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【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:DisruptorAn Asteroid's Threat: 2024 YR4 and Why Panic Isn't Needed 正文：Asteroid 2024 YR4 has firmly grabbed the world's attention, with an approximately 2% chance of colliding with Earth in 2032. NASA has sounded the alarm, stating that its size is sufficient to cause local damage, thus triggering the international warning system establishe...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Actress Barbie Hsu’s shocking death: What is influenza, and how can it turn deadly? 正文：Although influenza – better known as flu – is a common illness that most peoplerecover from without treatment, it can result in life-threatening or even deadly complications. 知识点：“致命的疾病” 2 A fatal disease. 3 A life-threatening illness. 获取外刊...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Who Needs Hollywood? Chinese Animated Film Shatters Box Office Records. The runaway success of “Ne Zha 2” is another sign that Chinese audiences are choosing domestic movies over Hollywood blockbusters. 正文：The new king of the Chinese box office is an adorably ugly, demonic child fighting off monsters. 知识点：adorably adv. [əˈdɔːrəbli] in...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Knowing what your colleagues earn The pros and cons of greater pay transparenc 正文：How much do your colleagues get paid? In a few countries, such as Norway, you can take a good guess by looking at public records on individuals’ overall tax payments and income. But in most places, finding out people’s salaries means asking them what they ear...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Have we hit peak tech bro? DeepSeek’s ‘Sputnik moment’ has cut Silicon Valley poseurs down to size 正文： Scant information exists about Liang Wenfeng, the DeepSeek founder whose launch of a cheaper and more accessible AI technology this week prompted a rout on Wall Street. But Liang is not your average tech geek: he does not play with the Si...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Why are our first loves so unforgettable? 正文：Falling in love for the first time is an experience many of us never forget. Details are often etched into our memories, from what we wore for a first date to the scent of their washing powder or a song that was playing on the radio. 知识点：unforgettable /ˌʌnfərˈɡetəbl/ If you describe somethin...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:The vast and sophisticated global enterprise that is Scam Inccomplicates the start-up’s plan to raise more money. Online fraud leaves nobody safe 正文：Edgar met Rita on LinkedIn. He worked for a Canadian software company; she was from Singapore and was with a large consultancy. They were just friends, but they chatted online all the time. On...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Elon Musk Leads $97.4 Billion Bid to Control OpenAI The billionaire is leading a group of investors in the unsolicited offer, which complicates the start-up’s plan to raise more money. 正文：A group of investors led by Elon Musk has made a $97.4 billion bid to buy the assets of the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, according to two people famil...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Don’t propose with a diamond Lab-grown gems may destroy both their own value and that of natural rocks, too 正文：Valentine’s Day is fast approaching. Inside sock drawers around the world, men (and a few women) will be hiding rings intended to convey their everlasting love. Since De Beers, the world’s leading diamond company, ingeniously anno...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:‘Ne Zha 2’: A 3-Year-Old Demon Just Crushed Every Movie in China 正文：Ne Zha was born an outcast, feared as a demon, and fated to die in three years. Instead, he’s conquered China’s box office. Released on Jan. 29, the first day of Chinese New Year, “Ne Zha 2,” the sequel to the 2019 animated hit, needed less than 10 days to smash records. I...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Why Are Elite MBA Graduates Struggling to Find Jobs? Is the Degree Still Worth It? 正文：In business, nothing quite says “in trouble” like a company delaying the release of its financial results. That seems to be true of business schools, too. Around Christmas, most of America’s top business schools released their equivalent of annual reports...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Chinese AI is catching up, posing a dilemma for DT The success of cheap Chinese models threatens America’s technological lead 正文：If there is a single technology America needs to bring about the “thrilling new era of national success” that President DT promised in his inauguration speech, it is generative artificial intelligence. At the ver...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Shein and Temu are in Donald Trump’s cross-hairs n end to the de minimis exemption will hurt Chinese e-commerce firms—and enrage American consumers 正文：For American consumers, online shopping has just got dearer. On February 1st DT did away with a decades-old provision, known as the de minimis waiver, that exempted goods under a certain val...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:The clean-up after the LA fires is already revealing tensions When a city burns, how does recovery even begin? 正文：A hazmat team sifts through piles of ash on their hands and knees, slowly, methodically. They poke and prod mounds of debris with a shovel. They were tasked by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to examine what is left o...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:The real meaning of the DeepSeek drama The Chinese model-maker has panicked investors. But it is good for the users of AI 正文：The market reaction, when it came, was brutal. On January 27th, asinvestors realised just how good DeepSeek’s “v3” and “R1” models were, they wiped around a trillion dollars off the market capitalisation of America’s...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:DeepSeek Chief’s Journey From Math Geek to Global Disruptor Chinese engineer Liang Wenfeng built the AI company after founding a successful hedge fund 正文：Some call him China’s Sam Altman. Others compare him to Jim Simons, the pioneer of quantitative investing. Liang Wenfeng shares a lot with both innovators, and his impact might end up bei...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Consumerzzzzzzzzz Welcome to the age of the hermit consumer The world economy is witnessing a $600bn-a-year shift in behaviour 正文：In some ways covid-19 was a blip. After soaring in 2020,unemployment across the rich world quickly dropped to pre-pandemic lows. Countries re-attained their pre-covid GDP in short order. And yet, more than two y...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:The dawnof the omnistar How artificial intelligence will transform fame 正文：Computers have spent decades disrupting humdrum jobs. Now artificial intelligence (AI) is coming for the most glamorous ones. Hollywood has been at a standstill for half the year, until studios agreed on November 8th to offer striking stars protection from robotic r...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Why you should never retire Pleasure cruises, golf and tracing the family tree are not that fulfilling 正文：In an episode of “The Sopranos”, a popular television series which started airing in the 1990s, a gang Tony, from the tister tells tular family, that he wants to retire. “What are you, a hockey player?” Tony snaps back. Non fictional n...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Cats Filled the Prison. Then the Inmates Fell in Love. 正文：Some say they were first brought in to take out the rats. Others contend they wan dered in on their own. What everyone can agree on — including those who have lived or worked at Chile’s largest prison the longest — is that the cats were here first. For decades, they have walked alon...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Why India Isn’t the New China 正文：China’s economy is struggling, but another Asian giant, neighboring India, is suddenly squarely on investors’ and manufacturers’ radar. The first two decades of the 21st century were largely the story of China’s rise. Will the next two be the story of India’s? 知识点：struggle /ˈstrʌɡ(ə)l/ If a person or or...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Lifting the curse: On the historical, pervasive shaming of menstruation 正文：The men strual cycle is the wheel that drives humanity. To make human reproduc needs to have a highly specialized bio logy that can be repeatedly hortion work, half the population monally rewired for a potential pregnancy, as well as bleed hundreds of times and each...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:This is what the world could look like in 2070 正文：On TikTok, a viral “aged” filter recently gave users a glimpse into their future. The AI-generated filter predicts how you might look in 50 years, complete with sagging skin, deeper wrinkles, and dark spots from decades of sun exposure. In a matter of months, the filter amassed close to 11...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:English still rules the world, but that’s not necessarily OK. Is it time to curb its power? 正文：Anyone spending their Christmas holidays on the European mainland will likely have observed that it is quite common to meet staff in shops and hotels who can hold a conversation in English, and to read signs and menus in the language. This fact s...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Joe Biden’s tragic curtain call Hubris kept him too long in the presidential race and he will be remembered chiefly for easing Trump’s return 正文： If the essence of Greek tragedy is that the hero is undone by his flaws, Joe Biden gets star billing. He defeated Donald Trump, stood up to Russia, enacted more reforms than Bill Clinton and Bara...