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(Mon) Future of Food: Spain's first virtual waiter app
스페인 최초의 가상현실 웨이터 앱
How do you like your pizza? Gluten free? Extra cheese? What about a drink on the side? Don’t tell your waiter, tell your phone instead. Claudia Medina, customer: "Very interactive, very simple to use. The application is very user friendly and you even get the receipt." This pizza joint in Spain is pioneering a futuristic dining experience that allows customers to avoid most face-to-face contact with staff. The restaurant – called Funky Pizza- has its very own app – called Funky Pay. Customers place orders through the app and can even track its progress and estimated time of arrival at the table. Staff manage the orders from screens behind the bar. While it’s an effective way to socially distance, not all customers are on board with the new style of eating out. Javier Comas, customer: "I am not that convinced by the experience, because I think we lose the feeling with the waiter, for example when you order you can't ask about different preferences or quantities. The feeling with the restaurant is lost, I am not convinced." At Funky Pizza, the only time you’ll actually see a waiter is when your food is brought to the table. But this restaurant in Egypt has taken things to the next level. Here your food will be delivered by a tie and apron-wearing robot named ''Mozo'' - meaning "waiter" in Spanish.
(Tue) Economic meltdown threatens Europe's war on plastic
경제붕괴로 위협받는 유럽의 플라스틱과의 전쟁
Giving new life to plastic trash is what gets Carlos Bento out of bed each day. But the crisis has caused revenues to drop by up to 40 percent at Micronipol, the large recycling facility he runs in central Portugal. His company produces polyethylene, the base for plastic bags and bottles. The product is piling up at its warehouses as clients shelve their recycling goals. They're now opting for cheaper non-recycled alternatives. "If we are no longer competitive and if we lose cash, as in any other company in the market, we have two options: either someone has to subsidize us so we can keep working or we have to shut down." As restrictions were put in place worldwide, a drop in demand for oil pushed prices to historic lows. This made virgin plastics - already becoming cheaper than the recycled alternative - even more affordable. This could spell disaster for the future of European recyclers like Micronipol. Industry group Plastic Recyclers Europe said firms in most EU member states have signaled their recycling facilities have drastically reduced their operations for at least a few months. The European Environment Bureau is calling for a tax to be slapped on all virgin plastics to eliminate the price gap. Europe generates around 26 million tons of plastic waste annually, but less than 30 % of that is collected for recycling. And as countries struggle to cope with the economic impact of the health crisis, fears abound that environmental policies are being left behind. Experts say existing targets to improve plastic recycling could now be in danger of not being met.
(Wed) Facebook purges ads for illegal wildlife in SE Asia
페이스북, 동남아시아 야생동물 밀거래 광고 근절
Facebook has a ban on the sale of animals on its platform. But that hasn't stopped Southeast Asia's illegal wildlife trade. So, the social media giant went on a crackdown , closing groups and removing hundreds of adverts in recent weeks. Amy Sawitta Lefevre is Facebook's policy communications manager for emerging markets. "We also remove this type of content as soon as we become aware of it. We're very committed to working with wildlife and law enforcement authorities around the world to really tackle this problem of illegal wildlife trade." In the five months to May 2020, a report seen by Reuters showed World Wildlife Fund researchers had counted more than 2,000 wild animals from 94 species for sale on Facebook from Myanmar alone. The vast majority of posts - some 92 percent - were offering live animals. Jedsada Taweekan from the WWF explains why Facebook poses a problem in combating the illegal sale of wild animals. "Facebook has a function for closed groups, like, somebody can set up a closed group and sell something and it's very safe for them too because they don't need to approve everybody to go to their site, they can selectively select, I mean who they can allow to go into their site." Campaigners say the advent of zoonotic diseases like the novel coronavirus hasn't quashed demand from buyers. A study by TRAFFIC published last month found almost 2,500 ivory items for sale across Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam on Facebook and Instagram, which is owned by Facebook. TRAFFIC said 557 out of 600 posts, groups and profiles flagged to Facebook have since been removed. The WWF said four Facebook accounts and seven groups, each with thousands of members, were removed in response to their research in Myanmar.
(Thu) The Japanese store with workers allowed until 80
일본에서 정년 80세 허용한 상점
Tadashi Sato is constantly on the move in his job at Japanese electrical retailer Nojima. Attending to customers, restocking shelves and having chats with colleagues. The main difference though is that they are in their 20s and 30s and Tadashi is 72. "I wasn't expecting to still be working at this age. We had imagined that a person at the age of 72 was someone quite old, but once I turned 72, it wasn't the case. I feel like I am in my 50s. I want to keep up with young people if I can." Nojima is set to have more store workers of a similar age. In a rare move, Japan's sixth-largest home appliances chain operator has made it an official policy to let its workers stay until they turn 80. The scheme, introduced last month, is a result of Japan's population aging and shrinking rapidly. Nojima's 3,000 regular employees can now stay on a renewable annual contract once they have hit the company's retirement age of 65.
(Fri) Disney profit surprise lists Wall Street
디즈니의 깜짝 실적에 뒤이은 월가 주가 상승
Disney’s surprise quarterly profit blew some magic dust onto the markets Wednesday. Investors also bought stocks on signs that Congressional Democrats and the White House were nearing a deal on a coronavirus relief bill. The Dow added 1.4% while the Nasdaq and S&P gained more than half percent. Hard hit cyclical sectors like materials, industrials and financials joined technology stocks in the rally. Hancock Thematic Opportunities Fund co-portfolio manager Ger Van Der Geer: “It’s great to see market breadth is finally starting to become a little bit better. It had been very very much supported by a small group of stocks. What we see now in the last couple of days is expectation that the government will come with more stimulus.” Disney shares were among the top movers on the Dow and S&P, jumping one day after eking out an adjusted profit that trumped the per share loss that Wall Street was expecting. Johnson & Johnson rose. The U.S. government will pay the drugmaker more than $1 billion for 100 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine. Square surged. The payments processor’s quarterly revenue shot up 64% as consumers staying at home used its platform to buy more goods online.
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* Controversy grows over YouTubers' undisclosed ads
Controversy is growing over Korean YouTubers' undisclosed sponsorship as some big name influencers have been found to have advertised products in their videos without mentioning they were being compensated for featuring them. As the video streaming platform continues to grow as a prime channel for marketing, criticism is also growing over deceptive video advertising, but related regulations still remain at patchwork level, punishing traditional advertisers only, while letting YouTubers avoid legal responsibilities. According to the Fair Trade Commission (FTC), new advertising guidelines on video streaming platforms and social network services (SNS) will take effect Sep 1. In the guidelines, the FTC enhanced rules on fair advertising. In terms of YouTube video clips, the content uploader must specify the clip contains ads in the title or in the clip itself by using a banner. Also the uploader is required to notify that they are advertising at the start and end of the video. For real-time streaming platforms, the antitrust watchdog demanded streamers to inform viewers that they are advertising once every five minutes. The guidelines came amid a number of big name streamers and YouTubers becoming mired in controversy as they uploaded video content without disclosing that they were sponsored. Sandbox Network, a company of 431 YouTubers, on Aug. 7 uploaded a video clip on YouTube apologizing for some of the content made by its members who omitted ad notices even though they were advertising products. Sandbox Network is known for its chief content creator Ddotty, having 2.53 million subscribers as of Aug 10. Before Sandbox's apology, Tzuyang, a YouTuber having 2.65 million subscribers for her eating show, apologized for not pointing to advertisements in some of her early videos and announced she would quit uploading to YouTube.
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