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chinadaily.com.cn 2018-08-29 16:18

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>Degrees worthless for job?
學歷不再是應聘敲門磚?
Recently, the job review site Glassdoor compiled a list of 15 different companies that don't require job applicants to have college degrees. The list includes high-paying tech outlets like Apple, Google, and IBM, in addition to service-oriented companies like Costco, Starbucks, and Chipotle. Google acknowledged several years ago that college transcripts and test scores are worthless predictors of later job performance. At IBM, where roughly 15% of new hires in the US don't have college degrees, CEO Ginni Rometty has said that vocational courses and on-the-job experience offer more relevant training for many tech sector positions than a four-year college degree.
最近，職業點評網站Glassdoor編纂了一份榜單，羅列了15家不要求應聘者擁有大學文憑的公司，蘋果、谷歌和IBM等高薪科技公司，以及好市多、星巴克和Chipotle等服務型企業均榜上有名。幾年前，谷歌公司就曾坦言，大學成績單和考試成績並不能預測日後的工作表現。IBM公司在美國新招聘的人中，約15%沒有大學文憑，執行長金尼•羅梅蒂表示，對於許多技術領域的崗位而言，職業課程和在職經歷所提供的培訓內容比4年的大學學歷更具關聯性。

 

>Chinese menu draws tourists
中文菜單帶火英快餐店
One fish and chip shop in Britain has hit on a novel way of attracting customers: translating its menu into Mandarin. Scotts Fish and Chips near York now serves more than 100 Chinese holidaymakers a week after launching a Mandarin website and promoting its deep-fried delicacies on Weibo and WeChat. The restaurant's location also is thought to be one of the reasons for the influx because it is on the main route for tour groups visiting York from London. Andrew Speke, who leads Chinese language food tours in London for BeiWei 55, said fish and chips was at the top of the must-try list for a new breed of middle class Chinese tourists. "We've moved on from the days where all Chinese people went around Europe on a coach and had all their meals in suburban Chinese restaurants," said Speke. "Our customers are the Chinese middle classes from first or second-tier Chinese cities. They watch Downton Abbey and Sherlock and they want the classic British experience."
英國一家炸魚薯條店偶然間發現了一種招攬顧客的新途徑：將菜單翻譯成中文。約克郡附近的斯科茨炸魚薯條店推出中文網站並在微博和微信上宣傳店內的油炸美食後，現在每周光顧該店的中國遊客超過100人。因為位於旅行團從倫敦到訪約克郡的主路上，這家店的位置也被認為是其火爆的原因之一。北緯55度旅遊公司的中文倫敦美食旅行團的導遊朱海林說，炸魚薯條在新一代中國中產階層遊客的必嘗清單上位居榜首。朱海林說："我們已經告別了所有中國人都坐大巴週遊歐洲、在郊區的中餐館用餐的時代。我們的客戶是來自中國一、二線城市的中產階層。他們看《唐頓莊園》、《神探夏洛克》，希望獲得經典的英國體驗。"

 

A passenger-carrying autonomous taxi undergoes a test run on a public road in Tokyo on Aug. 27, 2018. [Photo/VCG]

>Autonomous taxi tested in JP
日試行無人駕駛計程車
A venture firm and a major taxi company on Monday began a trial of passenger-carrying autonomous taxi services with an eye on launching the full service around 2020 when Tokyo hosts the Olympics and the Paralympics. ZMP Inc, a Tokyo-based developer of autonomous driving technology, and Hinomaru Kotsu Co, said they are the first in the world to offer autonomous taxi services to fare-paying passengers in the test. In the trial, a minivan equipped with sensors and other autonomous technologies makes four round trips a day between commercial facilities in Tokyo's Otemachi and Roppongi districts. The autonomous taxi will start, stop and turn the vehicle, but a driver and an assistant will be on board to ensure safety. Passengers solicited in advance will unlock the door and make payments through a smartphone app, paying 1,500 yen for a one-way ride.
27日，一家風投公司和一家大型計程車公司開始試運行搭載乘客的自動駕駛計程車服務，目標是到2020年左右，東京主辦奧運會和帕運會時能全面推出這一服務。總部位於東京的自動駕駛技術開發商ZMP和日之丸交通稱，他們是全球首次開啟在測試中為付費乘客提供自動駕駛計程車服務的企業。試運行中，一輛裝有傳感器和其他自動駕駛技術的迷你廂式車每天將在東京大手町和六本木區的商業設施間往返四次。這輛自動駕駛計程車將會啟動，停駛和轉彎，但車上將配有一位司機和一位助理以確保安全。提前叫車的乘客將可打開門鎖，並通過智慧型手機應用付費，單程價格為1500日元。

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>NASA apps take you to space
NASA推出'太空自拍'應用
A new app from NASA, named NASA Selfies, lets you snap a shot of yourself to overlay on a choice of backgrounds, ranging from the Orion Nebula (獵戶座星雲) to the Milky Way. The NASA Selfies app lets you place your face, or that of your pet, into a spacesuit with a backdrop of stunning images taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope of the last 15 years (see photo). A second new app from NASA, called NASA's Exoplanet Excursions VR, lets you take a virtual reality (VR) tour of the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system using Oculus, Vive and smartphone VR, as well as via YouTube 360. Both of these apps were created to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
美國航空航天局(NASA)推出了一款名為NASA Selfies的新應用，用戶可以自拍一張照片，疊加在獵戶座星雲、銀河系等可供選擇的背景之上。該應用允許用戶將自己的臉或者寵物的臉P到以斯皮策太空望遠鏡過去15年拍攝的炫酷圖片為背景的太空衣上(見圖)。NASA推出的另一款新應用名為NASA's Exoplanet Excursions VR，用戶可使用Oculus、Vive、智慧型手機VR以及YouTube 360對TRAPPIST-1行星系進行虛擬實境遊覽。這兩款應用都是為了慶祝斯皮策太空望遠鏡發射15周年而開發的。

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