For over ten years now, I have sworn off Christmas and birthday cards: simply writing my name, plus a sentence or two, simply doesn’t justify the dollars spent purchasing and sending cards. As a ...

It doesn’t matter what you do — do it as hard as you can. Passion will follow and your circuitous path will be made straight.

Once a pioneer that helped the world lay the foundations of machine learning, Japan’s renewed push into artificial ...

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take aim at something try to deal with an issue; criticise something. She took aim at her rival for the job promotion by ...

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First broadcast on December 27, 2025 Yoshida Shoin was an educator whose students played key roles in Japan's modernization.

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AI translation has made significant strides in recent years, now handling tasks once considered uniquely human, such as ...