Salesforce Regrets Not to Acquire LinkedIn: If Continuing Negotiations Will Offer Higher Quotes
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According to the "Wall Street Journal" online edition, Salesforce, a customer relationship management software provider, lost to Microsoft during the bidding process for professional social networking sites. In a regulatory filing filed on Friday, LinkedIn pointed out that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff told LinkedIn that if LinkedIn continued to negotiate with the company after receiving the final offer from Salesforce, then he Higher quotes will be provided.
LinkedIn, in a regulatory filing, stated that the company received the final offer of Salesforce on June 5, when they had signed an exclusive agreement with Microsoft. LinkedIn said that the final offer did not provide a higher offer or a different cash and stock portfolio than the offer offered by Salesforce. The LinkedIn Trade Commission conducted an assessment of the current bid and decided not to respond to Salesforce’s final offer.
Before LinkedIn agreed to engage in exclusive negotiations with Microsoft, Salesforce conducted a two-month continuous bid, forcing Microsoft to increase the purchase price by 22% to approximately $5 billion.
HTC OEM Google Nexus Marlin system screenshot exposure
July 22 news, the current exposure of Google Nexus 2016 on HTC OEM equipment is still relatively small, from the mobile phone release should be there for some time, but as an Android phone's "benchmark", these two mobile phones are still subject to many users s concern. Now, foreign media has released a screenshot of Nexus Marlin.
Although this should be the system screenshot of the first Nexus 2016 device that was currently exposed, this screenshot does not show any particularly important information. According to the previous exposure, Nexus Marlin will use a 5.5-inch 2K screen equipped with an Snapdragon 820 processor. , Built-in 4GB memory and 32GB body storage space (start), to provide 800/1200 million pixel camera, battery capacity 3450mAh, interface for USB Type-C, post-fingerprint recognition, is expected to be released in the third quarter.
Against "aircraft carrier killer"? U.S. Navy Names First Unmanned Combat Aircraft
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U.S. Army Existing X-47B Shipborne UAV Prototype
The US Navy has just named its first Unmanned Aerial Vehicle the MQ-25A Stingray.
The US Navy began developing shipboard drones in 2006. The initial role of this drone was the long-distance stealth bomber. It was then changed to an aircraft that combines reconnaissance and combat capabilities, and was finally positioned as a flying tanker. "Stingray" drones can increase the range of the US military's active F-18 carrier aircraft after entering the aircraft carrier fighter formation, which enables the carrier-based aircraft to effectively perform its mission at a safe distance. "Stingray" drones will play an increasingly important role after being deployed by the United States Navy.
Another enterprise-class VR camera will be available soon, now the official website is priced at $4995 for half price booking.
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Recently, there is another Live Planet, a VR camera for the B-Side market, that appears to users.
Live Planet was developed by Reality Lab Networks and uses the NVIDIA Tegra X1 graphics display. It consists of 16 18MP lenses with high dynamic range and low light performance, which can well capture and stitch 4K high resolution images. However, in addition to other similar VR camera products, Live Planet's biggest selling point is the ability to achieve 30f4K content streaming, in addition to the ability to record high quality 4K content. It is understood that this function is mainly based on the audience's VR heads-up platform and the available bandwidth for dynamic encoding and transmission.
Halsey Minor, CEO and founder of Reality Lab Networks, said that Live Planet is already open for booking on the official website, with a suggested retail price of $9995. However, at the current stage, only $4995 is required to start booking. The product is expected to be officially shipped in the fourth quarter of this year. .
Zuckerberg: AR technology behind VR 5-10 years
In an interview with The Verge, Facebook's Executive Director Mark Zuckerberg talked about the future of virtual reality and augmented reality. Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook is "very serious research on augmented reality", but he pointed out that the consumerization of this technology lags behind virtual reality technology.
He said: "For augmented reality, there are still a lot of technical problems that need to be solved, but we will soon have answers to these questions, and I'm optimistic about this. In the next 5-10 years, we will have a The Augmented Reality version of Rift. But there is no doubt that I still think that virtual reality is easier to build and easier to popularize, and that's why we started from the product side."
Zuckerberg's own AI learned new skills: toast
Earlier this year, Zuckerberg stated that his 2016 goal is to develop an AI steward himself. After half a year passed, has his goal been achieved? In an interview with The Verge, the founder and CEO of Facebook said: “It can bake bread for me.†Toast, it sounds weird, because at the beginning of the year Zuckerberg was not in his plan. Mention this thing. What he wanted to do at the time was to explore the existing technology and develop an artificial intelligence that could identify his voice and identify his friend’s face and “stare at†Max’s room for him!