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(A) Do you have a smart speaker at home? Yes, there have one in my home. As the picture below. It's Amazon's Echo, a smart speaker  developed by   Amazon . When my father bought this device via my family member lived in the USA, he wished his kids could use it to improved their English. But I don't think this device would be useful in my home. Because lots of Amazon's services aren't available in Taiwan. Until now, we only use Echo to listen the ICRT online radio. (B) What is a smart speaker? You can r efered to the following picture, it seems no different with the regular one. But smart speaker has an important featured: With  virtual assistant. (C) How does a smart speaker work?  Just like Siri, Google assistant in your smartphone. This invisible agent in the speaker can help what you want for help. You can ask: reminds me for shopping, set the alarm, tell me the personal schedule today, even help you feel happy with the joke or the song. ...

In the podcast, the host has mentioned a future transportation conception, called "Hyperloop One". I had heared this name few years ago, thought this idea is very amazing. A land transportation can run faster, and cost cheaper (buiding cost, the first presenter of the conception said) than airplane. Though it sounds beautiful, I think that will have many ten years to make it popularize. For example, Maglev train, the japanese one is still in experiment. The only Maglev train runs in operation is in Shanghai, China. And the second question is the public can accept the new transportation or not. In a class at NTUB last year, I heared the teacher said: "Our (Taiwan's) High Speed Rail must starts from Keelung to Kenting, not just from  Nangang to Zuoying. Because after the tourists got off the ship in Keelung, they can get more fluent to their destination." And now, the central government are discussing the  issue about extending the HSR route to Pingtung. Both i...