黑洞路由黑洞mac_每日新闻摘要，19/4/11：黑洞

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Amazon employees may be listening to things you say to (and around!) Alexa, YouTube TV got a price hike, Instagram cleans up “inappropriate” recommendations, and a lot more. Here are the biggest stories for the morning of April 11, 2019.

亚马逊员工可能正在听您对(和周围！)说的话，YouTube电视价格上涨，Instagram清理了“不适当的”建议，等等。以下是2019年4月11日上午的重要故事。

科学与技术的结合使我们对黑洞的初见 (Our First Glimpse of a Black Hole Thanks to a Marriage of Science and Technology)

This type of story is normally outside of the things we talk about here at HTG, but it’s a really big deal, and it’s really cool. It’s worth talking about!

这种类型的故事通常不在我们在HTG讨论的范围之内，但这确实很重要，而且很酷。值得一提！

Yesterday, the first image of a black hole was released. Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration shared the image. The fact that we’re getting real-life human eyeballs on one of the most powerful forces known to man is humbling, fascinating, and just downright cool.

昨天，发布了黑洞的第一张图像。 Event Horizon Telescope合作的科学家分享了这张图片。我们正在用人类已知的最强大的力量之一来吸引现实世界的眼球，这一事实令人谦卑，着迷，而且非常酷。

The caption for the image on the Event Horizon Telescope homepage is enough to boggle the mind on its own:

Event Horizon Telescope主页上的图像标题足以使头脑陷入僵局：

The image shows a bright ring formed as light bends in the intense gravity around a black hole that is 6.5 billion times more massive than the Sun. This long-sought image provides the strongest evidence to date for the existence of supermassive black holes and opens a new window onto the study of black holes, their event horizons, and gravity.

该图像显示了一个明亮的环，它是光在激烈的重力作用下绕黑洞弯曲时形成的，其质量比太阳大65亿倍。这张期待已久的图像为迄今为止存在的超大质量黑洞提供了最有力的证据，并为研究黑洞，其事件视界和重力打开了新的窗口。

Six point five billion times more massive than the sun. That’s bigger than our entire solar system. That is so profoundly huge it’s nearly impossible to comprehend. The image was captured using eight strategically-placed telescopes in Hawaii, Arizona, Chile, Mexico, Spain, and the South Pole. According to CNET, the concept is to “combine the signal strength of the observatories on different corners of the globe to form an array as wide as Earth itself.” So, a telescope that’s effectively as big as the world.

比太阳大六点五十亿倍。那比我们整个太阳系还要大。这是如此巨大，几乎是不可能理解的。图像是使用位于夏威夷，亚利桑那州，智利，墨西哥，西班牙和南极的八个战略性放置的望远镜捕获的。根据CNET的说法，其概念是“结合地球不同角落的天文台的信号强度，以形成与地球本身一样宽的阵列。” 因此，实际上是与世界一样大的望远镜。

To put into perspective how difficult it is to capture an image of this magnitude, the Director of the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration Shep Doeleman likened it to “being able to read the date on a quarter in Los Angeles, standing here in Washingon D.C.” It’s hard to imagine how that’s even possible in the first place.

为了透视捕获如此巨大的图像有多么困难，事件地平线望远镜合作部总监Shep Doeleman将其比喻为“能够读取位于华盛顿特区华盛顿的一个季度的四分之一的日期”很难想象一开始这怎么可能。

The data for the image was initially collected in 2017 and contained petabytes of data. It was such an extensive collection of information it was stored on multiple physical hard drives and then stitched together by a supercomputer.

该图像的数据最初于2017年收集，包含PB级数据。它收集了如此广泛的信息，将其存储在多个物理硬盘驱动器上，然后由一台超级计算机将它们缝合在一起。

To add even more cool factor to the story, the capture itself was possible thanks to one MIT graduate. Her name is Katie Bouman, and she spearheaded the creation of the algorithm that stitched together the radio images collected by all of the aforementioned telescopes. I’m sure that the first image of the black hole was an emotional experience for her because the algorithm was initially announced in 2016—years of work led to that moment.

为了使故事更加有趣，多亏一位麻省理工学院的毕业生才有可能拍摄照片。她的名字叫凯蒂·鲍曼(Katie Bouman)，她率先创建了将上述所有望远镜收集的放射线图像拼接在一起的算法。我确信黑洞的第一张照片对她来说是一种情感体验，因为该算法最初于2016年发布，经过多年的努力才发展到这一刻。

Now that we’ve seen the first image of a black hole, scientists are confident that they can work towards getting better, clearer images by adding more telescopes to the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration. We’ll likely even see clearer pictures of this particular black hole, as well.

既然我们已经看到了黑洞的第一张图像，科学家们相信他们可以通过向Event Horizon Telescope合作中添加更多望远镜来努力获得更好，更清晰的图像。我们甚至可能还会看到有关此特定黑洞的更清晰图片。

So cool. Even my seven-year-old can’t stop talking about it.

非常酷。即使是我七岁的孩子也不能停止谈论它。

But now it’s time to talk about tech news.

但是现在该谈论技术新闻了。

苹果新闻：苹果将播客带到浏览器 (Apple News: Apple Brings Podcasts to the Browser)

Plus the number of suppliers that are running Apple production on 100% renewable energy doubles.

加上使用100％可再生能源生产苹果的供应商数量翻了一番。

Apple updated its Podcasts web interface with a cleaner design, which also allows users to listen without having to load up iTunes. Nice. [The Verge]

苹果使用更干净的设计更新了Podcasts Web界面，该界面还使用户可以收听音乐而不必加载iTunes。真好 [ 边缘 ]
Apple talked a lot about running off of renewable energy at its iPhone XS/XR event last year, and yesterday it announced that the number of suppliers committed to running off of 100 percent renewable energy has now doubled. [Apple Newsroom]

苹果去年在其iPhone XS / XR活动上谈到了大量利用可再生能源的问题，昨天它宣布致力于减少100％可再生能源供应的供应商数量已经翻了一番。 [ 苹果新闻室 ]

It was recently rumored that Apple would be breaking up iTunes by moving Podcasts and Music into dedicated apps on macOS. The original rumor came from Apple hacker Steve Troughton-Smith and was later confirmed by 9to5Mac.

最近有传言称，苹果将通过将播客和音乐转移到macOS上的专用应用程序来拆分iTunes。最初的谣言来自苹果黑客史蒂夫·特劳顿-史密斯，后来被9to5Mac证实。

Bringing Podcasts to the web could be the first steps to breaking Podcasts out of iTunes, which Apple has long required to listen to, well, anything within the Apple ecosystem. This could, in fact, be the beginning of the end for iTunes as dedicated apps and web services replace its various functions.

将Podcast投放到网络可能是将Podcast脱离iTunes的第一步，Apple长期以来一直要求Apple收听Apple生态系统中的任何内容。实际上，这可能是iTunes终结的开始，因为专用的应用程序和Web服务将替换其各种功能。

Google和Android新闻：YouTube TV的价格上涨并不是一个好现象 (Google and Android News: YouTube TV’s Price Hike Isn’t a Good Look)

Plus Android 7.0 devices can be used as physical 2FA devices, a Google engineer talks about fighting botnet malware (and winning), the story behind the black hole Google Doodle, and a lot more.

加上Android 7.0设备可用作2FA物理设备，一位Google工程师谈论了如何抵御僵尸网络恶意软件(并赢得了胜利)，黑洞Google Doodle背后的故事等等。

Yesterday, Google announced that YouTube TV is getting ten new channels from Discovery Network brands. It also announced that the price is jumping to $50. [YouTube Blog]

昨天，Google宣布YouTube电视将从Discovery Network品牌中获得10个新频道。它还宣布价格跃升至50美元。 [ YouTube博客 ]
We’ve long been talking about the benefits of using physical 2FA, like a USB security key. Now, everyone with an Android phone running 7.0 (Nougat) or above has one, thanks to a new security feature implemented by Google. [The Verge]

我们长期以来一直在讨论使用物理2FA的好处，例如USB安全**。现在，由于Google实施了一项新的安全功能，所有运行7.0(牛轧糖)或更高版本的Android手机的人都可以使用。 [ 边缘 ]
Wired has a fascinating piece about how the Android security team took on the Chamois botnet malware and won. [Wired]

Wired有一篇有趣的文章，讲述了Android安全团队如何处理Chamois僵尸网络恶意软件并获胜。 [ 有线 ]
To celebrate the first image of a black hole, Google whipped up a quick Doodle. Turns out the concept was created by the artist on his way to work. What a fun story. [CNET]

为了庆祝出现黑洞的第一张图片，GoogleSwift举起了Doodle。事实证明，该概念是由艺术家在上班途中创造的。多么有趣的故事。 [ CNET ]
G Suite users are getting more security tools. [TechCrunch]

G Suite用户正在获得更多安全工具。 [ TechCrunch ]
Google re-uses the Currents name for the new Google+ for Enterprise. If you recall, Currents was the original name for what we now know as Google News. I wonder if Google realizes there are more words out there and they don’t have to re-use names? [9to5Google]

Google为新的Google+企业版重新使用了Currents名称。如果您还记得的话，Currents是我们现在称为Google新闻的原始名称。我想知道Google是否意识到还有更多的单词，而不必重复使用名称吗？ [ 9to5Google ]
Pretty soon you’ll be able to edit Microsoft Office files in Docs natively. [The Verge]

很快您就可以在Google文档中本地编辑Microsoft Office文件。 [ 边缘 ]
A fake Google Wallet app is being granted access to authentic Google accounts. This is…troubling. It even happened to one of our editors here at HTG. Oof. [Android Police]

假冒的Google电子钱包应用被授予访问真实Google帐户的权限。这是...令人不安的。这甚至发生在我们HTG的一位编辑中。钱币。 [ Android警察 ]
Google has a program called YouTube Signature where it scores smartphones based on video playback. The Huawei P30, P30 Pro, and Honor View20 are the latest to make the cut. [XDA Developers]

Google拥有一个名为YouTube签名的程序，该程序会根据视频播放情况为智能手机评分。华为P30，P30 Pro和Honor View20是最新的切入点。 [ XDA开发人员 ]
Visible, a Verizon MVNO, will let you trade in any working Android phone—regardless of how old it is—and give you its branded Visible R2 device instead. [9to5Google]

Verizon MVNO Visible可以让您以任何可用的Android手机进行交易(无论它有多旧)，并提供其品牌的Visible R2设备。 [ 9to5Google ]

YouTube TV was once one of the best deals in streaming TV—at just $35 a month (the initial price), it was a no-frills streaming plan with a lot to offer. It came with unlimited cloud DVR, support for six profiles, and just one package. It was simple.

YouTube电视曾经是流媒体电视中最好的交易之一-每月仅需35美元(初始价格)，这是一项简洁的流媒体计划，提供了很多服务。它附带了无限的云DVR，支持六个配置文件和一个软件包。很简单。

But as more channels have been added, the price has gone up. After yesterday’s price hike, there’s been quite a bit of backlash—both from current YouTube TV customers and the media. The harshest criticism is also the one I hear the most: that YouTube TV is becoming too much like a cable package. The entire point of streaming television is to offer choice and to keep costs down.

但是随着增加了更多渠道，价格上涨了。在昨天的价格上涨之后，目前的YouTube TV客户和媒体都强烈反对。最严厉的批评也是我听到最多的批评： YouTube电视正变得越来越像电缆包装。流电视的重点是提供选择并降低成本。

While the one-package-for-everyone approach was good when YouTube TV initially launched, it’s not starting to become an issue, especially for current subscribers. Because even if you don’t want the new Discovery Channels—which includes things like HGTV and Food Network—you’re still paying for them. The price increase is happening across the board, even for users who were grandfathered into the original $35 per month fee. Those users will see a $15 a month bump, likely for channels they don’t even want. That is a very cable company thing to do.

YouTube电视最初推出时，“每个人都一揽子”的方法虽然不错，但它并没有成为一个问题，特别是对于当前的订户而言。因为即使您不希望使用包括HGTV和Food Network之类的新发现频道，您仍需为此付费。价格上涨是全面发生的，即使是对于最初收取每月35美元费用的用户而言。这些用户每月将获得$ 15的收益，这可能是他们甚至不需要的频道。那是电缆公司要做的事情。

The dream TV watchers have had for years is a true a la carte plan that lets you add only the channels you actually watch and none of the fluff you don’t want. Right now, Sling TV is the only provider available that offers anything close to this, and it’s still not ideal.

电视观众多年以来的梦想是一个真正的点菜计划，可让您仅添加实际观看的频道，而无需添加不想要的绒毛。目前，Sling TV是唯一可以提供与此相近的产品的提供商，但它仍然不理想。

Maybe we’ll get there one day. But not if it’s left up to TV providers.

也许我们有一天会到达那里。但不是由电视提供商决定的。

其他新闻：亚马逊员工可能正在听您对Alexa(及周围)所说的话 (Other News: Amazon Employees May Be Listening to What You Say To (and Around) Alexa)

Plus Instagram is going to stop promoting inappropriate content, AT&T comes under more fire for its 5G E crap, Facebook talks about cleaning up (again), and more.

另外，Instagram将停止宣传不当内容，AT＆T因其5G E垃圾而受到更多抨击，Facebook谈论(再次)进行清理，等等。

According to a recent report by Bloomberg, thousands of Amazon employees may be listening to your Alexa audio clips—which often includes private conversations— to improve the AI’s responses. [Bloomberg]

根据彭博社的最新报告，成千上万的亚马逊员工可能正在收听您的Alexa音频剪辑(通常包括私人对话)，以改善AI的响应。 [ 彭博 ]
Instagram is going to stop recommending posts that are inappropriate but don’t go against guidelines. They’ll stop showing up on the Discover page and in hashtag results. [TechCrunch]

Instagram将停止推荐不适当但不违反准则的帖子。他们将停止显示在“发现”页面和主题标签结果中。 [ TechCrunch ]
AT&T is once again under fire for its 5G E network speed claims. [The Verge]

AT＆T再次因其5G E网络速度要求而受到抨击。 [ 边缘 ]
Facebook is once again highlighting what it’s going to do to improve the quality of content on its site. Seriously, this same song and dance is getting old. Just do it already. [Facebook Newsroom]

Facebook再次强调将要采取什么措施来改善其网站上的内容质量。严重的是，同一首歌和舞蹈越来越老了。就做吧。 [ Facebook新闻室 ]
Wired writer Andy Greenberg penned a fascinating look at a new spyware framework called TajMahal that has gone otherwise undetected for five years. [Wired]

有线作家安迪·格林伯格(Andy Greenberg)着迷于一个名为TajMahal的新间谍软件框架，该框架五年来一直未被发现。 [ 有线 ]
Netflix is launching its own comedy radio on SiriusXM. [TechRadar]

Netflix正在SiriusXM上推出自己的喜剧广播。 [ TechRadar ]

Smart speakers and digital assistants are becoming prolific, with more and more homes inviting them inside for everyday use. Hell, I have no fewer than four Google Homes in my house right now.

智能扬声器和数字助理正变得越来越多产，越来越多的房屋邀请他们进入室内日常使用。地狱，我家现在有不少于四个Google Homes。

It’s also no secret that these assistants, like Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, are getting “smarter” every day. Part of this is machine learning. Part of this is AI. But there’s also a part that most of us don’t think about: the human part.

这些助手，例如Google Assistant和Amazon Alexa，每天都在变得“更聪明”，这也不是秘密。其中一部分是机器学习。其中一部分是AI。但是我们大多数人都不会想到的一部分是人的部分。

According to a recent report by Bloomberg, Amazon employees “thousands” of workers to listen to Alexa recordings, transcribe them and pushed back into software to help the AI get better at understanding people and what they want.

根据彭博社的最新报告，亚马逊员工“成千上万”的工人聆听Alexa的录音，将其转录并推回软件中，以帮助AI更好地了解人们和他们想要的东西。

The recording of audio is pretty standard practice when it comes to digital assistants—requests aren’t processed locally in real-time, after all—as much of the processing work is done in the cloud. So your request is recorded, uploaded, then processed server-side. That’s how Amazon and Google both do it. Both Amazon and Google make these recordings available to users, too.

对于数字助理，音频记录是相当标准的做法-毕竟，请求不是实时本地处理的-因为许多处理工作都是在云中完成的。因此，您的请求将被记录，上载，然后在服务器端进行处理。亚马逊和谷歌都是这样做的。亚马逊和谷歌也向用户提供这些录音。

Bloomberg’s report, which gets its claims from “seven people who have worked on the program,” states that thousands of people listen to recordings for nine hours per day—sometimes up to 1,000 recordings per person per shift. They use internal chats to share recordings of people who are hard to understand, but also “amusing recordings.”

彭博社的报告得到了“该程序的七个工作人员”的称赞，该报告指出，成千上万的人每天要听录音9个小时，有时每班每个人最多听1000个录音。他们使用内部聊天来分享难以理解的人的录音，同时也分享“有趣的录音”。

If you have a smart speaker, I’m sure it’s detected a false positive hotword before. It “wakes up,” listens briefly, then realizes that you’re not speaking to it. Or maybe you’re not speaking at all. Either way, a recording happens during that moment, and given the number of false positives my Homes have every day, it’s a bit unsettling to think that someone may be listening to these recordings.

如果您有智能扬声器，那么我敢肯定之前已经检测到一个误报。它“醒了”，短暂地听着，然后意识到您没有在说话。也许您根本不说话。无论哪种方式，录音都会在那一刻发生，并且鉴于我的房屋每天都有误报的数量，因此认为有人可能正在听这些录音有些令人不安。

On the upside, Amazon gave a rather detailed statement to Bloomberg, not only confirming the practice but also offering a bit of comfort to those who are understandably concerned about someone listening to their private conversations that were accidentally recorded:

从好的方面来说，亚马逊向彭博社发表了相当详细的声明，不仅证实了这一做法，而且还为那些可以理解地关心某人在听其私人谈话而意外记录的人提供了一些安慰：

We take the security and privacy of our customers’ personal information seriously. We only annotate an extremely small sample of Alexa voice recordings in order [to] improve the customer experience. For example, this information helps us train our speech recognition and natural language understanding systems, so Alexa can better understand your requests, and ensure the service works well for everyone.

我们认真对待客户个人信息的安全和隐私。我们仅注释极小的Alexa录音样本，以[改善]客户体验。例如，此信息有助于我们训练语音识别和自然语言理解系统，以便Alexa可以更好地理解您的请求，并确保该服务对每个人都有效。

We have strict technical and operational safeguards, and have a zero tolerance policy for the abuse of our system. Employees do not have direct access to information that can identify the person or account as part of this workflow. All information is treated with high confidentiality and we use multi-factor authentication to restrict access, service encryption and audits of our control environment to protect it.

我们拥有严格的技术和运营保障措施，并对滥用我们的系统采取零容忍政策。员工无权直接访问可以识别此人或帐户身份的信息(此工作流的一部分)。所有信息都经过高度机密性处理，我们使用多因素身份验证来限制访问，服务加密和对我们控制环境的审核以保护它。

That last bit is crucial here—the data is supposedly anonymous, so it can’t be tied back to you. Bloomberg claims the opposite, however, stating that it saw a screenshot that “shows that the recordings sent to the Alexa auditors don’t provide a user’s full name and address but are associated with an account number, as well as the user’s first name and the device’s serial number.” If true, that sounds pretty identifying to me.

最后一点在这里至关重要-数据应该是匿名的，因此不能与您联系在一起。彭博社相反，但指出，它看到了一个屏幕截图，“显示发送给Alexa审核员的录音不提供用户的全名和地址，而是与一个帐号以及用户的名字和设备的***。” 如果为真，对我来说听起来很确定。

Either way, the thought of someone listening to conversations that happen inside your home, things that are meant to be kept behind closed doors, is enough to make your skin crawl, anonymous or not.

无论哪种方式，想到有人听您在家中发生的对话(本来应该关在门后的事情)，都足以使您的皮肤爬行(无论是否匿名)。

翻译自: https://www.howtogeek.com/411026/daily-news-roundup-41119-the-black-hole/