A lot of big claims are made about the transformative power of artificial intelligence. But it is worth listening to some of the big warnings too. Last month, Kate Crawford, principal researcher at Microsoft Research, warned that the increasing power...
When Nuno Sebasti?o enrolled on the London Business School MBA programme, he looked beyond the traditional careers of consultancy and investment banking. In fact, he decided to fight hackers instead. 当努诺?塞巴斯蒂昂(Nuno Sebasti?o)就读伦敦...
Japan is ready to relaunch the Trans-Pacific Partnership minus the US in a shift of position that could bring the huge trade deal back from the dead. 日本准备在美国缺席的情况下重启《跨太平洋伙伴关系协定》(Trans-Pacific Part...
Chinas soaring appetite for avocados, driven by demand from its burgeoning health-conscious middle class, has made the butter fruit unheard of a few years ago the countrys star performer in the imported fruit market. 受中国注重健康的中产阶层...
Donald Trumps top trade official has opened the door to reviving trade negotiations with the EU but warned the bloc it will be in competition with China and Japan to show willingness to do the first deal with the new US administration. 美国总统唐纳...
Google has promised to allow rivals' search engines and apps to be pre-installed on phones running its versions of Android in Russia. In addition, Google has promised to develop a tool to make it easy for users to change their device's default search...
China's economy got off to a rosy start in the first quarter, with gross domestic product (GDP) growing at 6.9% year-on-year, said the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) last Monday. 国家统计局上周一表示,一季度我国经济开局良好,...
Alisports, the sports wing of Alibaba Group, and the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) announced a strategic partnership last Monday in Hangzhou, to bring the fast-developing e-sports or electronic sports to the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games. 阿里巴巴集团...
Bana Alabed, the 7-year-old girl whose tweets from besieged Aleppo drew the world's attention to the human toll of the Syria conflict, will publish her memoir this fall. 在被围困的阿勒颇,七岁的小女孩巴娜埃伯德的推文使叙利亚冲...
Weibo, a Chinese Twitter-like service, has been punished for spreading pornography, as part of a nationwide crackdown, the anti-pornography authority said last Friday. 据全国扫黄打非办公室上周五表示,在一项全国性的打击行动当...
Younger students experience school bullying more frequently than older ones, and male students are bullied more than their female peers, a survey found. 一项调查发现,低年级学生遭遇校园欺凌的频率比高年级学生更高,男生遭...
These two pictures illustrate the extraordinary way that women's bodies have changed in the last 60 years. 上面两幅图显示了近60年来女性身材发生了惊人的变化。 In 1957, the average-sized British woman was 5ft 2ins tall, weighed...
Imagine a nearly silent train that glides along its tracks emitting nothing more toxic than water. 想象一下,一辆火车消无声息地沿着铁轨运行,排放物中的有毒物质不过是水。 That train is a reality. 这种火车是真实存...
Australia will introduce stricter visa requirements for skilled workers from overseas, the government said. 澳大利亚政府称,将出台更严格的海外技术劳工签证要求。 The 457 visa programme is used mainly to hire foreign workers i...
Apart from free trade, there can be few issues on which public opinion and the views of economists differ more than on forcing companies and the public sector to buy locally and hire locally. 除了自由贸易以外,几乎没有什么问题能比强...