每日新聞播報（May 31）

Credit: Minwook Paeng

>Designer creates wearable third eye為低頭族打造的'第三隻眼'An industrial design student has created a high-tech third eye that can be affixed to a person's forehead and look out for obstacles as they walk, while their real eyes are glued to their smartphone. 一名工業設計專業的學生髮明瞭一款高科技產品"第三隻眼"，這隻"眼睛"可以貼在人的額頭上，當他們邊走路邊埋頭看手機時，這隻"眼睛"可以幫他們留意前方的障礙物。Minwook Paeng's 「Third eye」 consists of a translucent plastic case that is fixed directly to the wearer's forehead with a thin gel pad. 彭敏旭發明的"第三隻眼"包括一個半透明的塑料盒，用薄膠墊就可以直接貼在佩戴者的額頭上。Inside this plastic eye are a small speaker, a gyroscopic sensor and a sonar sensor. 塑料眼睛內建了一個小揚聲器、迴轉感測器和聲波定位感測器。When the gyroscope detects while the user's head is angled down, it opens the eye's plastic eyelid and the sonar starts to monitor the area in front of the user. 當迴轉感測器檢測到使用者低頭時，就會開啟第三隻眼的塑料眼皮，聲波定位儀就會開始監測使用者前方區域。When it detects an obstacle, it warns the wearer via the connected speaker.當感測器檢測到障礙物時，就會通過連線的揚聲器警告佩戴者。

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>Drinking causes damage to the brain研究:喝酒無論多少都傷腦There is no such thing as a "safe" level of drinking, with increased consumption of alcohol associated with poorer brain health, according to a new study. 新研究指出，"安全"的飲酒量是不存在的，喝酒喝得越多，對大腦健康的損害就越大。Drinking had an effect on the brain's gray matter - regions in the brain that make up "important bits where information is processed," according to lead author Anya Topiwala, a senior clinical researcher at Oxford. 該研究的首席作者、牛津大學高階臨床研究員安雅託皮瓦拉指出，喝酒會影響大腦灰質，這是"資訊加工處理的重要區域"。"The more people drank, the less the volume of their gray matter," Topiwala said. 託皮瓦拉說："人們喝的酒越多，大腦灰質就越少。"There was no "safe" level of drinking - meaning that consuming any amount of alcohol was worse than not drinking it. 所謂的"安全"飲酒量並不存在，這意味著，喝多喝少都有害，不喝才是安全的。Researchers also found no evidence that the type of drink - such as wine, spirits or beer - affected the harm done to the brain.研究人員還發現，沒有證據證明酒的類型(比如葡萄酒、白酒或啤酒)對大腦受損程度有不同的影響。

Huawei Technologies Co unveiled its new foldable smartphone, Mate X2, on Feb 22 in an online launch event. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

>HarmonyOS for smartphones to debut鴻蒙手機作業系統將亮相Chinese telecom giant Huawei will officially launch its new operating system HarmonyOS for smartphones on June 2, the company said. 我國電信巨頭華為公司近日宣佈，計劃在6月2日正式釋出鴻蒙手機作業系統。HarmonyOS, or Hongmeng in Chinese, is an operating system designed for various devices and scenarios. It was first launched on Internet-of-Things devices.鴻蒙作業系統適用於各種場景和多款終端裝置，該系統誕生後最初是用於物聯網裝置。Huawei expects the number of devices equipped with HarmonyOS to reach 300 million by the end of 2021, including more than 200 million for Huawei devices.華為公司預計，到2021年底，搭載鴻蒙作業系統的裝置數量將達3億臺，其中華為裝置超過2億臺。

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>MS gets rid of IE browserIE瀏覽器明年6月'退役'The end is finally near for Internet Explorer, one of Microsoft's most-reviled products that refused to die. 微軟最招人恨卻又不肯退出歷史舞臺的IE瀏覽器終於要走到盡頭了。Microsoft announced that it will end support for Internet Explorer 11 on June 15, 2022. 微軟近日宣佈，將於2022年6月15日終止對IE11瀏覽器的支援。In August 2020, Microsoft turned its back on IE for its own products. 2020年8月，微軟自己的產品開始棄用IE瀏覽器。Workplace chat software Teams stopped working with IE last fall, and its 365 apps (including Office) will no longer work on IE by mid-summer 2021. 去年秋天微軟職場聊天軟體Teams不再和IE瀏覽器相容，到今年仲夏，包括Office在內的微軟365個應用也將不再支援IE瀏覽器。Once the most-used web browser, Internet Explorer had been on a steady downward trajectory for nearly two decades. IE瀏覽器曾經是應用最廣泛的網路瀏覽器，但近二十年來使用量一直不斷下降。Its share of the browser market fell below the 50% threshold in 2010 and now sits at about 5%, according to browser usage tracker NetMarketShare. 瀏覽器使用量追蹤機構NetMarketShare的資料顯示，2010年IE在瀏覽器市場的份額跌破50%大關，如今只剩下5%的份額。Google's Chrome is the browser leader, commanding a 69% share of the market. 谷歌瀏覽器是瀏覽器中的領頭羊，佔據了69%的市場份額。In its death announcement, Microsoft said Internet Explorer is slow, no longer practical for or compatible with many modern web tasks, and is far less secure than modern browsers.在這份"死亡聲明"中，微軟表示，IE瀏覽器速度太慢，已經不適用也不兼容於許多現代網路任務，也遠不如現代瀏覽器安全。Find more audio news on the China Daily app.

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