GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
In recent weeks, the spotlight on Joe Rogan, host of the popular Joe Rogan Experience podcast on Spotify, has only grown brighter and hotter. After receiving a storm of criticism for promoting covid-19 vaccine misinformation on his podcast, all eyes are now on Rogan again after videos of him repeatedly using the… Read more.
Mashable VR
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
Have you breezed through today's Wordle and tackled all the Wordle clones and alternatives ? Well, you can finally play the game's entire archive thanks to the aptly titled Wordle Archive website. The free daily word game Wordle blew up in popularity at the start of 2022 despite not having an app and only allowing players to tackle one puzzle per day.
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GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
Longtime fans of adult swim and specifically The Boondocks were dealt a hard blow earlier in the week. The much publicized revival for the beloved animated series, announced for HBO Max , has been canned. Read more.
Mashable VR
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
Amidst ongoing controversy, Spotify seemingly deleted over 100 episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience ( JRE ) from its platform. The music giant has gotten flack about podcaster Joe Rogan in recent weeks due to COVID misinformation on his show. In January, 270 doctors, scientists, and professors penned an open letter to Spotify decrying an episode featuring vaccine skeptic Dr.
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.
GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
Since he first swung into the Marvel movies in 2016 with Captain America: Civil War, Tom Holland’s had a fairly busy life. Not only has he been caught up in various Marvel movies and animated flicks , but he’s also about to don the half-tucked shirt of Naughty Dog’s Nathan Drake for Uncharted. That’s a lot of work for… Read more.
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GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
Because there’s no escaping creeps on the Internet, Meta (formerly known as Facebook) has launched a new “Personal Boundary” feature for its virtual reality platforms to combat harassment. Read more.
Mashable VR
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
When NASA astronauts next visit the moon, it'll be a dark and shadowy expedition. The space agency's renewed moon ambitions, a mission called Artemis, aim to bring astronauts back to our well-cratered satellite later this decade. They'll land in the South Pole, a place where the sun barely rises over the lunar hills. It's a world of profoundly long shadows and dim environs.
GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
After enjoying a lockdown-fueled peak during the pandemic, Peloton is now spinning out of control. Product recalls, plummeting stock prices, a major decline in demand and its bike’s dangerous cameos in not one, but two primetime TV shows have wiped roughly $40 billion from its market value in the last year. Read more.
Mashable VR
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
Donation platform GoFundMe has seized all funds from a campaign supporting anti-vaccine mandate protesters that have been congregating in the Canadian capital of Ottawa. In a statement from the company, GoFundMe said it had reason to believe the protest had turned dangerous. "We now have evidence from law enforcement that the previously peaceful demonstration has become an occupation, with police reports of violence and other unlawful activity," GoFundMe wrote.
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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.
GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
Paleontologists and locals familiar with a fossil site in Moab, Utah claim that a backhoe drove over dinosaur footprints and other animal trackways, damaging or destroying them. The Utah Bureau of Land Management, which is responsible for protecting Mill Canyon Track Site, has said that its recent dismantling of a… Read more.
Mashable VR
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
I wasn't impressed when the Peloton bike first arrived at my house in 2018, and it's because of how much that screen's potential feels wasted. Nothing against exercise or even filling up some of my precious house space with a large and expensive stationary bike. But once my partner's Peloton arrived and got set up, I instantly saw what simultaneously felt like the tech's great potential and greatest flaw: that built-in display.
GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
The critical and commercial success of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse isn’t just leading to another follow up , it’s helping one of its directors get their next big project off the ground. While co-director Peter Ramsey is still on hand for both Across the Spider-Verse and its 2023 sequel as an executive producer,… Read more.
Mashable VR
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
Horizon Worlds, Meta's (Facebook's) social virtual reality platform, is getting a new "Personal Boundaries" to help stop virtual groping after the app's beta testers faced harassment. The Personal Boundary is a four-foot barrier between avatars designed to be always on by default. While the concept image portrays a bubble, the actual boundary will be invisible in Worlds.
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.
GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
When the creators of Critical Role set out to make an animated adaptation in Legend of Vox Machina , they wanted to keep the show true to its source material. The challenge wasn’t just to keep the characters the same (they mostly are ) but also to keep true to their combat: to put it another way, Critical Role can get… Read more.
Mashable VR
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
Almost everyone with a hand in guiding the James Webb Space Telescope from Earth to its faraway orbit had a COVID-19 vaccine booster. No way was NASA going to let a microscopic coronavirus take down a massive $10 billion spacecraft. The agency toiled on the powerful observatory for over 25 years. But some people on the team had traveled abroad to the launch site in French Guiana, a region in South America.
GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
It ended up being something of a busy week, which means you may have missed some of our Morning Spoilers. Have no fear, because we’ve got this video for some of the biggest stories this week that closed out January and began February. And as always, you can read new Morning Spoilers every weekday on io9! Read more.
Mashable VR
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
It's not a credible source, but Wikipedia is many other things. It's an effective way to waste time, the first thing you click on when you Google something, and above all an infinite font of weird, fascinating minutiae. Thanks to people all over the world who have contributed to the crowd-sourced encyclopedia, we can click from topic to topic, descending deeper and deeper into a tunnel of information known as the Wikipedia rabbit hole.
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.
Digital Trends
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
Despite being bigger than a moving truck and sporting less computing power than a first-gen Apple watch, the Navlab-1 was a surprisingly capable autonomous car.
Mashable VR
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
Teens navigate a confusing, difficult world of puberty, school stress, and identity crises. And transgender and gender-nonconforming youth walk through life with the added fear and stress of institutional discrimination, leading to higher rates of depression and self-harm. But, according to community members and experts alike , simple, gender-affirming resources can make a huge difference.
Digital Trends
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
Very few asteroids share the orbit of Earth -- just two have been discovered to date -- and astronomers have recently confirmed the existence and size of one.
Mashable VR
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
TL;DR: As of Feb. 5, a 3-year subscription to WeVPN is just $89.95 instead of $388 — that's a discount of 76% — and a 2-year subscription is $64.95, down 75% from $268. We spend so much of our time using the internet, which leaves us vulnerable to cyber threats and attacks that could compromise sensitive information. If you’re looking for a way to browse more safely and privately, a top-rated VPN is a great way to feel more secure about your digital experience.
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?
Digital Trends
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
With the James Webb Space Telescope arrived at its destination, the telescope has to go through a series of alignment processes to get it ready for science.
Mashable VR
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
TL;DR: A lifetime subscription to ShareDocView is on sale for £220, saving you 75% on list price. Attaching large files to emails isn’t just time-consuming for the uploader. It’s time-consuming for each and every downloader, too. Not to mention, there’s no real way of tracking who’s opened the file and who hasn’t.
Digital Trends
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
It's easy to make mistakes when building a gaming PC. Here are some specific issues to avoid that you won't find in a list of common PC building problems.
Mashable VR
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
TL;DR: The PURO²XYGEN P500 Air Purifier is on sale for $223.99 as of Feb. 3 — that's 19% off its regular price of $279. That dry and scratchy throat could be related to the air you're breathing in all day and night. Adding an air purifier to your most inhabited spaces can help reduce some of the dust, mold, bacteria, odors, dander, and other airborne contaminants you regularly inhale.
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?
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