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‎学习英语一点都不难。任何一个学好了英语的人都会发现，只要听够一定量的材料，阅读够一定量的材料，练习一定量时间对话一定可以轻轻松松的学会英语。 那么为什么英语还是中国人的老大难问题呢？因为不知道读什么。因为读的时候挫折感太大。读小学英语课本每个单词都认识没有意思。但是读新闻，真的找本英文书看，不会的单词太多太挫折，一个词一个词的去查去发音太麻烦了。 英语轻松读就是我们针对已经有一定英语阅读能力的人群推出的阅读辅助工具。 你只需要简单的选择你的大致英语词汇水平（事后随时可修改），我们就可以在新闻正文里面自动给你可能不理解的词语加上短注释来提示你。这样即使一篇新闻你有一半以上的生词，你仍旧可以…

A 19-year-old college student in Chicago was found strangled to death on Saturday morning inside her car parked in a campus parking garage, a report said. The University of Illinois at Chicago stud…

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Richard Spencer's ouster ends a stunning clash between President Trump and top military leadership over the fate of a SEAL accused of war crimes

The city's transportation regulator says Uber's systems "allowed unauthorized drivers to upload their photos to other Uber driver accounts" and take on customers as if they were the Uber driver.

Singer Selena Gomez suffered a panic attack before performing at the 2019 American Music Awards, E! News has learned. Get the exclusive details here.

More than 150 climate change protesters stormed the field at the Harvard-Yale football game Saturday, causing a 40-minute delay.

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The Bills old man/young man tailback combo might be the balancing act they need for the playoffs.

Children ask lots of questions. Even before children can put together words, they point at things that they want to learn about.

Refrigeration has been such an integral part of our everyday lives for so long that we rarely think of it. Our food is fresh and our offices and living rooms are temperature-controlled thanks to vapor compression technology developed over a century ago, which has become an integral part of medical care, transportation, military defense, and more.

Wayve, a machine learning company, founded in 2017 by alumni Dr. Alex Kendall, who completed his Ph.D. in Professor Roberto Cipolla's Machine Intelligence group, and Dr. Amar Shah, who completed his Ph.D. in Professor Zoubin Ghahramani's Machine Learning group.

The Cooling for All Needs Assessment has been launched today, Thursday, November 7 to help governments, non-governmental organizations and development institutions to accurately size the market for cooling demands based on comfort, safety, nutrition and health needs.

Petr Plecháč, a researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague has used machine-learning techniques to identify which parts of the play "Henry VIII" were written by William Shakespeare and which were written by John Fletcher. He has written a paper describing his findings and has uploaded it to the arXiv preprint server.

In 1874, science fiction author Jules Verne set out a prescient vision that has inspired governments and entrepreneurs in the 145 years since.

Solution-processed semiconductors, including materials such as perovskites and quantum dots (i.e., small particles of matter in the quantum size regime), are substances with a conductivity ranging between that of insulators and that of most metal. This type of semiconductors has been found to be particularly promising for the development of new optoelectronic devices that perform well and have low manufacturing costs.

A group of researchers at Osaka University developed a novel two-dimensional (2-D) graphical tactile display to which one-dimensional (1D) adhesive information could be added by controlling adhesion of designated portions of the display surface.

When one talks about young Africans using smartphones, the dominant narrative is that these gadgets serve mostly as platforms for connection so that users can communicate and share greetings and information via text and images. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp and Signal take pride of place in that description, despite their murkier side. What has perhaps been overlooked is how smartphones are also affecting other facets of young people's lives. One area is the ever-growing community of sports betting in Africa.