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US National Average Data Removed from College Scorecard There are many things for students in the United States to consider when thinking about which college or university to attend. This includes the location of the school, whether it is in a big ci

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What do you think are the biggest energy users in your home? Your list most likely includes your A.C., fridge, washing machine, etc. But you would be surprised to know that your smart phone is one of the biggest energy hog in your home. Charging the

【轻松英文阅读】你的手机省电吗

What do you think are the biggest energy users in your home? Your list most likely includes your A.C., fridge, washing machine, etc. But you would be surprised to know that your smart phone is one of the biggest energy hog in your home. Charging the

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Reporter: What do you mean you do a lot of the work yourself? 记者：您说你们自己做了很多的工作， 这是什么意思呢？ Schmidt: Well, essentially, we do all of the software. So the computers that were running start off with Linux

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National Sense of Smell Day is an annual event sponsored by the Sense of Smell Institute. It is an American holiday that takes place every year on the last Saturday of April. Many different events are organized at childrens museums and science center

美国企业着眼于太空商业开发

American Businesses Look to Space The United States government is trying to help private companies in their efforts to use space for business purposes. Last week, President Donald Trump signed a space policy directive aimed at easing rules on commerc

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Tencent Holdings Ltd announced last Wednesday plans to more than double the number of its offshore data centers this year, its latest push to grow its cloud business and serve both international companies as well as Chinese groups wanting to expand o

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christie Nicholson. This will just take a minute. Most of us know we save energy when we put our idle computers to sleep. But what about the servers that run data centers? Every cell phone call, AT

美政府威胁雅虎 不参与棱镜计划每天罚款25万

The U.S. government threatened Yahoo with daily fines of $250,000 for refusing to hand over user data as part of the National Security Agency's surveillance programs, Yahoo said Thursday. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review released

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But their energy use is the subject of growing concern and criticism. Transcript of radio broadcast: 11 July 2008 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The Internet is sometimes described as a cloud -- a big, borderless area of computing

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The National Institutes of Health, America's federally-funded medical research organization, is spearheading efforts to establish chronic disease centers in 11 developing countries, where illnesses such as diabetes, cancer and heart disease have bec

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Chinese leaders present flowers to heroes' monument on National Day Top leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument to the People's Heroes in the heart of Beijing Saturday morning to mark the National Day. President Hu Jintao and other top leaders pa

2016年CRI China to launch first quantum communication satellite

Quantum communication boasts ultra-high security as a quantum photon can neither be separated nor duplicated. It is hence impossible to wiretap, intercept or crack the information transmitted through it. Anton Zeilinger, an Austrian physicist at the

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According to scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center and NASA, Arctic sea ice appears to have reached its minimum for the year at nearly 1.7 million square miles. A chilling fact, considering that this is only about 10 % more than the l

2006年VOA标准英语-Debate Centers on Relation Between Terrorism an

By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 12 October 2006 watch US Terrorism Report Last month, portions of a classified U.S. government intelligence estimate on global terrorism were leaked to the media, which reported the document as saying the war in Iraq

瑞士国会议员再次拒绝美国的税收法案

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Google increases investment in clean energy

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- Google announced on Thursday that it is investing 75 million U.S. dollars in a wind farm in the Midwestern U.S. state of Iowa, making its total investment in clean energy projects to nearly 1 billion dollars. The Io

FBI绕开苹果 另请高手成功破解加密iPhone

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China mulls mortality database for health assessment

FUZHOU, April 11 (Xinhua) -- China is preparing to set up a national mortality database to obtain cause-of-death information, marking a step toward establishing a monitoring network for health risk factors across the country, an official said Wednesd

我国首座国家基因库在深圳启动试运行

The first national gene bank, built by China's gene research giant BGI, started trial operation last Saturday in Shenzhen. 我国首个国家级基因库上周六在深圳投入试运行。该基因库由国内基因研究巨头华大基因建设。