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Multiplayer VR Art App MultiBrush Adds Passthrough & Avatars

VRScout

You can now paint complex works of art with friends in mixed reality. In January 2021, Google officially ended support for its popular VR painting app Tilt Brush , much to the dismay of the digital art community. That said, it wasn’t all bad news. That same month the company open-sourced the software, allowing other developers to add their own unique features and customizations to the existing app.

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The Farthest Star Was Just Discovered, Formed Nearly 13 Billion Years Ago

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The aging Hubble Space Telescope helped astronomers discover the farthest known star in the universe, one spied only due to a ripple and some warping in space.

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'Seinfeld' star Jason Alexander posts moving tribute to 'TV mama' Estelle Harris

Mashable VR

Seinfeld star Jason Alexander posted a moving tribute to his "TV mama" Estelle Harris, who has died age 93. The stage and screen actor, who starred as as George Costanza's high-pitched, high-drama mother on the '90s sitcom, passed away on Saturday in Palm Desert, California, her agent confirmed. Harris starred alongside the late Jerry Stiller as George's parents, Estelle and Frank, constantly throwing barbs at each other and giving unsolicited advice to their onscreen son.

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OPPO F21 Pro Teaser Reveals A New Type Of Leather For Phones

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OPPO's next smartphone, the F21 Pro, will feature a bright orange leather-like material the company calls "fiberglass." Here's what we know.

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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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Kirby and the Forgotten Land: How to play co-op

Digital Trends

If you're ready to team up to rescue all the caged Waddle Dees with a buddy, here's how to play, and what you can do, in co-op in Kirby and the Forgotten Land.

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Will Apple make your MacBook obsolete this month?

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Apple may put three models of MacBooks out to pasture this month, according to a report. As PCMag reports (which is owned by Mashable's publisher, Ziff Davis), Apple may add the 11-inch MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Air, and 13-inch MacBook Pro models released in early 2014 to its obsolete products list. That means they'll no longer be eligible for hardware repairs, and will only be eligible for "battery-only repairs in select countries for a limited time," according to an internal memo obtained

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NASA SLS Rocket Test Canceled At The Last Minute Over Safety Risk

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NASA was set to conduct its next wet dress rehearsal today, but the Artemis test was delayed by a last-minute issue that triggered safety worries.

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Tesla is delivering more cars than ever

Mashable VR

Tesla delivered a record number of cars in the first quarter of 2022, absolutely dwarfing the number of vehicles it shipped during the same period last year. The electric automaker announced it delivered 310,048 vehicles this quarter, while producing 305,407. Model 3 and Model Y Teslas accounted for 95 percent of those deliveries. In the first quarter of 2021, Tesla delivered 184,800 vehicles and produced 180,338.

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Every New Feature Just Added To Instagram Messaging

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Instagram is back with plans to roll out several new features, many of which revolve around its increasingly useful direct messaging platform.

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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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'SNL' mocks Ginni Thomas and her 'completely normal texts' to overturn 2020 election

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Saturday Night Live completely and utterly mocked Ginni Thomas and her text messages to Mark Meadows — yep, those "completely normal" ones. The comedy show ran the skit following reports that Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, had traded text messages with then-White House chief of staff Meadows, urging an overturn of the results of the 2020 presidential election.

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Twitter Leak Reveals Key Feature May Finally Arrive On Android

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Twitter's iPhone users have had access to text selection for quite some time, and now it looks like the same feature may finally arrive on Android.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Certainly Lives Up to Its Title in New Trailer

GizModo VR

Just as one Star Trek show has ended, a new one is set to take its place. This afternoon, Paramount Plus unveiled a brand new trailer for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ahead of its May 5 release that promises new worlds to go for Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and the crew of the USS Enterprise. Read more.

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LA's hottest club: A members-only dog park

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It's a warm, mid-week spring evening in Los Angeles, and the club is bumping. Not the Hollywood dance club or even the ritzy beach or country club. I'm talking about a Santa Monica, California members-only club that is, primarily, a dog park. Meet DOG PPL : A private dog park where members pay $80 per month for a clean environment with safety requirements and protections for dogs that is also a social club for dog owners.

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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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Attack on Titan Will End Its Final Season With Part 3 in 2023, At Least I Think So

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Since 2013, Studio Wit’s (and later MAPPA’s) anime adaptation of Attack on Titan has taken the world by storm. Its fourth and final season has been sliced into multiple two parts—likely in part because creator Hajime Isayama only concluded the series nearly a full year ago. But following the Japanese airing of this… Read more.

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Twitter founder Jack Dorsey admits he's 'partially to blame' for a centralized internet. Oops.

Mashable VR

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey lamented the centralization of the internet, but at least had the self-awareness to admit that's something he had a major hand in creating. "[The] days of usenet, irc, the web.even email (w PGP).were amazing," Dorsey tweeted on Saturday. "[Centralizing] discovery and identity into corporations really damaged the internet.

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Marvel's New Iron Fist is One of Their Best Updates in Years

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Since Miles Morales debuted in the Ultimate Universe back in 2011 and slowly became a household name, Marvel’s had no shortage of new, younger characters take on the names of established legacy heroes like Iron Man and Thor. Each new hero has had attention grabbing headlines, and for many of them—like Sam Wilson’s… Read more.

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In 'SNL' monologue, Jerrod Carmichael is 'not gonna talk about' Will Smith and the Oscars

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"Six days. This happened a week ago. Doesn't this feel like it happened years ago?" Saturday Night Live host Jerrod Carmichael asked the audience of That Moment at the Oscars on Sunday. In his opening monologue on Saturday, Carmichael addressed the incident when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock onstage at the award ceremony, without directly saying any of those particular words or names.

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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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Netflix's Samurai Rabbit Looks Like An Interesting Take on Usagi Yojimbo

GizModo VR

You may recall that back in 2020, Netflix announced their plans to create a an animated series based on Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo graphic novels. During the initial announcement, Netflix revealed that they didn’t plan to do a straight adaptation of Sakai’s rabbit ronin Miyamoto Usagi , but rather expand the mythology… Read more.

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NASA's dress rehearsal for $4.1 billion Artemis I rocket launch is delayed

Mashable VR

Artemis I , the first in a series of increasingly complex NASA missions aimed at making human exploration of the moon and Mars possible, is not ready to shoot for the stars just yet. The mission was scheduled for a "wet dress rehearsal" this weekend to allow NASA teams to simulate launch procedures without actually igniting the rocket and sending it into space.

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Chris Pine Thinks Star Trek Shouldn't Try Being Marvel, and He's Right

GizModo VR

Star Trek is doing pretty good in television right now, but film is another matter entirely. Despite Paramount’s best efforts to get another film off the ground, there hasn’t been a theatrical release since 2016's Star Trek Beyond. That’s all set to change—probably—with Star Trek 4 , with Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto,… Read more.

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How 'eQuad' Electric Bikes Could Change UPS Delivery

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UPS' next EV test doesn't involve traditional vehicles, but rather focuses on an electric-assist quad bike that, well, looks nothing like an ordinary bicycle.

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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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Undone's Season 2 Trailer Promises a Time-Warping Family Trip

GizModo VR

The second season of Amazon’s Undone is soon upon us, bringing fans back to the life of Rosa Salazar’s Alma as she continues to grow her time travel abilities. After a series of clips last month teasing at some of the familial struggles that await her in the new season, Prime Video has released a trailer that gives a… Read more.

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How to watch NASA’s first space tourism launch to the ISS on Wednesday

Digital Trends

NASA is about to embark on its first space tourism mission to the International Space Station, and you can watch the entire event as it happens.

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A Hacker Gang's Alleged Members Are in Jail. It's Still Stealing Data.

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London police announced Friday that two teenagers had been charged with hacking crimes in connection to LAPSUS$ , a cybercriminal gang that has managed to breach some of the biggest tech companies in the world over the past few months. Far from disintegrating in a leadership vacuum, though, the gang has continued to… Read more.

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Blue Origin highlights reel celebrates its first space tourism flight of 2022

Digital Trends

Watch Blue Origin's video showing highlights from its first space tourism mission of 2022, which took six paying passengers to more than 62 miles above Earth.

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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?