This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The Internet search engine company called Google has announced it will give more than twenty-five million dollars in money and investments to help the poor. The money will be spent over the next fi

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今天学的词是gamble。 Gamble就是赌博。但是,gamble不一定就是去赌场,打麻将或打扑克。Gamble是各式各样的。北韩进行地下核试验。媒体说,这是北韩在政治和经济方面的赌博 -- North Korea's pol

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? Since so many species in a food web are interconnected, the demise of a one can mean extinction for several others that depend on it for food. Thanks to things like

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2003年10月,乔治约翰逊成功号召人们用miserable failure(惨败)这个关键词做为链接文字,链接向美国白宫网站布什总统的个人介绍页。两个月后,在Google搜索miserable failure的时候,布什的这个个人

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Going for a job interview is nerve-racking at the best of times, but tech giant Google has become notorious for asking fiendishly tough questions. 即使是面试的最佳时期,参加面试也是够让人费神的,而技术巨头Google早就因变

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Fed up with her son's failure to pick up the phone when she calls and his ability to never answer her texts, the discerning Houston mom decided, with the ways of modern technology, surely she could do something about it. 受够了儿子永远不接电话

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Business 商业 Intellectual property 知识产权 Inventive warfare 发明之战 Battles over patents are becoming fiercer and more expensive 专利之战,愈演愈烈,愈烈价更高 THIS deal is all about patents. 这笔交易归根结蒂就是谋

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Business 商业 Microsoft and privacy 微软与隐私 Change of track 转轨 Data on people's online behaviour are worth both paying for and arguing over 广告商愿意花钱购买记录人们在线行为的数据,但跟踪用户行为是否合理则

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JUDY WOODRUFF: One recent spike in broadband usage is music. When you want to listen to a song today, you don't have to buy a copy or even download it anymore. Increasingly, you stream it. And that has led to a profound shift in the industry that is

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LOS ANGEES, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Cell phones have become smarter in the past years with its function almost matching a computer, and in the smartphone revolution(革命), Apple's iPhone is a latecomer but has become a rising star, Android Google phone

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Google has laid out its most comprehensive vision yet for a post-smartphone era, as it unveiled a range of new software and services partly aimed at catching up with rivals such as Facebook and Amazon. 谷歌(Google)为后智能手机时代规划了一

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This would not be a problem if there were several big search engines. 如果有几个大型的搜索引擎这就不成问题了。 But Google's market share in most European countries exceeds 90%. 但谷歌在大多数欧洲国家的市场份额超过了

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Facebook, Google, MySpace, Twitter, the proliferation of social networking means more personal information are accessible to strangers than ever before. Facebook、谷歌、聚友网、Twitter,随着社交网站的盛行,越来越多的个人信息

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Mark one up for man over the machine. The world champion of the ancient Chinese board game of Go has finally found a way to beat Googles AlphaGo computer, after losing three straight games last week. 这是人类战胜机器的时刻,世界围棋冠军

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伊朗成功试射弹道导弹 TEHRAN, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- Iran has successfully test-fired two missile, one of them a surface-to-surface long-range ballistic missile, official IRNA news agency reported on Monday. The test-fired ballistic missile was

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Google is consistently rated the best place to work. So you need a degree from Harvard to get in the door, right? 谷歌一直被认为是最好的工作地点,这是否意味着,只有哈佛大学毕业生才能如愿踏进谷歌大门呢? Not

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Google has introduced its updated android mobile software and a mobile payment system at the company's annual developers conference in San Francisco. The Android M mobile software features an upgraded version of Google Now, the voice-activated assist

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FRANKFURT WHETHER or not Apples secretive car project ever leads to an actual automobile, the technology company has already had a profound effect on the vehicle business. 法兰克福不管苹果公司藏而不露的汽车研发项目未来是否真的

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BEIJING, Aug. 24 (Xinhuanet) -- Facebook said it is overhauling its privacy settings to give members easier, more precise control over who sees posts, photos and other content over the vast social network. Starting Thursday, Facebook is rolling out n

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Google is consistently rated the best place to work. So you need a degree from Harvard to get in the door, right? 谷歌一直被认为是最好的工作地点,这是否意味着,只有哈佛大学毕业生才能如愿踏进谷歌大门呢? Not

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