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【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The breakthrough AI needs A race is on to push artificial intelligence beyond today’s limits 正文：Two years after ChatGPT took the world by storm, generative artificial intelligence seems to have hit a roadblock. The energy costs of building and using bigger models are spiralling, and breakthroughs are getting harder. Fortunately, researche...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：I Paid My Child $100 to Read a Book 正文：This summer, I paid my 12-year-old daughter $100 to read a book. As far as mom maneuvers go, it was definitely last-ditch, and the size of the payout was certainly excessive. I can’t say I am proud — but I am extremely satisfied. Because the plan worked. My daughter is a whip-smart kid, definitely sm...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The latest threat to China? The rise of the DINKs 正文：Shorthand for gainfully employed U.S. couples whose only responsibilities were to themselves, the acronym DINK — dual income, no kids — was coined to capture the unabashed materialism of the 1980s. Four decades later, the term has made a comeback, with millennials embracing it on social...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Don’t Fool Yourself About the Exploding Pagers Your phone is not a bomb 正文：Yesterday, pagers used by Hezbollah operatives exploded simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria, killing at least a dozen people and injuring thousands. Today brought another mass detonation in Lebanon, this time involving walkie-talkies. The attacks are gruesome and s...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Do pager-bombs presage escalation between Israel and Hizbullah? Thousands of devices explode in an apparent Israeli attack 正文：A man is standing at a cash register when the pager at his waist explodes, hurling him to the ground. Less than a metre away, the cashier panics but seems unhurt. Another man, shopping for green almonds in a market...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：In China, Retiring as Early as 50 Has Been the Norm.  That Is About to Change. 正文：Squeezed by an economic downturn and a rapidly aging population, China took a step toward raising its unusually low age benchmarks for when state employees have to retire. China has one of the lowest retirement ages among major economies, letting women...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：How to write the perfect CV A job applicant walks into a bar 正文：Imagine meeting a stranger at a party. What makes for a successful encounter? Lesson one is to heed the wisdom of a shampoo commercial from the 1980s: you never get a second chance to make a first impression. Lesson two is to remember that you do not need to wear a beret or a...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The New Dream Job Is Working for … the Government? Job stability is more important to young graduates than it used to be, which may be why more of them are looking at careers in the public sector. 正文：One of the best parts of being a young college graduate, and naïve to the grim realities of the working world, is being deluded about how gr...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The Taylor Swift Way to Defuse a Troll She doesn’t need her boyfriend’s brawn 正文：It was highly anticipated and tautly executed. Taylor Swift signed off with a dig at Donald Trump’s  running mate, J. D. Vance: “With love and hope, Taylor Swift, Childless Cat Lady.” Swift’s endorsement of  Kamala Harris on Tuesday night was not a...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Polaris Dawn’s First Private Space Walk Was a Stellar Success 正文：It wasn’t a small step—more a clamber, really—but as billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman climbed partway out of a SpaceX Dragon capsule located nearly 740 kilometers above Earth on early Thursday morning, he made a giant leap into spaceflight history. Polaris Dawn had al...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Tech billionaire Elon Musk is on track to become the world’s first trillionaire. It’s a sign markets aren’t working 正文：Apparently, the world is about to get its first trillionaire. A report from Informa Connect says, at his present rate of wealth accumulation, tech billionaire Elon Musk is on track to be the world’s first trillionaire. If...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The Scariest Spacewalk in 50 Years Spaceflight is entering its cowboy era. 正文：Early this morning, four private astronauts blasted into orbit to carry out SpaceX’s most dangerous mission yet. After a few days of circling Earth, the passengers will suit up and open the hatch of their spaceship. All of the precious, breathable air inside the...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Apple Unveils New iPhones With Built-In Artificial Intelligence 正文：The iPhone has grown predictable. Over the past seven years, it has generally looked the same, with incremental improvements to its cameras, processors and battery life. But on Monday, Apple tried to turn the page on that predictability by introducing its first artificiall...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：What should “inclusion” include at the Paralympics? The games make a virtue of their diversity. But there’s still room to grow 正文：How inclusive should the Paralympic games be? The question is a tricky one for the organisers of the event, whose very ethos is to offer opportunities to athletes unable to compete in the Olympics. In many ways...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：China’s One-Child Policy Sent Thousands of Adoptees Overseas. That Era Is Over. Beijing formally ends a program that was propelled by birth restrictions and that had been largely on hold since the pandemic 正文：China said it was formally ending almost all international adoptions, shutting down a process that saw tens of thousands of Chinese...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Why is Thai health care so good? The country could become a model for the region. 正文：Political turmoil in Thailand is unrelenting. Over the past two decades, 11 different prime ministers have led the country. In the coming weeks that number could increase, as the constitutional court considers dismissing the current leader, Srettha Thavis...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Woman in France Testifies Against Husband Accused of Bringing Men to Rape Her 正文：If the sight of dozens of men accused of raping her, including her husband of many decades, upset Gisèle Pelicot, she did not let it show. She swept into a packed courtroom on Thursday with steely poise, her face composed, her eyes dry beneath sunglasses. Her...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：‘I cannot afford to live’: Gen Z is full of financial angst despite inheriting a golden job market 正文：Gen Z is coming into the workforce and — in one of the grand traditions of what Millennials cringe-ily called “adulting” — they’re complaining about how much easier older generations had it. Before all the Boomers and Slackers throw their...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Pop Mart’s ‘blind box’ toys attract fans, detractors 正文：It’s a toy story that could only be made in China. This particular tale is coming from Pop Mart International Group Ltd., which has found huge success with its trendy series of collectible toys sold from “blind boxes” that don’t reveal their contents until after a buyer opens them fo...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：5 Great Asian Food Cities You Shouldn’t Miss 正文：Travelers to Asia often stick to a big-city itinerary, where well-known chefs showcase their culinary skills. The restaurant standards are high, but can be more internationalized than authentic. As a food writer based in Asia for several decades, I discovered that some of the best dining can...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Want the legal right to ignore your boss outside working hours?  Learn from the French 正文：Millions of Australians just got official permission to ignore their bosses outside of working hours, thanks to a new law enshrining their "right to disconnect." The law doesn't strictly prohibit employers from calling or messaging their workers...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The great cover-up: Europe is losing its penchant for public nudity A columnist bares all in pursuit of the naked truth 正文：Man is born naked, but everywhere he is in clothes. Well, nearly everywhere. Visit a sauna in Denmark, bits of public parks in Germany or many a beach in France and clothing becomes as scarce as office workers at the...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：What happens to your data when you die? An individual’s digital footprint will long outlive them. That presents many quandaries 正文：Franz kafka died 100 years ago in literary obscurity. He had instructed his friend Max Brod to burn his unpublished works. Fortunately for generations of readers, Brod did not; he believed Kafka to be among th...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Digital twins are fast becoming part of everyday life 正文：When visiting a doctor a few years from now, you can expect to be accompanied by a virtual version of yourself. This so-called digital twin will be a working model of your body that can be summoned onto a physician’s computer screen. Updated with your latest vital signs, it will hel...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The US tipping system is teetering Customers are growing more resentful as gratuities soar 正文：Defenders say gratuities inspire good service from waiters, parking valets and manicurists. Others call it a form of extortion. Either way, they cloak an employment system that is nearly unique. In the US, customers, rather than bosses, determine...