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虽然这部纪录片的导演是Nadia Hallgren，但好像米歇尔·奥巴马也大量参与了这部电影的制作，毕竟它是由Higher Ground Productions公司制作的。该公司是奥巴马夫妇开办的，为网飞、声田等平台提供作品。

And the announcement comes with a letter from Obama, in which she says this wasn’t just a standard book tour: “In groups large and small, young and old, unique and united, we came together and shared stories, filling those spaces with our joys, worries, and dreams.”

宣布这一消息时也公开了奥巴马的一封信，信中她说这不仅是一次普通的售书之旅：“我们聚在一起，有时人多有时人少，有老有幼，有时特立独行，有时大家团结在一起，我们一起分享故事，用快乐、担忧和梦想填补我们的生活。”

“American Factory,” the first film to come out of Higher Ground’s production deal with Netflix, won this year’s Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.

Higher Ground和网飞第一个合作制作的电影《美国工厂》赢得了今年的奥斯卡最佳纪录片奖。

While Netflix and Higher Ground only announced the film now, it won’t be a long wait for its release — Netflix plans to launch “Becoming” in just over a week, on May 6.

虽然网飞和Higher Ground现在只是宣布了这个消息，但电影不久就会上映，网飞计划于一周以后的5月6日推出纪录片《成为》。

你打算看吗？

参考链接：

https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/27/netflix-announces-a-new-michelle-obama-documentary-becoming-due-out-may-6/

2. 欧洲也想学中国搞健康码，结果麻烦不断

在中国逐步解封的过程中，健康码体系起到了不小作用，一些国外的声音也表示很赞赏。

现在欧洲也想效仿这一做法，但是似乎很不顺利，很多东西都卡在不停的讨论当中。

Decentralized or centralized? Bluetooth or geolocation? Control quarantines or alert people to infection risk? Store data for one month or six?

该分散还是该集中？用蓝牙还是用定位？该控制检疫还是提醒人们有感染风险？数据该储存1个月还是6个月？

There are many questions that need answers to build an app-based system to manage the Covid-19 pandemic and lift lockdowns.

想要建立以应用程序为基础的系统来控制新冠疫情并解除禁令，尚有很多需要解答的问题。

Much like how the implementation of health code systems wildly varies between Chinese provinces and cities, European countries are coming up with wildly different solutions.

在推行健康码时中国各省市都有很大差别，同样，欧洲各国也在寻求不同的解决方法。

The differences between Europe’s path to technology for epidemic control and how China did it offer a glimpse into the future.

欧洲各种控制疫情的技术之间的区别以及中国的做法给了我们关于未来的一点提示。

In an era where China is increasingly exporting its innovations around the world, observing how other regions are taking to them is an ever-pressing issue for China tech.

在目前中国越来越多地向世界输出创新的时代，观察其他地区是如何效仿的对中国科技来说逐渐成为了不可忽视的问题。

A rich debate between governments, companies and private citizens is taking place in Europe, one that China didn’t get.

欧洲的政府、公司和普通公民之间展开了激烈的争论，而中国就没有这种情况。

It is a debate that is slowing down the process, but it will determine what and how gets implemented—and how China’s techniques will be judged.

这一争论影响了抗疫的进程，但它能决定将要实施什么措施和实施方式，以及全球对中国技术的态度。

参考链接：

https://technode.com/2020/04/27/insights-can-europe-copy-chinas-health-code/

3. 由于新冠疫情，美国的肉类开始短缺

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如果你认为厕纸短缺是严重问题，那肉类短缺就会成为下一个问题。

肉类大品牌泰森现在就公开表示即将大面积关门。

John H. Tyson, chairman of the board of Tyson Foods, warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing the company to shutter locations across the country as some of its 100,000 workers have fallen ill.

泰森食品董事长约翰·泰森警告说新冠疫情迫使该公司关闭全国门店，因为该公司10万员工中有部分人生病了。

“This means one thing,” he wrote. “The food supply chain is vulnerable. As pork, beef, and chicken plants are being forced to close, even for short periods of time, millions of pounds of meat will disappear from the supply chain.”

他写道：“这意味着一件事。这个食品供应链很脆弱，因为猪肉、牛肉和鸡肉厂都被迫关闭了，短期内肉类供应链将会减少数百万磅。”

The ripple effect will make its way to consumers, Tyson noted, as “There will be limited supply of our products available in grocery stores until we are able to reopen our facilities that are currently closed.”

泰森强调，消费者会受到牵连，因为“零售店的商品有限，只有在目前关闭的门店重新开门以后问题才能得到解决。”

The Tyson plant in Waterloo, Iowa, was one that closed, having been linked to 182 cases of the coronavirus, which is nearly half the entire county’s total. In addition to that facility, pork processing plants for Smithfield Foods in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and JBS in Worthington, Minnesota, also closed indefinitely earlier this April. These three plants make up about 15% of pork production in the U.S.

爱荷华州滑铁卢的泰森肉厂关闭了，该厂有182个新冠确诊病例，这一确诊人数接近该县确诊总数的一半。除了这家厂外，南达科他州苏福尔斯的史密斯菲尔德食品公司和明尼苏达州华盛顿县的JBS公司的猪肉加工厂也在四月早些时候无限期关闭了。这三家工厂的猪肉产量占美国总产量的15%。

美国农业部三月份报告了创纪录的红肉、牛肉和猪肉产量。相关工会表示，有13家屠宰场关闭，猪肉和牛肉的屠宰量分别下降了25%和10%，但居家隔离使很多消费者需求量增加了。

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4. 疫情期间Airbnb的生意并没停，但他们要教房东做卫生

图片来源：视觉中国

疫情让旅游业和酒店业受到了巨大的冲击，不过爱彼迎Airbnb的生意并没有停。还是有人租，还是有人住。

但他们现在面临一个问题：房东和房客的卫生安全意识。

为了在疫情之下让一切保持正常，Airbnb现在推出新的规定，手把手教房东如何打扫卫生。

The home-sharing service, under pressure from the coronavirus crisis, said Monday that it is establishing a new recommended “cleaning protocol” with the goal of reassuring both rental property hosts and their guests.

迫于新冠疫情的压力，这家家庭共享服务公司在周一说正在建立一个新的推荐的“清洁协议”，目的是要保证出租房屋的主人和客人的安全。

Airbnb said in a statement that the optional protocol will offer guidance on the best and safest practices for cleansing a residence’s various rooms. It will include a manual more than 40 pages long establishing the standards, as well as specifying particular chemicals and other products to do the job.

爱彼迎在声明中说，协议将提供关于清理各种房间的最好最安全的指导方法。协议有40多页的手册，会建立标准，并指定清理用的特定的化学品和其他产品。

The protocol, for those hosts who choose to opt in, will also require a minimum 24 hours between rentals to reduce the chance a guest might encounter any residual viruses. Potential guests will be able to see whether hosts have opted in.

对于选择要加入进来的房主，这个协议也规定两次租房之间最少要间隔24小时，以便降低客人接触残留病毒的风险。将要入住的客人将会看到房主是否加入了这一协议。

A top company official said Airbnb knows from surveys that cleanliness is a high priority with guests.

一家顶级公司的工作人员说爱彼迎在调查中发现清洁是客人的优先考虑项。

“It was clear they wanted to know what you were doing to make sure the place itself would be clean,” said Chris Lehane, a senior vice president, in an interview.

高级副总裁Chris Lehane在采访中说：“很明显他们想要知道你们是怎样确认住处是否干净的。”

整个旅游行业都开始注意提供清洁保证的必要性。

比如，上周万豪国际酒店说将采用自己的强化标准，包括在每位客人离店之后用消毒剂喷洒酒店房间。

参考链接：

5. 印度现在也和中国一样，网课的生意火到爆

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全球学校受新冠疫情影响都停课了，有超过15亿学生宅在家。虽然对很多人来说现在生活很不方便，但在线学习的需求量却激增。

这种现象被中国人看在眼里，而在印度也是一样的。

Educational institutions are introducing online courses and some education technology startups are temporarily offering free classes to help offset the impact of school closures.

教育机构正在推出网上课程，一些教育技术初创公司暂时提供免费课程，帮助降低学校停课的影响。

Take Byju’s, an India-based education startup named after its founder, Byju Raveendran. In early March, it announced it would give children free access to its learning app, which it says had more than 40 million users at the end of last year. Around 3 million of those paid between $150 and $200 for an annual subion.

Byju’s是一家印度的教育初创公司，以创始人Byju Raveendran的名字命名。该公司在三月初宣布，学生可以免费在其应用程序上学习。该公司说截止去年年底用户数量超过4千万，其中约300万用户一年的学费为150美元到200美元不等。

Since the announcement, the company says it has experienced a 60% surge in students using its products, which range from interactive video lessons and live classes, to quizzes and exam preparation.

宣布这一消息以后，该公司说使用其学习产品的学生数量激增了60%。该公司的学习产品包括互动视频课程、直播课程、小测验和考试准备。

A nationwide lockdown, ordered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in late March, means that India’s school-age population of around 300 million is suddenly having to home educate.

三月末总理纳伦德拉·莫迪命令全国封锁，这意味着印度约3亿学生突然要在家上课了。

“The outbreak is clearly increasing the appreciation of online education,” Raveendran tells CNN Business. “This could be a turning point for the industry, ushering in an increased usage of this format and changing habits in terms of how kids learn and how teachers teach,” he adds.

Raveendran对《CNN Business》说：“疫情显然增加了对网课的需求，这可能是这一产业的转折点，提高了这种模式的利用率，改变了孩子学习和教师上课的习惯。”

Unacademy、Vedantu和Toppr等其他印度平台也向学生提供免费课程和学习内容。

参考链接：

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/08/tech/online-education-india-coronavirus-spc/index.html

6. 拼多多现在是全国第二大电商了，公开说要改变市场规则

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拼多多现在厉害了，已经成了国内第二大电商了。最近其创始人就表示整个行业的规则正在重组，而拼多多是新规则下的领军者。

In a letter to investors, Pinduoduo founder Colin Huang suggests that companies with new business models, a group that Huang portrayed Pinduoduo as leading, are expected to outrun their older rivals in a world that’s witnessing a “reestablishment.”

拼多多创始人黄峥在给投资者的信中说，以拼多多为主的采用新的经营模式的公司预计在“重组”的行业环境中会比资历更老的对手更有优势。

The already intense rivalry between Pinduoduo and arch-rivals like Alibaba and JD is reaching a fever pitch as the Covid-19 is moving more Chinese shoppers online.

新冠病毒把更多的中国店家逼到了线上，因此拼多多和阿里巴巴、京东等劲敌之间原本就很激烈的竞争已经达到了白热化。

Instead of playing catch-up, the four-year-old company now claims to be China’s second-largest e-commerce platform with 585.2 million active buyers, next only to Alibaba.

这家成立四年的公司并没有穷追猛打，而是声称是中国第二大电商平台，仅次于阿里巴巴，拥有5.852亿活跃买家。

Both Alibaba and JD have rolled out their counterpart apps that adopt similar models of Pinduoduo. More rivals like Alibaba-backed Suning are reportedly joining the battle.

阿里巴巴和京东都效仿拼多多的模式推出了各自的应用程序。更多的竞争对手也加入了进来，包括阿里巴巴支持的苏宁。

Included in Pinduoduo’s 2019 annual report was a letter from its founder and CEO Colin Huang which sought to reassure shareholders about the company’s long-term growth prospects.

拼多多2019年的年报中有一封创始人兼首席执行官黄峥写的信，其目的是要让股东对公司长期的发展前景放心。

Different from the previous public letters that mainly address the company’s operations and strategies, Huang explained this time his thoughts on the Covid-19 pandemic as well as the history of time, mentioning the theories of big thinkers from Newton to Einstein.

此前的公开信主要针对的是公司业务和战略，而此次不同，黄峥解释了他对新冠疫情和时间简史的看法，还提到了牛顿和爱因斯坦等大人物的理论。

By predicting a new world setup, he believes new models will prosper the most. He predicts old models will be phased off, without mentioning the company’s rivals by name.

通过预测新的世界格局，他认为新模式将最为成功。他预测旧模式将被取代，但没有指出对手公司的名字。

The company has recorded RMB1.01 trillion ($144.6 billion) of gross merchandise volume from 585.2 million active buyers in 2019. That’s RMB1,720 ($247.1) of annual spending per active buyer, up 53% year on year from RMB 1,127 in 2018, the company’s 2019 report shows.

该公司2019年记录的商品总价值高达1.01万亿元（1446亿美元），拥有5.852亿活跃买家。该公司2019年的报告显示，每位活跃买家的年平均消费额为1,720元（247.1美元），比2018年的1,127元高出了53%。

你平常会用拼多多吗？

参考链接：

https://technode.com/2020/04/26/pinduoduo-founder-predicts-new-market-order-with-his-company-as-leader/

7. 麻省理工的新技术：用手势就能控制无人机

麻省理工学院的计算机科学和人工智能实验室发布了一个正在进行的项目的视频：仅仅利用手臂的动作，就能精准控制无人机的行动。

以前这种景象总是出现在科幻片里，挥挥手就能指挥机器和电脑，而现在现实中也有了。

Their latest involves full and fine control of drones, using just hand and arm gestures to navigate through a series of rings.

最新进展是对无人机进行全面精细控制，只用手和胳膊的动作就能控制它穿过一系列圆环。

This work is impressive not just because they’re using biofeedback to control the devices, instead of optical or other kinds of gesture recognition, but also because of how specific the controls can be, setting up a range of different potential applications for this kind of remote tech.

这个操作让人印象深刻，不仅是因为它利用生物反馈控制设备，代替了光学或其他类型的手势识别，还因为控制的精细程度，为这种远程技术创造了一系列潜在的应用方式。

This particular group of researchers has been looking at different applications for this tech, including its use in collaborative robotics for potential industrial applications.

这个特殊的研究小组一直在研究这项技术的不同应用，包括它在潜在工业应用的协作机器人中的使用。

Drone piloting is another area that could have big benefits in terms of real-world use, especially once you start to imagine entire flocks of these taking flight with a pilot provided a view of what they can see via VR.

无人驾驶是这项技术在现实中另一个用处很大的领域，你可以想象一下它们成群结队飞行的场景，一个飞行员可以利用虚拟现实通过无人机的视野去观察。

That could be a great way to do site surveying for construction, for example, or remote equipment inspection of offshore platforms and other infrastructure that’s hard for people to reach.

例如，这么好的方法可以用于测量施工现场，或者对海上平台和其他人们不容易到达的基础设施进行远程设备检查。

实现机器人与人的无缝交互是这个团队研究这项技术的终极目标，因为就像我们能凭直觉知道自己的动作和最有效地控制环境的能力，他们认为控制和使用机器人时应该一样顺畅。

参考链接：

https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/27/mit-muscle-control-system-for-drones-lets-a-pilot-use-gestures-for-accurate-and-specific-navigation/

8. 《美国恐怖故事》第十季最新消息放出

《美国恐怖故事》第十季计划今年晚些时候回归FX，但由于疫情原因这部恐怖片可能会推迟播放。但不管怎么样，第十季要来了，已经10年了。

那么这个里程碑式的一季会为我们带来什么呢？这里有一些最新信息。

We’ve already had ghosts, aliens, evil Nazi doctors, freak show performers, killer clowns, more ghosts, more killer clowns, the literal apocalypse, and a cursed summer camp. But even after all this, AHS still finds ways to surprise us every single season.

我们看过了鬼、外星人、邪恶的纳粹医生、变态演员、杀人小丑、更多的鬼、更多的杀人小丑、启示录和被诅咒的夏令营。甚至在看过了所有这些之后，《美国恐怖故事》仍然能在每一季给我们带来惊喜。

As details are slowly emerging about what to expect in American Horror Story Season 10, we already know it’s got a stellar cast in place and have gotten some clues about the theme.

随着《美国恐怖故事》第十季的更多细节被公布，我们已经知道了它的阵容很强大，并获得了一些关于主题的线索。

Production has been delayed. Ryan Murphy revealed to USA Today that Season 10 of American Horror Story was supposed to begin filming the last week of March, but had been put on hold indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic.

该剧制作被推迟。瑞恩·墨菲对《今日美国》透露，《美国恐怖故事》第十季本该在三月份最后一周开拍的，但受疫情影响被无限期搁置了。

The fact that AHS was supposed to be filming in the spring was a surprise to fans, leading some to suspect that Murphy was plotting a potential summer drop (maybe to make room for the mysterious secret season to air later in 2020), but there’s little to no evidence to support this theory at this time.

《美国恐怖故事》原定于春季拍摄的消息让粉丝们很惊讶，有些人就猜测墨菲可能是密谋要在夏季停播（可能是要为2020年晚些时候播出的神秘一季留出间隔），但目前这种猜测几乎没有依据。

It will likely premiere in fall 2020. Since its very first season, American Horror Story has always debuted in the fall. (It is spooky season, after all!)

该剧可能会在2020年秋季播出，《美国恐怖故事》从第一季开始就一直在秋季首播。（毕竟这是令人毛骨悚然的季节嘛！）

It might feature a major Murder House crossover. On April 26, Murphy shared an image of Rubber Man on Instagram with the very cryptic caption “Coming soon…” The idea that Rubber Man may make an appearance in Season 10 is pretty surprising given that the iconic rubber suit just returned in Apocalypse.

这部剧的特点主要是与《谋杀屋》在情节上有联系。墨菲在4月26日在Instagram上分享了一张“橡皮人”的剧照，并配文“即将驾到……”因为这套标志性的橡胶套装在《启示录》中再次出现过，所以“橡皮人”如果在第十季出现会是个惊喜。

不过这毕竟是里程碑式的第十季，很有可能不止有橡皮人回归，而是会致敬此前的每一季。

如果“橡皮人”真的回归了，我们也还不知道里面会是谁、会不会是原来的人，这又是一个值得猜测的问题！

参考链接：

https://www.tvguide.com/news/ahs-season-10-theme-cast-release-date/

9. 科学家创造出一种新植物，一辈子都会发光

我们梦想中闪闪发光的温室距离我们仍然很遥远，但现在有了点吸引人的进展了。

科学家们研发出了一种新植物，它一生都能靠自己持续发光。

It’s a breathtaking improvement on previous glowing plants. It’s brighter than previous genetically engineered tobacco plants, and it doesn’t need to be fed with chemicals to maintain luminescence. Also, the duration of the glow is much longer than glowing plants produced using plant nanobionics.

这是在之前发光植物基础上的惊人进步，比之前进行基因改造的烟草要更亮，也不需要添加化学物质来维持发光。发光时间也比采用植物纳米仿生学的发光植物更长。

Of course, we all immediately think of a breathtaking Avatar-style night garden, glittering and gleaming in the darkness, and – further into the future – reducing our dependence on electric lighting.

当然，我们都立刻想到了令人惊叹的阿凡达式夜间花园，能在黑暗中闪闪发光，未来还能减少我们对电气照明的依赖。

But glowing greenery could also help us understand the plants themselves – how their metabolism works, and how they respond to the world around them.

但发光的绿色植物也能帮助我们了解植物本身，它们是如何新陈代谢的，以及它们对周围环境的反应。

The team worked on two species of tobacco plant. And, unlike previous genetically engineered glowing plants, which used bioluminescent bacteria or firefly DNA, these plants were engineered using the DNA of bioluminescent fungi.

这个团队研究了两种烟草。此前经过基因改造的发光植物利用的是生物发光细菌或萤火虫的DNA，但这些植物不一样，是利用生物发光真菌的DNA改造的。

“Although bacterial bioluminescence genes can be targeted to plastids to engineer autoluminescence, it is technically cumbersome and fails to produce sufficient light,” the researchers wrote in their paper.

研究人员在论文中写道：“虽然生物发光细菌基因可以针对质体设计自发光，但技术很复杂，发的光也不够。”

“The caffeic acid cycle, which is a metabolic pathway responsible for luminescence in fungi, was recently characterised. We report light emission in Nicotiana tabacum and Nicotiana benthamiana plants without the addition of any exogenous substrate by engineering fungal bioluminescence genes into the plant nuclear genome.”

“真菌发光的代谢途径最近被确定为咖啡酸循环，我们通过将真菌生物发光基因导入植物核基因组就使烟草和本氏烟发光了，无需添加任何外源底物。”

参考链接：

https://www.sciencealert.com/gorgeously-glowing-plants-shine-bright-throughout-their-life-cycle

10. 肯德基在中国试卖植物肉炸鸡

图片来源：KFC

肯德基本周一说要首次在中国限时出售植物性炸鸡。试点地方不多，仅有上海、广州、深圳的各一家门店，而且只在4月28号到30号卖三天。

现在已经卖完了，你去试了吗？

The nuggets will be supplied by U.S. agribusiness Cargill Ltd [CARGIL.UL] and will be sold at only three outlets in China in Shanghai and the southern cities of Guangzhou and Shenzhen between April 28-30, KFC said on its official Weibo account.

肯德基在其官方微博上说，这些炸鸡将由美国农业综合企业嘉吉有限公司提供，只在4月28日至30日在中国的上海和南部城市广州、深圳的三家门店有售。

Customers who would like to try a bite must purchase a pre-sale coupon, it said. One serving comprises of five chicken pieces and will be sold for 1.99 yuan.

该公司说，有意品尝的顾客必须购买预售券。每份有5块鸡肉，售价1.99元。

The move comes amid growing global interest in China’s meat substitute industry, which has been identified by both U.S. players Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat (BYND.O) as a key target market. The coronavirus outbreak is also threatening China’s poultry production.

此举正值全球对中国肉类替代产业的兴趣日益浓厚之际，美国的Impossible Foods和Beyond Meat两家公司都把中国视为主要目标市场。新冠疫情也威胁着中国的家禽养殖业。

Yum Brands Inc’s (YUM.N) KFC started offering plant-based fried chicken supplied by Beyond Meat in the United States at one of its Atlanta outlets. The two companies said in January that they would expand that tie-up to several KFC stores in Tennessee and North Carolina.

百胜餐饮集团的肯德基开始在美国亚特兰大的一家分店供应Beyond Meat公司提供的植物性炸鸡。这两家公司在一月份说会将合作扩大到田纳西州和北卡罗来纳州的几家肯德基门店。

KFC’s announcement garnered mixed reactions on Chinese social media platform Weibo, with some commentators saying that they hoped the new offering would be healthier.

肯德基宣布的这一消息在中国的社交平台微博上得到了各种回应，有些人评论说希望这一新品能更健康。

One of the most “liked” comments under its post, however, said they were sceptical that the product would be popular in China. “We want to eat meat!,” said the poster.

但帖子下面获赞最多的一则评论说他们怀疑这种产品在中国是否会受欢迎，评论中说：“我们想吃肉！”

参考链接：

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yum-china-china-plantbased/kfc-to-sell-plant-based-fried-chicken-made-by-cargill-in-china-idUSKBN2221K7

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