Category: Science & Technology (科学与科技)

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Technology experts, government officials, policy makers and engineers are meeting this week in Italy. They have gathered in Rome for the first…

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. The Hubble Space Telescope continues to make valuable discoveries after more than twenty years in orbit around Earth. Hubble recently showed a…

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Today we take another look at facial recognition systems. These can tag friends in Facebook photos or help police identify suspects in…

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. A new study looks at privacy in a world where computers can increasingly recognize faces in a crowd or online. Alessandro Acquisti…

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. The Panama Canal opened almost one hundred years ago. More than one million ships have passed through the waterway since nineteen fourteen.…

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Children can spend hours a day looking at computer screens and other digital devices. Some eye care professionals say all that screen…

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. The earliest process of making paper was done almost five thousand years ago in Egypt and the Nile Valley. In those days,…

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Hundreds of students from around the world gathered in New York City last week for the Microsoft Imagine Cup finals. They came…

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. You could fill the sky with all the ideas people have had for flying cars — or what Carl Dietrich calls “flying-driving…

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. America’s video game industry was the winner in a decision last week by the United States Supreme Court. The justices rejected a…

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. We reported last week on projects by the Obama administration to increase Internet freedom around the world. Alec Ross, a senior adviser…

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. The Obama administration is leading an effort to deploy what some people call liberation technology in repressive countries. The New York Times…

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Last Wednesday, June eighth, was World IPv6 Day — the first major deployment of Internet Protocol version 6. Hundreds of Internet service…

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. The World Health Organization has added to the debate over the risk of brain cancer from mobile phone use. Last week the…

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. What do Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison have in common? They all made billions of dollars in technology. And they…