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 Notre-Dame Cathedral reopening is set to the end of 2024 ノートルダム寺院の火災と再生   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MPFNV2V4LE   In April 2019, one of the most famous cathedrals in the world was partially destroyed by fire. Notre-Dame de Paris sustained heavy damage in the disaster. Donations poured in from around the world to rebuild the cathedral, including from some of France’s wealthiest citizens. President Emmanuel Macron vowed that Notre-Dame would be rebuilt within five years using the nearly $900 million collected. But the deadline won’t quite be met, but the restorations is now in the homestretch. Hundreds of artisans work towards a reopening on December 8, 2024. If all goes according to plan, the framework for the famed spire will be completed this year, allowing a return to the Paris skyline of one of the its oldest and most iconic features. The project has been complicated by involvement of so many different actors, like the government, the nationa...

What are deepfakes? ディープフェイクとは？ https://www.wisdomsq.com/contents/bepod/20231004.html   https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/13/what-are-deepfakes-and-how-can-you-spot-them   Have you seen Barack Obama calling Donald Trump a “complete dipshit”, or Mark Zuckerberg bragging about having “total control of billions of people’s stolen data”? If your answer is yes, you’ve seen a deepfake . Deepfakes use a form of artificial intelligence called deep learning to make images of fake events.   Deepfake technology can create convincing but entirely fictional photos from scratch . Audio can be deep-faked too, to create “voice skins” or ”voice clones” of public figures . Last March, a German energy firm paid nearly £200,000 into a Hungarian bank account after a fraudster called mimicking the German CEO’s voice.   How do you spot a deepfake? It gets harder as the technology improves. In 2018, US researchers discovered that deepfake faces don’t blink normally. ...

How much is a used EV really worth? 中古EVの査定価格とは? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPcD8Ap5q3Y How much is your used electric vehicle really worth? There is a race among startups to help buyers figure that out. With traditional cars, their age and mileage make it easy to calculate. But that formula doesn’t work with EVs. An industry experts say that could be a threat to the electric transition. For EVs, it’s all about the battery. A battery typically makes up around 40% of a new EV’s price. And its ability to hold a charge and driving range will determine the vehicle’s value. So how the battery is treated is key but until recently there was no way to measure it, making EVs riskier to buy and therefore harder to sell. That’s changing as companies rush to scale up EV battery tests, some of which take just minutes.  One startup Avalu found that EV battery health can vary up to 30% after 62,000 miles. It says a previous owner’s bad charging habits could potentially shave thousan...

The big history of Ukraine and corn ウクライナととうもろこしの歴史 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2l1yEcOYbI&t=51s   Today, a war in Ukraine means tens of thousands of people in Yemen face starvation. How did we get here? How did our global systems of food production become so complex and intertwined?   Well, for starters, Ukraine produces 16 percent of global maize exports. Thanks to globalization, the food we eat often comes from or is dependent on faraway places. Unfortunately, the more complex the system gets, the fragile it becomes.   All this complexity might seem very recent but it’s the product of a long history. About 10,000 years ago, people living in southern Mexico gradually began developing this crop. In every society it touched, maize transformed the ways that people lived. Europeans transported maize across oceans, where new societies adopted and adopted the crop to suit their needs. Millions of people began to rely on it. Today we grow more maiz...

Some Starbucks drinks contain 25 teaspoons of sugar スタバのコーヒーには砂糖が25杯も入っている https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeUi6K-4hn M   For many of us, the day doesn’t properly begin until we’ve had our morning fix of coffee. Now analysis has shown that what we’re drinking isn’t just milk and caffeine but worrying levels of sugar. These are hot drinks and they’re very calorific as a result of the sugar content and will contribute to tooth decay, weight gain. Particularly, when you are not usually associating those products with that much calories and sugar. As an example, a can of coke has an average of 9 tea spoons of sugar but that’s nothing compared to a Caffe Nero’s caramelatte with 13 teaspoons of sugar. A Costa’s Chai latte has 20 tea spoons of sugar but the worst offender was a Starbucks Hot mulled fruit drink with 25 teaspoons of sugar, which is over 3 times the recommended daily intake. The drinks with the highest levels of sugar were found to be flavored coffee such as moch...

Iconic Twitter bird logo replaced with X 動画レッスン：ツイッターのロゴがXに https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9ptmf5hPl4 Twitter users are waking up to find that the little blue bird has flown the coop. The owner Elon Musk changed the iconic bird logo to the letter X. It happened this morning. He’d posted a short video of a flickering X yesterday. Then overnight he tweeted the image of the X projected onto the Twitter headquarters. The logo swap is the latest change since Musk bought Twitter last year for 44 billion dollars. He says the idea of using an X is to “embody the imperfections in all of us”. You can already see the change on your desk top app and the new logo will likely be coming to your phone apps pretty soon. * coop * flicker * project * embody * imperfection * likely

Mark Zuckerberg Accepts Elon Musk ’ s Cage Fight Challenge ！ 動画レッスン：マークザッカーバーグとイーロンマスクがケージファイト？   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aoJu7FkTyE   It’s a battle between the tech giants. Twitter owner Elon Musk and and Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg could be headed to the Octagon. Here is everything we know in response to an article detailing Meta’s plan to release a Twitter rival called Threads on June 20 th . Elon tweeted “I’m sure Earth can’t wait to be exclusively under Suck’s thumb with no other options.” Meta is the parent company of both Facebook and Instagram. This prompted one user to warn “Better be careful Elon Musk. I heard he does Jiu Jitsu now”. Striking back 51-year-old then replied “I’m up for a cage match if he is”. Well, he is! As shared on Instagram last month, Mark, a Jiu Jitsu enthusiast, recently earned medals in his first competitions and it looks like he is ready for his next match. Taking to his Instagram stories on June 21 st , the 39-year-old res...

  First-class is getting an upgrade 動画レッスン：ファーストクラスがアップグレード https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15_FkqW6Mjg&t=3s   Vintage first-class travel catered to those who could really afford it. From this pristine propeller to classic fine dining, the Peninsula Hong Kong’s China Clipper lounge gives us a glimpse into the heyday of luxury travel. Fast-forward to today, a number of airlines are announcing revamps to first-class seats post-Covid, with the first to announce being Lufthansa and Qantas. The whole look and feel of first class shows it’s not just a seat anymore. The airlines want you to feel like you’re in a mini hotel room. Qantas has enclosed suites with high walls that offer complete privacy at the front of the plane. It’s big enough to sit with a companion traveler to have your own first-class dining experience in the sky. Lufthansa has also added first-class suites with a particular cabin designed just for couples. It might not come close to Etihad’s The Residence ...

What will the future of jobs be like? 動画レッスン：どうなる、「仕事の未来」 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH1fFdjzJAw&t=57s   Covid 19 is one of the biggest crises of our time. It has impacted every single one of us, shaken out social systems, and disrupted every sector of our economies. The automation of work combined with the global recession led workers to lose their jobs at an accelerated pace compared to previous years. And this trend is expected to continue. The ongoing shift in the division of labor between humans, machines and algorithms might displace 85 million jobs worldwide in the next 5 years, while 97 million new roles, ones that are more adopted to this new task distribution, may emerge. By 2025, companies expect to displace roughly 6 % of their total workforce, one in two workers will need reskilling, and those remaining in their current roles will need to update 40% of their skills set to adopt to the changing labor market. There is a way to collectively benefi...

  How we're doing on the path to zero emissions 動画レッスン：排出量ゼロへの道のりをどう歩む? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipkPcrNsCv8 I believe that we will be able to avoid a climate disaster. Innovators now have way more funding than ever before. Private companies are making serious climate commitments. Governments are passing advanced climate legislation. As a result, there are a number of clean technologies in development that cover every area of emission. But when I first started working on this issue, emissions were 51 billion tons each year and we are still at that level, and the time is running out. Alongside my belief that we can solve it, it can be difficult to actually contemplate the scale of change required for this energy transition. Of course, we have to invent new ways of doing these things, but it took a hundred years to build a very energy intensive industrial economy. We also need to replace all of that physical infrastructure in a much much shorter period of time. There’s never b...

動画レッスンメニュー： 2024/4/11更新 Why Tokyo's Metro is Profitable and New York City's isn't 東京とNYの地下鉄 Inside the 24/7 operation to feed the world's largest cruise ship 豪華客船の裏側 Why are school buses yellow? スクールバスはなぜ黄色？ This is how easy it is to hack EV chargers 狙われるEVチャージャー UN adopts first global Artificial Intelligence resolution UNが世界初となるAI規制を可決 Speech by Steve Jobs at Stanford University スティーブジョブズ　スタンフォード大卒業祝辞スピーチ

Passover in Judaism 動画レッスン：ユダヤ教の春行事ペサハ：過越祭って何? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o_qrMadfIw   You are about to see what Passover looks like here in the Holyland. Passover is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the freedom of the Jews from slavery in Egypt. The festival goes back thousands of years. It’s ca sacred and widely celebrated holiday in Judaism. During this time Jews from all across the world come together with the family to have Passover celebrations. These celebrations include a retelling of Exodus story and a special dinner. All to remember freedom from oppression which the Jewish people experienced for over 400 years in Egypt. But today there are some interesting things that happen across Israel to prepare for the holiday.   During Passover there are some ingredients that are forbidden to eat. Anything with yeast in it is forbidden like most bread. So that’s why grocery stores across Israel block off food in stores like this to keep what they call “K...

US lawmakers grill Tik Tok CEO 動画レッスン：Tik Tok CEO 対 米国議会 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h49pWGKI3k Mr. Chu, you are here because the American people need the truth about the threat Tik Tok poses our national and personal security. Tik Tok collects nearly every data point imaginable from people's location to what they type and copy, who they talk to, biometric data and more. Even if you've never been on Tik Tok, your trackers are embedded in sites across the web. Tik Tok surveils us all and Chinese communist party is able to use this as a tool to manipulate America as a whole. We do not trust Tik Tok will ever embrace American values; Values for freedom, human rights and innovation. Tik Tok has repeatedly chosen the path for more control, more surveillance and more manipulation.  Your platform should be banned.  Can you say that with 100 percent certainty that ByteDance and the CCP cannot use your company or its divisions to heed content to promote pro-CCP messages for an act...

Vinyl record sales surge making everything old new again 動画レッスン：デジタル最盛期にアナログレコードが復活 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU670a5I0Xw Adel had the best-selling vinyl album in 2021. Yes, vinyl, not streaming. Forbes magazine says vinyl sales are actually on the rise, increasing by more than 50 percent from 2020 to 2021, showing that records might be back. Here is Mike Castellucci. There is nothing like live music. Wait, Scratch that. There is nothing line music on vinyl. Girl 1: Feels very authentic. The crispness that comes from a plastic platter. Man: The whole thing of watching it spin, you putting the needle on … Vinyl records are back. Just ask someone who calls it “ new retro ” . Girl 2: It’s my dream to have a record player.   Don’t skip over that. They don’t even own a record player. But records somehow capture their imagination anyway.   Girl 2: I like the design. I’m hanging them in my dorm.   If you are buying music that you touch and feel, vin...

Worker shortage? The push for made-in-America chips 動画レッスン：米国半導体産業再生へ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6UMnvewHuU   The push for made-in-America chips   The US ‘ s plan to outrun China has one big missing factor: people.   This is a site in Ohio where Intel is building one of the most advanced semi-conductor production facilities on the planet. The project costs 20 billion dollars and though the bulk of the money is entails, some of it will come from the government which is throwing 52 billion dollars in subsidies of the semiconductor industry.   It’s part of the flood of money the government is directing towards industry investment in a plan to outrun China and retain economic superiority in the 21 st century. But it will take 7000 construction workers to build the plant and three thousand operators. Not only can Intel not find enough workers to operate the plant, it can’t even find enough construction workers to build it.   Intel isn’t alone. America is strug...