科技动态:优步无人驾驶车进展不顺 比特币价值飙升

It appears that Uber's driverless car residency in Pittsburgh isn't going so well.

优步在匹兹堡推出无人驾驶汽车的计划似乎进展不太顺利。

According to a New York Times report, the company has not made good on a number of promises made at the start of the program.

据《纽约时报》报道，优步没能兑现一开始所做的一些承诺。

These include job creation for the Pittsburgh area and help to support a transportation grant.

包括为匹兹堡市创造就业机会以及帮助一项运输拨款。

The report cites many reasons for the relationship breakdown¹ but also notes that some details never made it into writing.

这篇报道提到了关系破裂的很多原因，但也说到一些细节让这次合作无法实现。

Dish has announced that its Hopper set-top box now feature support for Amazon's Alexa digital assistant, letting customers control their TV experience using voice commands.

Dish宣布它的Hopper机顶盒现在支持亚马逊的Alexa语音助手，让用户可以通过声音指令来控制电视。

The range of actions include standard playback controls but also direct tuning² to channels and searching by title, genre³ or actor.

这些功能包括标准的播放控制，还可以直接切换频道，根据标题、类别或演员进行搜索。

Finally Bitcoin continues to explode in terms of price, hitting over $2,200 on Monday.

最后，比特币的价值持续飙升，周一，1枚比特币价值已超2200美元。

Reasons for the boom are widespread including continuing reports of its success in Japan.

比特币昌盛的原因有很多，其中之一就是日本持续有对比特币成功的报道。

To put its value in perspective, you spent $5.00 on bitcoins in 2010 you'd have over 4 million dollars worth of it today.

为了让大家更好地了解它的价值，举个例子，如果你2010年花5美元买比特币，那么现在它的价值已达400多万美元。

1 breakdown   

n.垮，衰竭；损坏，故障，倒塌

参考例句：

• She suffered a nervous breakdown.她患神经衰弱。
• The plane had a breakdown in the air,but it was fortunately removed by the ace pilot.飞机在空中发生了故障，但幸运的是被王牌驾驶员排除了。

2 tuning   

n.调谐，调整，调音v.调音( tune的现在分词 )；调整；（给收音机、电视等）调谐；使协调

参考例句：

• They are tuning up a plane on the flight line. 他们正在机场的飞机跑道上调试一架飞机。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The orchestra are tuning up. 管弦乐队在定弦。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

3 genre   

n.(文学、艺术等的)类型，体裁，风格

参考例句：

• My favorite music genre is blues.我最喜欢的音乐种类是布鲁斯音乐。
• Superficially,this Shakespeare's work seems to fit into the same genre.从表面上看， 莎士比亚的这个剧本似乎属于同一类型。