VOA慢速英语2011--Political Data Miners Really Get to Know You

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

Computer Data and the Business of Mind-Reading

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

VOA慢速英语--Facebook Tells Users Whether Private Data Shared

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

China's Datang Int'l Power profit down 22.78 pct in 2011

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

VOA标准英语2009年-Red Cross, Meteorologists to Improve Africa Dis

The international Red Cross has signed an agreement with an African meteorology organization, hoping to better predict and respond to disasters caused by climate change. A cooperation pact signed Monday in Dakar will give the Red Cross inside access

VOA标准英语2013--Scientists Create 3D Roadmap of Human Brain

Scientists Create 3D Roadmap of Human Brain The project is called BigBrain. In three dimensions and intricate detail, it reveals the anatomy of the brain as never seen before. These are images of a 3-D reconstructed human brain with a spatial resolut

New Data Adds to Understanding of 'Black Holes'

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

美国国家公共电台 NPR How Data Analysis Is Driving Policing

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

iPhone, Android smartphones collect users' data

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

谷歌研发的APP帮助伦敦医院进行体检

Doctors at Imperial College hospitals will soon be monitoring the health of patients with an app developed by Google-backed AI firm DeepMind. 帝国学院校医院的医生很快将会用谷歌旗下AI公司DeepMind开发的一款APP，监测病人的健

Largest ever data leak uncovered in Finland

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

美国国家公共电台 NPR Publishers' Dilemma: Judge A Book By Its Data Or Trust The Editor's Gut?

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

CCTV9英语新闻：SAFE: Capital outflow pressure eases in Feb.

Fresh data from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange shows that China's net capital outflow continued to narrow in February. The agency reports that Chinese lenders recorded a net sale of 33.9 billion U.S. dollars, marking an eighth straight

VOA双语新闻：红十字会与非洲气象组织合作

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学个词 Learn a Word-VOA英语教学 2898 data breach

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

China, U.S. unveil report on trade data discrepancy

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

Dollar gains amid European concerns, upbeat U.S. job data

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

China launches new data relay satellite

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.

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Science and technology 科学技术 Climate change 气候变化 Bell weather 呈钟形曲线变化的天气 A statistical analysis shows how things really are heating up 一项统计分析显示出天气究竟是如何变热的 ARE heatwaves more com

CCTV9英语新闻：EU members to exchange multinational tax data

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