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NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter Captured Video Of Its Record Flight Across Mars

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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter is still flying around Mars, and not only has it outlived its anticipated lifespan, but it also recorded one of its own flights.

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The Animation Guild May Have Just Gotten the New Deal It Wanted

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You may recall that towards the end of 2021, the Animation Guild was in contract negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) for animation writers to have pay on par with writers for live action productions. If you have Twitter and follow several high profile people in the… Read more.

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How The James Webb Telescope Will Study A Lava-Covered Super-Earth

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The James Webb Space Telescope's exoplanet studies will include some strange, wild subjects, including a lava-covered "super-Earth" and other rocky planets.

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Hubble captures a perfectly formed Grand Design Spiral

Digital Trends

An image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope and shared by NASA this week shows the most stunning of spiral galaxies: A Grand Design Spiral called NGC 3631.

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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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The 10 Coolest Features Of The 2022 Chevrolet Corvette

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There's a lot to like about the 2022 Corvette, but some features stand out among the rest, including the ability to lift the front with the push of a button.

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The Disturbing Reason Facebook Is Paying People $397

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Some people in Illinois are getting checks for up to around $400 from Facebook, and the reason has everything to do with the company's use of biometric data.

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An Icelandic horse can now write your out-of-office emails

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If you’re keen to switch off from work during your next vacation and fancy deploying an original out-of-office email, you can get a horse to do it for you.

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Google Pixel Tablet May Support The Accessory Steve Jobs Ridiculed

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A newly spotted certification listing on the USI website indicates the upcoming Google Pixel Tablet will include support for a key accessory.

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These 13 Images Depict the Most Realistic CGI Dinosaurs Ever

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Think about all the dinosaur content you’ve ever consumed: books, movies, perhaps a Far Side cartoon. Consider how realistic each dinosaurian depiction was, to your best understanding of how dinosaurs lived. Now, I suggest you compare all that you’ve seen about dinosaurs before to Apple TV+’s newest five-part series, P … 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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How Researchers Are Fighting Microbes On The International Space Station

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Despite efforts to keep it clean, the International Space Station is home to a variety of microscopic bugs that can cause huge problems over time.

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Painting VR Adds In-Game Tutorials & Expo Mode

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Painting VR added new in-game tutorials and an expo mode this week in its latest update. After launch last month , this minor update adds some new features that help you display your artwork and get new users comfortable with all the mechanics. The new in-game tutorials run through the basics, allowing you to properly understand the fundamentals like brush settings, mixing colors, using reference images and more.

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The One Failure That Changed Samsung Forever

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Samsung is known for offering high-quality Android devices, and that's one of the reasons its explosively bad luck caught everyone by surprise in 2016.

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Seth Green's Bored Ape was stolen. Now he can't make his NFT show.

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Earlier this month, actor and Robot Chicken creator Seth Green announced that his crypto wallet was compromised resulting in the loss of a number of highly valuable NFTs. NFTs being stolen by hackers are certainly not a new phenomenon. Thieves have already swiped millions of dollars worth of NFTs so far just this year alone. However, Green's case is unique.

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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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10 Cadillacs That Everyone Forgot Existed

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Cadillac may be a household name, but some of its cars failed to thrive and have long been forgotten, including 10 models that were plagued with issues.

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Tales of the Jedi’s First Footage Teases Two Very Different Star Wars Stories

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Tales of the Jedi ’s mysterious arrival on the schedule of Star Wars Celebrations had fans all over speculating what the animated series could be. Now, as producer Dave Filoni revealed at the convention, we know it’s far from what people were expecting. And yet, still kind of a surprise. Read more.

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iOS 16 Tipped To Get A More Capable Lock Screen

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A feature that was expected to launch with the iPhone 13 may finally arrive this year, and it'll make things a bit more convenient for users.

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Boeing video shows idyllic view from recent Starliner flight

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Boeing has shared a video featuring an idyllic view from the window of its CST-100 Starliner capsule as it headed to space on its recent uncrewed test flight.

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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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Why Twitter Shareholders Are Coming After Elon Musk

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The Twitter acquisition drama continues with another lawsuit against Elon Musk over the potential business deal, one that seeks damages and lobs accusations.

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SpaceX expecting a major decision on Starship this week

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Following months of delays regarding the first orbital launch of its next-generation Starship rocket, SpaceX is hoping for good news from the FAA this week.

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Star Wars Visions Will Return for Even More Anime Greatness

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The animated side of Star Wars has served as home to some of the franchise’s most interesting works. When Star Wars Visions was released last year, it offered us different glimpses of George Lucas’ science fantasy world, through the eyes of powerhouses in Japanese animation such as Studio Trigger, Science SARU, and… Read more.

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Ancient volcanoes could be a source of ice on the moon

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Researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder have found that there could be thick sheets of ice on the moon, created by ancient volcanoes.

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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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Top Gun: Maverick Takes Off to Become Tom Cruise's Box Office Best

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After many many delays, Tom Cruise comes roaring back to the big screen for 2022 with Top Gun: Maverick. Directed by Tron: Legacy’s Joseph Kosinski, the sequel to the late Tony Scott’s original 1986 film brings back Cruise’s hypercompetent Navy airman Pete “Maverick” Mitchell as he’s conscripted to train a new… Read more.

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What's Yubo, the 'Tinder for Teens' social networking app used by the Uvalde school shooter?

Mashable VR

You may never have heard of Yubo before. It's certainly not as big as Facebook, YouTube, or Instagram. The social networking app isn't even usually listed alongside fairly new social platforms that have become extremely popular with Gen Z, such as TikTok, Twitch, or Discord. But now, Yubo has been thrust into the mainstream. Why? The Uvalde school shooter was reportedly a user on the platform.

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch Gets a Very Good Season 2 Trailer

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At the final day of Star Wars Celebration 2022, Lucasfilm and Disney+ have released the trailer for the second season of the hit animated series Star Wars: The Bad Batch. It continues the tale of a band of “defective” Galactic Army clones that are on a journey to be more than obsolete as the Empire grows. Read more.

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See stunning footage captured by Mars helicopter Ingenuity in flight

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NASA has released a stunning video, showing a helicopter's eye view of surface of Mars as seen from the air.

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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?