今日BBC

1、随身英语
Brain training 如何训练大脑？
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2、地道英语
going forward 从今往后（常用于工作环境中）
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3、今日新闻

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Amazon Kindle Oasis: Does the world want a £270 e-reader?
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ack at the Hoxton warehouse, the Amazon team concedes that there is a smaller market for e-readers than smartphones, but insists there is still a demand for Kindles, and even for a luxury-priced version like the Oasis. “This isn’t going to be our highest volume device, we know that,” says Jorrit Van der Meulen, who runs the devices business in Europe. “But for the people who buy it, you’re absolutely not going to be able to prise it out of their hands.”
The other question is whether the demand for digital books and hence for e-readers has now peaked. The Bookseller reports that UK sales of digital books by the five biggest publishers actually shrank in 2015, although Amazon is keen to stress that self-publishing on Kindle is soaring, and that it’s handing more royalties direct to authors.

Bezos has said in the past that Amazon’s devices are sold at cost - they are designed to sell content rather than to be money-spinners in themselves - and his team insists that the same applies to the Oasis. But it’s hard not to think that this Rolls-Royce of an e-reader is a monument to Amazon’s past, rather than a signpost to its future.

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Facebook reveals Surround 360 virtual reality camera
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Facebook has revealed a high-end virtual reality camera rig that captures 360-degree footage in 3D.
The firm said the Surround 360 can record up to two hours of footage at 60 frames per second. It added that each of its 17 lenses could capture footage in 8K super hi-vision resolution.
The equipment poses a challenge to Nokia’s $60,000 (£42,000) Ozo VR camera and similar professional-quality equipment from GoPro, Jaunt and others.
However, Facebook said it did not intend to manufacture the Surround 360, but would rather publish its specifications on the Github website “this summer” for others to make use of.
Facebook stands to benefit if it spurs on the creation of 360-degree videos that can be viewed on its Oculus VR headsets or via its social network.
The firm’s chief product officer Christopher Cox unveiled the machine at the firm’s F8 conference in San Francisco