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Huawei and mobile phone manufacturer OPPO reached a patent cross-licensing agreement, and OPPO paid to authorize the use of Huawei’s 5G technology patents. Huawei is struggling to find new revenue streams after taking a hit in its mobile phone business. With a vast patent portfolio of more than 100,000 items, Huawei is one of the […]

For the first time, the Computer History Museum has released the source code for an early version of Adobe’s breakthrough digital printing technology, PostScript. This version dates back to 1984, and contains an early version of the font hinting program protected as a trade secret, which Bill Paxton later rewrote, expanded, and improved, and these

Version 8.2 of the PHP language has been released. PHP 8.2.0 is a major version update for the PHP language. It includes read-only classes, null, false, and true as separate types, deprecated dynamic properties, performance improvements, and more. These include: a new “Random” extension, which provides a new object-oriented API for random number generation; the

The “Frontiers of Medicine” jointly sponsored by Ruijin Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Higher Education Press, and Chinese Academy of Engineering published online the paper “The host protection of Omicron BA. effect”. From March 1 to June 27, 2022, a total of 649,354 people were infected with the new crown

The newly elected government of the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu has had a major problem since its first day in office on November 6: Government computer services are out of order, and government officials are limited to 20th-century tools — paper and pen. Vanuatu has dozens of islands with a total population of 320,000.

Microsoft has finally added a built-in screen recording tool to Windows 11. The old Snipping Tool tool will be updated to add a screen recording function, which means that users no longer need to rely on third-party tools to record the screen in the future. Windows 11 testers on the Dev Channel can try out

Google, Oracle, Microsoft and Amazon will share the Pentagon’s $9 billion cloud computing contract, and The Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability will help the US military quickly transmit intelligence from drones and communication satellites in modern warfare. The cloud computing contract was once known as Jedi (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure). The Pentagon awarded it to Microsoft.

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, the first passenger on SpaceX’s Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) lunar mission dearMoon, has selected eight artists for his journey to the moon. He had previously planned to reserve one of the seats for a female partner and had publicly launched a female partner campaign, which was canceled after criticism. The 8

The latest version of Chrome adds two performance settings: Memory Saver and Energy Saver. Browsers typically consume a lot of memory, and Chrome has been criticized in the past for its high memory usage. The new Memory Saver can save up to 30% of memory by putting inactive tabs into sleep mode. If the user

Danish researchers extracted biological DNA about 2 million years ago from the permafrost of Greenland, which is the oldest known DNA so far. Their analysis revealed that this desolate world of ice and snow was once densely wooded and inhabited by a variety of animals. The research report was published in the journal Nature. The

Open source 3D graphic design software Blender has released v3.4. Major new features include: integration of Intel’s Open Path Guiding Library to help render scenes with complex caustics; automatic shading settings in Sculpt mode; geometry-based relaxed brushing; and more. This article is transferred from: https://www.solidot.org/story?sid=73600 This site is only for collection, and the copyright belongs

Apple announced that starting from iOS 16.2, iPadOS 16.2 and macOS 13.1, users can choose to enable the “Advanced Data Protection (Advanced Data Protection)” function, iCloud Backup, Photos, Notes, etc. will use end-to-end encryption, which means that if you lose If you lose your account, Apple doesn’t have an encryption key to help you recover—users

Last August, Apple announced a controversial decision: It would scan the iPhones of US users for known child pornographic photos, using CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material) images from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) The hash value is matched to the image hash on the user’s phone, and if at least 30