>Pipe bombs sent to Democrats
美多位政客收炸彈威脅
Former US president Barack Obama and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton were among the targets of suspected package bombs delivered to several high-profile Democrats and CNN, which the FBI said it was investigating as an act of terrorism. All of the targets are frequently maligned by right-wing critics. At least eight suspicious parcels were intercepted before reaching any intended recipients, including Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, former CIA director John Brennan and prominent Democratic Party donor George Soros. None of the packages detonated, and nobody was hurt. But news of the threats heightened tensions in the nation ahead of midterm elections on Nov 6 that will decide whether Democrats can challenge the majorities now held by President Donald Trump's Republicans in Congress.
數(shù)位知名民主黨人和美國有線電視新聞網(wǎng)收到疑似炸彈包裹，美國前總統(tǒng)奧巴馬和前國務(wù)卿希拉里也是目標(biāo)對象，聯(lián)邦調(diào)查局稱正將此事作為恐怖主義行為進(jìn)行調(diào)查。炸彈包裹的目標(biāo)對象都是右翼批評人士頻繁針對的個人或機(jī)構(gòu)。至少8個可疑包裹在送到預(yù)期的收件人手中之前就被截獲。這些收件人包括奧巴馬政府時期的司法部長埃里克?霍爾德、前中央情報局局長約翰?布倫南和著名民主黨捐贈者喬治?索羅斯。這些包裹無一被引爆，無人受傷。不過炸彈威脅事件使美國11月6日中期選舉前的國內(nèi)緊張局勢加劇，此次選舉將決定民主黨能否挑戰(zhàn)特朗普總統(tǒng)所屬的共和黨目前在國會的多數(shù)黨地位。

>AI-painted portrait for sale
首幅AI繪制畫作將拍賣
Christie's, the auction house that has sold paintings by Picasso and Monet at record prices, is now poised to set another milestone with the first-ever auction of art created by artificial intelligence (AI). The AI-generated "Portrait of Edmond Belamy" depicts a slightly blurry chubby man in a dark frock-coat and white collar, and his off-center position leaves enough white space to show the artist's signature as "min max Ex[log(D(x))] + Ez[log(1-D(G(z)))]". The painting - which will go under the hammer on Thursday in New York - is expected to fetch as much as $10,000. The portrait was created with AI programmed by the Paris-based collective Obvious, which consists of three 25-year-olds. The work up for auction is one of 11 portraits of the fictional Belamy family. Another portrait in the series was sold to Parisian collector Nicolas Laugero-Lassere in February for around $12,000.
曾以創(chuàng)記錄價格售出畢加索和莫奈畫作的佳士得拍賣行現(xiàn)在將再次樹立一個里程碑，史上首次拍賣人工智能(AI)創(chuàng)作的藝術(shù)作品。這幅由AI繪制的畫作名為《埃德蒙?貝拉米肖像》(見圖)，以朦朧的筆跡描繪了一位身著白襯衫深色長禮服、身形較豐滿的男士。在偏離中心的位置留出了足夠的空白顯示創(chuàng)作者的簽名：min max Ex[log(D(x))] + Ez[log(1-D(G(z)))]。這幅畫將于當(dāng)?shù)貢r間25日在紐約進(jìn)行拍賣，拍賣價預(yù)計高達(dá)1萬美元。創(chuàng)作這幅畫的AI程序由巴黎團(tuán)體Obvious編寫，該團(tuán)體由三名25歲的年輕人組成。此次拍賣的畫作是虛構(gòu)的貝拉米家族的11幅肖像畫之一。今年2月，該系列的另一幅肖像畫被巴黎收藏家拉塞爾以約1.2萬美元購入。

>Pay followers for free foods
意餐廳允許用粉絲'付款'
Social media promotion has become so important nowadays that businesses are offering freebies to anyone with a certain following on popular social networks. Owners of the "This Is Not a Sushibar" restaurant in Milan are well aware of the potential of social networks like Instagram, and they're more than willing to give away some sushi, if it means getting some exposure. At their restaurant, people have the classic payment options – cash or card – plus a novel one, paying in Instagram followers. The idea is pretty simple, the more followers you have, the more you can eat without having to spend a cent. Patrons who have between 1,000 and 5,000 followers will get a free sushi plate. 5,000 to 10,000 followers will get you two free plates, 10,000 to 50,000, four free dishes, 50,000 to 100,000 followers, eight dishes, and people with over 100,000 Instagram followers get a free full lunch or dinner. Just having a lot of followers isn't enough, patrons also have to publish a post on their Instagram account and tag @thisisnotasishibar and include the hashtag #thisisnotasushibar. They will only receive their free sushi after showing the publish post at the counter.
如今，社交媒體營銷已變得如此重要，以至于商家會向任何在人氣社交網(wǎng)絡(luò)上擁有一定數(shù)量粉絲的博主提供免費贈品。米蘭"這不是家壽司店"餐廳的老板清楚地意識到Instagram等社交網(wǎng)絡(luò)的潛力，因此如果贈送博主一些壽司就能夠獲得幾次曝光的機(jī)會，他們樂意之至。這個主意非常簡單，你擁有的粉絲越多，你不花分文就能吃到的食物就越多。擁有1000至5000名粉絲的顧客將可獲得一盤免費壽司。擁有5000到1萬名粉絲，可獲得兩盤免費壽司。擁有1萬到5萬名粉絲，可免費獲得四盤，擁有5萬到10萬名粉絲，可免費獲得八盤，擁有超過10萬名粉絲的網(wǎng)紅，可免費享用全套午餐或晚餐。光擁有很多粉絲是不夠的，顧客還必須在自己的Instagram帳戶上發(fā)布照片并標(biāo)上@thisisnotasishibar與#thisisnotasushibar標(biāo)簽。只有在向收銀員出示所發(fā)布的帖子后才會收到免費壽司。

>Iceberg looks like rectangle
南極現(xiàn)完美矩形冰山
Usually when we think of icebergs, we don't imagine perfect geometric shapes. But that's exactly what NASA captured in an image posted on Twitter of an iceberg in what appears to be the shape of a perfect rectangle. The image was captured during a flight for Operation IceBridge, the largest airborne survey of Earth's polar ice. It even has a name: A tabular iceberg, a type of iceberg both broad and flat. "The iceberg's sharp angles and flat surface indicate that it probably recently calved from the ice shelf," according to a statement from NASA.
想到冰山時，我們通常不會將其與完美的幾何形狀聯(lián)系起來。但美國宇航局近日在推特發(fā)布的一張圖片上的冰山卻呈現(xiàn)出完美的矩形。這張圖片是美國宇航局在執(zhí)行"冰橋行動"時在飛行途中拍到的，"冰橋行動"是針對地球極地冰展開的最大規(guī)模的航空測量。這種冰山甚至還有名字：平頂冰山，即又寬又平的冰山。美國宇航局在一份聲明中稱："這個冰山的直角和平坦表面顯示，它可能是最近才從冰架上崩解下來的。"

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