第一段①From the early days of broadband, advocates for consumers and web-based companies worried that the cable and phone companies selling broadband connections had the power and
第一段①As a historian who’s always searching for the text or the image that makes us re-evaluate the past, I’ve become preoccupied with looking for photographs that show our Victorian ancestors smiling (what better way to
第一段①When Microsoft bought task management app Wunderlist and mobile calendar Sunrise in 2015, it picked up two newcomers that were attracting considerable buzz in Silicon Valley.②Microsoft’s own Office
第一段①With the global population predicted to hit close to 10 billion by 2050, and forecasts that agricultural production in some regions will need to nearly double to keep pace, food security is increasingly
第一段①While fossil fuels-coal,oil,gas-still generate roughly 85 percent of the world’s energy supply, it's clearer than ever that the future belongs to renewable sources such as wind and solar. ②The move to
第一段①Today,widespread social pressure to immediately go to college in conjunction with increasingly high expectations in a fast-moving world often causes students to completely
第一段①Every Saturday morning, at 9 a.m., more than 50,000 runners set off to run 5km around their local park.②The Parkrun phenomenon began with a dozen friends and has
第一段Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dia Mirza and Adrian Grenier have a message for you: It’s easy to beat plastic. They’re part of a bunch of celebrities staring in a new video for World Environment Day-encouraging you, the consumer, to
第一段American farmers have been complaining of labor shortages for several years now. Given a multi-year decline in illegal immigration and a similarly sustained pickup in the U.S. job market. The complaints are unlikely to stop without an
第一段Last Thursday, the French Senate passed a digital services tax, which would impose an entirely new tax on large multinationals that provide digital services to consumers or users in France. Digital services include everything from providing a platform for selling goods and services online to targeting advertising based on user data. and the tax applies to gross
第一段Scientific publishing has long been a licence to print money. Scientists need journals in which to publish their research, so they will supply the articles without
第一段A group of labour MPs, among them Yvette Cooper, are bringing in the new year with a call to institute a UK “town of culture” award. The proposal is that it should
第一段This year marks exactly two countries since the publication of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley. Even before the invention of the electric
第一段Grade inflation--the gradual increase in average GPAs(grade-point averages) over the past few decades—is often considered a product of a consumer era in higher education, in which students are treated like customers to be
第一段Any fair-minded assessment of the dangers of the deal between Britain‘s National Health Service (NHS) and Deep Mind must start by acknowledging that both sidesmean well. DeepMind is one of the leading artificial intelligence(AI) companies in theworld。 The potential of this wor
第一段Robert F. Kennedy once said that a country’s GDP measures “everything except that which makes life worthwhile.” With Britain voting to leave the European Union, and GDP already predicted to slow as a result, it is now a
第一段“The ancient Hawaiians were astronomers,” wrote Queen Liliuokalani, Hawaii’s last reigning monarch, in 1897. Star watchers were among the most esteemed
第一段①Why do so many Americans distrust what they read in their newspapers? The American Society of Newspaper Editors is trying to answer this painful question.②The organization
第一段①A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so-called digital divide-the division of the world into the info (information) rich and the info poor.②And that divide does exist today.③My wife and I lectured about this
第一段Whatever happened to the death of newspaper? A year ago the end seemed near. The recession threatened to remove the advertising and readers that had not already
第一段①Scientists have found that although we are prone to snap overreactions, if we take a moment and think about how we are likely to react, we can reduce or even
第一段An article in Scientific America has pointed out that empirical research says that, actually, you think you’re more beautiful than you are. We have a
第一段There will eventually come a day when The New York Times ceases to publish stories on newsprint。 Exactly when that day will be is a matter of debate。 “Sometime in the future”, the paper’s publisher said back in 2010。
第一段“There is one and only one social responsibility of businesses,” wrote Milton Friedman, a Nobel prize-winning economist, “That is, to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits.” But even if you