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Kai XR: Bringing VR To The Classroom, One Headset At A Time

VRScout

Kai XR offers students a unique look into their futures. Kai Frazier is a woman on a mission who wants to know why we aren’t building technology for children. The dedicated Techstars entrepreneur has always shown a passion for the difficult, yet rewarding work of teaching students. In 2017 she sealed her commitment to the cause when she sold almost all of her possessions and moved across the country to found Kai XR, an immersive “edtech” start-up focused on getting emerging technolog

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Why Some of You Might Be Seeing a New ‘Quotes’ Section Underneath Tweets

GizModo VR

Apparently, some more metrics on our tweets is exactly what is missing from our lives during a global pandemic. Or at least that’s what Twitter thinks. Read more.

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The best video games for kids

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Not every game is a gritty military shooter. Here are more than 30 games perfect for kids and parents alike.

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Amazon Might Be Gobbling Up Your Neighborhood's Dying Mall Next

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E-commerce, one of the most-cited culprits behind America’s dying malls, may soon become the mall. Cue The X-Files theme music. Read more.

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

To avoid awkward and sometimes disastrous learning content, instructional designers must use authentic translation in the right context to get optimal results. For example, even a simple phrase like “got milk” translates to “are you lactating” in Mexico. Can you imagine what a straight translation might do to your course? With over 317 million people in the US and over 6.7 billion potential customers in the world, personalizing training seems logical.

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Every confirmed and rumored PS5 game so far

Digital Trends

Several games have already been confirmed for the upcoming console, and plenty more are rumored to exist.

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Android 10’s Live Caption is coming to phone calls. Here’s how to use it

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Android 10 allows you to caption videos and audio on certain Pixel phones. Here's how to use Live Caption.

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Select Versions Of The Digimon Tamagotchis Are Discounted, Grab One And Relive Some Childhood Trauma

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Digimon Digivice Virtual Pet - Translucent Green | $18 | Amazon Digimon Digivice Virtual Pet - Blue | $18 | Amazon Digimon Digivice Virtual Pet - Yellow | $19 | Amazon Read more.

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The best Pokémon games, ranked from best to worst

Digital Trends

With Pokémon Sword and Shield now available, we decided to rank all eight generations of the Pokémon games.

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Robert Pattinson Tried to Lie His Way Off the Tenet Set for His The Batman Screen Test

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Ah, but Christopher Nolan, he is a man wise to deception. Fooling the creator of Memento? Not so easy. Read more.

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How to Train Employees 65% Faster With Virtual Reality

With a rapidly changing economy, Avangrid Renewables looked to virtual reality to develop a standardized form of immersive training in order to onboard and upskill technicians faster than ever before.

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How to make a clan in Destiny 2, and where to go from there

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Clans let you communicate with your friends and organize for raids, and you'll get rewards as you progress.

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Jason Bateman Will Adapt Superworld, a Story Where Everyone Has Superpowers Except One Guy

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That dude seems very unlucky, honestly. Read more.

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The worst Apple Watch problems, and how to fix them

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We offer workarounds, solutions, and troubleshooting for the glitches, issues, and problems customers face.

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This Cast Photo Brings Together the Ragtag Heroes of BBC's The Watch

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This is not a Discworld adaptation you’ve seen before. Read more.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon

Remote meetings are here to stay - and many are BORING. If you are trying to engage your learners (or any audience), compelling content is critical. But trying to create stimulating content with the same tools you’ve always had is hard, right? Thankfully, wrong! Terrific tools in PowerPoint along with visual assets help you create the kind of dynamic content you need to capture your remote audience’s attention, with functions that allow for interactive sequences and navigation.

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Hyundai launching all-electric brand, with three models on the way

Digital Trends

Two of the three Ioniq models will be based on previous concept cars.

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Love Harley Quinn? Then You'll Love ComiXology's Latest Sale

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Harley Quinn Sale | ComiXology Read more.

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PlayStation 5 to outsell Xbox Series X by 2-to-1 margin, predicts research firm

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DFC Intelligence expects the PS5 to sell more than 100 million units.

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Haunted by Regret Over Killing Vine, Twitter Purportedly Eyes Acquiring TikTok

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While we’re all waiting to see if Microsoft succeeds in striking a deal to buy TikTok, bam! Surprise ! Another big tech company, although not nearly as big as Microsoft, has apparently entered the fray, saying that it too is interested in arguably one of the hottest apps currently on the market. That company is… Read more.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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How to fight information overload, but still stay informed

Digital Trends

Don't worry, we won't ask you to delete your favorite apps.

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Huawei Has About a Month Before It Runs Out of Smartphone Chips

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The Trump administration’s sanctions are hitting Huawei hard, and the Chinese tech giant now says it will run out of processors chips for its smartphones by September without access to U.S. venders, according to a weekend Associated Press report. Read more.

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NASA’s InSight lander shows what’s beneath Mars’ surface

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Scientists discovered the depths of three Martian subsurface boundaries.

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Reddit Gets Trumped: Hackers Vandalize Communities With MAGA Messages

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Reddit got Trumped. On Friday, many users visited their favorite subreddits and found something unexpected: pro-Donald Trump Make America Great Again campaign banners and messages supporting the president. It was not a coincidence. Read more.

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

Speaker: Treion Muller, Chief Strategy Officer at ELB Learning

Since when has learning and development (L&D) become such a negative experience with its intended learners? Could it be because learners have been conditioned by very poor learning experiences over the past two decades, combined with the kinks of technological innovation? Or is it because learning has typically been designed as a one-size-fits-all solution, despite the fact that humans are not clones?

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Cuba is getting a crash course in internet culture — and it’s changing everything

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Those changes have had both positive and negative effects.

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Russia wants to build its own reusable rocket, Roscosmos chief says

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The agency also wants to go back to Venus.

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Ranking the best and worst armor sets you can own in Grounded

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Whether you're building a base or bludgeoning bugs, Grounded has an armor set purpose-built to your playstyle.

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Amazon may have big plans for some Sears and JC Penney sites

Digital Trends

Amazon is considering setting up distribution hubs inside ailing shopping malls.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?