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Microsoft is suspending new sales in Russia

Mashable VR

Microsoft is suspending all new sales of its products and services in Russia amidst the invasion of Ukraine by Putin's forces. In a blog post , Microsoft's president & vice chair Brad Smith also said the company's stopping "many aspects" of its business in Russia "in compliance with governmental sanctions decisions."

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Report: AI is weapon of ‘mass disruption’

Hypergrid Business

Generative AI is one of the world’s top three geopolitical risks this year — right after Russia and China — according to a report released last month by the Eurasia Group , a US-based risk consultancy. (Image by Maria Korolov via Midjourney.) ” This will have adverse impacts on political discourse.

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Top XR Stories of 2019

Tech Trends VR

At this year’s year’s E3 conference, Facebook’s Vice President of Special Gaming Strategies Jason Rubin told audiences that the Oculus Quest was seeing “console-like” engagement from users, selling $5 million worth of content in first 2 weeks since the device started shipping back in May. Google Ends the Daydream.

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A guide to surviving the online apocalypse

Mashable VR

Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February sent search terms related to nuclear war and World War III skyrocketing. Russia relations and nuclear strategy, tried to soothe people's frayed nerves. There is no shortage of those anxieties today. Tom Nichols, an expert who specializes in U.S.-Russia Dr. Vaile Wright, Ph.D.,

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The escapism of 'Stranger Things' Season 4 just hits different in 2022

Mashable VR

It's hard to ignore the show's occasionally cute take on Cold War Russia while my phone's being bombarded by news notifications about real-world Russia's all-out war against Ukraine, full of atrocities investigated as crimes against humanity.

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Eido Inoue tells us everything we need to know about HADO and location based augmented reality

The Ghost Howls

Between that, I worked on consumer cloud software with Google for five years… managing engineering teams for Gmail, Japanese mobile, Google Labs, and social (Blogger etc.) Slightly slower teams have been known to beat faster teams by using better teamwork and strategy. teams for Japan.

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Staking Claim to a Digital Plot in AR, with SuperWorld’s Hrish Lotlikar

XR for Business Podcast

And we have a big data strategy at SuperWorld. The premise there is the region in Ukraine and Belarus and Russia graduates some of the best and brightest technology programmers and developers and designers. And the top people end up working in outsourcing for Facebook and Google and other top tech companies in Silicon Valley.

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