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  1. 21時間前

    Privacy concerns put smart glasses under scrutiny as Norway seeks temporary ban

    A trip to the park. A day at the beach. A workout session at the gym. All in public spaces where smart glasses can snap photos, record conversations, or stream video online—without people in the line of their lenses and microphones knowing about it. Norway's government wants to get a handle on both the promise and peril of AI glasses and is proposing that parliament enact a temporary ban on them in some places. It's the latest sign of growing concern in many countries about new technologies that are fundamentally changing the way people live. Some governments have banned the use of social media by children and young teens. Norway’s government said the proposal for the temporary ban will be made to parliament as soon as possible. A key question is where to draw the line. Norwegian authorities say a ban on the use of smart glasses could apply to places where “privacy is particularly important,” like healthcare facilities or fitness centers with changing rooms and showers. A major focus is spaces where children congregate, such as schools, kindergartens, playgrounds, and youth clubs. But it could extend to public concerts and sports events, plus parks, beaches, museums and shopping centers. A temporary ban would give authorities time to decide what types of devices might be affected and debate whether permanent regulation is needed. The government was quick to note that it was not proposing a total ban and said such devices should still be allowed in some places and for private use. The government also said it was considering exceptions to a ban for vulnerable groups, so that “socially beneficial uses” of smart glasses could be permitted in some circumstances. Meta, the company behind Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, has rolled out AI glasses with eyewear vendor Ray-Ban, encourages respect for privacy and advises customers on how to use the glasses responsibly. “Respect people’s preferences. Not everyone loves being photographed. Stop recording if anyone expresses that they would rather you not,” Meta wrote on its site. The tech giant based in Menlo Park, California, says a light on the glasses indicates when recording is underway, and if the glasses detect that the light has been blocked or physically tampered with, the camera is automatically disabled. This article was provided by The Associated Press.

  2. 1日前

    The Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program, alleging fraud

    President Donald Trump's administration announced it was suspending Microsoft and several other firms from a program allowing foreign workers to apply for green cards, as it also lashed out at universities that bring international students to the U.S. on exchange programs. The announcement by Vice President JD Vance marks the latest swing from the Trump administration at employers and universities that welcome foreign students and workers into the country. Such programs have frequently been targeted by some Trump supporters who argue they undercut American students and workers. Supporters say they allow the U.S. to attract the best talent from around the world and fill important hiring gaps. Supporters of the Republican president have long argued that various programs like H-1B visas—which Vance accused Microsoft of abusing—essentially empower American companies to recruit foreign workers for jobs that end up undercutting Americans. In the wide-ranging announcement, Vance and other top administration officials also called out universities over their use of J-1 visas for international students and information technology outsourcing firms. The announcement came hours before Trump awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, part of an event at which he granted some of the nation's most prestigious science and technology awards to his tech billionaire allies. Vance said the program from which Microsoft is being suspended requires companies to advertise jobs in America before applying to the Department of Labor to show they need to give a foreign worker a green card because of a lack of American workers. "They'll put an advertisement in a small-town newspaper. They'll go out there and say that 'We have advertised for a position with our company, and nobody is responding to it.' And they will use that lack of response to then go and replace American workers with what is effectively foreign indentured servants," Vance said. "There has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has used this system more than Microsoft." Microsoft is No. 5 among U.S. employers when it comes to using H-1B visas, according to data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Amazon is No. 1. This article was provided by The Associated Press.

  3. 2日前

    Impressionist masterpieces expected to make $450 million at sale

    A rare art collection is due to go on sale in New York in November, with works by famous impressionists estimated to make $450 million. Sotheby’s is auctioning the Blaquier-Arrieta private collection that includes works by Cezanne, Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh, and Pissarro. Paul Cezanne’s “Arlequin” is one of the star lots in Sotheby’s upcoming sale of impressionist and post-impressionist painters. It has not been seen in public since 1975 and is attracting a lot of attention in the art world. “Arlequin” is one of the most hotly contested lots at Sotheby’s New York sale on 18 November, and is estimated to make in the region of $120 million. It is one of only two harlequin paintings made by Cezanne—the other was a smaller work that fetched $8.2 million at auction back in 1988. Helena Newman is the chairman of Sotheby's Europe. She says the collection is special: “It’s incredibly rare for a collection of this quality, museum caliber and content to come to the market. They’re just 12 works, but each and every one of them is of the caliber that it could sit in the Musée d'Orsay. It’s really rare and also very unknown previously. This is like a discovery for large parts of the world. Most people would have never stood in front of these paintings. They haven’t been seen in public for some 50 years or so.” The 12 works are expected to make around $450 million at the sale, which includes Impressionist and Modern works. The Blaquier-Arrieta collection is one of the world’s most prestigious private art collections, assembled by late Argentine industrialist Carlos Pedro Blaquier and patron Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier in the 1970s. It was known about in art circles, but even those in the art world have been taken aback by its richness. This article was provided by The Associated Press.

  4. 3日前

    A peep inside the village center healing Ireland’s sick or injured bats

    An Irish charity is rehabilitating injured and orphaned bats while working to change public perceptions of the creatures. At its center in County Limerick, volunteers nurse the bats back to health before returning them to the wild. Looking out for them is Susan Kerwin from Bat Rehabilitation Ireland. She says they're one of the world’s most misunderstood and maligned animals. Kerwin founded the charity during the COVID pandemic. "Bats were being villainized, and they were made out to be the cause of this pandemic. I was getting calls every day from members of the public that were absolutely terrified," she says. "They didn’t want bats roosting close to their house. There was people that were threatening to use expanding foam and block them in there, threatening to kill the bats, burn them." The charity cares for bats from across the Irish Republic’s twenty-six counties. They arrive either injured, underweight, or separated from their mothers. “This little soprano pipistrelle was found almost completely bald," says Kerwin. "We don’t know was it because it was a particularly hot summer and the roost was under a galvanized steel roof. Or was it something that was genetically or nutritionally happening there,” says Kerwin. Bat Rehabilitation Ireland has a team of around fifty volunteers around the country to help collect injured or orphaned bats. In 2023, they crowdfunded a specially equipped bat ambulance to help them reach remote areas not covered by volunteers. “It’s been a real game changer for us," Kerwin says. "Some weeks I could spend five and six hundred kilometers on the road and this allows us to kind of get to cases that normally we would have to wait until the evening or maybe the following day.” When bats first arrive at the rehabilitation center, they are examined for parasites which are removed and placed in test tubes. Kerwin and her colleagues then send these off to Galway University for testing. This article was provided by The Associated Press.

  5. 4日前

    Federal scholarship for private school and homeschooling opening to most kids in at least 30 states

    Nearly all schoolchildren in at least 30 states can apply for a new federal scholarship next year to help pay for private school, homeschooling, and other educational expenses, according to regulations proposed by the Trump administration. The first national school choice scholarship program, the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit, will launch January 1, establishing a taxpayer-funded incentive for families to choose private or homeschooling in participating states. Taxpayers who donate to an organization passing out the scholarships will receive a federal tax credit, a perk expected to further fuel the conservative school choice movement. About 96% of children in those states should be eligible, according to the department. Children attending public schools could use the scholarships for extra learning expenses. "Education freedom is the key to unlocking opportunity and success for our next generation of students," said U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon in a statement issued. The federal scholarship program, she said, will ensure "every child has access to the education they need, not one limited by ZIP code, family income, or government‑imposed barriers." School choice scholarships have been available for decades in conservative-led states and throughout the South, giving individual students taxpayer-funded grants ranging from a couple thousand dollars to more than $30,000 a year. In places where they are available to all students regardless of income, such as Florida and Arizona, the majority of students using the money were already in private or home school or were from affluent neighborhoods, an analysis by The Associated Press showed. The federal program departs from most state programs by not forcing students to leave public school to qualify for a scholarship. Public school students could use the money for tutoring or special education therapies, although the Republican administration has not provided specific criteria for eligible expenses yet. Regulators say they have set up the program in a way that will make it easier for poor students to apply, proposing to let students use proof of participation in a government assistance program in lieu of providing income documentation. Foster children would not have to provide any income verification when they apply, officials said. This article was provided by The Associated Press.

  6. 5日前

    Pennsylvania records a fifth measles death as the nation endures its worst year since 1991

    Pennsylvania health officials reported a fifth measles-associated death as the U.S. endures its worst year for the disease since 1991. The Pennsylvania Department of Health said the person was from Lancaster County and was unvaccinated. The state did not provide any further information about the person who died. Lancaster County’s coroner, Dr. Stephen Diamantoni, said that his office did not handle the death and that state officials have not provided him with any details. The state’s other deaths have included an 18-year-old resident of Mifflin County, in the center of the state; a 40-year-old woman from Jefferson County, a rural area in western Pennsylvania; and two infants in Lancaster County, in the southeastern part of the state. None of them were vaccinated, according to the state health department. The infants were too young for vaccinations, according to current recommendations. The U.S. has now seen eight reported measles-associated deaths in the last two years—more than the combined total of reported deaths over the previous three decades. Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak continues to grow, with 943 illnesses reported so far this year across 39 counties. The measles-associated deaths are the first reported in the state in 35 years, state officials say. The nation eliminated the domestic spread of measles in 2000 by maintaining high vaccination rates, but they have fallen in recent years to below the 95% coverage needed to prevent outbreaks. Meanwhile, measles infections have been surging in recent years. In November, international health officials will meet to determine if the U.S. and Mexico have lost their measles-free status. The problem has been years in the making, as fewer kids get routine vaccines because of parental waivers, healthcare access issues, and rampant disinformation. More recently, Trump administration health officials, including Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have questioned and sown doubt about the established safety of vaccines at an unprecedented level while also defunding local efforts to improve vaccination rates. This article was provided by The Associated Press.

  7. 6日前

    A 21-year-old Fortnite pro gives out computers to young gamers and plans for more through a new fund

    After dropping out in eighth grade to pursue esports, Cody Conrod wants to help others enter the increasingly expensive world of professional gaming. The 21-year-old competitive Fortnite player, better known as Clix to his more than 8 million Twitch followers, already provides hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of gaming equipment through an annual holiday giveaway. Through his new holding company, launched October 1, he is formalizing those efforts into the Dr3amin Access Fund. Fortnite, one of the world's most popular video games, features last-one-standing showdowns where players hunt down each other's customizable avatars across an ever-shrinking map. Content creators have found loyal audiences by live streaming their exploits on platforms such as Twitch, the livestreaming platform owned by Amazon, and clipping the most eye-catching segments into viral short-form videos. But the equipment needed to compete at higher levels is pricey—and getting pricier. The massive data center buildout has pushed up the costs of computers, graphics processors, and memory chips. Conrod recommends a setup that can handle at least 120 frames per second for a GPU-intensive game such as Fortnite. And even sub-$500, entry-level PCs are becoming scarcer, according to Joost van Dreunen, a longtime games industry researcher and adjunct assistant professor at New York University's Stern School of Business. "Anybody who is starting up early in their career, anybody who is building their first PC, is having an increasingly difficult time finding hardware and components for it," he said. Esports is still a place where it's "very hard to make a living," according to van Dreunen. The real money is clustered at the top, he said, and there's no "healthy" talent ecosystem. There's also the stigma—many people still don't view competitive gaming as a legitimate career, both he and Conrod emphasized. Conrod hopes that by lifting the financial burden of buying a computer, he can get more parents to let their children test the professional limits of their hobby. "They also have to get good grades if they're in school," he added, noting that he made the "still delusional but a little less delusional" move to drop out only when he'd won "a good amount of money." This article was provided by The Associated Press.

  8. 10月29日

    Tokyo court grants legal protection to human voices in AI clone case

    A Tokyo court has awarded legal protection to the human voice in a landmark case in which a popular Japanese anime voice actor demanded that TikTok close an account over its unauthorized use of an artificial intelligence clone of his trademark baritone. The Tokyo District Court's decision was the first acknowledgment of the right to one's voice in Japan. The ruling was good news for many anime voice actors at a time when they are increasingly concerned about the use of AI-generated versions of their voices on social media. The plaintiff, Kenjiro Tsuda, is an actor best known for his “lustrous and deep” voice in starring characters such as Kento Nanami in “Jujutsu Kaisen,” a popular anime series. In his lawsuit, Tsuda said that the anonymous operator of the TikTok account “Nanami” wrongfully profited by attracting viewers with his voice narrating in more than 180 videos about urban legends and paranormal phenomena, and asked for the material to be deleted. “The human voice is symbolic of individual personality, just like one's portrait,” Presiding Judge Aya Takahashi said, according to a court document seen by The Associated Press. It is appropriate to consider the unauthorized use with an obvious intention to take advantage of the commercial appeal of Tsuda's voice “an infringement of publicity rights,” Takahashi said. As of November 2025, the account had more than 200,000 subscribers, with viewers often noting the similarities between the narrator's voice and Tsuda's. The defendant argued that the videos used an AI-generated voice that sounded like Tsuda's but was not his, and that the videos did not damage the actor's reputation as a voice actor. The ruling dismissed Tsuda's demand that all the videos using his voice be deleted, because the account had already been closed. The decision comes at a time of growing concern among Japanese voice actors about the AI cloning of their trademark voices in anime. In 2024, OpenAI announced plans to halt the use of one of its ChatGPT voices after “Her” actor Scarlett Johansson said it sounded “eerily similar” to her own. Last year, Oscar-winning actors Michael Caine and Matthew McConaughey made deals with voice-cloning company ElevenLabs to allow its AI technology to replicate their voices. This article was provided by The Associated Press.

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レアジョブオリジナルの英会話ニュース教材です。世界の時事ネタを中心に、ビジネスから科学やスポーツまで、幅広いトピックのニュースを毎日更新しています。本教材を通して、ビジネスで使える実用的な英会話表現や英単語を身に付けることができます。

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