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What we'll cover:

• In This Week’s Tech News 🗞️

• Deep Dive 🤿

• English At Work 👨‍💻

• Interview & CV Tips 📄

• Vocabulary of the Week 📚

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 🤿

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.

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

Vocabulary of the Week 📚

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