1. Simply put, bladeless fans are fans without blades. They work by sucking in air at their base and then blowing them out through several holes in their ring. The fan is reported to have been invented by James Dyson, who calls it the "Air Multiplier." Just like the flying jetpack, it earned a spot in Time's list of notable inventions of 2009. And just like the jetpack, it was not the first of its kind. The first bladeless fan was actually patented in 1981 by a Japanese company called Tokyo Shiba Electric. Although Tokyo Shiba's bladeless fan was never manufactured, James Dyson's initial design of a bladeless fan design looked so similar to that of Tokyo Shiba Electric that the patent office refused to grant him a patent. The patent granted to Tokyo Shiba had already expired, but the patent office still required something substantially different before it could grant a new patent to James Dyson. Dyson's patent manager, Gill Smith, did not deny the similarities between both bladeless fans but said the difference between them was the "technology."

2. Warm greetings and best wishes for happiness and good luck in the coming year.

3. China's box office sales hit a record high in 2015, by pulling in 44 billion yuan, or some 6.8 billion US dollars, with domestic films accounting for a large chunk of that growth.

4. 1. Buy expensive tailored clothing that only sort of fits so that most of the time your buttons appear to be just seconds from bursting.

5. 关于英国即将离开欧盟最引人注目的事情是，我们居然仍对脱欧具体会带来什么后果知之甚少。全民公投可是一年多以前的事了。

6. BrandZ表示，中国科技集团华为(Huawei)已从苹果(Apple)和三星(Samsung)手中夺取市场份额。

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3. Google has now said it won't make him pay the fee.

4. 然而我知道，你们这一代人不同于过去的任何一代人，极其渴望体会不同以往的人生。所以，在你们离开学校之际，我要向你们介绍几条显而易见、却容易忽略的真理，帮助你们以略微不同的角度来看待生活，而不是仅凭一叠薪金来认识世界：

5. 新加坡樟宜国际机场已经连续五年在每年一度的Skytrax世界机场大奖评选中获得世界最佳机场。

6. Federica Mogherini, the EU’s foreign policy chief, and Johannes Hahn, the bloc’s enlargement commissioner, have also weighed in, criticising Mr Erdogan’s proposed constitutional changes and his recent rhetoric.

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1. There is even is a standard demagogic playbook.

2. 桑尼伯恩和他的父母以及11岁的妹妹朱莉娅住在佛蒙特州的布里斯托尔，他正在寻求民主党的提名。

3. "We are also witnessing a positive progress of diversification," he said. "In the past, most Chinese companies' patent filings were concentrated in the ICT sector, but now there are increasingly patents filed in engines, turbines, sports, automotive, and biotechnology sectors."