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Hades Makes History as the First Video Game to Win a Hugo Award

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Last year, Supergiant Games’ Hades , the roguelike inspired by Greek mythology about Hades’ son Zagreus escaping the underworld, released to near universal acclaim. If it wasn’t praised for being an inviting step into the roguelike genre, it was praised for its characters and narrative. If it wasn’t for that, it was… Read more.

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Korean Air first carrier to use drone swarms for aircraft inspection

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In what’s thought to be an industry first, Korean Air has started using a swarm of drones for the visual inspection of aircraft.

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NASA Releases an Audio Clip of What Jupiter’s Icy Moon Ganymede Sounds Like

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Imagining Ganymede , Jupiter’s icy moon and the largest moon in our Solar System, can be quite the challenge. (I’m still at, “Whoa, that’s a big moon.”) Understanding it is a whole other story, and scientists are still working on that. Whether you’re seeking to learn more about the gigantic moon or unravel its… Read more.

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SpaceX launches two missions in one day, setting new record

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SpaceX has made two launches within one day using its Falcon 9 rockets, setting a new record for the shortest interval yet between launches.

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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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Spider-Man: No Way Home's Box Office is Worth a Spit Take

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Spider-Man: No Way Home was always going to make a lot of money. Pandemic aside, folks have been chomping at the bit to see this movie for two years, both because they like Tom Holland and because it’s mining that nostalgia by bringing back old cinematic villains—some beloved, some not so much, and also Sandman—for… Read more.

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The Hugo Awards Undermined Themselves Being Sponsored by Raytheon

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The annual Hugo Awards were this weekend, celebrating sci-fi and fantasy literature (and some non-literature ) that enchanted audiences through the ever stressful year of 2021. But as creators got together to bask in the accomplishments of their peers and were honored just to be nominated, the awards show found itself… Read more.

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Spice in space: Inside NASA’s groundbreaking zero-gravity chile pepper project

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Astronauts on the ISS are now growing and eating chile peppers in space, so we caught up with NASA to get some pointers on gardening in microgravity.

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Spider-Man 4 Already in Active Development

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The cinematic state of Spider-Man was in surprising disarray back in 2019 after the success of Far From Home. At the time, Sony and Marvel had a public split over Disney wanting more box office earnings from the MCU-set movies about the wallcrawler, but that deal eventually sorted itself out and gave us the… Read more.

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Research confirms enormous mass of supermassive black hole at center of galaxy

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A new study reveals the most precise information yet about the mass of the enormous black hole at the center of our galaxy.

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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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YouTube and Disney End Fight After One Day, Bring Disney-Owned Channels Back to YouTube TV

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As it turns it out, all YouTube and Disney needed was one more day (plus a few hours) to come together and be friends once more. For YouTube TV subscribers, this means you are back to paying $64.99 per month for the service, which now includes the 17 Disney-owned channels and local ABC News stations that briefly… Read more.

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Trace Gas Orbiter finds a canyon on Mars ‘packed full’ of water ice

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A recent study has revealed plentiful water beneath the martian surface in the Valles Marineris canyon system.

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Open Channel: Spider-Man, Nightmare Alley, and The Witcher Edition

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It was a pretty big weekend for movies, gang. Or rather, a particular movie: Nightmare Alley , the neo-noir psychological thriller from beloved horror darling Guillermo del Toro starring Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett. The adaptation of the 1946 William Lindsay Gresham novel has seen mostly positive reviews, though… Read more.

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Watch an astronaut have a haircut in microgravity conditions

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Microgravity conditions aboard the ISS mean that a haircut in space requires a piece of extra equipment to avoid causing a mess.

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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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How Artists Are Shaping the Long run of Augmented Truth

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We partnered with 15 artists for the Festival of the Unattainable, the first massive-scale immersive artwork exhibition celebrating artwork that explores the “impossible. supply.

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Two space tourists have just returned from the ISS

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Two space tourists and a Russian cosmonaut returned to Earth on Sunday night after a 12-day stay aboard the International Space Station.

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Activity HORROR PERTAMA PAKAI VR!! RASANYA SEPERTI ANDA MENJADI DUKUN ONLEN WKWK!! DreadEye [SUB INDO] ~

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2 Video Video game Sebelumnya Yang Peralatannya Serba Rusak!! : “VR Palsu Abal2 Dulu Wkwk” [link] “Beli Stir Baru Tapi Rusak! supply.

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YouTube TV and Disney reach a deal, restore ESPN and other channels

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A little more than a day after YouTube TV lost access to Disney-owned channels like ESPN and ABC, the two companies have reached a deal.

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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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‘Bigscreen’ Update Greatly Improves Remote Desktop Feature

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Experience the metaverse in a different way through Bigscreen’s improved Remote Desktop feature. Popular VR streaming app Bigscreen has expanded significantly over the past several years. What began as a straightforward tool for accessing your personal computer in VR has evolved into a full-fledged social VR platform. You can meet up in a virtual space and collaborate with coworkers, produce and record your own VR podcast, catch one of the many films on rotation at the virtual cinema, or p

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Amazon Echo Show 15 review: A big screen with widgets we didn’t know we needed

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The Amazon Echo Show 15 combines a large screen and a suite of different widgets to become one of the most useful smart displays yet.

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Scarlet Nexus secretly features some of 2021’s most complex characters

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While Scarlet Nexus' bond episodes are imperfect, they give the game's characters some excellent arcs.

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