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Eleven Elephants Were Found Dead in Zimbabwe And No One Knows Why

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Park authorities in Zimbabwe are investigating the mysterious death of 11 elephants in the western region of the country after ruling out cyanide poisoning and poaching, according to a Sunday Associated Press report. Read more.

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The best music apps for iOS and Android

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From classical to techno, we found the finest music-creation and music-consumption apps for Android and iOS.

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Stingy Slack Paid Researcher $1,750 for Finding ‘Critical’ Bug

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At times, we’ve come to you with stories about security researchers being paid thousands—and in some cases hundreds of thousands —of dollars by companies for finding critical bugs in well-known software or hardware. However, this time, the story is different. It’s about a company that was stingy, and that’s not cool. Read more.

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Fitbit Versa 3 vs. Fitbit Versa 2: Does newer mean better?

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We put the Fitbit Versa 3 and Versa 2 to the test to find out which is Fitbit's best affordable smartwatch.

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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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Lev Grossman Talks the Joy of Writing for Children in His Newest Novel, The Silver Arrow

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If you’ve come to Lev Grossman from his most popular work , The Magicians series of novels, his newest is going to be something of a departure. The Silver Arrow is his first middle-grade book, a story of an 11-year-old girl named Kate and an enchanted train given to her as a gift by her eccentric uncle. But even though… Read more.

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This Video Shows You How to Make Brilliant Fluorescent Lightsabers for Your Star Wars Action Figures

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2020 seems like a good year to take up new hobbies. Let’s take that nice, collectible action figure collection you might have. Why not make it a bit more impressive? Read more.

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Labor Day sales arrive early for the AirPods and AirPods Pro

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As Labor Day sales have seemingly arrived early, now's your chance to score the Apple AirPods and AirPods Pro at awesome discounted prices.

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Bounce Music and Why Social Distancing Is Complicated: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

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It might not seem like it since time is all out of whack during the pandemic, but in a few short weeks, it will be fall. Anyone else have trouble knowing what month, or day, it is? Read more.

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Building a smart home? You need these essentials

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If you're looking to turn your house into a smart home, Best Buy has the essentials you need to get started.

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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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New Mutants Made $7 Million at the Box Office, Which Is a Lot, Considering

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Considering, y’know, the coronavirus. Read more.

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Android 11: Everything you need to know

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Everything you need to know about Android 11, Google's big 2020 software release, including release dates.

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Pick Up This $22 XL Mouse Pad And Not Worry About Replacements For a While

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Corsair Anti-Fray Cloth Mouse Pad | $22 | Amazon Read more.

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Save $30 on the HP Neverstop 1202w Laser Tank Printer today

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An ideal printer for small business and students, it’s on sale for $250, down from its regular price of $280.

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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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Powerful VR Documentary ‘The Choice’ Awarded Two Kaleidoscope Grants

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Joanne-A?ka Popi?ska’s doc highlights the many difficulties of unwanted pregnancy. In 2018, Polish-Canadian VR filmmaker Joanne-A?ka Popi?ska raised $15K CAD through a Kickstarter campaign to begin documenting the difficulties women were facing when it came to their right to choose to have an abortion after witnessing the Polish government reduce many human rights and freedoms, including an outright ban on abortion.

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U.S. trademark hints at upcoming Western release for Persona 5 Scramble

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It will be known as Persona 5 Strikers for its Western release.

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Uh Oh, Here's Why the Internet Broke Again

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Widespread internet outages knocked down Cloudflare, the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, Amazon, Hulu, and a slew of other sites on Sunday morning, and it’s apparently all because of a single internet service provider: CenturyLink. Read more.

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Garmin connect is down again for second time in two months

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This follows the ransomware outage last month.

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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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Chinese Government Decides to Throw Wrench Into Potential TikTok U.S. Deal

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China has something to say about the potential deal to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations: not so fast. Read more.

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Marvel’s Avengers beta test draws more than 6 million players

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Players spent a total of more than 27 million hours in playing the beta.

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Beats Studio 3 Wireless review: Who let the bass drop?

Digital Trends

These 3-year-old over-ear cans have a stellar design but suffer from mediocre ANC and a lack of low-end oomph.

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Crew Dragon astronauts talk about historic mission in new NASA podcast

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NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken had quite a trip!

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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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NASA selects five mission proposals to investigate space weather

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The missions will observe how the sun affects the space environment.

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Ubisoft apologizes for raised fist symbol in Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad

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The symbol will be removed in an upcoming update for the game.

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8th-generation iPad will reportedly look like the iPad Pro, ditch Touch ID

Digital Trends

It will also reportedly support the Magic Keyboard.

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Smartphone owner? You need this 20,000mAh portable wireless charger

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That’s peace of mind for only $37, down from its regular price of $83, exclusive to Digital Trends readers.

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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?