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VR Social Platform Rec Room Partners With YouTuber MrBeast

VRScout

Get your hands on a limited edition MrBeast t-shirt for your Rec Room avatar. Just a few months into 2022 and Rec Room is already making waves with a series of major partnerships. Today we learned that the popular VR social platform is teaming up with MrBeast , a popular YouTuber and philanthropist best known for his expensive stunts and generous giveaways.

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The One Failure That Changed SpaceX Forever

Slashgear

SpaceX is a massively successful private space company, but it nearly buckled under its own ambitions years ago, staring down the barrel of bankruptcy.

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No, the Valkyrie from 'The Northman' isn't wearing braces

Mashable VR

There’s one scene in The Northman that shows a mythical figure screaming into the camera. It’s frightening. She’s a Valkyrie, as the events of the film but also the immediately recognisable iconography indicate, but more than a few people have asked the question: wait, is she wearing modern braces? No one's asked you? Well, the question has come up multiple times for me, in dinner table conversations, with friends and colleagues, whenever anyone’s mentioned The Northman.

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Galaxy Watch 5 Might Say Goodbye To A Popular Feature

Slashgear

Samsung's wearable remains as popular as ever despite some design changes over the years. This time around, it looks like a "classic" may be gone for good.

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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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Hubble captures an angelic merging of galaxies

Digital Trends

This week's image from the Hubble Space Telescope show two galaxies which are in the process of merging together, in the system VV-689.

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Alex Kurtzman Opens Up on The Mummy Reboot, Calls It "Biggest Failure" of His Life

GizModo VR

It feels like it’s been forever since the release of The Mummy starring Tom Cruise. At the time, the movie was something of a big deal, both because it was a reboot of the (mostly) beloved Brendan Fraser films that lots of us grew up with, and also because it was infamously planned to kickstart a Dark Universe … Read more.

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Why America's Obsession With SUVs Is More Fatal Than Ever

Slashgear

SUVs are big and, therefore, may give drivers a sense of security when it comes to accidents. Unfortunately, the same vehicles may also kill more pedestrians.

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What Actor Should Get a Meta Celebration of Their Career Next?

GizModo VR

The month of April has had no shortage of pretty good movies in a season that’ll hopefully lead to some more pretty good movies. But right now, there are two fascinating films in theaters in the form of E verything, Everywhere, All at Once and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Read more.

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Apple App Store Has Started Pruning Outdated Apps

Slashgear

Apple is removing old, outdated apps from the App Store even if they still work correctly, but users who have already installed them don't have to worry.

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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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The Wachowski Sisters are Auctioning Their Movie Props to Raise Money for Trans Youth

GizModo VR

The anti-queer movement across the United States that’s been making headlines in recent weeks is part of a larger effort across the globe to stamp out queer people, particularly those who are trans. As transphobic legislation is being enacted in the political sphere, organizations have been creating funds to help… Read more.

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The VHS Vs LaserDisc Battle Explained

Slashgear

Just about everyone is familiar with VHS tapes, but multiple other formats once competed for its throne, not the least of which were giant LaserDiscs.

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What to do if your dog doesn't like other dogs or strangers

Mashable VR

Some people see a dog out in public as an open invitation to approach and them, but it's rude, and possibly dangerous to pet without permission. Maybe your dog is nervous or reactive around strangers, which can traumatize them or provoke an attack. Maybe they're perfectly content with their inner circle of loved ones and simply aren't interested in being approached.

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The 914 Is The Classic Porsche You Can Actually Afford

Slashgear

Classic Porsche vehicles don't come cheap, but that doesn't mean all of them are outside of your budget. This classic model can be found for under $50k.

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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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These Beats products are obsolete, or will be obsolete soon

Mashable VR

Tech gets old. It’s a fact of life. All you can do is make plans to replace an obsolete product before it’s too late. And obviously the best way to start your planning process is to know exactly when a device will become obsolete. Thankfully, when it comes to Beats products, that’s pretty easy to figure out. Here’s a complete rundown of which Beats products are officially obsolete according to Apple, and which ones will become obsolete soon.

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James Webb’s mirrors are almost but not quite cooled

Digital Trends

With James Webb's MIRI instrument now cooled to its operating temperature, the telescope is approaching its final temperature as it mirrors cool as well.

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'The Man Who Fell to Earth' review: Chiwetel Ejiofor and Naomie Harris shine in smart sci-fi series

Mashable VR

Stop me if you've heard this one before: An alien arrives alone on Earth and learns about human culture. Along the way, they befriend a human or two and have to hide from dangerous government forces. Sounds familiar, right? I could be talking about anything from E.T. to The Iron Giant. Instead, I'm thinking of Showtime 's new series, The Man Who Fell to Earth , which executes this classic science fiction storyline with a clear, fresh vision.

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Apple seems to have embarked on new purge of neglected apps

Digital Trends

Apple seems to have embarked on a new round of purging apps from its App Store, specifically those that have been left untouched by developers for a long time.

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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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How to watch Axiom space mission depart from ISS

Mashable VR

After an Axiom Mission 1 delay Saturday, NASA, Axiom Space and SpaceX teams expect the SpaceX Dragon Endeavor to undock from the International Space Station Sunday, according to NASA. Weather permitting, hatch closure is now expected at 6:45 p.m. ET April 24. The departure was delayed Saturday due to weather conditions expected at splashdown, Mashable previously reported.

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NASA has a plan to fix Lucy spacecraft’s solar array problem

Digital Trends

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has a problem with one of its solar arrays, which has not locked into place properly. Now there's a plan to fix it.

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'The Baby' review: A killer premise with confusing execution

Mashable VR

Scary children have long been a staple of the horror genre: The Exorcist , The Omen , Orphan. the list goes on and on. But a new HBO show takes the archetype of the cursed child and ages it way down, until the object of our nightmares is just a baby. The baby, to be precise. HBO's The Baby introduces us to Natasha, aka Tash (Michelle de Swarte), a woman who has no desire to have children.

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Doctor Strange 2 cast hails Sam Raimi’s vision in new video

Digital Trends

Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, and Kevin Feige share their words of praise for Sam Raimi, the director of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

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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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Juice up 5 power-hungry devices at once with this charging station on sale

Mashable VR

TL;DR: As of April 24, the OMNIA Q5 5-in-1 Wireless Charging Station is on sale for 16% off, so you can get it for $99.95 instead of its usual $120. While you’re cleaning and organizing your home this season, don’t forget about your home office. You finally invested in an actual desk only to overload it with papers, devices, and cables. Condense the chaos by grabbing an OMNIA Q5 all-in-one wireless charging station while it’s on sale.

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YouTube launched 17 years ago today with this video

Digital Trends

YouTube launched 17 years ago on Sunday, with its first-ever clip featuring an elephant with a "really, really, really" long trunk.

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Learn anything on your own time with lifetime access to StreamSkill for $59

Mashable VR

TL;DR: As of April 24, Unlimited Lifetime Membership to StreamSkill.com Software Training is just $59. It usually costs $1,250, so you're getting a discount of 95%. From Microsoft Excel to Adobe Photoshop to Intuit QuickBooks, designated software exists to make our work and everyday lives easier. So, why is it that most of these programs are so complex they end up slowing us down?

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Largest marsquakes yet detected using InSight data

Digital Trends

Researchers have identified two of the largest marsquakes seen to date using data from NASA's InSight lander.

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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?