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Privacy Advocates Lambast Virginia for Ditching Police Facial Recognition Ban

GizModo VR

A patchwork of individual state privacy laws isn’t filling the hole left by absent federal government regulation on facial recognition. Virginia, which approved a ban on local police use of biometric identification tools around a year ago, formally bailed on the law’s most substantive measures on Friday. Now, under an… Read more.

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U.S. Olympic And Paralympic Committee’s Launch VR Concussion Education Series ‘CrashCourse’

VRScout

According to research conducted by West Virginia’s Brain Injury Research Institute , an estimated 1.6 – 3.8 It’s exciting to see leadership across our USOPC national governing bodies working together to embrace evidence-based education to make our sports safer,” says ?Dr.

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Show Me a Directed Energy Weapon or Shut Your Anonymous National Security Official Mouth

GizModo VR

government employees around the globe. This time, according to CNN , federal agencies are looking into something closer to home: symptoms suffered by a White House employee in Virginia and National Security… Read more. Another day, another mostly anonymously sourced story about unidentified assailants supposedly assaulting U.S.

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Journey to Freedom and Equality: How an AR Experience Makes History Come Alive

ARPost

The group was met with resistance in Virginia. It was created in collaboration with Melissa Brown, the Tennessean’s State Government and Politics Reporter. The Freedom Riders tried to use amenities at bus stations that were made available only to white people in Southern states. ?. Some Freedom Riders were arrested.

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Manchin-Connected Coal Plant Tries to Pivot to Crypto, Fails

GizModo VR

Joe Manchin make millions tried to pivot to mining cryptocurrency but was denied by West Virginia officials. Here’s your word scramble for the week: A gob-burning power plant that helped Sen. Say that three times fast! Read more.

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Bologna IDC Celebrates 200 years of US Embassy in Firenze

EON Reality

Alongside local government figures from all of the main civil and political authorities of the City of Bologna, EON Reality was delighted to be invited to the event commemorating the first 200 years of the US Consulate in Italy. Participating in the discussion, were: Virginia Merola, Sindaco di Bologna.

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Big News from Altspace VR, Apple, Disney, Lloyd’s, and the US Justice Department

XR Today - Big XR News tag

The US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia is hearing the case with the backing of attorney generals from eight states. In its antitrust suit, the department demands Alphabet to sell its ad manager platform, accusing the firm of illegally dominating digital advertising.

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