Sun.Sep 20, 2020

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Twitter's Scrambling to Figure Out Why Its Photo Preview Algorithm Seems Racist

GizModo VR

The neural network Twitter uses to generate photo previews is a mysterious beast. When it debuted the smart cropping tool back in 2018, Twitter said the algorithm determines the most “salient” part of the picture, i.e. what your eyes are drawn to first, to use as a preview image, but what exactly that entails has been… Read more.

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Google brings back humans to take over moderating YouTube content from A.I.

Digital Trends

More human moderators are going back to work to oversee YouTube content, taking over from automated systems that admittedly took down some videos erroneously.

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Amazon's Fall Hardware Debut Is Set for Sept. 24

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September has been chock-full of tech launches and announcements so far (mostly virtual, naturally, since these are still covid times, after all). But the month’s not over yet: Amazon has revealed that it’s debuting its fall product line on Thursday, Sept. 24. Read more.

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Walmart will no longer accept in-store pre-orders for PlayStation 5

Digital Trends

Walmart will no longer accept in-store pre-orders for the PlayStation 5 on September 22, as the retailer wants to keep customers safe and socially distanced.

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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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The TikTok Saga Would Be a Comedy if It Weren't So Tragic

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The United States is ceding its position as a world technological power. For decades, the world’s brightest landed here to build. They chose the U.S. for a few simple reasons, among them access to world-class equipment and education, the ability to take high-paying tech jobs, and a business climate that rewarded the… Read more.

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Archer Returns to Ruining Spy Missions in This New Episode Promo

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I’m glad Archer is back. Like, real Archer , without weird fantasy coma worlds or film noir or whatever. Just spy hijinks, dysfunctional characters, and the slow, painful possibility of growth. Read more.

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How big data forced the hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence to evolve

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How the age of big data is changing the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

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Janina Gavankar to Write and Star in Mythological Monster Movie

GizModo VR

If you know Janina Gavankar, chances are, it’s from her turn on True Blood or as the protagonist in the singleplayer campaign of Star Wars: Battlefront 2 , where she played the (fantastic) Iden Versio. Now the actress and writer is getting to work on a rad monster movie based on Hindu mythology. Read more.

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How to use iPadOS 14’s Scribble feature

Digital Trends

iPadOS 14 has landed, and one of the new features that's caught our eye is Scribble. Here's how to write in any text box on your iPad using an Apple Pencil.

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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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Celebrate a Late Batman Day With This Stunning Illustration by Bill Sienkiewicz

GizModo VR

Yesterday was the day commonly celebrated by nerds everywhere (yes, that includes us) as Batman Day. If you didn’t spend any time brooding over the Dark Knight yesterday, today we’ve got just the thing. Read more.

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Snipers intentionally overpowered in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War alpha test

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Treyarch intentionally made sniper rifles overpowered in the alpha test of Call of Duty: Blacks Ops Cold War. The weapons will be nerfed for the game's beta.

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Sunday's Best Deals: Kodak Pocket Projector, 2K HD Rotating Webcam, Digital Air Fryer, Maono Cardioid Condenser Microphone, Smart Home Plugs, Etude House Tint, and More

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A 2K HD rotating webcam , a Kodak pocket-sized projector , a 2-pack of smart plugs , a digital air fryer , Etude House water tints , sets of Huckberry Onsen Bath Towels , and a Maono cardioid condenser microphone lead Sunday’s best deals. Read more.

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Skullcandy Sesh Evo review: No more lost true wireless earbuds

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Sometimes all it takes is one feature to for an average set of true wireless earbuds stand out from the crowd.

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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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Up Your Zoom Game With This Highly-Rated 2K Rotating Webcam For Only $20 With Promo Code

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DYY 1440P HD Webcam | $20 | Amazon | Promo Code 50WDW2CV Read more.

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Here’s how much you save by signing up for Apple One

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Apple One is arriving to bundle multiple Apple services like Apple Music, Arcade, and TV+ as one. Yes, you can save money doing that -- here's exactly how much!

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Young Girls on Cam – Why Are They Really Safe?

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If you are looking for a method to get your children some great bonding period, then maybe it’s possible to see that they really do love […]. The post Young Girls on Cam – Why Are They Really Safe? appeared first on Veative Labs.

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The key to building a habitat on Mars? Insect exoskeletons, apparently

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Building material is a combination of Martian soil and chitin, a primary component in seashells, insect exoskeletons, and fungi walls.

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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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Mini-Doc Debuts Of Brooklyn Juneteenth March Captured In 360 Degrees

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The revolution will be documented… in 360. June 19th (a significant holiday in the United States denoting the end of slavery) this year was both a moment to pause and to celebrate, as well as strike up protests and marches across the country in demand of a better world. 2020 has been fraught with political discord at local and national levels, undeniably upsetting many, especially those bringing attention to the cause of equity for Americans of color.

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Judge rules that U.S. government can’t force WeChat off app stores

Digital Trends

TikTok is not the only Chinese app to have been saved from a ban at the last minute this weekend: WeChat won't be banned from app stores tomorrow either.

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Turns Out WeChat Won’t Be Banned Immediately, Either

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What is banned is never really banned, it seems. A judge in California has prevented the Trump administration from blocking WeChat, which the Commerce Department planned to ban from U.S. app stores, on the very day it was supposed to be banned. Read more.

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Infrared imaging reveals fresh ice on Saturn’s moon Enceladus

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A new map of Enceladus using both visible light and infrared shows regions of geological activity which have deposited fresh ice onto the moon's surface.

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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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All you need to know on the Facebook Connect (OC7)

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The Facebook Connect is over, and as we had imagined, it has been a very important conference with many announcements , with the most important of all being the release of the Quest 2. Wouldn’t it be cool if someone could summarize all the most important announcements in a single post? Well, your favorite ghost has just done it for you in this article!

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Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Demon’s Souls to take up 20% of PlayStation 5 storage

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The file sizes of Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales Ultimate Launch Edition and Demon's Souls will already take up about 20% of the PlayStation 5's 825GB SSD.

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Tribit StormBox Micro review: River-tested, ears-approved

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The Tribit StormBox Micro packs good sound and impressive durability in a lightweight, portable package.

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Best Prime Day Projector Deals 2020: What to expect

Digital Trends

Curious about this year's Prime Day projector deals? Here's what we expect, plus a few deals you can grab now.

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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?