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100-Year-Old Man Reacts to His First VR Experience

VRScout

Fortunately for us, Intel filmed the experience so we could see firsthand what a man who has been alive for the entire past century makes of this new technology. He soared over Florence and Wyoming in Google Earth VR. “This evolution of technology is almost mind-blowing.” “So get going! .”

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White Mirror: A Positive Vision for the Future of Technology

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

The event, called # OnceUponAFuture: The #WhiteMirror Edition, was dedicated to creating projects from VR experiences to short films that portray a positive vision of emerging technologies. As the website for the event explained, Black Mirror showed visions of how technology will impact our lives that were “brilliant but deeply depressing.”

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Bill Gates-Backed TerraPower Picks Wyoming for First Advanced Nuclear Reactor

GizModo VR

TerraPower, an experimental nuclear power company backed by Bill Gates , could open its first site as early as 2028 in the coal mining town of Kemmerer, Wyoming. Adding a touch of symbolism for out with the old, in with the new, the company says their plant would be constructed near the premises of a pair of coal… Read more.

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Meet Meraxes Giga, a Ferocious Dinosaur With Teeny Arms Like T. Rex

GizModo VR

Tyrannosaurus rex was one of the scariest dinosaurs to have roamed the planet, but it’s also the laughing stock of the dinosaur kingdom due its tiny arms. Never fear, T. rex : Researchers in Argentina have found you a friend that shares your absurdly small arms. Read more.

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The Top Five Web3 Trends In 2023

Bernard Marr

The idea behind Web3 is that technologies like blockchain , cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) give us the tools we need to create online spaces that we truly own, and even to implement digital democracies. Decentralized social networks. Greenifying Web3.

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Bill Gates’s TerraPower Will Build Experimental Nuclear Reactor in Idaho

GizModo VR

appetite for experimental nuclear energy technology is on the rise. Last week, Bill Gates-founded TerraPower announced it had selected Kemmerer, Wyoming, as the site for its first “Natrium” 345 megawatt sodium-cooled fast reactor. Now, the company’s technology will… Read more.

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The Best Examples Of DAOs Everyone Should Know About

Bernard Marr

This is primarily achieved by leveraging two facets of blockchain technology – encryption and distributed storage. This DAO made news headlines by becoming the first to be recognized as a legal entity in the US, thanks to a law passed in the web3-friendly state of Wyoming. American CryptoFed DAO.