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Hello everyone, today is Wednesday, October 26th. The weather is getting colder, so remember to put on more clothes.

Let’s take a look at what major events happened in the technology circle today~

Two Chinese scholars won the ECCV Best Paper Award

ECCV 2022 paper awards are now announced.

The best paper award was given to "On the Versatile Uses of Partial Distance Correlation in Deep Learning".

The authors of the paper are Xingjian Zhen, Zihang Meng, Rudrasis Chakraborty and Vikas Singh. Two of them are Chinese.

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Xingjian Zhen is currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is an alumnus of the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University.

Zihang Meng is currently a research scientist at Meta AI. Graduated from Zhejiang University majoring in electronic information engineering.

In addition, in the industry, according to public information, SenseTime has a total of 70 papers shortlisted for this ECCV. Research mainly focuses on autonomous driving, computational photography, video understanding and analysis, transfer learning, multi-modality, etc.

Musk plans to close Twitter deal by Friday

The months-long "Musk's acquisition of Twitter" storm is finally about to subside!

According to Reuters, people familiar with the matter said that Musk has informed the joint investors who acquired Twitter:

The Twitter acquisition is scheduled to close by Friday.

At the same time, equity investors including Sequoia Capital, Binance, Qatar Investment Authority, etc. have received the necessary documents for financing commitments from Musk’s lawyers.

The move signals that Musk will comply with a deadline from a Delaware court judge to complete the deal by Friday.

In addition, according to Bloomberg, Musk promised in a video conference call on Monday to complete the transaction with the banks that are providing funding for the deal.

The final debt financing agreement has been completed and the necessary documents are being signed.

Twitter declined to comment, and Musk's lawyers did not immediately comment.

But Twitter's stock price surged on the news, rising 3% to $52.95 on Tuesday, close to Musk's bid of $54.20.

The official version of Python 3.11 is here

The official version of Python 3.11 is online and can be downloaded from the official website.

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Regarding the updated content of this version, the official website stated in the announcement:

Includes fine-grained error locations in tracebacks, faster Python, typing improvements, and more.

The most noteworthy thing about this update is the speed . Team members said in the announcement that Python 3.11 is 10 to 60% faster than Python 3.10.

Although Pypy and Pyston are still faster than Python 3.11, netizens said that "this is still the biggest improvement of this version."

LeCun receives Prince of Asturias Award

latest news! LeCun received the 2022 Prince of Asturias Science and Technology Award.

Also receiving the Science and Technology Award with LeCun was Demis Hassabis, the founder and CEO of DeepMind.

The Prince of Asturias Award Ceremony will be held on October 28 in Oviedo, Spain.

The Prince of Asturias Award is a medal named after the Prince of Asturias title, initiated and established by the Prince of Asturias Foundation in 1981. It is the highest-level academic award in Spain.

Initially, there were six awards to recognize those who have made outstanding contributions in art, literature, social sciences, science and technology, communication and humanities, and international cooperation. The Peace Prize and Sports Prize were added in 1986 and 1987 respectively.

Microsoft reveals GitHub hits $1 billion in annual recurring revenue

According to techcrunch, during Microsoft’s earnings call, some new data about GitHub was revealed:

GitHub's annual recurring revenue reached $1 billion (about 7.29 billion yuan) , higher than the $200 million to $300 million reported at the time of the acquisition.

The service now has more than 90 million active users , up from 28 million when the acquisition closed.

This is the first time Microsoft has disclosed its financial data to the outside world since GitHub was acquired.

After Microsoft acquired GitHub, GitHub did not reduce its free services as the outside world worried. On the contrary, it expanded its free services and continued to embrace open source and open source developers.

As can be seen from the above data, after Microsoft acquired GitHub, both revenue and active users doubled, and its impact on GitHub is naturally self-evident.

my country's carbon satellite successfully monitors urban carbon dioxide emissions for the first time

According to the Science Network, China’s carbon satellite TanSat successfully quantitatively monitored urban carbon dioxide emissions for the first time, confirming TanSat’s ability to monitor city-level carbon emissions .

The relevant research results have been published online in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences.

Currently, there is great uncertainty in calculating man-made emissions. Carbon monitoring satellites can directly observe atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration, and it is more advantageous to use carbon monitoring satellites to monitor global man-made emissions.

Regarding how satellites monitor carbon emissions, Yang Dongxu, the first author of the paper and associate researcher at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, introduced:

Fossil fuel combustion is the main source of man-made emissions of carbon dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide is emitted during the combustion process. That is to say, man-made emissions of carbon dioxide and nitrogen dioxide have strong homology .

Theoretically , anthropogenic emissions can be effectively calculated through simultaneous monitoring of carbon dioxide and nitrogen dioxide .

In addition, the demonstration and design work of my country's next-generation carbon satellite has begun, and the development of the satellite is about to start. In addition, Yang Dongxu also added:

The next generation of carbon satellites will be a space-based system that hopes to cover a city or point source multiple times a day and will have coordinated nitrogen dioxide observation capabilities to better independently measure anthropogenic carbon emissions.

Meta criticizes Apple’s App Store “new policy”: going back on its word

Apple App Store has introduced new rules to make money, and Meta can’t sit still:

It’s about undercutting other companies in the digital economy.

To understand what's going on, we have to talk about Apple's "new rules."

According to TheVerge, on Monday local time, Apple's App Store modified its withdrawal system, that is, users and advertisers must use the in-app purchase system when paying to promote posts on social media platforms such as Instagram, and Apple will take up to 30% of such in-app purchases.

In other words, if influencers on Instagram want to pay to promote their personal content to iPhone users, Apple will take a cut.

(Meta will definitely be the first to quit) , and its spokesperson said:

Apple had previously said it did not take a cut of developer advertising revenue, but has apparently changed its mind now.

But it is understood that the new policy will not have a substantial impact on Meta's revenue because the current ads are not displayed in the application itself.

Huawei sues Amazon over patent dispute

Tianyancha App shows that Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. recently added a court hearing announcement. The case is about infringement of invention patent rights. The defendants are Amazon Corporation, Amazon Services Company, Amazon Information Services (Beijing) Co., Ltd., etc.

The case will be heard in the Suzhou Intermediate People's Court of Jiangsu Province on December 8.

Previously, Ren Zhengfei said:

The reason why we have not asked for patent fees from many companies over the years is because we have been too busy and we have developed too fast.

△ Image source: Tianyancha App

'World's dirtiest man' dies after taking shower

On October 23, local time, Iranian Amou Haji , known as "the dirtiest man in the world," died after taking a shower at the age of 94.

According to Fox News in the United States, Haji fell ill and died shortly after villagers took him to the bathroom for the first time a few months ago.

Prior to this, Haji had not bathed for 60 years, and his life was recorded in a 2013 documentary called " The Strange life of Amou Haji."

As for why Haji didn't take a bath, Haji once revealed that it was to retain the remaining smell of his deceased wife.

Google will stop supporting Chrome browser version updates on Win7 and Win8.1 early next year

Fat friends who are still using Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, please note that early next year, the Chrome browser will no longer be updated.

Recently, Google announced that it will stop supporting Windows 7/8.1 in early 2023.

Chrome 110, which is tentatively scheduled to be released on February 7 next year, will no longer be able to run on these two versions of Windows systems.

If you want to use the latest version of the Chrome browser, Google recommends that users upgrade to Windows 10 or Windows 11.

In fact, Google has previously stated that it will stop updating Chrome on Windows 7 in 2021, and this time the support will be discontinued after the postponement.

It is worth mentioning that Microsoft will also end its extended technical support for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 on January 10 next year, and the schedule for Chrome to stop supporting these two versions of Windows systems coincides with this.

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