Neodymium prices have quadrupled in the past year, according to Lynas Corp., an Australian company developing a giant mine and refinery for the material.

据澳大利亚一家开发巨型钕矿和冶炼厂的企业Lynas称，去年钕价格增长了三倍。

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Internet giant Google is developing software which it claims will be able to translate conversations almost instantaneously.

网络巨头Google正在开发能提供实时对话翻译的软件系统。

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The media giant is taking it so seriously that it is developing a new publication called the Daily which will only be available on the iPad (no print edition, no Website).

这个传媒巨头对此十分重视，正在酝酿推出一种新的叫做“iPad定制日报”的出版物(非印刷版，非网络版)。

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Engineers are developing giant solar-powered flying wings that are remote-controlled and designed to remain aloft at high altitudes for weeks, months, or even years -- nonstop.

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It is developing giant off-shore wind turbines, biomass power plants (including projects in Florida and Washington with Duke Energy), and, with its Ausra acquisition, solar thermal power plants.

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The rest comes from spots like Azerbaijan, Angola, Algeria and Iran, where it weathered a bribery scandal in 2004 and is developing the giant South Pars gas field.

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