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Google Giving Money to Groups That Help People Find Jobs Google is offering financial assistance to groups that can help people get the skills and connections they need to find jobs. Jacquelline Fuller is president of Google.org. On Wednesday, she sa

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American inventor John Goodenough first started working on battery technology more than 40 years ago. Goodenough actually co-invented lithium-ion batteries in 1980. This eventually led to a revolution in the electronics industry because those devices

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Women are under-represented in the technology industry around the world. At colleges and universities in the United States, women represent only one in six students of computer science. That number is changing at some schools, like Harvey Mudd Colleg

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These days, shopping often involves an Internet connection and a laptop or smartphone. However, businesses are now trying to use new technology, such as 3D printing and augmented reality, to bring customers back into stores. At the recent National Re

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Computers are increasingly competing against humans to see whether man or machine is smarter. In the latest demonstration of artificial intelligence or AI, a computer went up against humans in live, public debates. The debates held this week in San F

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Amazon Announced Choices for Possible Second Headquarters The online seller Amazon has announced a list of 20 possible places where the company might build a second headquarters. 在线购物网站亚马逊公司公布了该公司建造第二总部的选

Electrified Road Can Charge Moving Vehicles

Major world automakers have already invested heavily in electric vehicles and related technology and they are committed to keep doing so. Some have even promised to stop producing vehicles that run only on gas or diesel fuel in the future. The change

你能放下手机吗 Can You Put Down Your Smart Phone

I think most people have the moment to be annoyed by the technology. For example, the task is prepared to be finished in the certain time, but as we are easy to be lost in the computer games, nothing will be completed in the end. Technology indeed br

湖南青年何江入选《福布斯》俊杰榜

He Jiang, the first person from China to deliver a Harvard University commencement address, has made the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 List. 近日，首位在哈佛大学毕业典礼上致辞的中国人何江入选了2017年《福布斯30岁以下30位俊杰

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Since I go to high school, I live in the school and stay away from my parents. I have three roommates, at the beginning, we have trouble in staying in the same room, but now we have got used to it. One of my roommates impresses me so much, since she

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A lot of big claims are made about the transformative power of artificial intelligence. But it is worth listening to some of the big warnings too. Last month, Kate Crawford, principal researcher at Microsoft Research, warned that the increasing power

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China's famed bike wars may soon be fought on foreign shores, as Bluegogo and Mobike compete with fellow cycle hire company ofo in the British market. 随着Bluegogo、摩拜与自行车租赁同行企业ofo在英国市场展开竞争，我国声名远

三星支付Samsung Pay计划3月进入中国市场

Samsung Electronics Co. said Saturday it plans to release its mobile payment system Samsung Pay in major markets, including China, next month, speeding up its efforts to expand the presence of the platform amid the rise of rivalry services. 三星电子

英国健康服务引入条形码

LONDON, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- Barcode technology widely used in supermarkets and industry is to be introduced into Britain's National Health Service (NHS), it was announced Thursday. Scanning will be used for the first time on breast implants and repla

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For internet addicts, it could be the ultimate way to stay in touch - an entire apartment turned into a giant, online screen. The walls show Facebook updates, and life-sized friends during video chats. It can also be controlled from anywhere - even b

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A fisherman in India speaking on his mobile phone Wireless phones are connecting the developing world at a rate of about one million new phones each day. And with them come important new uses for t

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week on our program, we have the third part of our series on living with a disability in America. In January we looked at education.

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Events for the launch of Vista included dancers on the wall of a New York building This week, with dancers and other events, Microsoft launched the general release of its new operating system for pers

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Recently we talked about Voxiva, a provider of information technology systems for health workers in poor countries. This Washington-based company has been working for three years with the government