What we'll cover:
In This Week’s Tech News 🗞️
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Meta’s battle with ChatGPT begins now (5 minute read)
Baidu Says Ernie AI Chatbot Now Has 200 Million Users (2 minute read)
Deep Dive 🤿
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A summary of the advantages mentioned in the article:
Seamless integration with notion databases and tools allowing you to create or link documents with calendar invites
Automatically blocks1 work meetings on your personal calendar, and vice versa2, so you can’t be double-booked3
Fast, simple and good-looking calendar with clever features like a command bar for quickly setting up recurring4 meetings
And the downsides:
Widely used tools like Android and Outlook currently not supported, it was built with Mac and iPhone users in mind5
1 blocks = reserves a specific time period on your schedule
2 vice versa = the opposite is also true
3 double-booked = make plans for two things at the same time
4 recurring = happening many times
5 in mind = as the aim or reason for an action
English At Work 👨💻
Talking about time off
While working in global teams, you’re going to hear a bunch of different terms used to describe having time off.
British English
Holiday
Annual leave
American English
Vacation
Paid Time Off (PTO)
Definition
time away from work
the paid number of days each year that an employee can be away from work
Other useful collocations:
to take a day off: “I’m taking three days off next week.”
carry over: “My company allows me to carry over a maximum of 5 unused annual leave days into the next year.”
Interview & CV Tips 📄
Verbs for Problem Solving
Diversify the language you use to describe your experience
streamlined development processes
identified areas for improvement
devised strategies to optimise…
evaluated project requirements
addressed challenges within the team
Vocabulary of the Week 📚
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