Polar vortex brings coldest air in a generation

今日の英語の習慣化の題材は、今アメリカ中西部を襲っている極寒波の話題です。

北極よりも寒いと言うことで、Polar Vortexと言う単語を使ってますね〜

Arctic-cold temperatures blasted the Midwest today. Here's what it looked like.
A deep freeze swept over the Midwest and parts of the Northeast today.

The frigid cold temperatures forced road, school and state office closures. Mail and train services were also suspended in some states.

In Chicago, officials set railroad tracks on fire because the extreme cold could cause defects.

This is what it looked across the rest of the Midwest today:

Look inside the first luxury Space Hotel

英語の習慣化の題材です。

CNN News より宇宙観光用のHotelの記事です。Videoと共にお楽しみ下さい。

(CNN) — Want to see 16 sunrises in one day? Float in zero gravity? Be one of the few to have gazed upon our home planet from space?

In just two years' time, and for an astronomical $9.5 million dollars, it's claimed you can.
Interior renderings of the world's first luxury space hotel, Aurora Station, were unveiled Thursday for the first time.

Developed by US-based space technology start-up Orion Span, the fully modular space station will host six people at a time, including two crew members, for 12-day space travel tours.
It plans to welcome its first guests in 2022, with the station's launch happening in 2021.
"Our goal is to make space accessible to all," Frank Bunger, CEO and founder of Orion Span, said in a statement last year. "Upon launch, Aurora Station goes into service immediately, bringing travelers into space quickly and at a lower price point than ever seen before."

Boeing’s experimental autonomous aircraft completes its first test flight

Boeing社の子会社Aurora Flight Sciences社の完全自動電気飛行機の最初のフライトテストが行われ、無人での垂直離陸、数秒のHovering(空中停止状態飛行)及び着陸を成し遂げた。と言う記事です。

Aurora Flight Sciences, a subsidiary of aerospace giant Boeing, said Wednesday that it recently conducted the first test flight of its all-electric autonomous passenger air vehicle. The unpiloted vehicle took off vertically, hovered for a few seconds, and then landed at the company’s test site in Manassas, Virginia. Boeing said that future flights will test forward, wing-borne flight, as well as the transition phase between vertical and forward-flight modes.

Secret Service members create challenge coin for working without pay

今日の英語の習慣化の題材は、ちょっとPoliticalな、とは言ってもお堅い内容でなく、Secret ServiceがTrump 大統領のメキシコの国境の壁問題でGovermentの一部が機能停止になり、給与の支払いもされないまま警護についている中、自分たちの間で通用する仮想通貨を流通させていると言う話題です。

(CNN)-Special challenge coins are being distributed among US Secret Service personnel and their families, who are expressing frustration at the requirement they work without pay during the partial government shutdown.

The coins are paid for by agents or other personnel on their own -- they are not official and use no government money.
"DON'T WORRY, YOU'LL GET BACKPAY," is printed on one side of the coins, according to a photo obtained by CNN's Jake Tapper. The other side has "UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE" and "ESSENTIAL PERSONNEL" printed on it.

These electric cars could be the future of autos [Video]

今日はVideoで、近未来の電動自動車のConceptです。気楽に... お勉強&情報収拾して下さい！

Artificial intelligence made this robot dog a very good boy ！

今日の英語の習慣化の題材は、AI (Artificial Intelligence)人工知能を使って、Robot Dogが学習すると言う記事です。

進化は止まりませんね〜

Meet ANYmal—a four-legged robot whose name is pronounced “animal.” The 73-pound dog-like machine is a Swiss-made contraption that, thanks to artificial intelligence, can run faster, operate with more efficiency, and reset itself after a spill more successfully than it could before its AI training.

Air Force gives 3D-printed rocket company Cape Canaveral launch pad

3Dプリント技術を使いRocketを打ち上げる、民間のStart-up会社Relativity Space社が、軍のCape Canaveralで参入を認められたと言う記事です。4番目に当たる Private Veture企業らしいですね！

今日の英語の習慣化の題材でした。

Relativity Space, a startup that aspires to create 3D printed rockets, has secured a launch pad at Cape Canaveral. The company announced Thursday a five-year agreement with the US Air Force that will allow the company to operate out of Launch Complex 16 (LC-16) at the at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.