Rather than having to operate home devices like your coffee maker and cleaner directly，you can now use them remotely from your phone，wherever you happen to be.

Warm up your house wherever you are. But thanks to modern thermostats(恒温器)，there's no need to feel anxious.Now many smart systems enable you to control the heating remotely through your smartphone，so you can adjust the temperature while you're at work or on the way home.

Cook while watching TV.Imagine an oven(烤箱) that just knows how long everything will take to cook. And it'll even produce a live video of the cooking，so you'll know exactly when the food is starting to brown.What is more amazing is that some intelligent ovens even have Food ID software that can detect what you're feeding into them and recommend a cooking program.

Make a coffee from bed.It's perfect for the winter months.With a Wi-Fi enabled smart coffee machine you can wake up，tap a button on your smartphone and get a message when your coffee is ready. You can even schedule it remotely，so there's a pot of hot coffee waiting for you when you get into your house.

Smart home devices can save your time and money，but some can even save your life.For example，a smart smoke alarm will send a warning to your smartphone if it discovers danger of carbon monoxide(一氧化碳)．For those false alarms set off by things like burned toast，you can silence the alarm via your smartphone，no more climbing on dinner chairs to shut the noise off.

China Science Daily announced Thursday that it has used software to automatically generate news stories about the latest discoveries from the world's leading science journals.The robot science reporter，called "Xiaoke"，was co-created by the newspaper and researchers from Peking University in about half a year.

It is the latest case of Chinese news organizations using computer technology to create the content.According to its inventors，Xiaoke has generated over 200 stories based on the English abstract of papers published in journals such as Science ， Nature ， Cell and The New England Journal of Medicine.

Before publication，the automatically generated articles will go through a review process.A group of scientists and the newspaper's editors will check the content or give supplementary(补充的) information.

Zhang Mingwei，head of the program and vice editor-in-chief of the newspaper，said inventors would make Xiaoke a "cross-linguistic(跨语言的) academic secretary" to help Chinese scientists overcome language barriers and have easy and quick access to the latest scientific advances in English-language publications.Lead researcher Wan Xiaojun of Peking University，in charge of the system's design and technology，stressed that the content generation tool could do far more than translation.According to Wan，Xiaoke is good at selecting complex words and sentences，which can help turn articles full of confusing technical terms into easy and readable news reports.

The readers of the robot reporter are not limited to professionals and they also include the general public，the inventors said.Science reporting is important in spreading information about discoveries and in popularizing knowledge to people.

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