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IBM Thinks Minds Will Control Machines Within 5 Years
Download this story as a PDF This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Controlling a device with your mind. Powering your home with the energy of your own activities. These are two of the developments that experts at IBM think will become reality within the next five years. The technology company has released its [...]
Websites Cut Service to Protest US Antipiracy Bills
Download this story as a PDF This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Some popular websites have protested two proposed United States laws aimed at fighting illegal copying of writing, movies and other intellectual property on the Internet. Wednesday, Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, blacked out its English language website for twenty-four hours. Jay Walsh [...]
Words and Their Stories: The Cold, Hard Truth
Now, the VOA Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES. (MUSIC) Cold weather has a great effect on how our minds and our bodies work. Maybe that is why there are so many expressions that use the word cold. For centuries, the body’s blood has been linked closely with the emotions. People who show no [...]
