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Spotify Will Put Content Advisories on Podcasts That Talk About Covid-19 to Fight Misinformation

GizModo VR

After days of intense scrutiny, Spotify on Sunday said it would add content advisories on podcast episodes that include discussions on covid-19 to combat misinformation on its platform. Read more.

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Elon Musk asked to pay $50K to end Twitter bot that tracks his jet

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A teen who built a Twitter bot that provides updates on the movements of Elon Musk’s private jet says he’ll delete the account if the billionaire pays him $50K.

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Marissa Meyer's The Lunar Chronicles is Jumping from YA Series to Animated Film

GizModo VR

Film adaptations of popular YA books were all the rage during the early and mid-2010s, but with few exceptions and a jump to television , have largely fallen to the wayside for the 2020s. That makes it all the more interesting that Marissa Meyer’s beloved YA sci-fi series The Lunar Chronicles is not only being adapted… Read more.

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SpaceX suddenly aborts rocket launch due to errant cruise ship

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In an unusual turn of events, SpaceX called off its latest mission just 33 seconds from launch on Sunday evening due to a cruise ship in the hazard area.

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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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Halo's Trailer Bring Master Chief's Sci-fi Odyssey to Live Action

GizModo VR

Since the original Halo released in 2001, Microsoft has been trying for a long time to get Bungie and 343 Industries’ sci-fi shooter into live action beyond excellent commercials and webseries tie-ins. After several aborted attempts at making a movie, Halo is now finally a TV show for Paramount+ (with some speed bumps … Read more.

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Studio Ghibli's Theme Park is Finally Opening Up in November

GizModo VR

Studio Ghibli is one of the most beloved animation studios around, and their whimsical, resonant worlds are often worth revisiting every now and again just to feel something. For years, we’ve wondered what it would be like to have a theme park based around the studio’s various films, and later this year we’ll finally… Read more.

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Hubble spots three galaxies pulled into an unusual shape

Digital Trends

This week's image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a group of three galaxies they are interacting with each other.

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Tell Us About Your Pop Culture Month: January 2022 Edition

GizModo VR

It’s the end of the month, gang, and what an eventful month it’s been. Like the beginning of every year, there were some solid releases throughout January, but there’s a chance that much of the things you watched or read for the first month of the year were catchups from during the holidays. Now we want to know about … Read more.

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Let’s face it: The upcoming iMac Pro needs a notch

Digital Trends

The notch is undoubtedly one of Apple’s most divisive design choices. Yet it could make a hugely positive impact on the iMac Pro for one very good reason.

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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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do not perform this Roblox VR game….

VRGames

Hello there! Nowadays I played a VR match on Roblox where I drove automobiles and flew to grandmas household in a aircraft… epic! Contemplate … resource.

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Mario Kart 9 shouldn’t turn the series into ‘Nintendo Kart’

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Mario Kart 9 should focus on making another fantastic racer that's fun to play instead of trying to shove crossovers in.

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The NEW Oculus Quest 2 (128GB Design) Is Below

VRGames

The Oculus Quest 2 is now back in stock and I check out out the brand name new Oculus Quest 2 128gb model. You can get the new … resource.

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Strange object giving off bursts of energy unlike anything known

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Astronomers have discovered a strange object giving off regular bursts of energy, unlike anything seen before.

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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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UNREAL ENGINE- WINNERS OF " SHORTS INDIA PROGRAM"

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Unreal Engine by Epic Games, the world’s most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tool, today announced the winners of its ‘Shorts India Program’, successfully concluding its inaugural edition in India. To celebrate and inspire creativity using real-time engine concepts, the three-month program was designed to train Indian VFX creators and animators using cutting-edge tools such as the Metahuman creator, Quixel, and more.

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Halo’s new trailer introduces Master Chief and a future war

Digital Trends

The hit video game franchise Halo finally gets a live-action series on Paramount+ as Master Chief becomes more than just a weapon to be used and discarded.

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Former Olympians’ VR Fitness App Features A Martial Arts Twist

VRScout

One of Les Mills’ most popular high-energy classes is heading to the Meta Quest. . When it comes to group fitness, Les Mills is a global leader with 140,000 certified trainers in 21,000 clubs across 100 countries leading classes with extreme names like Sh’Bam , Bodyattack , RPM , and Les Mills Core , a popular class that focuses on core tone and sports performance.

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Water could have been on Mars more recently than we thought

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Recent data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter suggests there could have been water on Mars as recently as 2 billion years ago.

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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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Gaming industry veteran debuts metaverse for music and games

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(Image courtesy Meta Music.). Steve Gray, former executive at Tencent Games, the world’s largest gaming studio, is getting into the metaverse. His new company, Meta Music Studios , launched  The Apollo Project  last week, a blockchain-based gaming platform for music and games, with its first game TAP Stars, an avatar growing game, set to launch next month.

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Bruce Wayne faces the Riddler in a new clip from The Batman

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In a new clip from the forthcoming WB film The Batman, Bruce Wayne encounters the Riddler for the first time.

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NASA plans to use drones to monitor active volcanoes

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NASA is working on a plan to use drones to monitor active volcanoes and give warnings of potential eruptions.

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2022 Kia EV6 first drive review: An EV defying expectations

Digital Trends

It charges faster than anything else on the road, and that's just one way Kia's EV6 car punches way above its weight class.

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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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Do you need a smart toothbrush?

Digital Trends

Is a smart toothbrush worth it at the moment? Will it help you have better hygiene or are you just paying for novelty?

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