[2022아카데미]”Don’t mention my wife” Will Smith slaps Chris Rock

Anger at insulting wife suffering from hair loss… All live broadcast

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Actor Will Smith slaps fellow actor Chris Rock in the face and swears at the Academy Awards. This is what happened after insulting her wife, Jada Pinkat Smith.

Rock took the stage as the presenter for the Best Documentary Feature at the 94th Academy Awards held at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, California on the 27th (local time). He joked that he was looking forward to a sequel to ‘G.I. Jane’ by mentioning Pincat Smith’s bare hair right before the award. In ‘G.I. Jane’, there is a scene in which the heroine shaves herself off during her military service. Pinkett Smith has been suffering from hair loss since 2018.

Seeing this from the audience, Smith couldn’t contain his anger and rushed to the stage. Soon he slapped Rock hard on the cheek, then came down and shouted “don’t put my wife in your mouth” with swearing. The majority of the audience, who mistook the staged situation, applauded and cheered, but could not hide their bewilderment. Rock said, “It’s just a joke from ‘G.I. Jane’. Today is the best day in TV show history.”

By Lee Jong-gil, staff reporter leemean@asiae.co.kr

[아시아경제 황수미 기자] After Omicron, there are warnings at home and abroad that another Corona 19 mutation may appear.

Jeong Jae-hoon, a professor of preventive medicine at Gachon University College of Medicine, predicted that there is a possibility that a new mutation will be prevalent this summer at the online conference of the Korean Vaccine Society on the 25th. Globally, the duration of dominance of a new mutation is usually 10 to 14 weeks, but when this period is over, other mutations are expected to dominate.

Professor Jung predicted that the stealth omicron detection rate rose to 41.4% in the third week of this month (13th to 19th), and it will exceed 50% by the next week and become the dominant species, after which a new mutation may appear around July after being prevalent for up to three months. did.

Five mutations such as alpha, beta, gamma, delta, and omicron appeared at intervals of 5-6 months for about two years from the beginning of 2020 when the actual Corona 19 situation started, and the pattern that prevailed for a while was repeated. Since virus mutation is a kind of survival strategy, the emergence of new mutations is possible anytime, anywhere, experts explain.

What is important is the fatality rate and transmission power. When a new mutation appears, there is a possibility that it will evolve in a direction that has a strong propagation power, but a lower severity rate, like Omicron, which has replaced delta. However, there are opinions that cannot be predicted. The new mutations may not be from relatively mild omicron strains.

According to the British Daily Mail, some experts from the Emergency Scientific Advisory Group (SAGE), which advises the British government to respond to COVID-19, believe that there is a possibility of mutations in the early coronavirus strains such as MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) in the future. In this case, it is feared that it could be fatal enough to kill one in three people.

British evolutionary biologist Andrew Lembaut, a professor at the University of Edinburgh, said, “The evolutionary path of the COVID-19 virus is still unclear. said.

Experts emphasize that it is necessary to prepare for the possibility of new mutations from now on. It is necessary to think about improving vaccines, stockpiling therapeutics, and establishing a medical system to protect high-risk groups, infants, pregnant women, and dialysis patients.

Reporter Hwang Su-mi choko216@asiae.co.kr

Predicted first sortie of ‘Gems’, a walking assistance robot
Additional robots for care and home use are also expected to be released.
Full-scale targeting of the 90 trillion robot market in 2026

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[아시아경제 김진호 기자] Samsung Electronics will introduce its first commercialized robot to the market as early as the first half of this year. The ‘Gems’, a walking assistance robot that was released in the form of a prototype last year, is expected to be the first commercialized model. Samsung Electronics, which has chosen robots as a new business for the future, is determined to dominate the global robot market by promoting the commercialization of care robots and home robots in earnest.

According to industry sources on the 27th, Samsung Electronics formalized robots and metaverse (expanded virtual world) as future food businesses at the ’53rd Annual General Meeting of Shareholders’ held recently. Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Han Jong-hee emphasized, “We are actively exploring new businesses, and the first step is a robot. We will review commercialization in various robot fields so that future generations can experience ‘life companion’. did.

Samsung Electronics has shown a high interest in the robot business in recent years. Following the introduction of the elderly care robot ‘Samsung Bot Care’ in 2019, the intelligent robot ‘Boli’ was introduced in 2020. In August of last year, Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong announced that he would directly invest 240 trillion won in future technology industries such as robots, predicting an aggressive move.

At the end of last year, Samsung Electronics upgraded the ‘Robot Commercialization Task Force (TF)’ to the ‘Robot Business Team’, an official organization through organizational reorganization. According to the industry, the manpower of the robot business team has increased nearly tenfold in just one year. This is a representative example that shows that Samsung Electronics is putting a lot of effort into the robot business. In particular, Vice President Kyungbin Kyung, who is in charge of the robot business team, received a doctorate in mechanical engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and served as the head of Samsung Electronics’ Global CS Center.

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Samsung Electronics’ first robot product is likely to be wearable walking assistance robot ‘Gems’. The previously announced ‘Samsung Bot Care’ and ‘Bolly’ are not commercialized products. ‘Gems’, which was unveiled at ‘CES 2020’, the world’s largest IT fair held in Las Vegas, USA in January last year, is said to be released to the market as early as next month.

According to the user’s needs, Gems was developed into three types: ▲Gems Hip (Wearing a hip joint) ▲Gems Knee (Knee) ▲Gems Ankle (Ankle). When worn, it is used for the purpose of relieving the burden on the main muscles that move when walking or climbing stairs. According to Samsung Electronics, in the case of Gems Hip, it has the effect of increasing the walking speed by 14% by assisting with 24% of the strength when walking. In particular, it has already secured international standard certification from the Korea Robot Industry Promotion Agency last year, and is said to have excellent stability.

Following Gems, ▲ ‘Samsung Bot Serving’ to help customers order and serve food at stores, ‘Samsung Bot Guide’ for customer service, ‘Samsung Bot Care’, a caring robot, and ‘Samsung Bot Handy’, a home robot that helps with washing dishes, etc. seems to be

Samsung Electronics’ designation of the robot business as its core future business is analyzed to be due to the fact that the society is aging and the role of home appliances that can take care of health and life is important.

In particular, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, more time is spent at home, such as at home, and the demand for it has also increased significantly. According to market research firm Modo Intelligence, the global robot market is expected to grow from 33.617 trillion won in 2020 to 89.83 trillion won in 2026.

By Kim Jin-ho, staff reporter rplkim@asiae.co.kr