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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

DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Home-Based Management of Malaria

DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Home-Based Management of Malaria By Karen Leggett Broadcast: Monday, May 31, 2004 This is Robert Cohen with the VOA Special English Development Report. Malaria is estimated to kil

New Data Adds to Understanding of 'Black Holes'

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

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美国国家公共电台 NPR FEMA Begins Scaling Back Financial Assistance In Puerto Rico

NOEL KING, HOST: Eleven months after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the island is no longer in a state of emergency. That's according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. And because of that, FEMA has started cutting back its financia

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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

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If job stress is wearing you down and you want more leisure time, but you can't -- or don't want to -- quit altogether, it can be easy to feel stuck. But there's an alternative to consider: a voluntary demotion. Plenty of professionals dream of scali

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

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TED演讲:城市与企业中的奇妙数学(4)

It goes up by 15 percent, 对于所有事物都是如此 and you have a 15 percent savings 你还能节省 on the infrastructure. 15%的基础设施经费 This, no doubt, is the reason 这无疑就是 why a million people a week are gathering in citi

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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

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If job stress is wearing you down and you want more leisure time, but you can't -- or don't want to -- quit altogether, it can be easy to feel stuck. But there's an alternative to consider: a voluntary demotion. Plenty of professionals dream of scali

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.

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