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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki Tests Positive for Covid-19

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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has tested positive for covid-19, according to a statement released on her official Twitter account Sunday night. Psaki is vaccinated against the coronavirus and is reportedly only experiencing mild symptoms. Read more.

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Watch this futuristic hoverbike take a tentative test flight

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Watch this flying motorbike take to the skies in a recent piloted test flight. The company behind the aircraft plans to start selling it next year.

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Hocus Pocus 2 Conjures Up Some New Cast Members

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The original Hocus Pocus is a fixture for most households on Halloween season, and Disney’s been promising a sequel for years. In lieu of an actual trailer for this Halloween, Disney revealed a new slate of characters who’ll be joining the Sanderson sisters’ (again played by Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimi, and… Read more.

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Watch Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot dance like the Stones’ Mick Jagger

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Watch Boston Dynamics' versatile Spot robot mirror moves by Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger in the latest demonstration of its dancing skills.

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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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Tip Jars May Be Coming to TikTok

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TikTok wants to make it easier for its creators to earn money for their videos—many of which undoubtedly require a lot of time and effort—so it’s testing out a popular idea: setting up a tip jar. Read more.

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Apple's Privacy Policy Cost Snap, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube an Estimated $9.85 Billion in Revenue

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With its App Tracking Transparency policy launched in April, Apple overhauled its iPhone lineup’s privacy settings to give users more control over their data. That decision cost Snap, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube an estimated $9.85 billion in lost revenue in the second half of this year, the Financial Times reports. Read more.

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The Future of Music in the Metaverse – 3 Events That Are Setting The Trend

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As the metaverse becomes a part of popular culture, the buzz around the technology is ascending with no end in sight. The ability to enter an entirely different, yet familiar universe, only constrained by the heights of imagination, has enabled the world to go global from inside their living rooms. Large recreational gatherings especially are [.]. The post The Future of Music in the Metaverse – 3 Events That Are Setting The Trend appeared first on Virtual Reality Augmented Reality Technolo

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Luigi Finally Gets His Lego Due With Luigi's Mansion Sets

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Nintendo puts the spotlight on Mario so much that when they turn their eye to his younger brother Luigi , it makes those moments shine all the brighter. So it goes with Lego: as of a couple months ago, the green plumber has his own Super Mario Starter Course, and now he’s getting some sets all to himself. Well, and the… Read more.

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From Splatterhouse to Resident Evil, horror games found the fun in fear

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Horror games have gone through a hell of an evolution. From Sweet Home to Resident Evil, here's how digital terror has grown.

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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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Apple Quietly Kills 21.5-inch iMac

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As Apple continues to cull its catalog of Intel-powered Macs, it looks like the 21.5-inch iMac is finally being put out to pasture. Yet another causality of Apple’s shift to using its homegrown M1 processor in every product. Read more.

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Space Station astronauts use AR headset to upgrade particle physics hardware

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ISS Astronaut Megan McArthur used a HoloLens headset to perform a hardware replacement on a highly complex piece of equipment: The station's Cold Atom Lab.

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October Was a Pretty Good Month for Movies

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We’ve covered weekend box offices for the month of October pretty extensively. It was hard not to with big tentpoles like Venom , Dune , and Halloween Kills , and it seems to have paid off in the long run, because domestically, things were the best they’ve been for theaters in a fairly long time. Read more.

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Researchers come up with method for cleaning up space debris using magnets

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Researchers have found a way to maneuver metallic, non-magnetic pieces of debris by using spinning magnets.

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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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Europol Captures 12 Suspects Believed to Have Used Ransomware to Attack 1,800 Victims in 71 Countries

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The fight against ransomware attacks continues, this time on the other side of the Atlantic. Following a two-year investigation, Europol announced this week that it had captured 12 individuals in various criminal organizations who were “wreaking havoc across the world” by launching ransomware attacks on critical… Read more.

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Hubble captures creepy carbon star CW Leonis peering out from a screen of smoke

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To celebrate Halloween, this week's image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the star CW Leonis, a creepy eye gazing out from a screen of smoke.

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Your Spooky Doctor Who Premiere Spoiler Discussion Zone Is Here

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It’s been a long almost 11 months since we last had The Doctor and friends on our screens, but at last, she’s back! And things are looking a bit different this time around, as the end draws near for Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor. Come talk about the first episode of Doctor Who season 13, Flux , and let us know what you… Read more.

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NASA’s Juno spacecraft peers deep into the atmosphere of Jupiter

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Researchers using NASA's Juno probe have peered beneath Jupiter's cloud tops to create the most detailed 3D understanding of its atmosphere to date.

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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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League of Legends: Arcane's Trailer Is an Explosive Delight

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Next week, Netflix and Riot Games will finally release the first act of episodes for Arcane. The animated series based on Riot’s popular League of Legends will tell the story of fan favorite Champions Vi (voiced in the show by future Hawkeye Hailee Steinfeld ) and Jinx (Ella Purnell), and what led to them becoming… Read more.

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iRobot Roomba j7+ Review: Getting closer to a tangle-free life

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Cables and wires on the floor are a nuisance. Erase your worries about them with the new iRobot Roomba j7+.

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CasinoHeadlines.com Acquired by Damage Media, Announces Re-Launch

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Damage Media Group (DMG) has today announced the acquisition of CasinoHeadlines.com, a B2C iGaming portal that caters to online casino, sportsbook, and poker markets. The move is part of DMG’s continuing strategy to build out its portfolio of websites, with this being the second major acquisition for the Estonian startup this year. The site will join Damage Group and its portfolio of news websites beginning November next month and the full launch is due to take place in February next year.

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Parents rejoice as Roblox gets back online after three-day outage

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Roblox says its popular game creation platform is up and running again after a global outage that started three days ago.

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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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VR Digital Truth 360°: Monsters from the Deep

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Dive at higher pace into the depths of the ocean! Compatibility: Cell phones with gyroscope, Google Cardboard, VR Box 360, Oculus Rift VR, Oculus Quest VR … supply.

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This Logitech G432 gaming headset is only $50 today

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The Logitech G432 gaming headset is currently available in an early Black Friday deal from Walmart that brings its price down to just $50 after a $30 discount.

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Downhill Racing in Virtual Fact – GTA VR 360°

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We propose looking at this with a VR headset! Below are our major recommendations : Google Cardboard (25$) – [link] Equipment VR (169.99$) … source.

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Save $31 on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 at Walmart today

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Instead of the Galaxy Watch 4's normal $280 price, you can grab one today for just $249.

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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?