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Associated Press

The global rollout of Apple's revamped iPhone began Friday to eager buyers who streamed into stores after long waits, but computer glitches prevented some of the phones from working.

Google Sidelines Engineer Who Claims Its A.I. Is Sentient

Blake Lemoine, the engineer, says that Google’s language model has a soul. The company disagrees.

For more than a century, the luxury fashion business was made up of small family companies that produced beautiful items of the finest materials. It was a niche business for a niche clientele. But in the late 1980s, business tycoons began to buy up these companies and turn them into billion-dollar global brands producing millions of logo-covered items for the middle market. The executives labeled this rollout the “democratization” of luxury, which is now a $157-billion-a-year industry.
Yahoo to Expand Email Service

Yahoo plans to expand the rollout of its enhanced Web-based email service in Asia and Europe in the next few months.

Wall St., Prepared for the Worst, in Wait-and-See Mode
Contingency plans are in place, positions established and cash sidelined. Now it's a matter of wait and see.


Online Health Law Sign-Up Is Delayed for Small Business

By ROBERT PEAR

In yet another setback for the rollout of the health care law, the Obama administration announced that the online exchange for small businesses would not be available until next November.

Law's Expanded Medicaid Coverage Brings a Surge in Sign-Ups

By SABRINA TAVERNISE

The men and women getting coverage in West Virginia, one of the poorest states in the country, say the mere fact of having it has drastically improved their mental health.

People who have recovered from COVID-19 can donate their convalescent plasma to help save other patients' lives.

Microbiologist and immunologist Arturo Casadevall, MD, PhD, talks about new research indicating that antibody-rich convalescent plasma helped lower mortality among some COVID-19 patients, especially if received within three days of diagnosis. He also talks about how this and other treatments fit into a moment of record high COVID-19 cases and a sluggish vaccine rollout.

Learn more about how convalescent plasma works: http://hub.jhu.edu/....../convalescent-plasma-study....../

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sentient

/ˈsɛntɪənt,ˈsɛnʃ(ə)nt/

學習發音

adjective

1. able to perceive or feel things.

   "she had been instructed from birth in the equality of all sentient life forms"

sign up

《 【自動詞】+ 【副詞】》

(1) 就業契約をする (⇒sign 【自動詞】 A2).

(2) 〔…と〕契約する 〔for〕.

用例

sign up for a new production 新しいプロダクションと契約する.

(3) 〔…に〕届け出をする, 登録を申し込む 〔for〕.

用例

He signed up for the advanced class. 彼は上級クラスに登録を申し込んだ.

(4) 入隊する.

《 【他動詞】+ 【副詞】》

(5) 〈人を〉契約して雇う.

(6) 〈人を〉入隊させる.

sideline

(sīd'līn')
n.

1. Sports.
   1. A line along either of the two sides of a playing court or field, marking its limits.
   2. sidelines The space outside such limits, occupied by coaches, inactive players, and spectators.
2. sidelines The position or point of view of those who observe rather than participate in an activity: the political sidelines.
3. A subsidiary line of merchandise.
4. An activity pursued in addition to one's regular occupation.

tr.v. Informal, -lined, -lin·ing, -lines.
To remove or keep from active participation.

roll out

(自)(1) 軽がり出る.(2) ((略式))〈人が〉（寝床から）起き出す((of ...))；旅に出る.

rollout

(rōl'out')
n.

1. The inauguration or initial public exhibition of a new product, service, or policy: The manufacturer's rollout of the new jet is scheduled for next month.
2. Football. A play in which the quarterback runs toward a sideline after receiving the snap with the intention of passing the ball.