iPhone 8 may really be equipped with a 3D camera; Mobike "WeChat Scan", you may be defrauded of 299 yuan | Lei Feng Morning News

Scammers have targeted Mobike’s “WeChat Scan” service, and you may be defrauded of 299 yuan!

Recently, a netizen broke the news: scammers have started to target the QR codes on shared bikes. The QR code area of ​​Mobike bikes is pasted with a printed QR code, which is exactly the same size as the QR code on the bike body. What do scammers plan to do with this QR code?

Trick you into paying!

When users scan the QR code, they are redirected to a page that allows them to transfer 299 yuan to individual users, which is exactly the deposit required for Mobike. The scammers even changed the user name to "deposit", so first-time users may be easily deceived.

Apple's new patent is exposed, iPhone 8 may really be equipped with a 3D camera

According to Leiphone.com, foreign media recently exposed Apple’s latest patent - using depth of field information for face recognition. The patent has been approved by the USPTO and is expected to be used in the next generation iPhone’s 3D camera system.

It is understood that the patent number of this patent is 9589177, and the patent name is "Enhancing face detection using depth of field". Through a computer vision system, special hardware and software are used to perform face recognition, especially face data that has been saved in a database. The patent describes that in a scene, if there are multiple people, facial recognition can be performed based on the distance between different people and the lens. The farther the face is from the lens, the smaller the surrounding capture frame.

Apple responds to security threats: The latest version of iOS has fixed most of the vulnerabilities exploited by the CIA

Leifeng.com News: WikiLeaks released 8,761 CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) cyber attack project leaks yesterday (March 7). In this document, code-named "Vault 7", 14 cyber attack techniques against iOS systems are mentioned, ranging from basic surveillance to remote control. In response, Apple officially issued an urgent statement saying that most of the vulnerabilities mentioned in this leaked document have been fixed in the latest version of iOS system.

Apple said that the latest version of iOS released in January already includes patches for the critical vulnerabilities mentioned in WikiLeaks. In addition, Apple also emphasized that it is working hard to fix newly discovered vulnerabilities, but it did not disclose which vulnerabilities are still in the open state.

Fei-Fei Li announces new machine learning API: object recognition from videos

Leifeng.com reported that at the Google Cloud Next' 17 conference in the early morning of the 9th, Fei-Fei Li, chief scientist of Google Cloud Service AI and Machine Learning, announced a new machine learning API: Video Intelligence API. It can automatically identify objects in videos and make videos searchable.

Fei-Fei Li said that videos have always been regarded as the "dark matter" in computer vision, and they can only be searched conveniently like pictures, but the new API can help developers develop applications that read entities from videos.

In the demo, the video API can search for entities such as baseballs and dogs and mark the locations where they appear in the video, thereby obtaining the frequency of the objects appearing in the video. In addition to extracting data, the API also allows labeling of changing scenes.

Panasonic tests Reji Robo cashier robot for one-stop checkout and packaging

Panasonic is testing its latest cashier robot, Reji Robo, at a Lawson convenience store chain. Previous cashier robots could only complete the checkout function, and customers still needed to pack the goods themselves. The Reji Robo robot launched by Panasonic this time can pack the goods for quick checkout, making the entire checkout process faster. It can completely replace cashiers and save labor costs.

Japan builds the world's most powerful supercomputer: 24-way NVIDIA DGX-1

As AI research deepens, the performance requirements of supercomputers are also rising sharply. Recently, Japan announced the construction of the Deep Learning Analysis System, which is known as the "world's most powerful" supercomputer. According to reports, the Deep Learning Analysis System is developed by Fujitsu and RIKEN. The system consists of 24 NVIDIA DGX-1, 32 FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY RX2530 M2, 6 FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY RX2540 M2, 8 FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS DX200 S3 and 1 FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS DX100 S3.

Microsoft Azure cloud server chips will abandon Intel and switch to ARM, and the server chip king is sad

Recently, it was reported that Microsoft will switch to ARM chips on Azure cloud service servers, which may cause Intel to lose another core customer in data center processors. It is reported that Microsoft has developed a Windows operating system specifically for servers in cooperation with Qualcomm and Cavium at the end of last year, and the operating system is run on ARM chips. Zander, vice president of Microsoft Azure Cloud Division, said that although it has not yet been officially mass-produced, ARM chips are more suitable for Microsoft. Microsoft has begun using ARM chips to test functions such as search, storage, machine learning and big data.

Android is about to overtake Windows and become the world's most popular operating system

The first Android phone was released in October 2008, while the Windows operating system was launched in 1985. However, data released by traffic monitoring agency StatCounter in February 2017 showed that Android is catching up with Windows and is expected to become the world's most popular operating system.