robocar

Robocars are being put to the test on China's chaotic roads.

BLOOMBERG.COM

China's Robocars Are Being Lapped By Their U.S. Competitors

Apple Worker Charged With Secrets Theft for China Robocar Firm ...

https://www.bloomberg.com/.../apple-worker-charged-with-secrets-theft-for-china-rob...

Jan 30, 2019 - An Apple Inc. hardware engineer was charged by the U.S. with stealing the iPhone maker's driverless car secrets for a China-based company, ...

robocar

noun. an automobile that is navigated and maneuvered by a computer without a need for human control or intervention under a range of driving situations and conditions.

gig, Gig Economy

PUBLIC POLICY Gig Economy Protections: Did the EU Get It Right? Protections for non-permanent workers laid out by the European Parliament are a move in the right direction — but countries outside the EU will observe carefully before adopting them.

Lyft Prices I.P.O. at $72 a Share, as Gig Economy Arrives on Wall St.

• Lyft fetched a $24.3 billion value in an initial public offering.
• It’s the first of a wave of Silicon Valley stars that are heading to Wall St. Uber, Pinterest and Slack are expected to follow.

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

"[I] invite everyone who has the same beliefs to respond to all oppression and fear on this piece of land that we love - using music and culture [and] our individual selves and determination," Denise Ho said.

After the original concert was cancelled owing to "safety concerns," Ho said the gig "will be very 'safe': without politics, slogans, banners, no catchphrases, organisations, nor big companies."

Pro-democracy singer Denise Ho to hold concert on same day as cancelled Lancôme gig | Hong Kong Free

Pro-democracy Canto-pop singer Denise Ho Wan-see announced on Wednesday that she will hold a concert in Po Hing Fong, Sheung Wan on…

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gig 2 

Pronunciation: /ɡɪɡ/ 

informal

NOUN

1A live performance by a musician or group playing popular or jazz music.

Example sentences

1.1A task or assignment:working on the sea and spotting whales seemed like a great gig

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VERB (gigs, gigging, gigged)

[NO OBJECT]

1Perform a gig or gigs:two or three nights a week we were gigging

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1.1[WITH OBJECT] Use (a piece of musical equipment) at a gig:12-string guitar, mint condition, never gigged

Origin

1920s: of unknown origin.

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The concept of creating an income from short-term tasks has been around for a long time. The gig economy is very broad, and encompasses workers who are full-time independent contractors (consultants, for example) to people who moonlight by driving for Uber or Lyft several hours a week.Feb 15, 2019

How The Gig Economy Is Reshaping Careers For The Next Generation

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crypto-, cryptocurrency 加密貨幣, “tourists”

Are Cryptocurrencies Ready to Break Out of Their Niche?

Cryptocurrencies are poised to advance to a new level as institutional investors and more Wall Street veterans look to get involved — and the “tourists” exit, experts say.

The cryptocurrency fiasco has exposed three deep and related problems: the extent of genuine activity is hugely exaggerated; the technology does not scale well; and fraud may be endemic

Coincheck hacked in ¥58 billion cryptocurrency heist, four years after Mt. Gox

BY KAZUAKI NAGATA

Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange discloses it had lost about ¥58 billion ($532 million) worth of its holdings, sending clients into a panic. 

Japan experiments with cryptocurrencies Financial Times As cryptocurrencies draw both greater interest and scrutiny in countries from the US to Switzerland, Japan has quietly become one of the largest hubs ...

Sir Tim Berners Lee, who founded the web, tells us why cryptocurrencies are great but investing in bitcoin is crazy

cryptocurrency
Pronunciation: /ˈkrɪptəʊˌkʌr(ə)nsi/

NOUN (plural cryptocurrencies)

A digital currency in which encryption techniques are used to regulate the generation of units of currency and verify the transfer of funds, operating independently of a central bank:decentralized cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin now provide an outlet for personal wealththat is beyond restriction and confiscation

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Origin

Early 21st century: from crypto- + currency.

加密貨幣（英文：Cryptocurrency，又譯密碼貨幣，密碼學貨幣）是一種使用密碼學原理來確保交易安全及控制交易單位創造的交易媒介。^[1] 加密貨幣是數位貨幣（或稱虛擬貨幣）的一種 。比特幣在2009年成為第一個去中心化的加密貨幣，這之後加密貨幣一詞多指此類設計。^[2] 自此之後數種類似的加密貨幣被創造，它們通常被稱作altcoins。^[3][4][5] 加密貨幣基於去中心化的共識機制^[6] ，與依賴中心化監管體系的銀行金融系統相對。^[7]

去中心化的性質源自於使用分散式帳本的區塊鏈（Blockchain）技術。^[8]

目錄

  [隱藏] 

• 1比特幣以外的加密貨幣
• 2國家數字貨幣
• 3與貴金屬及法定貨幣的比較
• 4參閱
• 5參考資料

crypto-

Pronunciation: /ˈkrɪptəʊ/ 

COMBININGFORM

Concealed; secret:cryptogram

Origin

From Greek kruptos 'hidden'.

Rubik’s Cube

In May 1980, a new toy hit U.S. markets and set off a worldwide craze.

It was a cube-shaped puzzle that had been designed in 1974 by the Hungarian architect and professor Erno Rubik. It was sold in his country as Magic Cube.

Professor Erno Rubik, right, in 2014 at an exhibit honoring the 40th anniversary of his invention.  Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times

Within two years of expanding beyond the Hungarian market as Rubik’s Cube, millions had been purchased worldwide.

The puzzle’s initial popularity fizzled. Then came the internet.

By the early 2000s, devoted cubers began to connect through online forums and YouTube to share the steps toward getting each of the nine “cubies” on all six faces to display the same color. The sport of speedcubing took off.

Among the Rubik’s Cube competitions now governed by the World Cube Association are solving cubes for the fastest times with a single hand (6.88 seconds), blindfolded (16.22 seconds) and, to some cubers’ dismay, with feet(16.96 seconds).