Kitaboo

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The emergence of digital content and its prevalence during the pandemic has given rise to virtual textbooks. This blog post explains how virtual textbooks are different and even better than printed textbooks in many ways. How Can Publishers Benefit From Virtual Textbooks? Virtual Textbooks Are Easier to Update.

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Vox

AUGUST 12, 2020

But in a time of social unrest, these text-based slideshow graphics have found new resonance and an eager audience on the platform, which has been notorious for prioritizing still images over text. How to protest virtually. Defunding the police. Mail-in voting. Turkey’s concerning femicide rate. The crisis that’s afflicting Lebanon.

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GeekWire

JULY 29, 2020

” Ambachew and other instructors created a game on Roblox and they’re holding classes virtually during the ongoing pandemic. It’s another lesson for a young woman intent on working in social justice and tech. My passion was to do a lot of social justice work,” Ambachew said. from Ethiopia when she was 10.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Maybe you’ve read that the metaverse is going to replace the internet. It’s partly a dream for the future of the internet and partly a neat way to encapsulate some current trends in online infrastructure, including the growth of real-time 3D worlds. The protagonist is a master hacker who gets in katana fights at a virtual nightclub.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Virtual reality (VR) technology has transformed how we experience digital environments. This technology simulates environments with striking realism, providing a highly immersive experience for users, and triggering their visual and auditory senses so they feel that they are truly in the moment in a virtual world.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 21, 2020

This is the spectator view for fans watching NBA games “courtside” in Microsoft Teams: the live stream on one side, and your virtual cheering section on the other. My big takeaway: Microsoft and the NBA are on to something with their new tech-fueled virtual fan experience. Look out for me in the virtual stands!!!

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Vox

JUNE 9, 2021

Fame, it seems, is not a viable currency on the app unless the user is already internet famous. Snap is, in its own words , a camera company sustained on intimacy and existing social networks. But beyond these core social features, Snap has bigger ambitions with augmented and virtual reality. It depends on who you ask.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Bluesky, Twitter’s decentralized social networking effort, has announced its first major update since 2019. The review follows Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey discussing Bluesky earlier this month, when he called it a “standard for the public conversation layer of the internet.”. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Venture Beast

JULY 22, 2020

Sentons has teamed up with Lenovo, Asus, and Tencent to create gaming smartphones with virtual buttons, which can be used as virtual controllers. Read More.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Cloud computing allows both small and large companies to share information and access services over the internet. Companies are now getting a constant flow of real-time customer data from websites, social media, and POS terminals that automatically capture clicks, likes, and sales transactions for analysis by business intelligence systems.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 1, 2020

Last week on The Virtual Excellence Show our scheduled guest was not able to make it at short notice, so I thought it would be a good opportunity for me to share my own life story and how it relates to the virtual. Hi, welcome to The Virtual Excellence Show. So I thought it’d be worth sharing my story of the virtual.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Cloudflare senior vice president Dane Knecht notes that Facebook’s border gateway protocol routes — BGP helps networks pick the best path to deliver internet traffic — have been “withdrawn from the internet.”. The problem also appears to be affecting its virtual reality arm, Oculus. Facebook App (@facebookapp) October 4, 2021.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail.

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Fountainhead

JULY 15, 2013

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. A day doesn’t pass that I’m not asked (by a co-worker, partner or analyst) about whether hosted/virtual desktops delivered over the public Internet make sense. Virtualization. (31). Virtual Enthusiasm. Virtual Geek.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2014

The Internet of Things - The combination of data streams and services created by digitizing everything creates four basic usage models — Manage, Monetize, Operate and Extend. These four basic models can be applied to any of the four "Internets."

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CTOvision

JUNE 6, 2016

After acquisition by Google, Nest got "virtually unlimited budget", quadrupled employees, had no new products, caused constant bad PR, and may be for sale now (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica). Hackers claim hijack of Mark Zuckerberg's social-networking accounts - CNET. Attackers Break Into Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter, Pinterest - PC Magazine.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Microsoft is removing all social hubs hosted in AltspaceVR and requiring users to log into the virtual reality app using a Microsoft account. The social hubs in AltspaceVR were designed “to help foster new friendships” and act as an entry point to get familiar with AltspaceVR itself. Microsoft acquired AltspaceVR in 2017.

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Vox

APRIL 12, 2024

Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images What the evidence about social media and teens’ mental health really says. So argues the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. This dispute has generated reams of commentary as the media’s middle-aged social media users argue about whether their favorite apps are poisoning their kids.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 9, 2024

This breakthrough technology can comprehend and communicate in natural language, aiding the creation of personalized customer interactions and immersive virtual experiences while supplementing employee capabilities. Intelligent Search People rely on intelligent search every single day, thanks to LLMs trained on internet datasets.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The social network is scaling back facial recognition, but similar technology could show up in the metaverse. In fact, Meta is already exploring ways to incorporate biometrics into its emerging metaverse business , which aims to build a virtual, internet-based simulation where people can interact as avatars.

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Kitaboo

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Virtual learning environments (VLEs) are not just an option but a thoughtful, necessary choice to achieve desired learning outcomes. streamlining the development of robust virtual learning environments and eLearning tools. The question is, how do you implement such virtual learning environments and reap the benefits?

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Phil Windley

JUNE 14, 2021

Summary: I'm attend the Hyperledger Global Forum this last week–all virtual. I spoke on DIDComm and the Self-Sovereign Internet. The foundation of the self-sovereign internet is built on autonomic identifiers. An overlay network comprises virtual links that correspond to a path in the underlying network.

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CTOvision

MARCH 17, 2014

Bitcoin as a social trend– for better or worse — is an emergent and autocatalyzing process. Well, consider it from this perspective: one man may or may not have put a paper on the Internet that famously proposed the original idea of bitcoin. Who can say? I for one can’t rule out Cthulhu or the Elder Gods.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Rudy Willingham , the Seattle artist known for his colorful, stop-motion photo cutouts on social media, is teaming with rapper/singer Lil Nas X to release TikTok’s first-ever NFT. Willingham, a former GeekWire Geek of the Week , made a name for himself in the city and across the internet with his unique cutouts of pop culture icons.

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

While the world eagerly watched Thursday as NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully touched down on Mars , snapshots flooded social media of excited viewers striking a pose on the Red Planet. Read more.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JUNE 29, 2022

It is fair to acknowledge that there are definitely trade-offs for the autodidactic path compared with the academic route, over and above the socially-recognized qualification, but these may not matter much to many people. I’ve totally met lots of people who have the equivalent of that degree.”

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Kitaboo

AUGUST 27, 2022

Internet connection is no longer an issue with offline reading capabilities. Social Media in Learning. Who would have ever thought that social media would one day be accepted as part of the learning process? But with social features embedded in their eBooks, they can share study materials, opinions, projects etc.

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Cloud Musings

MAY 16, 2016

This new reality is driven by the rise of software defined networking , the virtualization of everything and a business imperative to create and deploy even newer information delivery models. Virtual equivalences to physical and infrastructure-centric protection norms are mostly non-existent.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The futuristic tech Mark Zuckerberg is investing billions in could remake the internet. It’s the metaverse — defined most simply as a virtual world where people can socialize, work, and play — and Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes it is the future of the internet and of his trillion-dollar company. It’s a joke.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Seattle-based Pluto VR is launching a new streaming platform for virtual reality. The service, PlutoSphere , is meant to stream games live over the internet to compatible VR headsets without the need for a local PC as a go-between. It also requires 50 Mbps of bandwidth and a 5 Ghz WiFi 6 internet connection. Pluto VR Image).

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Dataconomy

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Lensa AI selfie generator is taking social media by storm. Internet users have been using a wide range of filters to edit their photographs for years, whether adding a virtual mask to their faces or making their backgrounds look exotic. Now, they have a new option called Lensa AI.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2021

Facebook is bringing the office to VR with Horizon Workrooms It wasn’t long into a recent press briefing I attended in virtual reality when Mark Zuckerberg showed up to talk about the metaverse. It’s the social network’s first stab at creating a VR experience specifically for people to work together in.

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Network World

APRIL 20, 2017

Visibility and security controls for internet-based applications such as social media, file sharing and email have been widely adopted at the perimeter. Virtualization has changed how applications are built, deployed and used.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Amazon has added a new browser setting to Amazon Kids that lets parents give their children wider access to the internet. With the new setting, kids can explore on their own, but their internet access is still filtered with built-in controls that block mature content and social media sites.

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Galido

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Technology and the internet have transformed the way that business owners conduct business. Not only has the internet made businesses more efficient, but it has also provided entrepreneurs with better marketing and selling opportunities through e-commerce stores, for example. Virtual Communication. Online Storage.

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Vox

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In a memo to Meta’s staff also posted on social media, one of Meta’s top executives, CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, reflected on Monday about the difficult moment the company is in. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg thinks the metaverse will be the next iteration of the internet, a technological shift akin to the mobile phone.

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GeekWire

MARCH 16, 2021

This crisis is the “result of the ongoing pandemic, which has been exacerbated by continued isolation, difficulty engaging with virtual learning, and lack of regular in-person interaction with educators, school personnel, mentors and peers,” states an emergency proclamation signed by the governor on Monday.

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