Emerging technologies—the drones, 3D printers and smart-home devices of the world—now seem a bit too old to be called "the next big thing".

无人机、3D 打印机和智能家居设备这类的新兴技术现在似乎有点太过时了，不能被称之为“下一件大事”。

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Meanwhile, emerging technologies—the drones, 3D printers and smart-home devices of the world—now seem a bit too old to be called "the next big thing".

与此同时，新兴技术——无人机、3D 打印机和智能家居设备——现在看起来太老了，不能称之为“下一件大事”。

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You might think the largest library in the world would be in Europe, but it isn't - it's in Washington, D.C. It's called the Library of Congress and it covers acres of land.

如果你认为世界上最大的图书馆在欧洲，那你就错了。 实际上，它在美国华盛顿，称为国会图书馆。

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Dr.Sagir Ahmed of Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital in Kano was one of the organizers and speakers at a conference on the challenges of diagnosing cancer in Nigeria: is the WHO says that 70% of the new cancers that will be seen in the future are going to be affecting individuals in the developing nations -- the so-called poorer segments of the world.

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There are now hundreds of thousands of apps (they used to be called applications but the world has gotten that much lazier over the past few years) written by tens of thousands of application developers around the world.

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Assuming it gets the go-ahead from competition regulators, the new company, to be called United Continental Holdings, will be the world's largest airline by passenger numbers.

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The service will be called TV Discovery in most of the rest of the world, but final branding has not been announced for the U.S. market, probably because of possible confusion with the Discovery TV network.

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