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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 arrest of “Russia’s Mark Zuckerberg” rattles social media Why Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, is in a French jail Telegram 正文：Soon after his private jet touched down on August 24th at Le Bourget airport, on the outskirts of Paris, Pavel Durov was arrested by French police. A statement later released by prosecutors said that the 39-y...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：NASA insists that two astronauts are not “stranded” in space The Starliner mishap is another embarrassment for Boeing 正文：What a treat to glimpse the cosmos up close. Which is not to deny the inconveniences of space travel. There are bodily troubles. “The toilet—I literally sit on it like a witch on a broom,” wrote Valentin Lebedev, a cosm...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：China's Hit Game 'Black Myth: Wukong' Has Tricky Legends Behind It 正文：I’m not a gamer, but I perked up to the news this week that millions of people around the world were obsessed by a virtual role-playing extravaganza based on a 16th century Chinese novel about a trickster monkey, a naive monk, a laconic hermit and a libidinous pig. 知识...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Apple can’t do cars. Meet the Chinese tech giants that can Baidu, Huawei and Xiaomi have built thriving auto businesses 正文：As he screeches around corners at wildly unsafe speeds, one of the designers of the Jidu Robocar 07calmly talks your correspondent through how the electric vehicle (EV) works. An alluring feature is its entertainment...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Mike Lynch was Britain’s first software billionaire He was celebrating his freedom when his yacht sank in a freak storm 正文：Bayes’s theorem, an 18th-century formula, holds that with the right understanding of probabilities, most outcomes are predictable. But sometimes freak events occur. In the early hours of August 19th, a superyacht owne...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：What Bill Gates reveals about other billionaires An unusual biography of the technologist-turned-philanthropist 正文：“Americans appear to be growing increasingly uneasy about billionaires,” observes Anupreeta Das, a journalist and former finance editor at the New York Times. Do they embody the American dream or endanger it? And who gets to...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Indian women march to ‘reclaim the night’ after doctor’s rape and murder Protests reflect anger at 31-year-old’s killing, as well as a failure to address the daily struggles faced by many women 正文：On Monday, Indians celebrated the Hindu festival of Raksha Bandhan, marking the bond between brother and sister. Sisters tie a “rakhi”, or brac...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Black Myth: Wukong – the summer’s most exciting, and most controversial, video game 正文：When Chinese developer Game Science revealed its debut console game Black Myth:Wukong last year, it immediately caused a stir. Inspired by the great 16th-century Chinese novel, Journey to the West, the actionpacked footage featured the titular mythologi...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Our new forecast for America’s presidential election 正文：With the benefit of hindsight, it is easy to paint Kamala Harris’s polling surge as inevitable. Americans consistently told pollsters they were dissatisfied with their presidential nominees. But Ms Harris has far exceeded expectations. She has transformed her personal ratings and ent...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：How Gen Zs rebel against Asia’s  rigid corporate culture Young workers are striking, slouching off and setting sail 正文：When a gaggle of Generation-Z employees from Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo gets together in one place, the ensuing conversation will usually be conducted in decent English. The participants are all equally flu...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Colin Huang, the founder behind Pinduoduo and Temu, overtakes bottled water tycoon Zhong Shanshan as China’s richest person 正文：After several moderately successful ventures in gaming and e-commerce, Colin Huang got sick and retired. At one point, the young entrepreneur stayed home for a year thinking about his next move. The former Google...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：As Matthew Perry discovered, there seems to be a fine line between doctor and drug dealer in Hollywood 正文：“I loved the way I dedicated my services to her,” wrote Dr Conrad Murray of his “most noble” patient. “It was totally selfless because when I agreed to serve her, I literally had no idea that she was then widely known.” Sure, sure. An...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：A court says Google is a monopolist. Now what? The ruling could lead to a bigtech showdown 正文：Amid the 286-page judgment, issued after nearly four years of trial proceedings and petabytes of evidence, four words stand out. “Google is a monopolist,” wrote Amit Mehta, the judge of a district court in America, adding that “it has acted as on...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The U.S. Wanted to Knock Down Huawei. It’s Only Getting Stronger. 正文：Five years ago, Washington sanctioned Huawei, cutting off the Chinese company’s access to advanced U.S. technologies because it feared the telecommunications giant would spy on Americans and their allies. Many in the industry thought it would ring the death knell for one...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Why Warren Buffett has built a mighty cash mountain. Berkshire Hathaway’s boss is an impressive investor, not an economic oracle 正文：No investor commands attention quite like Warren Buffett. As boss of Berkshire Hathaway, an investment firm that he has run for almost six decades, Mr Buffett’s every movement is scrutinised. When he shifts i...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The Musk-Trump X interview: a surprisingly dull meeting of two planet-sized egos 正文：Oscar Wilde once described the English country gentleman galloping after a fox as “the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable”. Elon Musk interviewing Donald Trump surely qualifies as the incoherent in full pursuit of the unendurable. 知识点：gallop...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Paris closes the Olympics, and Los Angeles turns to Tom Cruise for its 2028 mission 正文：Setting out to prove that topping Paris isn’t mission impossible, Los Angeles rolled out a skydiving Tom Cruise, Grammy winner Billie Eilish and other stars on Sunday as it took over Olympic hosting duties from the French capital, which closed out its 2...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Would legal doping change the Olympics? The impact would be smaller—and worse—than proponents of drug-taking claim 正文：Trying to rid elite sport of drug cheats is an expensive and often thankless task. Competition organisers can never be sure that an event is clean: retests of samples from the Beijing and London games led to more than 100...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Why it’s never too late to learn a language as an adult 正文：For those looking to learn a new language, the process can feel daunting, especially as an adult. It’s long been thought that the earlier you learn new skills, the easier they are to pick up. The idea that age can play a huge role in a person’s language learning ability is one of...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：How to respond to the riots in Britain Punish the thugs. Stand up for immigration. And improve local services 正文：Repulsive is a strong word. It is not strong enough for the behaviour marring Britain’s streets. Ever since three little girls were slain in Southport on July 29th, indefensible anti-immigration protests have flared across town...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Kamala Harris’s happy blue-collar warrior. Tim Walz, the man who branded the Trump-Vance ticket ‘weird’, can help the Democrats prevail in swing states 正文：History suggests that running mate picks create a lot of sound and fury that rarely signify much. Kamala Harris’s selection of Tim Walz is by no means trivial. But it would be a shock w...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Is This 1987 All Over Again? What’s Driving the Market Meltdown? Past routs offer lessons after Black Monday Morning 正文：Financial markets are supposed to capture the wisdom of the crowd, but on Monday the crowd ran in all directions waving its hands in the air screaming. Japan’s stock market fell the most in 37 years with a 12% plunge tha...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Tsung-Dao Lee, 97, Physicist Who Challenged a Law of Nature, Dies 正文：Tsung-Dao Lee, a Chinese American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957 for overturning what had been considered a fundamental law of nature — that particles are always symmetrical — died on Sunday at his home in San Francisco. He was 97. 知识点：overtu...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Chinese star’s latest unfathomable feat blows minds... as rival lights fuse with ‘unfair’ claims 正文：As the world continues to debate and question his astonishing 100m freestyle world record, China’s Pan Zhanle has backed it up with another truly jaw-dropping swim — producing the fastest relay leg in history to help China to a strong resul...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Zheng Qinwen’s Olympic gold: A watershed moment for tennis and China 正文：It was only a matter of time for Chinese tennis, wasn’t it? In the biggest win on a tennis court for the world’s most populous country since the glory days of Li Na, Zheng Qinwen won the gold medal for China at Roland Garros on Saturday afternoon. Zheng, a 21-year-old...