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One third of adults over 65 in America have never used the Internet, and half don't even have Internet access at home. In San Francisco, "the center of tech", 40% of older adults do not have basic digital literacy skills.

This situation is becoming appalling as over 10,000 Americans turn 65 every single day. By 2050,22% of Americans will be 65 or older. Meanwhile, technology is developing very fast. This means that a large number of people will be unable to proficiently use emergent technology. 

Many people believe that seniors aren't required to participate in our tech future because they'll be retired and relaxed soon. But this is the farthest thing from the truth. Baby boomers are currently experiencing a different boom: With more people getting older than ever before, their life expediencies are also increasing dramatically. With medical advancements, the number of American people projected to live into their 90's has doubled since 1965.

However, they don't have strong financial or educational support. This is not a problem; it's a crisis. More than half of employees over 50 have been laid off in what's being called "forced retirement. " And few organizations are actively helping older employees make the transition from full-time jobs to part-time ones. For those fortunate enough to be employed, 3 out of 5 older workers experience prejudice.

The easiest solution is to teach digital literacy. If baby boomers want to survive the forthcoming retirement crisis, they should get enough digital knowledge and skills to operate today's tools and tomorrow's platforms. With every crisis comes an opportunity. Tutoring, customer service, editing, research, book-keeping, and other virtual assistance-based work open the doors. But again, digital knowledge is first required to live in our high-tech society and gig economy. So try to get more online and navigate the growing number of sites and apps.

Li Jianguo, a 49-year-old teacher at the Tianjin Vocational Institute, is set to be named as one of the "2022 most beautiful teachers"—an annual public award sponsored by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the Ministry of Education.

Li has stood out by taking the lead in the training of students in vocational skills, gaining a number of honors including being named as a national role model teacher. He has mentored(指导) seven national-level technique experts and a team of 14 technique masters. One of his students, Guo Jinpeng, who graduated from the institute in 2007, became a college teacher at the Chengdu Auto Vocational and Technical School and was named as a national role model teacher in 2019. 

Li's nomination as one of the "2022 most beautiful teachers" reflects that China is focusing on the importance of vocational education and aims to foster(培养) more leading personnel with the spirit of craftsmanship in the manufacturing industry.

At an international vocational and technical education conference in Tianjin last month, Li noted that there is no difference between vocational education and ordinary education, and vocational education is not secondary nor should it ever be treated as less than ordinary education. "Vocational education has the mission of fostering a quality workforce and technical experts for the country. The hardworking spirit is the key to building any ordinary people into leading personnel," he said.

Li joined the institute in 1993 and later founded a machinery engineering practice center, providing free training to 7,500 people a week. In 2015, he led a team of teachers to work for 40 days to repair 124 machine tools in the center. Li has devoted himself to building the country's first additive manufacturing technique and application center at the institute to satisfy the thirst for the country's human resources in 3D printing.

Every year, Time magazine picks out what it calls "The 25 Best Inventions" of the year. Here, Teens has chosen some of the most interesting ones.

Ember Mug

It's hard to always keep coffee at the right temperature, especially in winter. It's too hot to drink at first, but before we know it, it gets too cold and loses all its taste. The perfect level of warmth for a cup of coffee only lasts for 37 seconds, which makes the Ember Mug a great invention. It keeps your coffee or tea at a certain temperature, anywhere between 45℃ and 62℃, once you set it through a smartphone app.

Tasty One Top

TV cooking shows make cooking look so easy, but it's almost impossible to get the recipes to cook the same as how the professionals cook. However, the Tasty One Top DIY cooking companion is here to help. Developed by BuzzFeed, the cooker can be connected to a smartphone app, which has more than 1,700 recipes and videos. You choose a recipe and the app will let the cooker know what to do. For example, it'll tell you when to turn your steak or when to add certain ingredients.

Jibo

Smart speakers from companies like Amazon and Xiaomi have added a lot of fun to our lives, but they're still just faceless speakers. However, Jibo, developed by MIT professor Cynthia Breazeal, has brought smart technology to life. Said to be "the world's first social robot for the home", Jibo looks like a cartoon character. Inside its "head", there are various sensors and cameras, which allow it to recognize faces and speech. It can also set alarms, remind you of important things, tell you the weather and read news or messages from your friends and family.

For 19-year-old Stuart's father, Peter, his family was his strength and pride. "Together we achieve but divided, we fall," he often told his four sons, and Stuart was the youngest. Besides family, there was something else that Peter, 56, cherished and believed kept his family united and strong. It was his treasured farm that was passed on from generation to generation.

One day, however, his 19-year-old son, Stuart, approached his dad and told him he wanted his share of the fortune so that he could move to the city and start living his life alone. It was a terrible blow to Peter, who never wished to see his family break. 

"But, you don't know much about city life. I am afraid you'd wander like a lost lamb. This is your family, and we will always support you," Peter disappointedly said as soon as Stuart told him his intention to leave the house.

"Dad, I'm nineteen, and I have heard plenty about the city from my friends. I don't want to waste my time and energy farming with you. I have a purpose in life, and I don't want to become a farmer like you. "

Peter tried changing his mind. "Son, I can give you your share of the fortune. But dear, this is too early to decide. " However, Stuart insisted on going out, so Peter had to give him his share.

Three years went by. Neither Peter nor his family heard anything about Stuart. One day, when the family least expected it, they saw a young man walk toward them. As he neared, they saw his old and dirty clothes and a face that had lost its charm. It was Stuart! Peter was shocked. "Daddy, I need your help . . . I'm hungry," Stuart cried.

"Oh, my dear . . . Please sit down first," Peter said and brought some tea and bread for him. Then Peter asked why he was in such a poor situation.

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Stuart said he took the money and went to the city. 

Overwhelmed by (被震撼)their love, Stuart was moved to tears. 

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China has made solid progress in pushing forward rural vitalization (乡村振兴) as  (expect) over the last five years. 

In 2018, China released a five-year plan its rural vitalization strategy, (map) out a number of major projects, programs and actions. All 59 of the plan's key tasks, including increasing agricultural production capacity and improving the safety of drinking water in rural areas, have been carried out (steady) and have achieved good results.

In 2021, agricultural technology progress (contribute) to 61 percent of the sector's development, is 3.5 percent higher than that of 2017. As to the green development of agriculture, the application of chemical fertilizers and pesticides has experienced negative (grow) over the years, while the usage of organic fertilizers has significantly increased. The (construct) of rural infrastructure (基础设施), such as water, electricity, road and telecommunication facilities, has been improved. Tap water is now (access) in 84 percent of rural households. average income of rural residents increased by 28.9 percent in real terms from 2017 to 2021.

Dogs are more faithful than other animals, so they are considered as man's best friends. Recently a dog named Capitan has shown us why dogs are a symbol of 1 and friendship.

In 2005, Capitan was 2 by a man named Miguel Guzman in Argentina. Miguel got Capitan as a(n) 3 for his son Damian. In 2006, Miguel passed away, and 4 , Capitan disappeared. They thought he was 5 or had been adopted by another family. 6 , when Damian and his mother went to visit Miguel's grave, they were 7 to see Capitan at the cemetery（公墓）. They couldn't believe it because they had 8 brought Capitan to the cemetery before. They didn't know how he had9 the grave, but the dog was there barking and 10 . Damian's mother said, "We went back the next Sunday, and he was there again. This time, he 11 us home and spent a few hours with us, but then went back to the cemetery before it got 12 . It was probable that he didn't want to leave Miguel on his own at night. "

Later,they tried to bring the dog home many times, but each time Capitan would 13 and return to the cemetery. For eleven years, he 14 there and was taken care of by the cemetery staff. In 2018, Capitan's life came to an end. He was 15 buried next to his master he loved so much.

Household chores like cooking, cleaning, washing the dishes, and making the bed are never done; they just get repeated like a broken record. Boring! . But there are science-based reasons for changing your attitude towards chores. It turns out that doing chores is great for your health. 

. As researchers state in a report, doing undemanding tasks allows the mind to wander. Your mind gets a break, which allows you to consider old problems with new eyes. In fact, undemanding tasks stimulate (激发)more creative ideas than demanding tasks or just resting. 

Chores are linked to a lower dementia (痴呆) risk. To discover what activities might be linked to a lower rate of dementia, researchers analyzed massive amounts of healthcare data from the UK Biobank. They found that those most engaged in household chores had a 21 percent lower risk of dementia compared to those least engaged in chores. . 

Finishing your chores can increase motivation. BJ Fogg, author of Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything, states that the most important skill is recognizing and celebrating successes. Completing even a small task, like making your bed, can give you a sense of satisfaction. . Similarly, author Admiral William H. McRaven argues that if you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. 

Chores are good for children's mental health. Children develop a sense of ownership when they have jobs to do around the house and it makes them feel like they are an important member of the household. . In my own case, I bond with my daughter by gossiping（闲聊）and singing while we do chores together.

A. Chores are an opportunity for "me time"

B. Chores can lead to creative problem-solving

C. Thus, you feel motivated to deal with tasks one after another

D. In this way, they can be taught to be independent and confident

E. Like many people, you may regard chores as something annoying

F. Doing chores with children also improves the parent-child relationship 

G. This result indicated simple changes could make a difference to health

This week, Google researchers published a paper describing results from an AI tool built to create music. The tool, called MusicLM, is not the first AI music tool to be launched. But the examples Google provided demonstrate musical creative ability based on a limited set of descriptive words. 

Several different music examples produced by MusicLM were published online. Some of the generated music came from just one- or two-word descriptions, such as "jazz", "rock" or "techno (高科技舞曲)". The tool also created other examples from more detailed descriptions containing whole sentences.

In one example, Google researchers included these instructions to MusicLM, "It is a soundtrack of a game. It is fast-paced and upbeat, with a catchy electric guitar riff (反复乐节). The music is repetitive and easy to remember, but with unexpected sounds . . . " In the resulting recording, the music seemed to keep very close to the description. The team said the more detailed the description was, the better the system could attempt to produce it.

The MusicLM model operates similarly to the machine-learning systems used by ChatGPT. ChatGPT and MusicLM both require powerful computers to operate complex machine-learning models. The San Francisco-based company OpenAI launched ChatGPT late last year. ChatGPT has recently received a lot of attention because of its ability to generate complex writings and other content from just a simple description in natural languages. Such tools can produce human-like results because they are trained on huge amounts of data. Many different materials are fed into the systems to permit them to learn complex skills to create realistic works. 

However, the MusicLM researchers said there were some risks linked to the new tool. One of the biggest issues the researchers identified was biases (偏好) present in the training data. A bias might be including too much of one side and not enough of the other. The researchers said this raised a question about appropriateness for music generation for cultures underrepresented in the training data. 

If you had boarded a passenger plane in 1950, you would have seen five people in the cockpit (驾驶舱): two pilots, a radio operator, a navigator and a flight engineer. Over the years, technical advances have gradually removed the need for the last three, leaving just two pilots. That has been the norm(标准)in commercial aviation for decades. 

However, things could be simplified further--one of the two remaining pilots could soon go. Many military aircraft are already manned by a single pilot, and for commercial aviation this would mean stepping into a brave new world. 

But how will airlines make this brave innovation come true? One way is to greatly increase automation in the cockpit, devoting more tasks to computers. Another is to shift the same tasks from the cockpit to the ground. "The latter approach seems to be more workable, at least in the short term, because much of what is required already exists," says Patrick Smith, an airline pilot flying Boeing 767 aircraft. "A trained ground operator could observe a number of flights at once and even fully control the plane remotely if needed. "

It's true that single-pilot operations could help airlines save money, but there is another reason which makes them quicken their pace for this crucial breakthrough. Boeing predicts a need for 600,000 new pilots in the next two decades, but by some estimates, there will be a deficit(赤字)of at least 34,000 pilots globally by 2025. Reducing the number of pilots on some crews or aircraft could lessen the impact of this.

Perhaps the biggest barrier to a single pilot will be selling the idea to passengers. In 2019, Don Hairis, a professor at Coventry University, conducted a survey on the prospect of flying on an airliner with just one pilot. Just a minority of participants said they'd be willing to take that flight, and the general idea was that removing a pilot increased the possibility of accidents. In the study, Harris concluded that the single-crew airliner would be still probably 20 years away.