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VR Parkour Game ‘STRIDE’ Coming To Oculus Quest

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Run, jump, vault, shoot, slide, and roll your way through this fast-paced VR free running experience. After a year in Steam Early Access, developer Joy Way is bringing STRIDE to Oculus Quest headsets next month, offering standalone players a lightning-fast VR parkour experience that will have them scaling walls and gunning down baddies as they leap from futuristic rooftop to futuristic rooftop using unique locomotion mechanics.

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The Seemingly Cursed Tokyo Olympics Are Now in the Path of a Tropical Storm

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Against all odds, and a one-year delay, the Tokyo Olympics are currently taking place, squaring off against a global pandemic and sweltering heat. It’s probably safe to say that these Olympics are cursed, especially considering that after all that, organizers now have to worry about a tropical storm. Read more.

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A complete, chronological history of the catastrophic GPU shortage

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The GPU shortage continues to be a problem for anyone looking for a graphics card. To understand how we got here, here's a complete history of the GPU shortage.

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With Successful 10th Flight, Ingenuity Has Now Flown More Than a Mile on Mars

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NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter successfully completed its 10th flight on Mars on Saturday, bringing its total distance flown on the Red Planet to more than one mile (roughly 1.60 kilometers) and capturing important images to help out its friend, the Perseverance rover. 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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The incredible engineering inside an Olympic archer’s bow

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The bows used in modern archery competitions have more in common with Formula 1 race cars than they do with the simple wooden bows of centuries past.

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Watch this young Paul McCartney deepfake turn into Beck

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Paul McCartney is 79 but in his latest music video released just a few days ago he’s been cleverly “de-aged” to appear as the fresh-faced Beatle of yesteryear.

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The Chucky Trailer Is Here to Slay SDCC 2021

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Last week’s teaser gave us just a taste of what to expect from Chucky , Syfy and USA’s upcoming series continuation of the Child’s Play horror series from original creator Don Mancini. (In other words, that recent remake ain’t canon.) But today at San Diego Comic-Con @ Home, fans of the wisecracking killer doll and the… Read more.

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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy wins major NASA contract for Jupiter moon mission

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SpaceX has scored a major NASA contract that will see the commercial spaceflight company launch the Europa Clipper spacecraft to the Jupiter moon Europa.

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Crunchyroll Industry's SDCC 2021 Panel Revealed Tons of New Anime Series Debuting This Year

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For all the anime fans at San Diego Comic-Con 2021 @ Home, Crunchyroll rolled out a lengthy industry panel. Host Tim Lyu shared tons of information about exciting new anime series coming to the Crunchyroll.com site—known for hosting popular titles like Naruto , One Piece , My Hero Academia , and Tokyo Revengers— in the… 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 watch Boeing launch its 2nd Starliner test flight on Friday

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NASA is gearing up for a crucial test flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft. Here's how to watch the launch on Friday, July 30.

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Don't Worry, the Bob's Burgers Movie Is Still Happening

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Though fans of Bob’s Burgers have a new season to look forward to, many have been wondering what’s going on with the Bob’s Burgers movie that was announced back in 2019—before it, like many productions, was waylaid by the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. At this year’s San Diego Comic-Con @ Home, series creator Loren… Read more.

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Smart homes should include a safe word for emergency situations

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The smart home can improve the security features it provides to homeowners by including a safe word that contacts authorities.

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Tesla Energy Is Reportedly on the Hunt for Mean Social Media Posts About Musk

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Tesla’s clean-energy division Tesla Energy has an entire team dedicated to scanning the internet for customer complaints and people badmouthing its CEO Elon Musk, according to a new Insider report. 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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An ‘arm made for walking’ is about to arrive at the space station

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The International Space Station is about to take delivery of its third robotic arm, but this one can do several things the others can't.

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DC's Legends of Tomorrow SDCC 2021 Panel Readies the Bouquet for Sara and Ava's Epic Wedding

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DC’s Legends of Tomorrow is in the middle of season six, which is all about cuddly, terrifying, and occasionally musical aliens causing havoc across the timeline. It started with Gary, who’s secretly been an extraterrestrial this whole time, abducting Sara Lance because she’s the “prime example” of humanity. But you… Read more.

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NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has now flown a mile across Mars

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NASA's impressive Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, has now flown a total of one mile across Mars, achieved over 10 separate flights.

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Syfy's Day of the Dead Gives SDCC 2021 a First Look at TV's Newest Zombie Tale

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Even the most diehard horror fan can be forgiven for forgetting (or not even realizing at all) that George A. Romero ’s Day of the Dead is becoming a TV show. It was first announced in February 2020 and, well. a lot has happened since then. But today’s San Diego Comic-Con @ Home panel, featuring the first trailer… 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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FPV drone video tracks swimming race before ending with a splash

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This cool FPV drone video from a Colorado filmmaker features rapid turns, climbs, and dives before ending with a splash.

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Army of Thieves' SDCC 2021 Teaser Takes Us Back to Zack Snyder's Zombieverse

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The poster for the new movie Army of Thieves puts it best: “More safes. Less zombies.” Directed by and starring Matthias Schweighöfer , Army of Thieves is a prequel to Zack Snyder’s recent hit, Army of the Dead , told from the point of view of one of its main characters, Dieter. And now, the first teaser trailer is here. Read more.

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Our Life developer explains the unconventional joy of visual novels

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The developer behind the Our Life series explains what makes visual novels such an appealing game genre.

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If You're Immunocompromised, You May Need a Covid-19 Vaccine Booster, Fauci Says

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President Joe Biden’s chief medical advisor Anthony Fauci now says that vaccinated Americans with compromised immune systems may end up needing a covid-19 vaccine booster shot after all. The news comes as the country’s number of covid-19 cases continues to rise, fueled by plateauing vaccination rates and the… 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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HP Back-to-School Sale 2021: The best deals to shop

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We've highlighted some of the best back-to-school deals from HP right now and taken a look at exactly who each device is aimed at.

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The Stephen King Adaptation Chapelwaite Brought Gothic Gloom to SDCC 2021

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Back in May, we got a decent look at Adrien Brody’s new series Chapelwaite , adapted from a Stephen King short story (it appears in the collection Night Shift ) thanks to a bunch of images released by Epix, as well as a teaser. The outlook? Gloomy, gothic, and dripping with dread. Today’s San Diego Comic-Con @ Home… Read more.

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Why all students need to buy this HP laptop today

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Looking for a laptop for school? This HP laptop is the perfect device for the average student and it's $80 off right now.

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Doctor Who's Season 13 SDCC 2021 Trailer Brings in New Friends and New Foes

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It feels like it’s been a lifetime since the Doctor fought off a Dalek invasion of Earth (again) on New Year’s Day, but, thank Gallifrey—err, what’s left of it at the minute —because Doctor Who is finally ready to give us a glimpse of its next adventures. Read more.

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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?