Look up at the bright moon, bow your head for another year, and wish everyone a Merry Christmas first.
This year is really a bit much. There have been several things like Brexit and Trump's election, and even our technology circle has exploded one after another, which can trigger social change and technological revolution and the like, let's not mention it, let's talk about those "technology scandals" today. I kind of scratched it: that's what happens in the entertainment industry. Everybody move the bench and sit well, let's drive! Oh no.
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After much deliberation, I decided to rank by the severity of the consequences of these scandals. The first thing to talk about is the things that caused the company to kneel because of a scandal!
No.1 must be: Theranos, the blood testing company of beauty CEO Elizabeth Holmes, was kicked out of the explosion as a hoax.
Theranos can be said to be the most shining star startup in Silicon Valley, claiming that only a particularly small amount of blood is needed to check various indicators of the human body, and this test only needs a few dollars, this news is simply going to revolutionize the entire traditional testing industry!
And the company is star-studded, not only the founder and CEO Elizabeth, who is a big beauty, but also a politician, including two former secretaries of state and two secretaries of defense. However, a technology company desperately tried to win politicians into the shares, and everyone felt that this matter was unreliable at the beginning, that it was not doing its job, and that it wanted to engage in conspiracy.
Later, the Wall Street Journal took the lead, and other media followed up with investigative reports, exposing that the company's previous propaganda was all lies and deception, and it did not have mature breakthrough technology, which triggered an explosive response for a time. In the end, the FDA ordered Theranos to exit the blood testing industry completely. His valuation fell from $9 billion to 0.
This incident made many old jianghu step into the gutter (what?). ）。 For example, media tycoon Murdoch invested a hundred million in Theranos, and the money was lost and could not squeak; Tim Draper, a Silicon Valley tycoon who provided seed round funds, felt very faceless because of this matter. Now everyone pretends, "I don't know what this thing is," and never says anything about it.
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The next one is Yahoo, which can't stop the scandal. Yahoo had no rice to cook, and it was known at the beginning of the year; but fortunately he sold himself, let the wealthy telecommunications company Verizon take it, and the masses wished him happiness.
As a result, in September, a big news of "more than 500 million Yahoo account information was stolen" suddenly broke out, which topped the "largest hacking crime in history", and I thought it was really unlucky. At that time, Verizon said, "Little Tiger, let's talk about the purchase price..."
And then then! He suffered even more inconsistencies, and worse than the last time, with more than 1 billion user profiles, including their date of birth and phone number, stolen. This time, Verizon stopped doing it and said directly: I really don't want you anymore. The little tiger was frightened, and said that he was very sad in various public occasions, and patted his chest to ensure that "we are very valuable!" Dear you don't go, the price we can discuss again..."
What will happen to Yahoo after the actual withdrawal of this transaction? We can't make a specific estimate, but the operation continues to lose money, the price is low and can't be sold, alas: This giant, which was once valued at $200 billion, is really lamentable at night.
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Go ahead, this is the point (knock on the blackboard)! It's damning. Although serious, from the perspective of enterprises, they are still alive, at least not dead.
The first prize was won by Samsung, which entered the new world of civilian military field because of the launch of Note 7, which can be described as the most powerful seed this time.
A big American brother's self-made "human bomb"
Since September 2016, there have been dozens of Note 7 explosions and injuries, including one in which the Note 7 in transit in the United States exploded, killing three people (but this incident was not confirmed by Samsung until later). Later, Samsung recalled this mobile phone globally and replaced it with a new one. As a result, the new mobile phone caused at least 5 accidents, and then the Samsung washing machine exploded again, and the domineering Samsung was confused.
Originally, there were various gods and immortals fighting fires, and the heat of this matter was no longer so easy to attract attention. Yes, the accident happened again, the incident was that the Mentor of the American version of The Voice, Cee-Lo Green, was disfigured by a Samsung mobile phone, and the live video was leaked, and Samsung immediately attracted global attention.
After a long time, Green slowly came out: the video is fake, I am fine ~ Samsung said: Brother! Are you deliberately poking me? But a while ago, Park Geun-hye stepped down, Samsung executives were also involved, it is estimated that the public relations department has been busy, it is estimated that there is no experience in this matter.
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In the automotive sector, the world's first fatal car accident by a self-driving car, Tesla's 2015 Model S, in Florida, USA. At that time, the owner of the car was relieved to open Tesla's autopilot mode, and as a result, Tesla did not detect a heavy truck crossing the highway because of the strong sunlight, and was directly swept up by the large truck, and the Tesla owner died on the spot.
After the incident, neither Elon Musk himself nor Tesla believed that he was responsible for the accident. Musk made it clear that the car accident caused by automatic driving should be borne by the owner. - So do you just promote the concept regardless of the consequences?
Tesla followed up with the statement: automatic driving is not equal to "full automatic driving", the former can only play an auxiliary role, the need for the owner to maintain attention - this is to play the "word game", if "automatic driving" renamed "semi-automatic driving" is better, call this name who knows that you actually have no real effect?
However, this record car accident did not cause a heavy blow to Tesla, and Musk is still active in the headlines of the technology edition like a star, and has also joined the Trump advisory board.
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The above events have caused a very bad social reaction, and most of them have serious consequences. Below, in order to make everyone's nerves relax, the secret agent commented on some more gossipy scandals.
In March this year, after the game developer conference, Microsoft "thoughtfully" invited a group of dancers dressed as "school girls" for the program apes and siege lions, and the style of the picture was roughly like this:
Ah misplaced, if it is like the picture above, it is not a scandal, in fact, it is like this!
Originally wanted to make everyone happy and happy, the result of the scene atmosphere is awkward, some female employees are even on the spot, said that Microsoft's move to treat people as fools, think that the game will like this type of women? You are "stereotyped"!
Microsoft was busy apologizing, saying that "this mistake is clear, the consequences are intolerable"; inner OS: I thought you must like it, for you to do so.....
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In addition, it is necessary to mention Reddit, a news forum known for its freedom of speech, that during the presidential campaign, the CEO personally falsified user speech.
Here's the thing: The biggest trump supporter group on Reddit says dirty things like "F you" when it sends messages, and then adds the name tag of Reddit CEO Huffman. As a result, they found that their message had been changed, and then they found out the "real culprit" who did it, that is, Huffman himself.
Huffman was so embarrassed that he had no choice but to come out and admit his mistake, saying that as CEO I shouldn't have done it, that everyone was angry with me now, and that I promised that it wouldn't happen again in the future. But in fact, he himself is very aggrieved, because some people call him "pedophilia" (which is a very serious insult) and "perverted", and it is estimated that he is mad to "open the back door".
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Then there's the type of "I don't think I've done anything wrong, why are you spitting on me?" The most representative of this is that Apple has called the removal of the headphone jack "courage".
Originally thought that Apple wanted to talk to everyone about the idea, let everyone understand that this is a bold and innovative behavior, it is better to draw a big pie for the technology community, but the result is that Apple has touched itself and said that it took a lot of courage
The melon-eating masses were a little confused, and after the reaction, they complained about it. But Apple thinks so: You men do not silence women do not shed tears, is it still my fault?
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Magic Leap, a super-rich and super-secret AR startup, staged another year-end drama and was accused of falsifying it. American technology media The Information reported that many of magic Leap's cool videos are stunt effects.
Once this video came out, it amazed the world
The three became tigers, and domestic and foreign media began to publish titles such as "Magic Leap admits to fraud" and "Magic Leap deceived Google Ali's billions of US knives".
The founder and CEO of Magic Leap went crazy after that... In One breath on Twitter sent more than 20 tweets to brush frequency, the content is incoherent, it may be too obscure for me to understand, in short, the central idea is: Wait for Lao Tzu products to be listed, to snap and swell your face!
The reporter who wrote the article also said that he did not think that Magic Leap was as fake as Theranos, they were indeed doing very "great" things, but the difficulties encountered were also very large, and it was not easy to overcome in a short time.
epilogue
In fact, we have also come up with a lot of candidates, such as amazon Chinese employees jumping off the building; Apple was fined a sky-high fine of $14.5 billion by the European Union (but my big Apple said that it would never compromise with the EU, and I also admired this courage); and Facebook has been accused of the flood of fake news in recent days, but I think this pot is a bit heavy, after all, I am a social networking site, okay? You also have to monitor the information.
One last thing, Merry Christmas to all! Happy New Year! Happy Chinese New Year! (So I can drag the manuscript)
Forward this koi to you and wish you all the best of luck in 2020!