今日ご紹介したニュースです😌  ---本文---  1. Many people dream of relocating to a tropical island, but few make it happen. 2. Canadian restaurateur Neal Van Beers and his partner, Charmaine Sanchez, made their dream a reality — that is, by spending $30,000 to stay at a luxury resort in the Maldives for up to a year. 3. The couple swapped snowy British Columbia for the Maldives in December by purchasing the Anantara Veli resort's "Unlimited Stays in Paradise" package.  4. The $30,000 package allows two people to stay "as often as you please" in one of the resort's luxury overwater bungalows until December 23, 2021. It includes daily breakfast, transportation, and discounts on dining and the spa. 5. Van Beers has been able to work remotely from the Maldives, though he says the only downside is that Canada is 12 hours behind.  6. Van Beers starts his day with a coffee, then he settles into his workspace: a desk next to an ocean-view window. He then checks emails and does some admin before heading to breakfast. 7. The couple spends the rest of the day exploring the island and taking part in outdoor activities, including snorkeling, scuba diving, and swimming. They also pass the time by reading and taking cooking classes. By dinner time, Canada has woken up, so Van Beers would reply to more emails or take a meeting. 8. The Maldives is among many countries that offer various remote-working schemes. Travelers can enter the country on a 30-day visa, which can be extended to 90 days, which Van Beers and his partner have done. 9. Van Beers said that although he's been having a great time, he has missed some of the comforts of working in an office. He said the resort has provided printing services and a stable WiFi connection, though. ------------ 記事の全文はこちらから↓  https://www.insider.com/couple-remote-working-maldives-anantara-resort-unlimited-stay-year-2021-2 #英語 #モルディブ #リモートワーク

今日ご紹介したニュースです😌 ---本文--- 1. The American space agency has released an astonishing image sent back from Mars by its Perseverance rover. 2. It shows the robot heading down to the ground on Thursday to make its landing. Perseverance has a large amount of data in its memory banks which it is gradually offloading to Earth. 3. Among other pictures is a view from a satellite that captures the rover in the parachute phase of its descent.This also represents an immense technical achievement because the satellite - the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - was approximately 700km from Perseverance at the time and traveling at about 3km/s. 4. Nasa is promising more in the next few days. This offering will include short movies shot during the Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) sequence - with sound. 5. Perseverance has been put in a near-equatorial Martian crater known as Jezero where it will search for signs of past microbial life. 6. Engineers report Perseverance to be in good health, as they gradually commission its systems. All the hardware needs to be assessed to be sure nothing was damaged during Thursday's plunge through the Martian atmosphere to the ground. 7. The science team was itching to start exploring the crater, said deputy project scientist Katie Stack Morgan. Even now, with just this limited first release of pictures, there were fascinating rocks to discuss, she told reporters. 8. Its initial mission will last one Martian year (roughly two Earth years), although it's hard to see the agency not extending this if all the hardware remains healthy. 9. As well as searching for signs of life, Perseverance's other key objective is to select and package rock samples that can be brought back to Earth laboratories by later missions. ------------ スピーチの全文はこちらから↓ https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56133281 #英語 #NASA #火星

今日ご紹介したニュースです😌  ---本文---  1. Bitcoin blew through another milestone, surging past $50,000 for the first time as the blistering rally in the largest cryptocurrency continues to captivate investors worldwide. 2. The world’s largest cryptocurrency jumped as much as 4.9% to $50,548 and is now up about 70% so far this year. Bitcoin pared its gain after setting the record high. Ether, a rival crypto, hit a record on Friday and is up about 140% year-to-date. 3. After ending last year with a fourth-quarter surge of 170% to around $29,000, Bitcoin token jumped to $40,000 seven days later.  4. It took just nearly six weeks to breach the latest threshold, buoyed by endorsements from the likes of Paul Tudor Jones, Stan Druckenmiller and Elon Musk. Bitcoin traded for a few cents for several years after its debut more than a decade ago. 5. Optimism grew after Mastercard Inc. and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. moved to make it easier for customers to use cryptocurrencies, while Bloomberg reported Saturday that Morgan Stanley may add Bitcoin to its list of possible bets. ------------ 記事の全文はこちらから↓  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-16/bitcoin-jumps-to-50-000-as-record-breaking-rally-accelerates #はじめまして #英語 #ビットコイン #bitcoin

今日ご紹介したニュースです😌  ---本文---  1. New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has ordered the country's biggest city Auckland to go into lockdown after the discovery of three new local cases of Covid-19. 2. The measures will last three days and require residents to stay at home. 3. New Zealand has won widespread praise for its handling of the pandemic, going months without community transmission. 4. New Zealand, with a population of five million, has recorded just over 2,300 cases of Covid and 25 deaths. 5. The measures in Auckland require its 1.7 million residents to stay at home except for essential shopping and work. Schools and non-essential shops will close, and entry in and out of the city restricted. 6. Ms Ardern said three days should allow the government to get more information and get more testing done, and would also help determine if there was any community transmission. 7. "New cases of Covid-19 in the community was something none of us wanted to happen,"  Auckland Mayor Phil Goff said, adding the restrictions were the "best way to stamp out the virus". ------------ 記事の全文はこちらから↓  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56059960 #英語 #ニュージーランド #covid19

今日ご紹介したニュースです😌  ---本文---  1. Coca-Cola is to test a paper bottle as part of a longer-term bid to eliminate plastic from its packaging entirely. 2. The prototype is made by a Danish company from an extra-strong paper shell that still contains a thin plastic liner. 3. But the goal is to create a 100% recyclable, plastic-free bottle capable of preventing gas escaping from carbonated drinks. 4. But industry giants are backing the plan. Coca-Cola, for example, has set a goal of producing zero waste by 2030. 5. Coca-Cola was ranked the world's number one plastic polluter by charity group Break Free From Plastic last year, closely followed by other drink-producers Pepsi and Nestle. ------------ 記事の全文はこちらから↓  https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56023723 #はじめまして #英語 #コカコーラ #cocacola

今日ご紹介したニュースです😌  ---本文---  1. Spotify said Friday that it will let employees choose wherever they want to work, whether that's from home, in an office or a mix of the two -- and let them move to different cities and even countries.  2. The program, called Work From Anywhere, allows Spotify employees to pick a Work Mode, deciding with managers whether they'll work full time from home, from the office, or a combo.  3. The company is also introducing more flexibility for workers to choose their geographic location, letting them decide with their managers what city and country they'd like to work from, with some limitations because of time zone difficulties and regional laws.  4. Spotify will even arrange a membership to a co-working space for employees who move to a location without a Spotify office nearby, if that employee still prefers to work in an office environment, the company said in blog posts about the new program.  5. Work, Spotify said, isn't someplace you go, it's something you do -- and the company won't measure effectiveness by the number of hours spent in an office.  ------------ 記事の全文はこちらから↓  https://www.cnet.com/news/spotify-will-let-employees-work-wherever-they-want-even-after-pandemic/ #英語 #Spotify

今日ご紹介したニュースです😌 ----本文---- 1. Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates warned for years that a deadly pandemic could take place. Now, he’s calling out the threats of bioterrorism and climate change. 2. Gates appeared on Derek Muller’s YouTube channel Veritasium last week, where he was asked about what’s the next issue facing humanity. 3. “One is climate change. Every year that would be a death toll even greater than the one we would have in this pandemic,” the Microsoft co-founder said. 4. “Also, related to pandemics is something people don’t like to talk about much, which is bioterrorism, that somebody who wants to cause damage could engineer a virus. So that means the chance of running into this is more than just the naturally caused epidemics like the current one.” 5. Years before the coronavirus battered the globe, Gates warned that governments weren’t prepared for a pandemic. 6. “The world as a whole doesn’t have the preparedness for epidemics, and we’ve had a few flu scares that got us to do some minor things, but not enough,” he said in a 2014 interview. 7. “If this thing had been twice as transmissive, we’d be in a lot of trouble, and there are agents that have a real chance of coming on in the next several decades that are far more transmissive than this is. What’s to stop some form of SARS showing up?” 8. In a 2015 TED Talk titled “The next outbreak? We’re not ready,” Gates said an infectious virus was a greater risk to humanity than nuclear war. 9. In his interview with Muller, Gates said there will be more pandemics. However, going forward, governments could increase their preparedness to try to reduce the death tolls. ------------ 記事の全文はこちらから↓ https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/11/bill-gates-says-bioterrorism-climate-change-are-the-next-big-threats.html #英語 #ビルゲイツ

今日ご紹介したニュースです😌  ---本文---  1. Facebook is building an audio chat product that is similar to the popular young app Clubhouse, according to two people with knowledge of the matter, as the social network aims to expand into new forms of communication. 2. Clubhouse, a social networking app, has gained buzz for letting people gather in audio chat rooms to talk about various topics.   3. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, has been interested in audio communication forms, said the people with knowledge of the matter, and he appeared in the Clubhouse app on Sunday to chat about augmented and virtual reality. 4. Facebook executives have ordered employees to create a similar product, said the people, who were not authorized to speak publicly. The product is in its earliest stages of development, they said, and the project’s code name could change. 5. “We’ve been connecting people through audio and video technologies for many years and are always exploring new ways to improve that experience for people,”  Emilie Haskell, a Facebook spokeswoman, said. ------------ 記事の全文はこちらから↓  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/technology/facebook-building-product-clubhouse.html #英語 #Clubhouse #Facebook

今日ご紹介したニュースです😌  ---本文---  1. Dogecoin rose to all-time high Sunday, as Elon Musk tweets “Who let the Doge out” amid the rally. 2. The Shiba Inu-themed digital coin surpassed 8 cents for the first time, just a week after crashing to 2.5 cents and sparking an outcry on Reddit.  3. It rose 53% in the last 24 hours to 8.2 cents as of 5:45 p.m. in New York on Sunday, according to CoinMarketCap data, breezing through its recent record of 7.8 cents posted in late January. 4. It now has a market value of $10 billion, making it the 8th-biggest cryptocurrency. 5. The price recovered over the past week after Tesla Inc. co-founder Elon Musk returned from his self-imposed Twitter break to send a series of tweets promoting Dogecoin. 6. Started as a joke in 2013, Dogecoin has been riding a wave of newfound popularity on social media, powered by the speculative frenzy of retail investors. ------------ 記事の全文はこちらから↓  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-07/dogecoin-soars-again-toward-record-after-crashing-last-week #はじめまして #英語 #dogecoin

今日ご紹介したニュースです😌    ---本文--- 1. Netflix Inc. shares rose as much as 3.7% on news that the company is raising the price of its service in Japan, bolstering revenue in an increasingly key market for the streaming giant.   2. Starting Friday, prices for Netflix’s basic and standard tiers will go up by about 13%, with the premium plan remaining unchanged. Japan’s Nikkei newspaper previously reported on the increase.   3. Asia is Netflix’s second-fastest growing region, with Japan and South Korea fueling the expansion. The company also has stepped up investment in anime, which is hugely popular in Japan.   4. Investors applauded the move, sending the stock as high as $559.48. Price increases have helped Netflix shore up its finances and pay for its industry-leading production budget. The shares had been little changed this year through Wednesday’s close.   5. In the U.S., Netflix’s standard tier, its most popular offering, is $13.99. The Japanese equivalent will now be roughly the same in U.S. dollars.  ------------   記事の全文はこちらから↓  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-04/netflix-climbs-after-company-raises-prices-by-13-in-japan?srnd=premium-asia