Sat.Oct 31, 2020

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‘Horror Bar VR’ Is A Grotesque Zombie Bar Simulator Perfect For Halloween

VRScout

Serve up disgusting brain burgers and bloody drinks to your flesh-hungry patrons. With much of the nation still under lockdown as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, this year’s Halloween has many trick or treaters and partiers confined reluctantly to their homes hunched over a bowl of miniature Snickers with a case of the holiday blues.

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This AI Can Tell if You Have Covid-19 Just by Listening to Your Cough

GizModo VR

It feels like whenever I cough these days it triggers a mini-panic attack that I promptly try to quash with a steady stream of chamomile tea. Thankfully, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have figured out a way to gauge whether a person has covid-19 just from the sound of their cough , so I may… Read more.

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20 years in orbit: A video tour of the past two decades of life on the ISS

Digital Trends

The space station celebrates 20 years of continuous human habitation on November 2, 2020. So let’s see what daily life is like on the orbiting outpost.

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California's Hills Are Haunted by the Ghosts of Wind Energy's Past

GizModo VR

Interstate 580 runs from the California’s North Bay through to the Central Valley. Along the way, it goes over the crest of Altamont Pass and hills that turn golden in summer and lush green with the winter rains. 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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Drone technology improves ability to forecast volcanic eruptions

Digital Trends

Scientists have use drones to explore a remote volcano to learn about forecasting eruptions and see how volcanoes contribute to the global carbon cycle.

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Astronomers use new technique to search for Planet Nine

Digital Trends

Astronomers have tested a new technique for collecting up small amounts of scattered light from multiple sources in order to detect the potential Planet Nine.

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Sir Sean Connery, the Enduring Face of James Bond, Has Died

GizModo VR

Sir Sean Connery, star of stage and screen and the legendary actor who catapulted Ian Fleming’s spyfi novel hero into a movie and pop-cultural icon , has passed away at 90. Read more.

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Intel’s Discrete GPU Era Begins: Intel Launches Iris Xe MAX For Entry-Level Laptops

Anand Tech

Today may be Halloween, but what Intel is up to is no trick. Almost a year after showing off their alpha silicon, Intel’s first discrete GPU in over two decades has been released and is now shipping in OEM laptops. The first of several planned products using the DG1 GPU, Intel’s initial outing in their new era of discrete graphics is in the laptop space, where today they are launching their Iris Xe MAX graphics solution.

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This Is How Wuhan, China, Is Celebrating Halloween

GizModo VR

The majority of people can probably recite one of the most basic lessons of the coronavirus pandemic: Don’t get too close to others, especially without a mask. Knowing that, it would be totally reasonable to think that the picture above is from a previous Halloween, before “coronavirus” was part of our daily… 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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Intel’s DG1 GPU Coming to Discrete Desktop Cards Next Year; OEM-Only

Anand Tech

Alongside today’s launch of Intel’s DG1-based Iris Xe MAX graphics for laptops, the company is also quietly confirming that DG1 will be coming to desktop video cards as well, albeit in a roundabout way. Though still in the early stages, a hereto unnamed third party has reached an agreement with Intel to produce DG1-based desktop cards. These cards, in turn, will be going into OEM desktop systems, and they are expected to appear early next year.

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Super Typhoon Goni, the World’s Strongest Storm This Year, Makes Landfall in the Philippines

GizModo VR

Days after being hit by Typhoon Molave, the Philippines braced itself as another storm, Super Typhoon Goni, made landfall on Saturday. Goni is a Category Five storm and is the strongest to make landfall this year so far. Read more.

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The Very Large Telescope spots a spooky skull nebula

Digital Trends

Just in time for Halloween, the European Southern Observatory has released an image of a spooky structure known as the Skull Nebula.

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A Broken 3D Printer Inspired This Futuristic Fabric

GizModo VR

3D printers usually work by extruding long strings of molten plastic onto a surface. When MIT Media Lab researchers spotted a broken printer squirting out plastic erratically, they had an idea: By programming a normal home 3D printer, they could simulate that erratic extrusion and create a sort of light, flexible lace… 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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How to take a screenshot on any Kindle Fire

Digital Trends

Grabbing a screenshot from your Kindle Fire is easy on new models. We show you how, along with the long, grueling process to get screenshots from older models.

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Wolfwalkers Is Bringing Lush Forest Magic to Apple TV

GizModo VR

From the creatives behind animated films Secret of the Kells and Song of the Sea , Wolfwalkers is on its way to a limited theatrical run and onto Apple TV. Read more.

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How Virtual Reality Is Changing Business and Education? Facts You May Not Know

AffinityVr

The year 2020 started with an unexpected turn of events. The global coronavirus outbreak shook the fundamentals of life that we have been living for centuries. With everything coming to a sudden pause, new channels were brought to use for the continuation of daily affairs such as business and education. This is where virtual reality [.]. The post How Virtual Reality Is Changing Business and Education?

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Funky asteroid Psyche is made almost completely of metal

Digital Trends

In 2022, NASA will launch a spacecraft to explore asteroid Psyche. But this is no ordinary asteroid: A new study finds it is almost completely made of metal.

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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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Saturday's Best Deals: Oster Kitchen Appliances, Toshiba 55-inch Fire 4K TV, Kopari CBD Deodorant & Beauty Items, Bobsweep PetHair Plus Robot Vacuum, and More

GizModo VR

A 55-inch Toshiba Fire 4K TV and a sale on select Oster kitchen appliances lead Saturday’s best deals. Read more.

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Tiny, lonely rogue planet is smallest ever discovered

Digital Trends

Out in the depths of space, you can find wandering rogue planets. Now, astronomers have discovered the smallest rogue planet ever spotted.

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Clive Barker Is on Board For HBO and David Gordon Green's Hellraiser Series

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Somebody opened the box. Read more.

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How to enable Halloween sounds on your Nest Hello video doorbell

Digital Trends

The Nest Hello video doorbell lets you add spooky sounds for Halloween. Here's everything you need to know about enabling it and what sort of sounds to expect.

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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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Conquer Your Pup's Dander and Fur With $700 Off a Cobalt or Charcoal Bobsweep PetHair Plus Robot Vacuum

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Bobsweep PetHair Plus Robot Vacuum & Mop (Cobalt) | $200 | Best Buy Read more.

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Wyze Cam v3 review: A new benchmark for inexpensive cameras

Digital Trends

Low cost cameras have a certain reputation, but the Wyze Cam v3 redefines and sets the benchmark on what it means to be a useful security camera to everyone.

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Get 25% Off CBD Deodorant and Other Clean, Vegan Lifestyle Products in Kopari Beauty Sale

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Kopari Beauty CBD Deodorant | $14 | Ulta Beauty Read more.

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Intel’s Iris Xe Max is a new discrete GPU for midrange laptops

Digital Trends

Intel's Iris Xe Max is the company's latest step toward competing with AMD and Nvidia in PC graphics.

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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?