Wikipedia is one of the most important websites on the Internet today, but you might be surprised to learn that it began as a side project of another online encyclopedia. That was called Nupedia, to be a traditional encyclopedia written by experts, f

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Ah, the virtual world. Sure it has changed the way we do things, dramatically. The Internet is giving us, well, freedom. Its now easier than ever to stay in touch with friends the world over. With new ways of storing and organizing data, our stuff is

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Max认为Caroline这样的千金小姐肯定什么都做不好,可她惊讶地发现Caroline不仅很能干,而且丝毫不比她差。Max将Caroline和她的宠物马带回了家,两人开始了同居生活。Caroline发现Max有一手烤纸杯蛋

发表于:2019-01-05 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 破产姐妹

只有不到10%的塑料垃圾被回收--金属垃圾却有近90%的回收率--原因塑料存在大量且复杂的回收和分类的问题,鉴于这种浪费的现状,麦克比德尔发明了一种经济且出色的高效节能工厂,从而可以

发表于:2019-01-05 / 阅读(260) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:环境 重造计划

Tencent Holdings Ltd announced last Wednesday plans to more than double the number of its offshore data centers this year, its latest push to grow its cloud business and serve both international companies as well as Chinese groups wanting to expand o

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

China is aiming to increase the scale of its cloud computing industry by more than 2.5 times by 2019, from 2015 levels, according to a new government plan. 根据一项新的政府计划,到2019年,我国云计算产业规模将在2015年的基础上

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Security is a real concern, no question, we would argue in green channel cloud, your data is more securer in the cloud platform and can ever be within the premise or this means building if you like. --why is that? Well, because typically, the house o

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Technology Report - Living in a World With Facial Recognition 科技报道 - 面部识别软件正走进我们的生活 This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语科技报道。 A new study looks at privacy i

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如同之前预测的一样,iPhone 4S除了硬件的升级外,最大的特点是人工智能语音程序Siri。在这个系统中,用户可以向程序提出问题,比如我今天需要带雨伞吗?现在巴黎几点了?纳斯达克股价如何

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

今天我们要学的词儿是status quo。 Status quo是指现状。Maintain the status quo是维持现状;restore the status quo是恢复原状。美国国会在移民改革议案的问题上继续存在严重分歧。商务部长古铁雷斯表示

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Cloud computing's growing pains 云计算的发轫之困 Break-ins and breakdowns 侵入和故障 The lessons from Sony's big security lapse and Amazon's cloud-computing outage 从索尼的巨大安全漏洞和亚马逊的云计算中断中汲取的教

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Books and Arts;America and Iran;Cloud computing; 文艺;美伊问题;云计算; A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama's Diplomacy with Iran, by Trita Parsi. 《孤注一掷:奥巴马的对伊政策》;特里塔帕塞著; With dark rumours swirling of

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和新旧GRE要求词汇量的相比,新GRE词汇量要求看起来相比简单一些。旧GRE考试中非常注重对词汇的要求,对单词量要求非常之大,到了让人瞠目结舌的地步。我们该准备多少新GRE词汇就可以达

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Alibaba and SoftBank have announced a new joint venture targeting Japans competitive cloud computing market. 阿里巴巴(Alibaba)和软银(SoftBank)宣布成立一家新的合资公司,瞄准日本竞争激烈的云计算市场。 The new company,

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(115) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

IBM and a unit of China's Dalian Wanda Group, a property and entertainment conglomerate, agreed to team up to provide cloud services to Chinese companies, the U.S. technology provider said. 美国技术服务供应商国际商业机器公司(IBM)表

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作为艺术行政员及现场戏剧表演迷,本卡梅隆就现场艺术的现状提出问题现场戏剧,现场音乐及现场舞蹈的魅力如何与无时不在的互联网竞争?在TEDxYYC,他对未来作了大胆的展望。

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:艺术与幻觉

Technology firms and health care 科技公司和医疗保健 Heads in the cloud 头文字云 Digitising America's health records could be a huge business. Will it? 美国的医疗记录数字化会是巨大商机吗? About time we caught up with th

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Amazon 亚马逊 The Walmart of the web 网络沃尔玛 The internet giants new tablet computer fits itsstrategy of developing big businesses by charging small prices 互联网巨头用低价战略,进军平板电脑市场 A couple of years after i

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常见词汇能考到18000左右,而且充斥着大量日常生活中难以见到的生僻词汇。比如coven意为十三个女巫的集会,arabesque意为具有阿拉伯风格的图案,illumination转义为古书上的修饰图案,因此导致

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: You know, as I host this program, I'm on a social media platform - Twitter, as a matter of fact. There is no group that takes that new social media platform more than teenagers, and that's exactly what worries a lot of parents. Dan

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