Digital Transformation

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South Korea’s Global Metaverse Office Spaces

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Vocabulary & Expressions

cost-effective: 비용 효율적인
A start-up based in South Korea is offering a cost-effective and sustainable workplace for businesses…

show (someone) around: ~를 구경시켜 주다, 안내하다
I’m here to show you around and show you what Soma is all about.

face-to-face: 대면의
…providing the new networking experience of face-to-face remote work.

take up: (공간을) 차지하다
…each office is taken up by different companies.

physical package: 소포
at request: 요청에 따라
…employees can book conference rooms or send physical packages to an address at request.

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Unpacking Adobe’s Phenomenal Growth

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Vocabulary & Expressions

a suite of: 한 묶음의
Today, Adobe offers a suite of products…

legible: 읽을 수 있는, 알아볼 수 있는
imprecise: 애매한
…which used printed dots to form shapes, though while legible, were blocky and imprecise.

acquisition: (기업) 인수
To remain competitive over the years, Adobe made dozens of acquisitions and investments. 

upfront: 선불로
Instead of paying hundreds, or thousands, of dollars upfront for a single product…

pay off: 성공하다, 성과를 올리다
But a decade on, it’s clear Adobe’s gamble paid off.

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Google CEO Nagivates Interview on AI Issues

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Vocabulary & Expressions

keep (someone) up at night: ~를 잠 못 들게 하다
Sundar, I wonder what keeps you up at night around this issue of AI?

deploy: 효율적으로 사용하다
The urgency to work and deploy it in a beneficial way.

get caught up in (something): ~에 휘말리다, ~에 사로잡히다
potential pitfall: 잠재적 함정
…people working on it across companies, et cetera, so get caught up in who’s first that we lose, you know, the potential pitfalls and downsides to it.

inception: (기관 등의) 시작
Google’s motto at its inception was “Don’t be evil,” but Sundar Pichai has modified that a little bit.

nuanced: 섬세한
underpin: 뒷받침하다
…it’s a lot more of a nuanced view, but it underpins how we think about things.

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Is South Korea the Most Tech Savy Country in the World?

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Vocabulary & Expressions

firsthand: 직접
He’s been witnessing firsthand the rapid changes happening here in Seoul.

turn things around: 상황을 호전시키다, 역전시키다
pump money into: ~에 돈을 퍼붓다
future-proof: 미래에도 사용할 수 있게 만들다
broadband: 고속 데이터 통신망
To turn things around in the 80s and 90s, the government pumped a lot of money into the future-proofing, spending billions of dollars building a fiber backbone to bring broadband to every school, office, and home.

flourish: 번성하다
Conditions were perfect to create a small ecosystem for tech to flourish. 

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Tim Cook Introduces Apple Vision Pro

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Vocabulary & Expressions

ambitious: 야심적인, 엄청난
CEO Tim Cook announcing Apple Vision Pro, their most ambitious product to date.

magnitude: (엄청난) 규모
Probably the magnitude of what it does…

isolation: 고립
There are some folks who worry about isolation…

mind-blowing: 놀라운, 압도하는
The engineering and depth of engineering in it is mind-blowing.

motion sickness: 멀미
I had it on for about a half an hour, and there was no motion sickness.

patent: 특허, 특허품
There are 500 patents in the development of this…

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Self-Driving Taxis Are Hitting the Road

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Vocabulary & Expressions

take (one’s) chances: 위험을 감수하다
I might take my chances with a driverless taxi…

folks: 사람들
…folks like you are excited about that if you were in San Francisco.

street-legal: (차량이) 도로에서 합법적인
I tried Waymo and Cruise, the two newly street legal robotaxi services in San Francisco.

jarring: 삐걱거리는
It was an abrupt stop and jarring for me as a rider.

veer: 방향을 바꾸다
The car acted as it’s programmed to, veering left to keep a safe distance from the pedestrian.

encompass: 포함하다
urban: 도시의
We are proud of our safety record which encompasses more than 4 million driverless miles in complex urban environments. 

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Data Poisoning Tool Helps Artists Fight Against AI

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Vocabulary & Expressions

advocate: 옹호자
Not only is Carla an artist but she is also a huge advocate for protecting artist rights in this new age of AI.

class action lawsuit: 집단소송
copyright infringement: 저작권 침해
She is part of a class action lawsuit alleging copyright infringement by several generative AI companies.

consent: 동의
compensation: 보상
And all of it is done without anyone’s consent, no credit, no compensation, no nothing.

ragtag: 오합지졸
Where a ragtag team of professors and PhD students are embarking on a very bold mission.

consequence: (발생한 일의) 결과
Nightshade is just saying hey, if you take this without my consent, there might be consequences to that.

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How Artificial Intelligence Can Impact Healthcare

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Vocabulary & Expressions

psychiatrist: 정신과 의사
I am joined by psychiatrist and Brightside Health co-founder Dr. Mimi Winsburg.

countless: 셀 수 없이
utilize: 활용하다
Dr. Winsburg, AI is basically in our daily lives consistently with people finding countless new ways to utilize the technology but can it really replace your psychiatrist or doctor?

In the midst of: ~ 의 가운데에
We’re in the midst of a National Health crisis right now…

administrative: 행정상의
out of the loop: 배제되어
It can help them take some of the administrative tasks out of the loop.

evidence: 증거
crisis: 위기
The other way we might use it is to think about predicting risk so there’s good evidence that it can show you if somebody might be able to be in crisis later on or what kind of treatment they might respond to.

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The Cloud Kitchen Hoping To Go Fully Autonomous

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Vocabulary & Expressions

scale up: (규모를) 확대하다
…is now looking to raise more cash and seriously scale up.

brick-and-mortar: 소매의, 오프라인 사업의
…which is very different to solving it, when it comes down to a brick-and-mortar dining business.

consolidate: 강화하다
A key part of getting into full autonomous cooking is for us to really consolidate the supply chain…

aggregator: (배달) 대행업체
…we develop a lot more software and help aggregators really optimize their fleets…

replicate: 모방하다
We would replicate exactly what you would do as a brand in any city we operate in.

initial public offering (IPO): 기업공개
Deliveroo launched an initial public offering in March 2021 with a $10.5 billion initial valuation. 

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South Korea’s ‘Gen MZ’ Leads Rush Into ‘Metaverse’

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Vocabulary & Expressions

buzzword: 유행어 
It’s a buzzword that at its most basic means…

land parcel: 토지 구획, 필지 
They are digital assets encompassing everything from artwork and videos to clothes, avatars and Sean’s land parcels.

disgruntled: ~에 불만을 품은 
Some social experts attribute the trend to the disgruntled MZ generation…

entice: 유인하다 
Soaring house prices and income inequality have enticed young people into alternative online worlds.

geolocation-based: 지리적 위치에 기반한 
Choi put down 43,000 dollars to buy property on geolocation-based platform Earth 2.

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