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The Roblox Pseudo-Metaverse Now Includes a Partnership with ADHD Therapy
Photo: Leon Keith (AP) The game most known for strange and raunchy user-made worlds and young people spending funny money on apparel for their big blocky avatars is now looking to facilitate “therapeutic” play spaces connected to the platform. Featured Videos How Ewan McGregor Helped Bring Back Obi Wan 02:37 Now playing Hey Google, Where […]
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Microsoft Build 2022 was actually pretty exciting for Windows fans
Microsoft Build 2022 was actually pretty exciting for Windows fans Microsoft just wrapped up its Build 2022 developer conference, and frankly, it was pretty good, even if you’re a Windows fan. I’m usually pretty vocal in my criticism of Build – along with other Microsoft conferences – and the continuing lack of focus on the […]
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Remote Learning Software Tracked Kids’ Data to Sell to Advertisers and Brokers: Report
Photo: Ethan Miller (Getty Images) The kids are not alright, and tech companies know it thanks to the data they’ve been lapping up like mosquitos in a blood bank. Programs that students were using to learn from home during the worst days of the pandemic were also tracking their data and analyzing their habits, which […]
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Clearview AI Says It’s Bringing Facial Recognition to Schools
Photo: Hector Vivas (Getty Images) Clearview AI, the surveillance firm notoriously known for harvesting some 20 billion face scans off of public social media searches, said it may bring its technology to schools and other private businesses. Featured Videos Bringing Inquisitors Into the Series 02:25 Now playing Making the Facebook Papers Public Monday 1:07PM 02:16 […]
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500 Doctors and Nurses Press Meta Shareholders on ‘Wildfire’ of Medical Misinformation [Updated]
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More than 500 doctors and other medical professionals are calling out Meta for the covid-19 misinformation on its platforms.Illustration: Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP (Getty Images) A proposal backed by a group of more than 500 doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals calling on Meta to rein in medical misinformation on Facebook and Instagram failed to […]
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TikTok Wants to Be More Like Twitch With Launch of Livestream Subscription Service
Photo: FeatureChina (AP) There’s a new kid on the livestreaming block, and their name is TikTok. But in an increasingly crowded field of streaming stock, time will tell which one will walk the walk, talk the talk, and not balk… Yes, I did get paid to write that terrible rhyme. Featured Videos Bringing Inquisitors Into […]
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Texas Gunman Threatened to ‘Shoot an Elementary School’ on Facebook Messenger Minutes Before Attack
The shooter in Ulvade, Texas killed 21 people at an elementary school on Tuesday. He also injured multiple others, including his grandmother.Image: rafapress (Shutterstock) The gunman in Uvalde, Texas sent three messages on Facebook describing his plans before he killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school yesterday. Featured Videos Bringing Inquisitors Into […]
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Jack Leaves Twitter’s Board
Photo: Marco Bello (Getty Images) Jack’s officially calling it quits at Twitter…again. Beginning today, the Twitter co-founder and former CEO will no longer serve on the company’s board of directors, Twitter said in an email to Gizmodo. Though the exit was expected since last November, it nonetheless marks the end of an era for Twitter […]
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Microsoft is finally taking Windows on Arm development seriously
Microsoft is finally taking Windows on Arm development seriously Microsoft and Qualcomm first announced Windows on Arm in 2016, and it’s been a slow journey since then. It wasn’t until last year with Windows 11 that it actually for x64 emulation, finally adding the app support you’d need in order to have the same experience […]
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Police VR Training: Empathy Machine or Expensive Distraction?
Screenshot: Axon “I just wish I could save them all,” my virtual reality police officer avatar says as he gazes upon a young woman’s abandoned corpse lying beside a back-alley dumpster. My VR cop partner offers a limp gesture of condolence but doesn’t sugarcoat the reality: My decision got this woman killed. Featured Videos Connecting […]