太空 Lunar Leap 印度太空科技大躍進！月船三號登陸月球南極 India Becomes the Fourth Country to Successfully Land on the Moon 印度成為全球第四個在月球軟著陸的國家，並完成在月球南極著陸的創舉。月球南極可能蘊含人類探索太空的關鍵資源水冰，更顯此次任務意義非凡。 科技 I, Apollo 人形機器人阿波羅 開創人機協作新未來 Company Partners with NASA to Bring Robots to the Moon and Your Home 曾與NASA合作的科技公司正致力於研發在工廠、居家環境都適用，且價格平易近人的多功能人形機器人。 環境 Greatest Landscapers of All Time 最萌森林防火隊 羊兒吃草立大功 Goats Are the Latest Weapon in a Firefighter’s Arsenal 加州消防隊利用山羊愛吃的特性，派出山羊大軍清除雜草，為住宅區拉出防火線，避免受野火波及。 政治 Top Secret Face-Lift CNN帶你一窺神祕的白宮戰情室 The Famed Situation Room Gets a Major Renovation 美國總統在掌握重要情資時使用的白宮戰情室重金翻修完工，搭載最新科技，安全性大升級。CNN揭開全新白宮戰情室的神祕面紗。 商業 At the Tipping Point 美國的消費者到底怎麼看小費文化？ Excessive Gratuity in the US Is Putting Consumers in an Awkward Spot 給小費是美國行之有年的文化，但受到疫情和經濟現況影響，「小費膨脹」（tipflation）的現象日益加劇，帶給消費者極大的壓力。 生活 Plane Pain Prevention 擺脫長途搭機腰痠背痛有妙方！ Flying Can Hurt: Try These Expert Tips to Avoid the Discomfort 搭長途班機總是讓人備受煎熬，旅遊專家和醫師分享幾招伸展小撇步，有效減輕搭機時的身體不適。 保健 Wired for Healing 中風患者的曙光──腦部深層刺激術 Brain Implants Show Great Promise for Neurological Conditions 美國一間醫院將常用於治療帕金森氏症的腦部深層刺激術應用在中風患者身上，有顯著的成果，可望成為突破復健瓶頸的新療法。 藝文 A Trained Canvas 令人屏息的絕美AI藝術 The MoMA Dabbles in a New Way of Making Art 媒體藝術家用紐約現代藝術博物館的館藏資源訓練人工智慧，重新想像並詮釋現代藝術，譜出一幅不斷演化、流動的絕美作品。 科學 Iceman’s New Look 重現五千年「冰人奧茲」木乃伊新容貌 Five-Thousand-Year-Old Mummy Has More Secrets to Reveal 新的DNA分析結果大幅顛覆過往的想像！有五千多年歷史的木乃伊「冰人奧茲」膚色其實很深，而且可能是禿頭。 旅遊 The GEM of Egypt 籌備二十年──大埃及博物館搶先看！ Decades in the Making, the Grand Egyptian Museum Is Ready to Open Its Doors 歷經逾20年的籌備及建造，佔地8萬多平方公尺、收藏逾10萬件文物的大埃及博物館總算預計在今年年底對外開放。理查．奎斯特帶你深入一窺這座沙漠中的珍寶！ 焦點話題 CNN 全球瞭望 Floods Sweep through Libya, Killing Thousands 利比亞洪災釀千人死亡 Spanish Women’s World Cup Victory Overshadowed by Controversy 西班牙女子世界盃奪冠因醜聞失色 Mysterious Orb Found on the Ocean Floor Confounds Scientists 深海神秘金色球體驚豔科學家 全方位理解CNN From Chef to Mercenary: Wagner’s Leader Meets a Fiery End 瓦格納首腦普里格津墜機身亡 新聞片語通 CNN主編教你唸 機上必備單字 單字聯想地圖 機場英語

專題報導 A Land of Conflict 千年難解的衝突之地──加薩走廊 Looking at Gaza throughout Its Turbulent History and Its Modern-Day Turmoil CNN回顧加薩走廊這片面積僅365平方公里的兵家必爭之地的近代歷史。 專題報導 Hamas’s Strategy 以巴戰火再起 哈瑪斯究竟是誰？ Israeli Intelligence Failures Exposed as the Militant Group’s Threat Grows 10月時，巴勒斯坦武裝組織哈瑪斯對以色列發動突襲，震驚全球。本文簡述哈瑪斯成立的源起，以及其強大軍力背後可能的勢力。 太空 A Cosmic Homecoming 小行星樣本將解開地球生命起源之謎？！ Asteroid Samples May Hold the Secrets of Life on Earth 美國太空總署的太空船帶回小行星貝努的岩石樣本，科學家希望樣本的研究結果將有助解開太陽系形成及生命起源的謎團。 娛樂 AI-Powered Pop Icons AI 韓流女團即將顛覆樂壇 Virtual Girl Groups Could Transform the Entertainment Industry 韓國科技公司推出由AI虛擬人物組成的女團，得以不受時空限制，隨時隨地與粉絲互動。這會是流行樂壇的最新趨勢嗎？ 美食 A Taste of Nice 來自蔚藍海岸的好滋味──南法尼斯美食饗宴 Indulging in Simple Pleasures on the French Riviera 南法城市尼斯氣候溫暖、物產豐饒，且深受地中海文化影響，是許多法國經典料理的發源地。 旅遊 A Precarious Peak 富士山遊客爆量 世界遺產地位恐不保 Overtourism Threatens Mount Fuji’s Heritage Status 日本富士山是登山客的熱門景點，但疫情解封以來的過度觀光導致亂象叢生，使當地不堪負荷。 環境 The El Niño Effect 聖嬰現象發威 極端天氣衝擊全球 Rare Weather Combination Spells Winter Trouble 持續三年的反聖嬰現象在今年年初結束，聖嬰現象接踵而來，意味著今年可能迎來較暖和的冬季，但其他異常現象恐為天氣預測帶來更多不確定因素。 藝文 Immersive Artistry 讓人身歷其境的數位互動藝術 Going into Art Collective teamLab’s High-Tech Installations 藝術團隊teamLab結合高科技與藝術創作，把一片森林變成露天數位展覽場，邀請觀眾實際走進藝術、參與藝術，並以新角度體會自然之美。 保健 The Silent Killer 沉默的殺手──高血壓 WHO Warns that Hypertension Has Reached Epidemic Levels Worldwide 全球每三個成人中就有一個人有高血壓，其症狀不明顯、卻有致命風險，被稱為沉默的殺手。世衛組織呼籲大眾養成良好生活習慣以預防高血壓。 生活 Smart Snoozing 睡眠姿勢知多少 物理治療師分享好眠祕訣 Physical Therapists Have Got Your Back with These Sleeping Tips 睡姿不良讓人腰痠背痛，專業物理治療師現身示範，提點關鍵要訣，幫助你一夜好眠。 焦點話題 CNN 全球瞭望 Nobel Prize Awarded to Scientists Who Helped Stop the Pandemic 幫助遏止新冠疫情的科學家獲頒諾貝爾獎 Age of America’s Oldest Human Footprints Confirmed 美洲最古老人類腳印年分確定 Simone Biles Comes Back and Makes Gymnastics History 體操女王拜爾斯重回賽場 締造多項歷史 全方位理解CNN A Secret Classroom for Women in Taliban-Led Afghanistan 阿富汗女孩的祕密教室 為黑暗帶來曙光 CNN主編教你唸 登山裝備 單字聯想地圖 登山健行英語 新聞片語通

What happens when people are reduced to products? By pulling back the clinical curtain on the multi-billion-dollar per year global egg industry, that is the central question Eggonomics seeks to address. Tracing the emotional and physical journeys egg donors embark upon as suppliers of valuable commodities, this book reveals uncomfortable realities at the heart of the industry. Donors — and the eggs they provide — are absolutely essential to helping others create the families of their dreams. But not all clinics treat their donors as well as their paying patients, and many donors suffer as a result. Technological innovations allow the egg donation industry to expand, fueling the private equity incursion into fertility medicine, turning once-private clinics into highly profitable, multinational conglomerates. Drawing upon international anthropological fieldwork, Eggonomics reveals the clinical spaces where egg donor’s bodies are tested, prodded, and poked for ever-increasing sums of profit, eugenic forces drive donor selection, and the unrelenting pressures of global capitalism threaten medicine’s prime directive of ‘do no harm.’ Timely, meticulously researched, and written with surgical precision, Eggonomics is a crucial read for researchers, medical professionals, policymakers, and anyone considering becoming or using an egg donor.

This timely, comprehensive study examines how racism manifests online and highlights the antiracist tactics rising to oppose it From cell phone footage of police killing unarmed Black people to leaked racist messages and even comments from friends and family on social media, online communication exposes how racism operates in a world that pretends to be colorblind. In When the Hood Comes Off, Rob Eschmann blends rigorous research and engaging personal narrative to examine the effects of online racism on communities of color and society, and the unexpected ways that digital technologies enable innovative everyday tools of antiracist resistance. Drawing on a wealth of data, including interviews with students of Color around the country and analyses of millions of social media posts over the past decade, Eschmann investigates the influence of online communication on face-to-face interactions. When the Hood Comes Off highlights the power of the internet as an organizing tool, and shows that online racism can be a profound wake-up call. How will we respond?

"Dissent and protest have been at the heart of the American story from the first days of settlement to the present day. American Patriots highlights many of the ways that dissent has shaped American history and been a force for progress"--

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Culture and Computing, C&C 2023, held as part of the 25th International Conference, HCI International 2023, which was held virtually in Copenhagen, Denmark in July 2023. The total of 1578 papers and 396 posters included in the HCII 2023 proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 7472 submissions. The C&C 2023 proceeding focuses on preserving, disseminating, and creating cultural heritages via ICT (e.g., digital archives), to empower humanities research via ICT (i.e., digital humanities), to create art and expressions via ICT (i.e., media art), to support interactive cultural heritage experiences (e.g., rituals), and to understand new cultures born on the Internet (e.g., net culture, social media, games).

This handbook provides a comprehensive understanding of computational linguistics, focusing on the integration of deep learning in natural language processing (NLP). 18 edited chapters cover the state-of-the-art theoretical and experimental research on NLP, offering insights into advanced models and recent applications. Highlights: - Foundations of NLP: Provides an in-depth study of natural language processing, including basics, challenges, and applications. - Advanced NLP Techniques: Explores recent advancements in text summarization, machine translation, and deep learning applications in NLP. - Practical Applications: Demonstrates use cases on text identification from hazy images, speech-to-sign language translation, and word sense disambiguation using deep learning. - Future Directions: Includes discussions on the future of NLP, including transfer learning, beyond syntax and semantics, and emerging challenges. Key Features: - Comprehensive coverage of NLP and deep learning integration. - Practical insights into real-world applications - Detailed exploration of recent research and advancements through 16 easy to read chapters - References and notes on experimental methods used for advanced readers Ideal for researchers, students, and professionals, this book offers a thorough understanding of computational linguistics by equipping readers with the knowledge to understand how computational techniques are applied to understand text, language and speech.

This handbook provides a comprehensive review of research in conflict and peace communication and offers readers a range of insights into foundational, ongoing, and emerging discussions in this field. The volume brings together peace studies, conflict studies, and communication studies to acknowledge the power of communication—both cooperative, solidarizing, and integrative as well as destructive and divisive—in constituting social relations. It features a multiplicity of authors, including academics and practitioners from all corners of the globe and from across the communicative spectrum. The handbook is divided into four parts: (1) Meta-theoretical, theoretical, and methodological approaches in conflict and peace communication research; (2) Conflict communication; (3) Peace communication; and (4) Cross-cutting and emergent themes. This handbook is essential reading for scholars, research-driven practitioners, graduate-level students, and upper-level undergraduate students in conflict and peace communication within disciplines such as communication studies, political science, international relations, security studies, and human rights.

The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will transform the human race in the decades to come Since it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near and its vision of an exponential future have spawned a worldwide movement. Kurzweil's predictions about technological advancements have largely come true, with concepts like AI, intelligent machines, and biotechnology now widely familiar to the public. In this entirely new book Ray Kurzweil brings a fresh perspective to advances toward the Singularity—assessing his 1999 prediction that AI will reach human level intelligence by 2029 and examining the exponential growth of technology—that, in the near future, will expand human intelligence a millionfold and change human life forever. Among the topics he discusses are rebuilding the world, atom by atom with devices like nanobots; radical life extension beyond the current age limit of 120; reinventing intelligence by connecting our brains to the cloud; how exponential technologies are propelling innovation forward in all industries and improving all aspects of our well-being such as declining poverty and violence; and the growth of renewable energy and 3-D printing. He also considers the potential perils of biotechnology, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence, including such topics of current controversy as how AI will impact employment and the safety of autonomous cars, and "After Life" technology, which aims to virtually revive deceased individuals through a combination of their data and DNA. The culmination of six decades of research on artificial intelligence, The Singularity Is Nearer is Ray Kurzweil’s crowning contribution to the story of this science and the revolution that is to come.

The Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain are two new technologies that combine elements in many ways. A system where the virtual and physical worlds interact is created by integrating pervasive computing, ubiquitous computing, communication technologies, sensing technologies, Internet Protocol, and embedded devices. A massive number of linked devices and vast amounts of data present new prospects for developing services that can directly benefit the economy, environment, society, and individual residents. Due to the size of IoT and insufficient data security, security breaches may have a huge impact and negative effects. IoT not only connects gadgets but also people and other entities, leaving every IoT component open to a wide variety of assaults. The implementation and application of IoT and blockchain technology in actual scientific, biomedical, and data applications are covered in this book. The book highlights important advancements in health science research and development by applying the distinctive capabilities inherent to distributed ledger systems. Each chapter describes the current uses of blockchain in real-world data collection, medicine development, device tracking, and more meaningful patient interaction. All of these are used to create opportunities for expanding health science research. This paradigm change is studied from the perspectives of pharmaceutical executives, biotechnology entrepreneurs, regulatory bodies, ethical review boards, and blockchain developers. Key Features: Provides a foundation for the implementation process of blockchain and IoT devices based on healthcare-related technology Image processing and IoT device researchers can correlate their work with other requirements of advanced technology in the healthcare domain Conveys the latest technology, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, in healthcare-related technology Useful for the researcher to explore new things like security, cryptography, and privacy in healthcare related technology Tailored for people who want to start in healthcare-related technology with blockchain and IoT This book is primarily for senior undergraduates, graduate students, and academic researchers in the fields of electrical engineering, electronics and communication engineering, computer science and engineering, and biomedical engineering.