20181020 China v America A dangerous rivalry
1）
Topic：The mid-terms in California
Headline：Orange is the new purple
Sentence：With hardly any voters undecided, the difference between those outcomes will be turnout（投票人数）, where Republicans have always had an edge.
2）
Topic：Sound and software
Headline：Sonic Switzerland
Summary：How Sonos, a maker of speakers, intends to fight the tech giants.
Sentence： It has reportedly allowed Google to use its intellectual property in return for making Assistant available on its devices. Such behaviour recalls some of（联想到） the tech giants’ own tactics, using one asset to gain an edge for others. With such huge rivals closing in, Sonos is wise to copy a few of their tricks.
20181006 China’s designs on Europe
3）Letters版块
Headline：Europe’s privacy advantage
Sentence：Large institutions enthusiastically look outside established hubs to find AI practitioners who can give them a strategic or competitive edge.
4）
Topic：The Conservative Party
Headline：Who’ll be first in line?
Summary：Theresa May clings on, but a queue is forming to succeed her as prime minister.
Sentence：Those who backed Leave（这里指Brexit，与Remain相对应）from the beginning, such as Penny Mordaunt, the international-development secretary, may have an edge that makes up for their inexperience.
20180929 Sex and power #MeToo, one year
5）Books and arts
Topic：Artificial intelligence
(书评-李开复新书《AI未来》AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order. By Kai-Fu Lee)
Headline：The gladiator’s edge（角斗士的优势）
Summary：In its competition with America to dominate artificial intelligence, reckons a well-placed insider, China will prevail.
Sentence：He（这里指李开复） thinks China will win because it has the edge in the four determinants（决定因素） of AI success: brains, capital, regulation and data.
20180922 Latin America’s latest menace
6）The world this week
Topic：Business
Sentence：The European Commission announced that it would investigate whether Amazon used data from sales by third-party sellers on its platform to gain an edge in deciding what products it should sell itself, and at what price.
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