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The 15 Best BMWs Of All Time

Slashgear

Founded in 1952, BMW has risen to the top of the luxury car market. These models are among the most sought-after high-end vehicles on the market.

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10 truly great war movies on Netflix

Mashable VR

When the times get tough, the tough get going. Perhaps that's why it's such a heart-pounding pleasure to watch war movies. In these films, we witness not only brutal battles but also the bravery and resilience of heroes and survivors. Their stories might be steeped in tragedy, violence, and horror, but nonetheless, they rally to fight back. Whether set on foreign shores or many years ago, these war stories hit home with characters' journeys powerful and profound.

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10 Reasons To Stop Using Safari

Slashgear

From common errors to lack of compatibility outside of Apple devices, there are many reasons to consider ending your relationship with Apple's Safari browser.

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The Super Bowl halftime show had the internet feeling intense nostalgia

Mashable VR

The Super Bowl LVI halftime show was a nostalgia bomb for Millennials and Gen Xers. The internet was loving it — while also grappling with the fact that we're old, now. The show featured a whole bevy of performers associated with Dr. Dre, who produced the show, including Eminem, Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, Mary J. Blige, and Kendrick Lamar. So of course, when 50 came out and performed "In Da Club," or Dre did "California Love," or Eminem did the opening bars of "Forgot About Dre," people of a cer

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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 Super Bowl 2022 Commercials Saw Electric Cars And Big Stars Unite

Slashgear

Super Bowl 2022 is upon us and automakers are dominating the ad breaks. What better way to promote EVs than have Dr. Evil embrace them for world domination?

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The Polestar 2 Super Bowl Commercial Took A Big Jab At Tesla

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For its first Super Bowl commercial, electric vehicle maker Polestar skips the melodrama, but does manage to throw a little snark in Tesla's direction.

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The publisher of 'Maus' wants the book taken off the Internet Archive, because profit

Mashable VR

When a Tennessee school board removed the Holocaust-set graphic novel Maus from its curriculum, citing spurious issues with the title, there was a well-deserved uproar. The reaction to a perceived book banning may not be all that surprising. But, the renewed interest in Maus seems to have surprised some; namely, its publisher, Penguin Random House. Now that Maus is on best seller lists, more than 40 years after it was first published, the book's publisher is seeking to have the book removed from

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Apple Car: Everything We Know So Far

Slashgear

Over the years, the Apple Car has gone from an uncertain concept to a definite project, though it remains as mysterious as ever. Here's what we know.

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Jamie-Lynn Sigler electrifies iconic 'Sopranos' opener in Chevy Super Bowl ad

Mashable VR

Woke up this morning, charged your Silverado EV. HBO's classic series The Sopranos made an appearance during the Super Bowl along with Chevy's first electric truck. Nearly frame for frame, Chevy's 60-second ad matches the opening sequence of the 1999-2006 show with the late James Gandolfini's Tony Soprano in a Chevy Suburban. Except this is the 2022 version.

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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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Meta Quest 2's Super Bowl Commercial Didn't Have The Reaction They Hoped For

Slashgear

Meta's Super Bowl 2022 ad focused on the Quest 2, but it didn't resonate with viewers the way the company had hoped, leaving many feeling despondent.

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Uncharted's Fortnite Skins are Impressive, But Also Way Too Smooth

GizModo VR

Uncharted hits theaters this week, after many a delay and about a decade in development. Since it’s naturally a big blockbuster, and one based on a pretty popular franchise, that means it’s time for the requisite Fortnite crossover. Who’s ready for some character skins? Read more.

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Study Finds A Few Minutes In VR Cuts COVID-19 Frontline Worker Stress

Slashgear

The pandemic has stressed healthcare workers, and though that's not likely to change soon, researchers say only a few minutes in VR may offer some relief.

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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Lives Up to Its Name in Super Bowl Spot

GizModo VR

Now that Spider-Man: No Way Home has properly set up the dominoes, with some help from WandaVision and Loki , it’s time for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness to knock them all down. As is the case with just about every year, Marvel released a new trailer during the Super Bowl, and it confirms what was teased… 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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The Fascinating History Of The Walkman

Slashgear

The Walkman's reign is over, but its impact on popular culture remains both in the way it symbolizes an era and in the impact it had on modern society.

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China censors Olympic gold medalist's defense of China's internet censorship on Instagram

Mashable VR

Eileen Gu, age 18, just became the youngest ever Olympic gold medalist in freestyle skiing. However, Gu's accomplishments at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing are hardly what anyone's talking about. The freestyle skier is under fire for recent comments she made on Instagram defending China's censorship of the internet. And, ironically enough, her comment defending China's internet censorship is now being blocked on Chinese social media.

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Netflix Is Losing Several Marvel Shows In March

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Netflix is about to remove several popular Marvel shows from its library, and it looks likely the content will make its way to Disney's own streaming service.

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Nope's First Teaser Has Us Terrified and Loving It

GizModo VR

Though we still don’t know too much about Nope , the next horror film from writer-director Jordan Peele (writer-director of Get Out and Us ; co-writer of Candyman) we do know that we’re dying to see it —and a new trailer, released during the Super Bowl, makes us even more eager to experience its terrors. 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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Fortnite X Uncharted Skins Will Hit Item Shop Before US Movie Premiere

Slashgear

Fortnite players managed to solve a puzzle, and Epic has rewarded them with a new teaser trailer showing the two big Uncharted characters heading to the island.

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Joe Hill Adds The Fireman to His Many Works Being Adapted

GizModo VR

Like his father Stephen King before him, Joe Hill is slowly seeing his various works being adapted for TV and screen. After the success of Locke & Key for Netflix and the short-lived NOS4A2 at AMC, Hill’s fourth novel The Fireman is coming to television. Read more.

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Disney's Star Wars fan service is downright suffocating in 'The Book of Boba Fett'

Mashable VR

I'm still miffed about Han Solo's last name. In an early scene, Solo revealed that Han's surname is no family affair; it's just something he was handed by a terminally bored Imperial flunky who got uncreatively playful with our favorite Star Wars scoundrel's lack of a traveling companion. I groaned about it in the moment, and ever since. That's the vibe you're signing up for when you sit down to watch The Book of Boba Fett on Disney+.

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Let's Hear It for Voice Actors, Tell Us Your Favorites

GizModo VR

Earlier this week, everyone was surprised (to say the least) about the umpteenth revival of Futurama courtesy of Hulu, and even more so when the news broke that John DiMaggio may not come back as Bender. The reaction to this, and the possibility that he’d be replaced by another actor when the show returned in 2023,… 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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We're worried about the wrong kind of 'trauma talk' online

Mashable VR

There's a problem with the way you're talking about trauma online. Or at least that's what several critics have suggested, in one way or another, in recent months. The objectionable trends they've observed include people calling everything — even the slightest of personality quirks — a trauma response ; using the language of harm for just about anything, thereby diluting the clinical meaning of the word "trauma "; and mistaking understandable pandemic anguish for trauma when it's rea

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NASA highlights amazing ‘super bowls’ in our solar system

Digital Trends

On the day of America's most-watched sporting event, NASA has posted 10 impressively super, bowl-shaped venues adorning worlds in our solar system.

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Chevy resurrected 'The Sopranos' for a Super Bowl commercial. The internet loved it.

Mashable VR

The Sopranos already returned with the 2021 prequel film The Many Saints of Newark. But it made another comeback during the Super Bowl on Sunday. Chevy ran an ad featuring Jamie-Lynn Sigler , who played Tony Soprano's daughter Meadow in the classic HBO series, driving an electric Silverado. The spot effectively copied the iconic opening credits scene, where Tony drives from New York to New Jersey, smoking a cigar in a massive SUV.

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How to watch a Russian cargo ship deliver supplies to the ISS tomorrow

Digital Trends

NASA will livestream the launch and docking of Russian resupply craft to the ISS this week, and we've got the details on how to watch the stream from home.

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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?