LAUREN FRAYER, HOST: Now to a story about a big data approach to medicine with a big price tag - hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. It's called the All of Us Precision Medicine Initiative. It's an effort to gather blood samples, medical inform

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(92) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台1月

Battling Ebola with Data The World Health Organization recently called for 900 more epidemiologists to join the battle against Ebola in West Africa. Thats triple the current number. Epidemiologists study the patterns of disease outbreaks to determine

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(132) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2015年(一月)

Requesting some data A: Susan, were going to need those data before tomorrow. B: I know. Im just waiting for confirmation on one of them. I can get them to you by tomorrow morning. A: Yeah? All right. Thanks, Susan. B: Thats all right. 询问数据 A:

发表于:2018-12-25 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 办公室英语口语

THIS IS AMERICA - Political Data Miners Really Get to Know You STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. BARBARA KLEIN: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we look at how political campaigns use dat

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年VOA慢速英语(十一)月

Big data is having an increasing effect on the way we live. Big data can be defined as information that is too big or complex to be contained or processed by any one machine or person. It can include which comments, photographs or stories you like on

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Facebook says it will begin informing users as to whether their personal data may have been wrongly shared with a British research company. Beginning Monday, Facebook said users who may have had private data shared with Cambridge Analytica will recei

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BEIJING, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Datang International Power, a listed unit of China Datang, a major Chinese power producer, said Sunday its net profit fell 22.78 percent year-on-year to 1.91 billion yuan (303.2 million U.S. dollars) due to rising therma

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

New Data Adds to Understanding of 'Black Holes' WASHINGTON Scientists continue to learn more about black holes in space, places where the pull of gravity is so strong that not even light can escape. Black holes occur after supergiant stars explode in

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(108) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2016年(九月)

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: As Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg testified for Congress today, we sat wondering, how much do Americans care about their online privacy? What's OK for companies to collect about you, and what's not? So we went out here in Washing

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: We live in an age of big data as our daily decisions are increasingly steered by computers. This week on All Tech Considered, we learn how the police are catching up with the rest of us. (SOUNDBITE OF ULRICH SCHNAUSS' NOTHING HAP

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: The police department in Oakland, Calif., has been under federal oversight now for more than 15 years, stemming from a police abuse and racial profiling scandal. In that negotiated settlement, the city agreed to sweeping reforms,

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SAN FRANCISCO, April 22 (Xinhua) -- Apple and Google collect smartphone(智能手机) users' location information as part of their race to build massive databases, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday after analyzing data and documents. Accordi

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Time again for our Website of the Week, when we showcase interesting and innovative online destinations. The World Bank lends money to promote development, and to help achieve its goals it collects a lot of data. For years, the World Bank has been on

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HELSINKI, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- A data leak was uncovered in Finland Saturday, in which personal details of around 16,000 people were uploaded onto a file-sharing website, according to Finnish media report on Monday. This act of sabotage is the largest

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Publishers' Dilemma: Judge A Book By Its Data Or Trust The Editor's Gut? KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Publishing is a notoriously risky business. A publishing house might give a first-time author a six-figure deal, and then the book flops. It's always been h

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年NPR美国国家公共电台8月

今天我们要学的词组是data breach。Data breach,意思是数据泄漏。In the US, a data breach at Equifax, one of the country's three major credit reporting agencies, left driver's license numbers and other sensitive information for 143 m

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

BEIJING, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The commerce authorities of China and the United States on Friday unveiled a report on a statistical discrepancy in merchandise trade, saying the discrepancy's share in bilateral trade is dropping. The report was based on

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NEW YORK, April 6 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. dollar climbed against major currencies this week as concerns about the European debt crisis again weighed on the euro and upbeat U.S. job data helped restore investors' confidence in the U.S. economy. The dolla

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XICHANG, Sichuan, July 12 (Xinhua) -- China blasted off a new data relay satellite Tianlian I-02 on Monday at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest Sichuan Province . The satellite was launched on a Long March-3C carrier rocket at 11:41 p.

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(95) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The European Union countries have reached an agreement to exchange information on the tax affairs of multinational companies under new rules. The rules are aimed at stopping multinationals from avoiding paying their fair tax shares. The measures take

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