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2019年经济学人 换脸技术被用来诽谤女性政客(1)
Leaders 来源于《社论》版块 Fake nudes 虚假裸体 Sex, lies and politics 性、谎言和政治 As deepfake technology spreads, expect more bogus sex tapes of female politicians 随着deepfake技术的传播，可以预料会有更多女性政
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2019年经济学人 治愈混凝土癌症(2)
To get around this the team have worked out how to minimise cost by using carbon-fibre rebars only where strictly necessary. 为了解决这个问题，该团队研究出了如何通过只在必要的地方使使用碳纤维钢筋的方式来降低成本
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2019年经济学人 换脸技术被用来诽谤女性政客(2)
Similar tactics are used to deter women from running for public office. In the run-up to elections in Iraq last year, two female candidates were humiliated with explicit videos, which they say were faked. One pulled out of the race. The types of imag
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2019年经济学人 太空行走第一人阿里克谢·列昂诺夫(2)
In the vacuum of space his space suit expanded, until he could not get back into the craft without bleeding it of oxygen. Moreover, in minutes, the craft's orbit would take it into total darkness. Training kicked in; he kept his nerve and at last, dr
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2019年经济学人 太空行走第一人阿里克谢·列昂诺夫(2)
In the vacuum of space his space suit expanded, until he could not get back into the craft without bleeding it of oxygen. Moreover, in minutes, the craft's orbit would take it into total darkness. Training kicked in; he kept his nerve and at last, dr
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2019年经济学人 如何打破大型科技公司的垄断(4)
Even though most analysts assume that the separate parts are worth more than the whole, could the opposite be true? Breakups could destroy value. Synergies would evaporate, points out Amit Daryanani of Evercore ISI, a financial firm. Apple may no lon
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2019年经济学人 如何打破大型科技公司的垄断(5)
No platforming 去平台化 Separating platforms from services which run on them sounds elegant. But how would one divvy up all the data the tech giants have collected? What is part of the platform and what is not? What happens if the lines between t
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2019年经济学人 如何打破大型科技公司的垄断(6)
Given all these hurdles, will break-ups ever happen? Sector-wide divestitures seem unlikely, but even Makan Delrahim, head of the Department of Justices antitrust division, said on October 22nd that they are perfectly on the table. Amazon looks vulne
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2019年经济学人 压力之下(2)
压力之下(2) Yet oil markets have shrugged it all off. 然而，石油市场对此不屑一顾。 In the past such geopolitical tensions gave a boost to oil prices, says Fatih Birol, the head of the IEA. IEA署长法蒂比罗尔表示，以前这种
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2019年经济学人 一周要闻 习近平主席访问希腊 巴西前总统卢拉获释 玻利维亚总
The world this week 本周要闻 Politics 政治 Chinas president, Xi Jinping, paid a visit to Greece, an important partner in the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, which aims to improve global infrastructure. 中国国家主席习近平访问了希腊
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2019年经济学人 伪造犀牛角(1)
Rhinoceros horns are big business. Traditional Chinese medicine uses them to treat rheumatism and gout, 犀牛角是大生意。中医用它们来治疗风湿病和痛风， even though they have no actual pharmaceutical properties beyond placebo. 尽管
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2019年经济学人 一周要闻 特朗普弹劾听证进行中 威尼斯遭遇洪灾 伊朗发现新油
Hassan Rouhani, Irans president, claimed that a new oilfield containing 53bn barrels of crude had been discovered. If true, this would increase Irans proven reserves, already one of the worlds largest, by about a third. Iran has struggled to export o
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2019年经济学人 谁主浮沉--航空母舰的发展方向(2)
Though guiding such missiles onto a distant moving target is tricky, no navy will be keen on putting several billion dollars and thousands of sailors in peril. Carriers have become too big to fail. As a result, they will probably have to remain at le
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2019年经济学人 约翰逊语言专栏--用委婉语掩盖性暴力会导致更恶劣后果(1)
Books arts 图书与艺术 Johnson 约翰逊语言专栏 Unspeakable things 无法用语言表达的事 The problematic vocabulary of sexual violence 有问题的性暴力词汇 It is a clich that three topics should stay off-limits in polite company
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2019年经济学人 伪造犀牛角(2)
The next task they tackled was making a suitable binding matrix. 他们接下来要解决的任务是制作合适的粘合基质。 This, Dr Vollrath and his coauthor Mi Ruixin made from a fibrous protein-rich glue of the sort produced naturally by s
