Top Technology Stories of 2018 During 2018, we reported on many inventions and new technologies aimed at making machines smarter. We also covered stories on how some technologies threaten user privacy. Artificial intelligence There was a lot of news...
A team of machine learning developers has created a system for making caricatures of peoples faces. In a caricature, the artist creates a drawing of a face, with different parts of it greatly enlarged, or exaggerated, in other ways. The pictures or i...
This is What's Trending Today... Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the youngest woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress. The 29-year-old New Yorker became famous after beating a long-time Democratic leader in the primary election and then winning the gener...
Modal verbs are helping verbs. We use them with main verbs to help us express ability, possibility, necessity and permission. Todays question is about a modal that is commonly confused with an expression. Heres the question, which comes from a listen...
Koskoosh placed another stick on the fire and let his thoughts travel deeper into the past. There was the time of the great famine. He had lost his mother in that famine. In the summer the usual plentiful catch of fish had failed, and the tribe looke...
New US Congress in Divided Government The 116th United States Congress returned the first woman to the position of Speaker of the House and swore in the most diverse group of lawmakers in history. 第116届美国国会再次迎来了众议院首位女议...
Italian Museum Wants Germany to Return Painting Stolen by Nazis The director of a well-known art museum in Italy is urging Germany to return a Dutch painting stolen by Nazi troops during World War II. Eike Schmidt is director of Uffizi Gallery, a mus...
Chinas space program has become the first to land a spacecraft on the so-called dark side of the moon. The landing on Thursday brought the country closer to its goal of becoming a space power. The China National Space Administration said the landing...
How to Ask for Clarification In the humorous American television program Seinfeld, the characters often find themselves in strange situations because of small communication failures. These little misunderstandings grow to the point of total confusion...
Protests in India after Women Enter Hindu Temple Two women have entered a Hindu temple for the first time since a ban was lifted on female visitors between the ages of 10 and 50. The women entered the Sabarimala temple in the southern state of Kerala...
