12-11-01 A law that aims to protect children from harmful internet content by allowing the government to take sites offline has taken effect in Russia. 一项旨在保护儿童免受互联网有害内容影响，通过允许政府使网站离线的法律在俄罗斯开始实施。 The authorities are...

12-10-11 Imagine only needing to hover under a street lamp to get public internet access, or downloading a movie from the lamp on your desk. There's a new technology on the block which could, quite literally as well as metaphorically, 'throw light on' how to...

12-09-19 Two commas is the latest American shorthand for millionaire status. In English, we use a comma to separate thousands in numbers. If there are two commas in a number, it must be in million. Thus comes this shorthand. If we say someone has two commas,...

12-09-07 Can a computer read an online blog and understand it? Several Concordia computer scientists are helping to get closer to that goal. Leila Kosseim, associate professor in Concordia's Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, and a recently-graduat...

12-08-01 People who have been surfing the Internet for a long time may have dozens of avatars that they've created over the years, but more often than not, they say that the first avatar you create is the most like yourself. It's also common for people to cr...

12-07-19 Lunch phobia is a new buzzword widely spread on the Internet. Symptoms include: not knowing what to eat and not knowing who to eat with. 午饭恐惧症是网络盛行的流行词汇之一，主要症状表现为：不知吃点什么好，更不知道该跟谁吃。 Many employees have to ea...

12-07-13 First there was spam. Now there is bacn (pronounced bacon), the latest buzzword to infiltrate the Internet. 刚开始是垃圾邮件，现在又来了个培根邮件。培根邮件（bacn）是目前互联网上无处不在的一个热门词汇。 According to the bloggers who invented the ter...

12-07-06 精彩对白 Marilyn: Happy holidays. Emilia: Thanks. You too. Nice party. Marilyn: So far. I'm keeping my eye on the paralegals and the open bar . Carolyn: Oh, Marilyn, there you are. Marilyn: Carolyn, happy holidays. Carolyn: Oh, I have something for...

12-06-28 The New York Times has launched a Chinese language version of its website in a bid to tap into the world's biggest internet market. 《纽约时报》推出汉语版以此挺进世界上最大的因特网市...

12-06-21 Apple has been ordered to pay damages to rival Samsung Electronics by a court in the Netherlands. 荷兰一家法院要求苹果向对手三星电子赔偿损失。 The court said that Apple had infringed（侵犯） a patent held by Samsung relating to the way phones and ta...