Sat.Feb 12, 2022

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Kia Launches ‘Dogmented Reality’ App Ahead Of Super Bowl

VRScout

AR technology brings Kia’s robotic dog to the real world. Kia has teamed up with the Petfinder Foundation to launch “Robo Dogmented Reality,” a one-of-a-kind Super Bowl ad campaign that will bring a cute robotic dog named “Robo Dog” into your living room using 8th Wall’s AR technology platform. When you launch the AR experience, an adorable robotic dog with a serious case of puppy dog eyes comes to life in your personal space.

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Finally, a VPN option without monthly subscription fees

Mashable VR

TL;DR: As of Feb. 12, the Deeper Connect Nano Decentralized VPN Cybersecurity Hardware is on sale for $299. While it may seem that way, fighting cybercrime isn’t a hopeless endeavor. There are many ways to protect your data and identity on the internet — and the Deeper Connect Nano Decentralized VPN is one of the most unique. The VPN — or virtual private network — was introduced roughly 25 years ago.

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Apple Is Reportedly Giving Its Retail Workers Raises to Make Sure They Don’t Leave

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In the era of the Great Resignation and a tighter labor market , it’s common sense to have companies review and increase the benefits they offer their workers, especially when that company is the most valuable one in the world. Read more.

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The Cincinnati Bengals' Gen Z swagger is making this a must-watch Super Bowl

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On Sunday, Feb. 13, hundreds of millions of people will look at their TVs during Super Bowl LVI and learn something shocking: The Cincinnati Bengals are really cool. Heck, you might not have even realized the Bengals exist and there's a good reason for that. This season marks the first time they’ve won a playoff game in 31 years. Sure, their uniforms are totally sick with tiger-striped helmets in lieu of a team logo, but they rarely make waves nationally because even good Bengals teams usu

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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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FTC Warns the Public Not to Let Online Romance Scammers Turn Them Into ‘Money Mules’

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Based on the incredible amount of South Korean romance dramas Netflix recommends to my poor soul, I can guarantee you that I’m a sucker for a good love story. However, I’m not a fan of getting scammed, and come as a messenger bearing a humble warning: Online love and money will almost certainly result in an unhappy… Read more.

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Jujutsu Kaisen's Getting a Second Season.in 2023

GizModo VR

If you’re a fan of shonen anime , chances are you’ve heard of Jujutsu Kaisen. Based on the manga of the same name by Gege Akutakmi, the series sees teenager Yuji Itadori learn to become a Jujutsu sorcerer to fight Curse spirits after swallowing the finger of a powerful Curse named Sukuna. It premiered in October 2020… Read more.

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How to correct Siri's pronunciation

Mashable VR

As hard as Siri may try, Apple's digital assistant just can't get the hang of some names. As someone with a difficult-to-pronounce last name, I understand. But you can give Siri a helping hand. If you already know that the iPhone's AI struggles with certain names you can go straight to their entry in your Contacts list. Or you can filter the request through Siri's voice commands: "Change how you pronounce [insert contact's name].

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The Thunderbolts Are Back, This Time as Good Guys?

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As corners of the Marvel universe are often wont to do, a new team of superbeings is being announced for their own team book set to release in a couple of months. This time, it’s the fan-favorite Thunderbolts , though it’s not exactly the original setup of B and C-tier Marvel baddies and antiheroes trying to redeem… Read more.

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Marvel's 'Daredevil' and other live-action shows are leaving Netflix soon

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If there's any future for Marvel's Defenders, it's going to unfold somewhere other than on Netflix. Multiple live-action TV shows that tell stories set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe are leaving Netflix at the end of February. The list includes all of the Defenders shows: So, Daredevil , Luke Cage , Jessica Jones , Iron First , The Punisher , and The Defenders.

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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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Shang-Chi is in Barbie, Because What is Reality Anymore?

GizModo VR

Mattel’s upcoming Barbie movie —yes, really, this is happening —is becoming more newsworthy than you’d originally expect. The upcoming film already drew attention when it was announced that Little Women’s Greta Gerwig would direct it, with Margot Robbie in the title role. Now, in addition to the recent additions of Ryan… Read more.

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Supercomputer simulates the entire universe, from Big Bang to now

Digital Trends

Researchers have produced the most accurate simulation of the universe to date, modelling its entire history from the Big Bang to the present day.

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Hell Yeah, Moon Knight In a Suit

GizModo VR

With Moon Knight getting ever closer to release, Marvel Studios is slowly beginning to peel back the cape on Oscar Isaac’s lunar superhero. While fans went absolutely giddy at seeing the updated version of Marc Spector’s comics costume, they were more curious about if the character would wind up donning his most… Read more.

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How to safely meet up on a Tinder date

Mashable VR

The Tinder experience is at first confined to the parameters of a smartphone, where swipes and messages live solely within your device. But at some point, those digital conversations might translate into meeting IRL, and a whole different scenario emerges. You're meeting someone you likely have never met before — a virtual stranger — and don't know much about beyond what a handful of emojis and texts can convey.

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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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Astronomers spot a new planet orbiting our neighboring star

Digital Trends

Astronomers have found a new planet orbiting our neighboring star Proxima Centauri, and it's one of the lightest exoplanets ever found.

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How to turn off comments on TikTok

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Sometimes, the best part about TikTok is the comment section — and other times it's a cesspool of trolls. For when you're faced with the latter, thankfully there's a fairly simple way to turn comments off on a TikTok video. Start by creating your video and click next. You'll be taken to a page where you can tag people, add hashtags or links, and, when you're ready, post it.

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3 next-gen helmet designs that could curb concussions in the NFL

Digital Trends

In 2019, the NFL launched a design competition for safer helmet technologies. These are the three companies that won, along with their incredible technologies.

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Learn project management fundamentals for work and everyday life for $35

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TL;DR: As of Feb. 12, the 2022 Deeply Practical Project & Quality Management Exam Prep Bundle (containing 10 courses, valued altogether at $1,990) is on sale for $34.99. That's savings of 98%. Managing projects efficiently and effectively is a skill that can benefit anyone — both professionally and personally. With the potentially permanent shift to remote work for many people, managing work and daily life largely becomes one and the same.

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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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Interview: How Kimi became the perfect pandemic thriller

Digital Trends

Steven Soderbergh's thriller Kimi wasn't supposed to be a perfectly timed thriller for the current moment in time, but that's what it ended up being.

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14 greatest heart-stealing scenes (literally)

Mashable VR

This Valentine's Day, we're not looking for cutesy conceits. Seriously, skip all the star-crossed nonsense. Spare us the sappy theatrics. And for the love of Cupid, put the poetry down. What we want is hearts. Literal hearts. A "stolen heart" is a metaphor to most. You say someone stole your heart when you fall in love with a person or a pet. It's a description of an emotional reaction so big it's best likened to having a part of you taken and forever kept by another.

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NASA announces two new missions to study the sun

Digital Trends

To learn more about the sun and how it affects the space environment, NASA has recently announced two new space missions.

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TikTok's ban on misogyny and misgendering attempts to clean up For You Pages

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TikTok has long prohibited hate-speech and violence on its social video platform, but a recent update is getting more specific about what can and can't be posted on videos. The China-based tech firm ByteDance, which created and owns TikTok, updated its community guidelines with new ban-worthy offenses on Tuesday. The change targets content that's aimed at offending LGBTQ users broadly as well as trans users specifically.

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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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2022’s biggest video game reveals have been a bummer so far

Digital Trends

AAA studios are now revealing Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto, and Star Wars games in the least exciting way possible.

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Unleash your inner artist with this heavily discounted painting course bundle

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TL;DR: The Ultimate 2022 Learn to Paint Bundle is on sale for £14.74, saving you 98% on list price. If you’re new to painting, it can be pretty intimidating. Sitting in an art class and being judged by your fellow peers? No thank you. Instead, these online painting courses offer a way to learn and experiment at your own pace, in the confidence of your own home.

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The NFL wants to predict injuries before they happen. Here’s how

Digital Trends

The NFL doesn't just want to treat injuries after they happen. Instead, it now uses technology to help predict and prevent injuries before they occur.

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Slash 39% off a set of 100% silk pillowcases

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TL;DR: As of Feb. 12, you can take 39% off a set of 2 100% Silk Pillowcases with Trim and get it for just $29.99 instead of $49. Looking for a softer place to lay your head at night? Silk is an incredibly gentle material that reduces strain on the skin while you sleep. Some people even claim it can reduce wrinkles and hair frizz, which aren't completely unfounded.

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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?