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These Companies Know When You're Pregnant—And They're Not Keeping It Secret

GizModo VR

In early 2012, the New York Times Magazine put out a cover story about Andrew Pole, a statistician working for Target who was tasked with inventing a way to identify potentially pregnant shoppers, even if those shoppers didn’t want the company to know. The rationale, Pole said, was that moms-to-be are a multi-million… Read more.

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The best Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra screen protectors for 2022

Digital Trends

The Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra is a beast of a phone. You'll want to protect its glass face with a high-quality screen protector. Here are our picks.

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Between Realities VR Podcast: Season 5 Episode 22 Season 5 Finale

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In the Season 5 Finale of Between Realties, Alex and Skeeva invited members of the live show audience to join the conversation for a special extended broadcast. SadlyItsBradley and Rhys Da King make appearances along many others for quick discussions about the latest in VR or their prospective projects. Topics include the Quest 2 price increase and controversy surrounding VRChat’s latest update. — Between Realities Links — Merch Store: [link].

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Freshman Year is Basically a Spider-Man Season of What If

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The upcoming Spider-Man: Freshman Year cartoon was shrouded in some degree of secrecy since its initial reveal last year, but last weekend at San Diego Comic-Con, more information on the show came to light. Initially, it seemed like the cartoon would tell the story of MCU Peter Parker in his early days of heroism, but… Read more.

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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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Zero Caliber PvP Modes Available Now On Quest

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The latest update for the VR FPS Zero Caliber: Reloaded is now available, adding a full multiplayer PvP mode to the game on Oculus Quest and Meta Quest 2. The PvP mode is only on Quest for now, but PC VR support is coming later this year. A big PC VR-specific update will launch in the Fall, bringing “most of the improvements and new features of the standalone version [Reloaded] to the PC one – PvP included.” As previously announced, Zero Caliber’s PvP offering includes four mod

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Giveaway: Enter For A Chance To Win A Quest 2 Sponsored By Incuvo

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You can enter for a chance to win a BRAND NEW standalone Quest 2 VR headset right here sponsored by Green Hell VR developer Incuvo. Read on for more details. Incuvo is the studio behind open world survival game Green Hell VR set in the heart of the jungle, with animals and disease to compete with alongside the need to eat and drink. The developers just released the challenge update on Steam which offers time-limited tasks to complete, like finding the special campfire and lighting it up or findi

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Rick & Morty Season 6 Will Be a Return to Form, Says Justin Roiland

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Every new season of Adult Swim’s Rick & Morty is a big deal, and the same holds true for the upcoming sixth season. The sci-fi animated comedy’s future has been set in stone for years—having a multi-season renewal offers some degree of safety—but there’s still a degree of unpredictability from the show that always… Read more.

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The sun is even more active than expected right now

Digital Trends

The sun goes through a regular 11-year cycle of activity. But so far in this cycle, the sun is even more active than predicted.

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Avengers Movies are Now the Endgame for MCU Sagas

GizModo VR

The Avengers sub-franchise of the MCU occupies a strange spot in the larger series. Though the original 2012 film was where that first batch of movies was building up to, and ended Phase One, the same couldn’t be said of its sequels. 2015's Age of Ultron released mid-Phase Two, and though the duology of Infinity War … 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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It’s been 25 years since the first NASA rover landed on Mars

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This month saw a very special martian aniversary, as NASA celebrated 25 years since the Pathfinder mission touched down on Mars.

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Meet the Photographer Behind the Viral 'Make Instagram Instagram Again' Meme

GizModo VR

One week ago, 21-year-old influencer and photographer Tati Bruening was scrolling through Instagram and became annoyed over the fact that she was only seeing a seemingly endless stream of Reels, even though she wasn’t in the Reels tab. Where were the photos of her friends? In her frustration, Bruening threw together a… Read more.

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7 settings you should disable or adjust on Google Assistant

Digital Trends

Even if you're not a conspiracy buff, we should all do a privacy check-up now and then. These are the settings to review on Google Assistant-enabled devices.

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China’s Out-of-Control Booster Rocket Returns to Earth

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The core stage of a wayward Long March 5B rocket has returned from its short stint in low Earth orbit, disintegrating above the northern coast of Borneo. Read more.

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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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Space-based dust monitoring instrument takes its first measurements

Digital Trends

NASA has a new tool for monitoring Earth's climate, with the EMIT instrument on board the International Space Station taking its first measurements this week.

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Have We FINALLY Found Overcooked VR??? Cook-Out: A Sandwich Tale on Quest 2 REVIEW

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Quest 2 Game: Cook-Out: A Sandwich Tale is so close to the Overcooked VR we've been looking for!!! Nat and Jay REVIEW this game from Resolution Games! 0:00 Intro 0:39 What is Cook-Out VR? 2:30 What's the game feel like? 3:02 Game Mechanics 3:16 Made By DEMEO Peeps 3:47 Crafting a Sandwich 5:10 Game Difficulty 5:54 Speed is KEY!!! 6:27 Potions Help 6:44 The CHOPPING!!!

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Anna Gutto on why she had to direct Paradise Highway

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Anna Gutto spoke about her feature-length directorial debut, Paradise Highway, and why she loves crafting stories about underexposed characters.

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Releases Recap: July 25 – 29

Oculus

This week, we released a bunch of titles and updates across the Quest and Rift Platforms. Here’s a rundown of the highlights.

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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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James Webb Space Telescope may have spotted its first supernova

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The James Webb firsts keep coming, with the new space telescope having recently spotted its first supernova.

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See NASA’s VIPER rover navigate a lunar obstacle course

Digital Trends

The moon is no easy place for a little rover to explore -- from its sharp, glass-like dust o the pockmarks and craters, it's a challenging place to move around.

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I couldn’t manage my work and social life without this one app

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Rambox has become the true lynchpin of my digital life for months now. It helps me manage my work and social life under a single, edifying banner.

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‘Wordle’ today, July 31: Answer, hints, and help for word of the day (#407)

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Trying to solve today's Wordle? If you're stuck, we've got a few hints that will help you keep your Wordle streak alive.

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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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I recreated a perfect high school experience in The Sims 4

Digital Trends

I put my Sims through the full high school experience, prom and all, in The Sims 4: High School Years.

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When is USB-C coming to the iPhone? Here’s what we know

Digital Trends

USB-C on an iPhone has been rumored and wanted for years. Today, we're closer to that being a reality than ever before.

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The Office star B.J. Novak on how Vengeance is more than just a crime thriller

Digital Trends

In an interview with Digital Trends, B.J. Novak talks about his new film, the murder mystery Vengeance.

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Is CS: GO cross-platform?

Digital Trends

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is available on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation but does not offer cross-platform support. Here's a closer look at what that means.

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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?