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每日跟讀#539: Near Mexico City, Cable Car Lets Commuters Glide Over Traffic

 

Coasting above Mexico City’s infernal congestion is normally a prerogative of the well-heeled, who take helicopters or pay to use the upper deck of two-tier highways to avoid the chaos below.

 

In October, however, thousands of residents of this ragged industrial suburb began getting to work or school in brightly colored pods that glide along the city’s first commuter cable-car route.

 

從墨西哥市地獄般壅塞交通的上方越過，通常是有錢人的特權，他們乘坐直升機或付費使用雙層高速公路的上層，避開下方的混亂世界。

 

然而，去年10月，這破敗工業郊區的數千居民，開始可以坐在色彩亮麗的車廂內，沿該市一條通勤纜車線滑動，去上班上學。

 

The Mexicable, a seven-stop line that runs just over three miles through a furrow of poor hillside neighborhoods, is part of a growing constellation of cable cars around Latin America that links marginalized communities to their cities’ metropolitan hearts.

 

In Ecatepec, the largest and most dangerous municipality in the 21 million-strong expanse of greater Mexico City, the Mexicable has brought new visitors, shorter commutes, a burst of street art and a new sense of inclusion in city life, residents said.

 

「墨西哥纜車線」是條有7個站、穿越一片貧窮山坡社區的路線，全長僅略多於三哩，是拉丁美洲日益星羅棋布的纜車線之一，用以銜接邊緣社區與城市的都會心臟。

 

整個大墨西哥市人口逾2100萬，埃卡堤佩是這廣大區域中最大最危險的市區，居民說，墨西哥纜車線帶來新遊客，縮短通勤時間，街頭藝術蓬勃發展，還予人一種融入城市生活的新歸屬感。

 

“It’s great,” said Marco Antonio Gonzalez, who used to spend an hour in a cramped bus to get from his home in San Andres de la Canada, the Mexicable’s final stop, to his job at a warehouse in the center of Ecatepec. He now has a smooth, 17-minute cable ride over dun-colored rooftops, half-bald soccer pitches and narrow streets strung with glittery bunting.

 

The new transport system has made him proud. “People never build something as impressive as this in a neighborhood like ours,” he said.

 

馬可．安東尼奧．龔薩雷茲說：「這真的很棒。」以往，他必須花1小時擠公車從他在聖安德列斯德拉加拿達的家，也是墨西哥纜車線的終點站，前往埃卡堤佩市中心的一座倉庫工作。現在他可以搭纜車，順暢地花17分鐘，穿越過一個個暗褐色的屋頂、半禿的足球場，以及掛著閃亮彩旗的狹窄街道。

 

新的運輸系統令他引以為傲。他說：「人們從沒有在我們這樣的社區，建造過這麼令人感動的東西。」

 

Ecatepec stretches north from the tip of the capital’s subway network into steep hills where square cinder-block houses are stacked like Lego pieces. Many who use the cable car also catch a bus and then a subway to reach jobs — at restaurants, homes, offices or construction sites — in more affluent parts of town.

 

Nancy Montoya, a housekeeper who lives in Esperanza, near the sixth Mexicable stop, said she saved about two hours per day using the new system — time she spends doing homework with her children or buying groceries.

 

Over the past 12 years, gondola systems have been built in cities that include Cali and Medellin in Colombia; Caracas, Venezuela; La Paz, Bolivia; and Rio de Janeiro. There are plans to build systems in half a dozen other Latin American cities, according to the Gondola Project, which tracks cable car programs worldwide.

 

埃卡堤佩從首都墨西哥市地鐵網的頂端向北延伸到陡峭的山丘地區，在那裡，正方形的煤渣塊房子如樂高積木般堆疊。許多纜車使用者得再搭一段公車並再換一次地鐵，才能抵達位在墨西哥市較富裕地區的工作地點，如餐館、住家、辦公室或建築工地。

 

南西．蒙托亞是名管家，家住靠近墨西哥纜車線第六站的艾斯佩蘭沙。她說使用新系統每天約可節省2小時，她拿這些時間陪子女做功課或購買雜貨。

 

過去12年，建造纜車系統的城市包括哥倫比亞的卡利和美德殷，委內瑞拉首都卡拉卡斯，玻利維亞首都拉巴斯，巴西里約熱內盧。據追縱全球纜車計畫的「纜車計畫」，另有6個拉丁美洲城市欲興建纜車系統。

 

Source article: https://paper.udn.com/udnpaper/POH0067/309111/web/

 

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每日跟讀#539: Near Mexico City, Cable Car Lets Commuters Glide Over Traffic

 

Coasting above Mexico City’s infernal congestion is normally a prerogative of the well-heeled, who take helicopters or pay to use the upper deck of two-tier highways to avoid the chaos below.

 

In October, however, thousands of residents of this ragged industrial suburb began getting to work or school in brightly colored pods that glide along the city’s first commuter cable-car route.

 

從墨西哥市地獄般壅塞交通的上方越過，通常是有錢人的特權，他們乘坐直升機或付費使用雙層高速公路的上層，避開下方的混亂世界。

 

然而，去年10月，這破敗工業郊區的數千居民，開始可以坐在色彩亮麗的車廂內，沿該市一條通勤纜車線滑動，去上班上學。

 

The Mexicable, a seven-stop line that runs just over three miles through a furrow of poor hillside neighborhoods, is part of a growing constellation of cable cars around Latin America that links marginalized communities to their cities’ metropolitan hearts.

 

In Ecatepec, the largest and most dangerous municipality in the 21 million-strong expanse of greater Mexico City, the Mexicable has brought new visitors, shorter commutes, a burst of street art and a new sense of inclusion in city life, residents said.

 

「墨西哥纜車線」是條有7個站、穿越一片貧窮山坡社區的路線，全長僅略多於三哩，是拉丁美洲日益星羅棋布的纜車線之一，用以銜接邊緣社區與城市的都會心臟。

 

整個大墨西哥市人口逾2100萬，埃卡堤佩是這廣大區域中最大最危險的市區，居民說，墨西哥纜車線帶來新遊客，縮短通勤時間，街頭藝術蓬勃發展，還予人一種融入城市生活的新歸屬感。

 

“It’s great,” said Marco Antonio Gonzalez, who used to spend an hour in a cramped bus to get from his home in San Andres de la Canada, the Mexicable’s final stop, to his job at a warehouse in the center of Ecatepec. He now has a smooth, 17-minute cable ride over dun-colored rooftops, half-bald soccer pitches and narrow streets strung with glittery bunting.

 

The new transport system has made him proud. “People never build something as impressive as this in a neighborhood like ours,” he said.

 

馬可．安東尼奧．龔薩雷茲說：「這真的很棒。」以往，他必須花1小時擠公車從他在聖安德列斯德拉加拿達的家，也是墨西哥纜車線的終點站，前往埃卡堤佩市中心的一座倉庫工作。現在他可以搭纜車，順暢地花17分鐘，穿越過一個個暗褐色的屋頂、半禿的足球場，以及掛著閃亮彩旗的狹窄街道。

 

新的運輸系統令他引以為傲。他說：「人們從沒有在我們這樣的社區，建造過這麼令人感動的東西。」

 

Ecatepec stretches north from the tip of the capital’s subway network into steep hills where square cinder-block houses are stacked like Lego pieces. Many who use the cable car also catch a bus and then a subway to reach jobs — at restaurants, homes, offices or construction sites — in more affluent parts of town.

 

Nancy Montoya, a housekeeper who lives in Esperanza, near the sixth Mexicable stop, said she saved about two hours per day using the new system — time she spends doing homework with her children or buying groceries.

 

Over the past 12 years, gondola systems have been built in cities that include Cali and Medellin in Colombia; Caracas, Venezuela; La Paz, Bolivia; and Rio de Janeiro. There are plans to build systems in half a dozen other Latin American cities, according to the Gondola Project, which tracks cable car programs worldwide.

 

埃卡堤佩從首都墨西哥市地鐵網的頂端向北延伸到陡峭的山丘地區，在那裡，正方形的煤渣塊房子如樂高積木般堆疊。許多纜車使用者得再搭一段公車並再換一次地鐵，才能抵達位在墨西哥市較富裕地區的工作地點，如餐館、住家、辦公室或建築工地。

 

南西．蒙托亞是名管家，家住靠近墨西哥纜車線第六站的艾斯佩蘭沙。她說使用新系統每天約可節省2小時，她拿這些時間陪子女做功課或購買雜貨。

 

過去12年，建造纜車系統的城市包括哥倫比亞的卡利和美德殷，委內瑞拉首都卡拉卡斯，玻利維亞首都拉巴斯，巴西里約熱內盧。據追縱全球纜車計畫的「纜車計畫」，另有6個拉丁美洲城市欲興建纜車系統。

 

Source article: https://paper.udn.com/udnpaper/POH0067/309111/web/

 

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每日跟讀#538: How Climate Change Will Cause More Simultaneous Disasters

 

Global warming is posing such wide-ranging risks to humanity, involving so many types of phenomena, that by the end of this century some parts of the world could face as many as six climate-related crises at the same time, researchers say.

 

全球暖化對人類構成相當廣泛的危險，包含非常多種現象。研究人員說，到本世紀結束之際，世上部分地區可能同時面臨多達六種與氣候有關的危機。

 

This chilling prospect is described in a paper published Monday in Nature Climate Change, a respected academic journal, that shows the effects of climate change across a broad spectrum of problems, including heat waves, wildfires, sea level rise, hurricanes, flooding, drought and shortages of clean water.

 

備受尊崇的學術期刊「自然氣候變遷」周一（19日）刊出一篇報告，描述這個令人戰慄的前景，呈示氣候變遷效應在廣泛範圍造成的問題，包括熱浪、野火、海平面上升、颶風、洪水、乾旱和乾淨用水短缺等。

 

Such problems are already coming in combination, said the lead author, Camilo Mora of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He noted that Florida had recently experienced extreme drought, record high temperatures and wildfires — and also Hurricane Michael, the powerful Category 4 storm that slammed into the Panhandle this summer. Similarly, California is suffering through the worst wildfires the state has ever seen, as well as drought, extreme heat waves and degraded air quality that threatens the health of residents.

 

報告主要作者、馬諾夏威夷大學的凱米洛．摩拉說，這些問題已經同時出現。他指出，佛州日前經歷極端乾旱、破紀錄高溫和野火，此外還有今夏橫掃西佛羅里達地區、威力強大的四級颶風麥可。同樣地，加州正遭遇該州歷來最嚴重的野火，加上乾旱、極端熱浪和威脅居民健康的劣化空氣品質。

 

Things will get worse, the authors wrote. The paper projects future trends and suggests that, by 2100, unless humanity takes forceful action to curb the greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change, some tropical coastal areas of the planet, like the Atlantic coast of South and Central America, could be hit by as many as six such crises at a time.

 

作者寫道，狀況將會更糟。這篇報告預測未來趨勢並指出，到2100年時，除非人類採取強制性行動抑制造成氣候變遷的溫室氣體排放，否則地球上部分熱帶地區的沿海地帶，像是中南美洲的大西洋岸，可能同時遭受多達六種災害侵襲。

 

That prospect is “like a terror movie that is real,” Mora said.

 

摩拉說，這種前景「就像恐怖電影成真」。

 

The authors include a list of caveats about the research: Since it is a review of papers, it will reflect some of the potential biases of science in this area, which include the possibility that scientists might focus on negative effects more than positive ones.

 

報告的作者針對這項研究提出了一些但書：既然這是檢視整理既有相關報告後所獲致的結論，難免會反映這個領域中可能存在的部分科學成見，包括科學家強調負面效應甚於正面效應的可能性。

 

New York can expect to be hit by four climate crises at a time by 2100 if carbon emissions continue at their current pace, the study says, but if emissions are cut significantly that number could be reduced to one. The troubled regions of the coastal tropics could see their number of concurrent hazards reduced from six to three.

 

這份研究報告指出，如果碳排放以目前的速度持續下去，到2100年時紐約恐將同時遭遇四種氣候危機。但如果排放量顯著減少，紐約的危機種類可減至一種，而那些易受影響的熱帶沿海地區則可將同時發生的災害種類由六種減至三種。

 

The paper explores the ways that climate change intensifies hazards and describes the interconnected nature of such crises. Greenhouse gas emissions, by warming the atmosphere, can enhance drought in places that are normally dry, “ripening conditions for wildfires and heat waves,” the researchers say. In wetter areas, a warmer atmosphere retains more moisture and strengthens downpours, while higher sea levels increase storm surge and warmer ocean waters can contribute to the overall destructiveness of storms.

 

這篇報告探討氣候變遷如何使災害增強，並描述這些危機的相互連結特性。溫室氣體排放使大氣層暖化，可能從而使平日乾燥的地方更加乾旱，研究人員說，「這也促成了野火和熱浪出現的條件」。在較潮濕的地區，溫暖的大氣層保留更多水氣，增加降雨量，而升高的海平面增加暴風雨生成，更溫暖的海水則會助長暴風雨的整體破壞力。

 

Source article: https://paper.udn.com/udnpaper/POH0067/334523/web/

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每日跟讀#538: How Climate Change Will Cause More Simultaneous Disasters

 

Global warming is posing such wide-ranging risks to humanity, involving so many types of phenomena, that by the end of this century some parts of the world could face as many as six climate-related crises at the same time, researchers say.

 

全球暖化對人類構成相當廣泛的危險，包含非常多種現象。研究人員說，到本世紀結束之際，世上部分地區可能同時面臨多達六種與氣候有關的危機。

 

This chilling prospect is described in a paper published Monday in Nature Climate Change, a respected academic journal, that shows the effects of climate change across a broad spectrum of problems, including heat waves, wildfires, sea level rise, hurricanes, flooding, drought and shortages of clean water.

 

備受尊崇的學術期刊「自然氣候變遷」周一（19日）刊出一篇報告，描述這個令人戰慄的前景，呈示氣候變遷效應在廣泛範圍造成的問題，包括熱浪、野火、海平面上升、颶風、洪水、乾旱和乾淨用水短缺等。

 

Such problems are already coming in combination, said the lead author, Camilo Mora of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He noted that Florida had recently experienced extreme drought, record high temperatures and wildfires — and also Hurricane Michael, the powerful Category 4 storm that slammed into the Panhandle this summer. Similarly, California is suffering through the worst wildfires the state has ever seen, as well as drought, extreme heat waves and degraded air quality that threatens the health of residents.

 

報告主要作者、馬諾夏威夷大學的凱米洛．摩拉說，這些問題已經同時出現。他指出，佛州日前經歷極端乾旱、破紀錄高溫和野火，此外還有今夏橫掃西佛羅里達地區、威力強大的四級颶風麥可。同樣地，加州正遭遇該州歷來最嚴重的野火，加上乾旱、極端熱浪和威脅居民健康的劣化空氣品質。

 

Things will get worse, the authors wrote. The paper projects future trends and suggests that, by 2100, unless humanity takes forceful action to curb the greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change, some tropical coastal areas of the planet, like the Atlantic coast of South and Central America, could be hit by as many as six such crises at a time.

 

作者寫道，狀況將會更糟。這篇報告預測未來趨勢並指出，到2100年時，除非人類採取強制性行動抑制造成氣候變遷的溫室氣體排放，否則地球上部分熱帶地區的沿海地帶，像是中南美洲的大西洋岸，可能同時遭受多達六種災害侵襲。

 

That prospect is “like a terror movie that is real,” Mora said.

 

摩拉說，這種前景「就像恐怖電影成真」。

 

The authors include a list of caveats about the research: Since it is a review of papers, it will reflect some of the potential biases of science in this area, which include the possibility that scientists might focus on negative effects more than positive ones.

 

報告的作者針對這項研究提出了一些但書：既然這是檢視整理既有相關報告後所獲致的結論，難免會反映這個領域中可能存在的部分科學成見，包括科學家強調負面效應甚於正面效應的可能性。

 

New York can expect to be hit by four climate crises at a time by 2100 if carbon emissions continue at their current pace, the study says, but if emissions are cut significantly that number could be reduced to one. The troubled regions of the coastal tropics could see their number of concurrent hazards reduced from six to three.

 

這份研究報告指出，如果碳排放以目前的速度持續下去，到2100年時紐約恐將同時遭遇四種氣候危機。但如果排放量顯著減少，紐約的危機種類可減至一種，而那些易受影響的熱帶沿海地區則可將同時發生的災害種類由六種減至三種。

 

The paper explores the ways that climate change intensifies hazards and describes the interconnected nature of such crises. Greenhouse gas emissions, by warming the atmosphere, can enhance drought in places that are normally dry, “ripening conditions for wildfires and heat waves,” the researchers say. In wetter areas, a warmer atmosphere retains more moisture and strengthens downpours, while higher sea levels increase storm surge and warmer ocean waters can contribute to the overall destructiveness of storms.

 

這篇報告探討氣候變遷如何使災害增強，並描述這些危機的相互連結特性。溫室氣體排放使大氣層暖化，可能從而使平日乾燥的地方更加乾旱，研究人員說，「這也促成了野火和熱浪出現的條件」。在較潮濕的地區，溫暖的大氣層保留更多水氣，增加降雨量，而升高的海平面增加暴風雨生成，更溫暖的海水則會助長暴風雨的整體破壞力。

 

Source article: https://paper.udn.com/udnpaper/POH0067/334523/web/

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Summary:

Pop music is ubiquitous and it is everywhere. You can't run away from it. This article talks about how the rules of pop music has changed. The billboard, an American company that measures your record's success has changed their parameters. Before, record companies decided what was pop and what was not. Now, they are looking at streaming media. If you are a top streaming artist, you get to also join the billboard. This article also mentioned that the billboard recently has drifted from being white, to now hip-hop as one of the top genres in the world.

 

完整文章 From article: http://www.15mins.today/blog/516-the-old-pop-music-is-over-introducing-a-playbook-for-pop-2-0

 

Vocabulary and sample sentences:

 

Playbook (a book containing a sports team's strategies and plays, especially in football)

The Internet has changed the playbook on what happens to a pop-star's career.

The playbook for copyright infringement has changed a lot recently in the European Union 

Genre (a category of art, music, literature that share similar form, style, or subject matter)

Friday the thirteenth is a movie in the "horror" genre.

Starwars movie is in the "science-fiction" genre.

The hip-hop is the new genre (in music) to rule them all. 

An encyclopedia falls under the "non-fiction" genre.

Exorbitant (unreasonably high price, too expensive)

 

 

When you go on holiday during Chinese New Year, prices are exorbitant.

In Chinese New Year, you pay exorbitant prices for travel.

If you eat at Sogo, the prices are exorbitant.

 

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Summary:

Pop music is ubiquitous and it is everywhere. You can't run away from it. This article talks about how the rules of pop music has changed. The billboard, an American company that measures your record's success has changed their parameters. Before, record companies decided what was pop and what was not. Now, they are looking at streaming media. If you are a top streaming artist, you get to also join the billboard. This article also mentioned that the billboard recently has drifted from being white, to now hip-hop as one of the top genres in the world.

 

完整文章 From article: http://www.15mins.today/blog/516-the-old-pop-music-is-over-introducing-a-playbook-for-pop-2-0

 

Vocabulary and sample sentences:

 

Playbook (a book containing a sports team's strategies and plays, especially in football)

The Internet has changed the playbook on what happens to a pop-star's career.

The playbook for copyright infringement has changed a lot recently in the European Union 

Genre (a category of art, music, literature that share similar form, style, or subject matter)

Friday the thirteenth is a movie in the "horror" genre.

Starwars movie is in the "science-fiction" genre.

The hip-hop is the new genre (in music) to rule them all. 

An encyclopedia falls under the "non-fiction" genre.

Exorbitant (unreasonably high price, too expensive)

 

 

When you go on holiday during Chinese New Year, prices are exorbitant.

In Chinese New Year, you pay exorbitant prices for travel.

If you eat at Sogo, the prices are exorbitant.

 

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每日跟讀#536: Thai central bank unveils Central Bank Digital Currency test results

Earlier this week the Bank of Thailand （BOT） announced the results of its proof of concept（PoC） for a wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency（CBDC）. The overall conclusion was positive, though some areas were identified as needing further work.

 

泰國銀行（BOT）本週稍早公布其批發型中央銀行數位貨幣（CBDC）的概念驗證（PoC）成果。整體結果正向，但有些領域仍待進一步測試。

 

"The outcome of Project Inthanon has demonstrated that DLT has not only increased efficiency but also reduced risks and overall costs in the financial ecosystem," said Pimolpa Suntichok, Senior EVP, Siam Commercial Bank.

 

「茵他儂專案的成果已表明，分散式帳本技術（DLT）不僅可提升效率，還能降低金融生態系統的風險及總成本，」暹羅商業銀行高階執行副總裁匹默波．杉第雀歐表示。

 

Project Inthanon, named after Thailand’s highest mountain, had three aims. First as a tool for collaborative learning about distributed ledger technology（DLT）by Thai financial institutions.

 

以泰國第一高峰命名的「茵他儂專案」有3項目標。首要是作為泰國金融機構分散式帳本技術的協作學習工具。

 

Source article: https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1266603

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每日跟讀#536: Thai central bank unveils Central Bank Digital Currency test results

Earlier this week the Bank of Thailand （BOT） announced the results of its proof of concept（PoC） for a wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency（CBDC）. The overall conclusion was positive, though some areas were identified as needing further work.

 

泰國銀行（BOT）本週稍早公布其批發型中央銀行數位貨幣（CBDC）的概念驗證（PoC）成果。整體結果正向，但有些領域仍待進一步測試。

 

"The outcome of Project Inthanon has demonstrated that DLT has not only increased efficiency but also reduced risks and overall costs in the financial ecosystem," said Pimolpa Suntichok, Senior EVP, Siam Commercial Bank.

 

「茵他儂專案的成果已表明，分散式帳本技術（DLT）不僅可提升效率，還能降低金融生態系統的風險及總成本，」暹羅商業銀行高階執行副總裁匹默波．杉第雀歐表示。

 

Project Inthanon, named after Thailand’s highest mountain, had three aims. First as a tool for collaborative learning about distributed ledger technology（DLT）by Thai financial institutions.

 

以泰國第一高峰命名的「茵他儂專案」有3項目標。首要是作為泰國金融機構分散式帳本技術的協作學習工具。

 

Source article: https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1266603

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每日跟讀#535: Robots serve up food and fun in Budapest cafe

 

The robots at the Enjoy Budapest Cafe can do it all - they can serve up food and drink, tell jokes, dance with the kids or just hang out for a chat with customers.

 

「享用布達佩斯咖啡館」的機器人能一手包辦所有事情：它們可以上菜和飲料、講笑話、和孩子們跳舞，或是與顧客廝混談心。

 

The cafe, opened by IT company E-Szoftverfejlesztő in the Hungarian capital, is staffed by a whole team of robots that aim to help familiarize the public with the technological revolution in automation and artificial intelligence.

 

這家由資訊科技公司「電子軟體開發者」開在匈牙利首都的咖啡館，工作人員由一整組的機器人團隊擔任，用意乃協助大眾熟悉自動化和人工智慧領域的科技革命。

 

The robot waiters follow fixed paths to deliver food and drink orders to customers, who are asked to keep out of the robots’ way.

 

機器人服務生循著固定路徑，把訂購的餐飲遞送給客戶，他們被要求避開機器人走道。

 

Others serve up entertainment, such as Pepper, a "receptionist" robot that can hold a conversation and also dance with customers.

 

其他則提供消遣娛樂，例如可和客戶談話也能跳舞的「接待員」機器人「胡椒」。

 

Despite fears that increasing automation and artificial intelligence will take away employment from humans, Enjoy Budapest Cafe’s robots aren’t putting anyone out of a job yet.

 

儘管各界擔心自動化及人工智慧的增多將搶走人類的工作，「享用布達佩斯咖啡館」還沒把任何人逐出工作崗位。

 

"We actually employ twice as many people as before, because to operate 16 to 20 robots from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. we need to have IT specialists in the background,"owner Tibor Csizmadia says.

 

店老闆提伯爾．齊茲馬帝亞說，「我們的僱員數其實是以前兩倍，因為從上午9點到下午9點操作16到20個機器人，我們需要資訊科技專家在幕後支援。」

 

Source article: https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1265707

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每日跟讀#535: Robots serve up food and fun in Budapest cafe

 

The robots at the Enjoy Budapest Cafe can do it all - they can serve up food and drink, tell jokes, dance with the kids or just hang out for a chat with customers.

 

「享用布達佩斯咖啡館」的機器人能一手包辦所有事情：它們可以上菜和飲料、講笑話、和孩子們跳舞，或是與顧客廝混談心。

 

The cafe, opened by IT company E-Szoftverfejlesztő in the Hungarian capital, is staffed by a whole team of robots that aim to help familiarize the public with the technological revolution in automation and artificial intelligence.

 

這家由資訊科技公司「電子軟體開發者」開在匈牙利首都的咖啡館，工作人員由一整組的機器人團隊擔任，用意乃協助大眾熟悉自動化和人工智慧領域的科技革命。

 

The robot waiters follow fixed paths to deliver food and drink orders to customers, who are asked to keep out of the robots’ way.

 

機器人服務生循著固定路徑，把訂購的餐飲遞送給客戶，他們被要求避開機器人走道。

 

Others serve up entertainment, such as Pepper, a "receptionist" robot that can hold a conversation and also dance with customers.

 

其他則提供消遣娛樂，例如可和客戶談話也能跳舞的「接待員」機器人「胡椒」。

 

Despite fears that increasing automation and artificial intelligence will take away employment from humans, Enjoy Budapest Cafe’s robots aren’t putting anyone out of a job yet.

 

儘管各界擔心自動化及人工智慧的增多將搶走人類的工作，「享用布達佩斯咖啡館」還沒把任何人逐出工作崗位。

 

"We actually employ twice as many people as before, because to operate 16 to 20 robots from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. we need to have IT specialists in the background,"owner Tibor Csizmadia says.

 

店老闆提伯爾．齊茲馬帝亞說，「我們的僱員數其實是以前兩倍，因為從上午9點到下午9點操作16到20個機器人，我們需要資訊科技專家在幕後支援。」

 

Source article: https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1265707

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