhance their happiness
Recently, Xiaomi Apartment (Beijing) Commercial Operation Management Co., Ltd. was established with a registered capital of 700 million yuan. Its legal representative is He Yong. Its business scope includes property management; lease of commercial buildings; lease of office buildings, etc. In response to Xiaomi’s 700 million yuan in the establishment of an apartment management company, Wang Hua, the head of Xiaomi’s public relations, responded that it was just a Xiaomi employee apartment. The main purpose is to relieve the pressure of Xiaomi employees, especially fresh graduates, from renting a house, renting a house far, and renting a house expensively, and to enhance employee happiness.

iPhone 13 series may increase the price
According to foreign media reports, Apple will issue an invitation letter on September 7 and is scheduled to hold a press conference on September 14. The iPhone 13 series will start accepting pre-orders on September 17, and will officially go on sale on September 24. According to sources, Apple intends to increase the price of the iPhone 13 series. One of the reasons is that TSMC has increased the cost of chip production. Another reason is that the labor costs required for foundry and many materials for the production of mobile phones have also increased in price. .

Sina Announces Weibo Hot Search Management Rules: No Commercial Sales Location
Sina Weibo recently announced an announcement on the hot search management rules, including the calculation formula and product mechanism. The hot search term calculation formula is: (search heat + discussion heat + spread heat) × interaction rate. The announcement also emphasizes that there are no commercial sales positions in the hot search rankings. They will "reduce the proportion of entertainment" as the main control target, and they will also "induce wars, promote boycotts, attack and abuse or obviously violate public order and good customs." Content".

Developers care about headlines

Bootstrap 10th Anniversary
Recently, the well-known front-end toolkit Bootstrap official blog announced its tenth anniversary. Its founder Mark Otto reviewed some achievements and milestones in the past decade: document views exceeded 2.5 billion times, and more than 685,000 times a day; since 2015, The number of npm downloads is 394 million, with more than 131 million downloads in 2020 alone; used by more than 22% of websites; used by 2.7 million projects on GitHub, etc. Bootstrap was developed by Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton of Twitter. The first version was officially released in 2011 and open sourced on GitHub.

South Korea plans to prohibit Apple and Google from drawing commissions from developers
The South Korean parliament will approve an amendment to the Telecom Business Law called the "Anti-Google Law" on Tuesday, prohibiting App store operators such as Google and Apple from using their monopoly position to extract commissions from developers’ in-app purchases. This will be the first time that a major economy has adopted such restrictions, which could damage a lucrative source of income for these tech giants.

Nvidia's enterprise-level AI integrated suite is launched, and the efficiency of AI model development is increased by 10 times
NVIDIA AI Enterprise, the AI tool and framework software of American chip manufacturer NVIDIA, is officially listed. The software was developed in cooperation with Nvidia and the US cloud solution provider VMware, allowing enterprises to virtualize AI workloads on VMware vSphere, using AI applications such as advanced medical diagnosis, smart factories, and financial fraud detection. NVIDIA AI Enterprise enables customers to shorten the development time of AI models from 80 weeks to 8 weeks, and increase the efficiency of AI model development by 10 times.

Gradle 7.2 released
Gradle 7.2 is now released. Gradle is an automated build tool similar to Maven projects, supporting dependency management and multi-projects. This version adds new features and usability improvements, such as toolchain support for Scala projects; escape sequences are retained when copying files; credential processing for authentication based on HTTP headers is improved; dependencies and dependencyInsight configuration name abbreviations are supported. Gradle 7.2 also optimizes performance to improve the hit rate of build caches between operating systems; supports configuration caches for Groovy and Scala projects; also improves the reliability of remote build cache interaction, and can automatically retry uploads when temporary network errors occur .

Kotlin 1.5.30 released
Kotlin 1.5.30 is officially released. Kotlin 1.5.30 is the last release before Kotlin 1.6.0. It contains many experimental languages and standard library functions released in Kotlin 1.6.0. With Kotlin 1.5.30, you can also enjoy native support for Apple chips, the upgrade of Kotlin/JS IR backend to Beta, the ability to use custom libraries in the shared native code of cinterop multi-platform applications, and support provided by Apple The Java tool chain supports Kotlin Gradle plug-in and so on.

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