一 | 中新社上海8月25日电 (记者 陈建新 缪璐)“欢迎大家来大陆，走进校园、走进训练基地，参与训练交流、赛事活动、学习实践。 The cell phones, tablets, and laptops left behind by veterans who died by suicide may offer insight that could help prevent future military suicides, according to a nonprofit dedicated to analyzing the data from the devices.Stop Soldier Suicide collects the technology as part of its initiative, "The Black Box Project," which is named after the black boxes found on planes that help determine the cause of aviation incidents."If we could gather novel data from those that have died by suicide, we might be able to recreate the last year of life," Stop Soldier Suicide CEO Chris Ford told ABC News.Veterans are 57% more at risk for suicide than non-military adults and around 6,000 veterans die by suicide each year, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs."I think we can prevent needless suffering and a ton of loss of life," Ford said.That kind of loss is something David McDaniel, whose son Connor died by suicide at the age of 26, knows all too well.Connor McDaniel joined the Army after high school, and, according to David, he appeared upbeat during his deployment to Afghanistan, where he was assigned to protect local villages from the Taliban."Some of his Army buddies told me that he was making them laugh while they were being shelled in Afghanistan," David McDaniel told ABC News.But it wasn't long after Connor came home that David McDaniel says he sensed a shift in his son's behavior to include "more anger, a lot of frustration, a lot of gloominess."On Sept. 1, 2021, David says his son entered a wooded area with a firearm."I start screaming his name as I'm walking up the field. And just then the police, the sheriff's department shows up and they tell me to come back down," McDaniel said.He followed their direction, but on the car ride home, an officer called him and said Connor was dead after he fired upon sheriff's deputies and the deputies returned fire and killed him.Connor's death was determined to be a suicide. The district attorney's office concluded that the officers' actions were justified.While grappling with his son's death, David McDaniel was immediately drawn to the Black Box Project, which uses forensic software to unlock and comb through service members' devices provided by their loved ones to review their activity in the weeks leading up to their suicides.McDaniel works in the tech field and says if the project can find repeated patterns in online searches, they may be able to help others to prevent suicides.For instance, McDaniel says his son searched for SGLI, Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance, before his death. If a veteran were to make a similar search and look up "suicide" in the future, for example, McDaniel suggests it could trigger an ad for Stop Soldier Suicide to pop up and provide resources in the search results.Ford says the nonprofit uses machine learning, a subfield of artificial intelligence, to analyze texts and notes in order to determine sentiment or emotional tone, such as anger or desperation. He says they can also track phone usage of the deceased veterans to monitor their past sleep cycles and trace their past geo-locations."Machines can go through computations a lot faster than humans, and they can find signals that we often miss," Ford said.Since launching the Black Box Project in April 2020, Stop Soldier Suicide has received over 100 devices, Ford said. So far, he says they're seeing three patterns before most of these suicides: more anger, different sleep patterns, and social isolation.Ford's team includes Ph.D.s in clinical psychology and suicide researchers. A scientific advisory committee helps steer where and what to look for on the devices.The findings are still preliminary, according to the nonprofit, but one goal is to help the organization decide where, when, and how to target their own mental health resources, like adding more hotline staff at certain hours and ensuring calls are picked up overnight.When asked about privacy concerns of collecting data, Ford said it's something they think about daily."We don't resell the data. We don't push it out to others. We use it for our own research purposes so that we can best understand risk and then give those devices back to those families intact," Ford said.Current privacy laws do not carry on past death, meaning the next of kin typically gains new authority.Petra Oxford-Jackson, whose veteran husband Anthony died by suicide, says she gave his phone to the organization with the possibility it could save even one life."I truly believe he would have been okay with it, and it's a hard thing for a survivor to give up something so personal as his cell phone," Oxford-Jackson told ABC News.The Black Box Project received $3 million in funding from the Department of Veterans Affairs earlier this year.If you are struggling with thoughts of suicide or worried about a friend or loved one, call or text the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 for free, confidential emotional support 24 hours a day, seven days a week.。”25日在上海出席一场两岸青年交流活动时，奥运冠军马龙向台湾青年发出邀请。 他说，大陆拥有广阔的体育土壤、完善的培养体系、开放的交流环境，不仅可以培养专业的运动员，也适合每一位热爱运动的年轻人。 “同心同行——两岸青年交流季上海站”活动当天开幕，马龙在主论坛上作主旨演讲，分享参与两岸青年交流的故事。 8月25日，“同心同行——两岸青年交流季上海站”活动开幕，马龙在主论坛上作主旨演讲，分享参与两岸青年交流的故事和感受。中新社记者 汤彦俊 摄 2024年底，作为北京体育大学的学生，马龙随大陆高校师生访问团首次踏上宝岛台湾。他表示，见到日月潭，品尝地道美食，接触台湾同胞，让他真切浓烈地感受到两岸同根同源，同胞骨肉天亲，文化没有隔阂，青春没有距离。 他提到，整整9天8夜的行程，一路上随处都能看到大家热情等候的身影。
二 | 同时还收到很多台湾同胞手写的信件、明信片和用心准备的小礼物。“我们和很多台湾青年成了朋友，临行前依依不舍，约定以后常来常往、多走动。” 谈及参访台北故宫博物院、淡水沪尾炮台以及台北孔庙等地的感受，马龙说，我们的民族和文明虽然历经无数风雨磨难，但靠着台湾同胞在内的全体中华儿女的共同坚守，中华民族没有散、中华文明没有断。
三 | “两岸同胞一路走来，始终一脉相承、心手相连、守望相助，守护中华民族共同家园。” 8月25日，“同心同行——两岸青年交流季上海站”活动开幕，马龙在主论坛上作主旨演讲，分享参与两岸青年交流的故事和感受。图为马龙(右一)在论坛现场向参加“同心同行”2026年两岸青少年乒乓球交流赛的两岸选手赠送球拍。中新社记者 汤彦俊 摄 在台期间，访问团还赴台湾大学、新竹清华大学等6所高校，以及台北市立中山女子高级中学参访交流。作为乒乓球运动员，让马龙惊喜的是，参访的高校里开设了乒乓球社团，大家都很热爱这项运动。
四 | 他邀请台湾青年“登陆”体验，感受大陆系统的训练体系、专业的教练团队、浓厚的体育氛围，以及快速的竞技水平提升。 论坛现场，他向参加“同心同行”2026年两岸青少年乒乓球交流赛的两岸选手赠送球拍，“希望你们能在场上尽情挥拍，结识更多朋友，也希望我们有机会在球场上交流”。(完) 【编辑:万纪玮】。
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