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The U.S. navy missile destroyer Chafee entered China's territorial waters near the Xisha islands on Tuesday, said the ministry, adding the provocation infringed upon China's sovereignty and security, harmed mutual trust between the two armies as well as regional stability.
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Thousands of people celebrated the unrolling of the thangka - a giant religious silk embroidery - to kick off the start of the Lhasa Yogurt Festival on Tuesday.
Accompanied by the sound of horns reverberating through the valley, monks slowly unrolled the thangka on the mountainside behind the Drepung Monastary in the capital of the Tibet autonomous region at about 8 am.
"I have seen thangka in Qinghai before. But I was still totally shocked when I saw such a giant thangka today," said Cui Lingrui, a student from Nanjing University.
Both tourists and locals woke early, and some even stayed up through the night to visit or worship here, said a monk who declined to give his name.
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"Traditional Tibetan culture is magnificent in my eyes," said Wang Tianlu, a Hindi translator from China International Television. "I adore such traditional culture from the bottom of my heart."
SAN FRANCISCO, March 30 (Xinhua) -- Microsoft, the U.S. multinational technology company, used on Wednesday the company's annual gathering for developers to unveil its grand plan of making conversation a new way to interact with computers with intelligence bots at the heart.
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"We think this can have as profound an impact as the previous platform shifts have had," Nadella said in his keynote speech. He made it clear that bots would become the next big way to interact with computers following mouse, keyboard and touch screen.
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Microsoft also released a set of tools which allow developers to build their own bots.
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Microsoft is not the only company working on digital assistant and bots. Its digital assistant rivals include Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri.
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