GeekWire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Rec Room is a free app described as a “universally accessible online community,” where users create a cartoony virtual avatar to participate in a variety of activities, many of which were designed by the application’s community. 2020, Rec Room ’s userbase had tripled. The more people are playing, the more people there are to play with.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Moderator Tyra Mariani, left, president of Schultz Family Foundation, leads a “Future of Education” panel discussion at the 2020 GeekWire Summit in Seattle with Dr. Maria Klawe, president of Harvey Mudd College; Diane Tavenner, co-founder and CEO of Summit Public Schools; and Jessie Woolley-Wilson, CEO of DreamBox Learning. GeekWire Photo).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

It’s not the first time Minecraft has come to virtual reality, but it’s a welcome addition to the roster given the size of PlayStation VR’s install base. Of course, you will need a PlayStation VR headset and a console to play. Explore, dig, and build in VR ?? on PlayStation 4,” said Mojang. Nothing removed.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 29, 2020

It can get hard to navigate all of my various streaming services, work apps, chats, and social media using Chrome tabs — and it also puts me at greater risk of getting distracted. The desktop app includes courses in Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and more. If there’s an app that defines 2020, it must be Zoom.

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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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The Verge

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Here’s what happens when a product designer becomes a creator If you were on social media — any social media — in 2020, you probably saw a video of Sarah Cooper lip-syncing to President Donald Trump’s public appearances. It’s hard to monetize on TikTok and virtually impossible on Twitter, where Cooper feels her community is.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2021

The 283-page report, which was published today, is called “ The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 Election.” The report builds on work that the partnership did leading up to and after November to identify and counter false narratives about the 2020 US presidential election. no widespread fraud. So let’s discuss it.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 14, 2021

Steam’s user community broke a lot of records during the socially-quarantined year of 2020. It provides a look back on 2020, as well as a roadmap for what’s coming for Steam in 2021. Steam, like the rest of the games industry, had a banner year in 2020. Valve Software image). Bellevue, Wash.-based

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The Verge

DECEMBER 21, 2020

After spending the fall in their bedrooms, students say their mental health has suffered Georgina DiNardo’s first virtual class is at 9:45. Due to evolving health conditions and government requirements, AU will offer fall semester undergraduate and graduate courses online with no residential experience.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 22, 2020

GeekWire’s Taylor Soper watches from the virtual stands as the Portland Trail Blazers take on the L.A. GeekWire’s Taylor Soper got a chance to try it out this week , cheering from the virtual stands, and we talk about the experience on this week’s GeekWire Podcast episode. Look out for me in the virtual stands!!!

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

When COVID-19 grounded travelers in early 2020, Chris Brooks and his team had to cancel more than a dozen teaching contracts in Africa, Central America, a Native American reservation and other locations around the U.S. The nonprofit has produced its virtual introductory course, and is developing five more units that go into greater depth.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 20, 2020

2020 has been an absolutely pivotal year, it is a critical time for us to actively make sense of our path forward. 2020 has pivoted us into a new era. – Gallup, October 2020; Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, November 2020. – Good Food Institute, September 2020. Pandemic Pulse. Being Well.

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Kitaboo

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

With the rise in digital access, there has been increasing demand for delivering online courses and interactive learning software. You can create a virtual environment to store and share all your training materials such as eBooks. Other powerful features include search text and social learning. Skillshare.

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

“I think the key for the post-corona era is how real we can feel in a virtual world.” I recently found myself on a Friday night after hours at teamLab Planets , a popular tourist spot in Tokyo, watching rock star Miyavi working on his latest “Miyavi Virtual” project. Miyavi Virtual 3.0 But that’s just how it goes in 2020.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The most obvious example here is, of course, Innersloth’s social deduction game Among Us, which went from a footnote in 2018 to a phenomenon in 2020 almost entirely due to sudden interest from livestreamers. This can be hard for older players and consumers (i.e.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Seattle-based Pluto VR is launching a new streaming platform for virtual reality. The company plans to add more features to PlutoSphere post-launch, such as a persistent social layer and support for augmented reality apps. More than 3 million players picked up VR headsets in 2020, spending $1.1 The official PlutoSphere logo.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

And she’s only been doing this since June 2020. She uses her iPhone and consumer software to make her videos, and I’ve got to say, she has one of the healthiest relationships with the social platforms of maybe any creator I’ve ever talked to: she thinks of them purely as marketing channels for the video courses she sells elsewhere.

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Vox

MARCH 1, 2021

One year in, Covid-19 has altered everything, including how we use social media. What’s appropriate and not for social media has changed a lot in the past year. For many, this meant that social media has become one of the only ways to be with friends and family , so people have flocked to platforms new (TikTok) and old (Facebook).

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Vox

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Just hours after the polls opened, misleading claims about voting in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state in the presidential election, were running rampant on social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. Some of the accusations have been disputed by election officials but continue to proliferate on social media.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

He’d completed the first assignment for his seventh-grade history class on Edgenuity, an online platform for virtual learning. Dana Simmons (@DanaJSimmons) September 2, 2020. Edgenuity offers over 300 online classes for middle and high school students ranging across subjects from math to social studies, AP classes to electives.

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Dataconomy

JULY 31, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way education is imparted, with Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) becoming an essential part of the educational landscape. The integration of virtual learning environments during the pandemic has led to several significant advantages for the education system.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 2, 2021

Of course, the events of 2020 showed that making accurate predictions can be nearly impossible. How will this year’s events — the pandemic, social justice movements, economic recession — affect the technology industry in 2021? If 2020 was about Response, 2021 will be about Recovery. GeekWire Photo / Clare McGrane).

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

They had monthly lunches and started a social justice book club to discuss the Black experience. In July 2020, they began researching the ways in which existing tech bootcamps limited the diversity and numbers of participants. Students will spend about 12 hours a week on the course, with weekly assignments.

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Kitaboo

AUGUST 4, 2020

Connect with other industry leaders to tailor-make learning courses. Its virtual classrooms empower employees with knowledge and skill, without incurring any downtime for your business. Its virtual classrooms empower employees with knowledge and skill, without incurring any downtime for your business.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Pretty much everyone hates virtual office holiday parties. This year, virtual parties are persisting, although, mercifully, companies have learned some lessons from last year about what employees will bear. Virtual celebrations, the sequel. For many companies, this will be year two of the virtual holiday party.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

The reopening plan is part of a multistep process the social network has in place to begin restoring some of its in-person operations, which are crucial to its data center management and the development of hardware like the Portal video chatting device and its Oculus line of virtual reality headsets and accessories.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

— Stewart Butterfield (@stewart) December 1, 2020. Microsoft went unmentioned, of course, but it’s the biggest target. — Aaron Levie (@levie) December 1, 2020. — Lauren Masks Are Goode (@LaurenGoode) December 1, 2020. Bonus: a disclaimer) [link].

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Vox

MAY 7, 2020

Which means memes, the default mode of communication online for many, now stand in for a huge range of quarantine moods, social connections, and concerns beyond just making us laugh. The quarantine house meme is a variant of the popular “lunch table” meme , born directly out of the advent of social distancing. Zac Freeland / Vox.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The world’s largest social network is internally grappling with an existential crisis: an aging user base Earlier this year, a researcher at Facebook shared some alarming statistics with colleagues. If it doesn’t correct course, the 17-year-old social network could, for the first time, lose out on an entire generation.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

But the social network also stressed that any payments made on iOS would be subject to Apple’s standard 30 percent platform fees, noting this meant less money for small businesses. Facebook says all businesses are eligible except Facebook Gaming creators and that the policy will also only last until the end of 2020.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

.” Joy-Cons can quickly wear out in a specific way over the course of ordinary use. This can make some games virtually unplayable. This has been cited as an issue in some Joy-Cons with every model of the Switch for at least three years, including the portable-only Switch Lite that Nintendo released in 2019.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 29, 2020

Needless to say, 2020 has been a rough year for colleges, universities, and the students who attend them. The rush to move courses online and send students home was the first challenge. Adjusting for a virtual graduation was the second, especially as hackers started to target digital ceremonies. If the university fails?

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Within hours of Trump’s tweet, organizers in Pittsburgh held a “Count Our Votes” rally — a combination block party and demonstration, organized with tools and knowledge built over the course of months or years. 2020 is the year organizing became intersectional. Mobilize, for instance, is a kind of Eventbrite for politics.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2020

Adi Robertson picks up the story at The Verge : Social media sites are trying to stop the spread of Plandemic: Indoctornation , a follow-up to the Plandemic conspiracy video about the novel coronavirus. There’s still some possibility that Indoctornation will find new life on the social platforms. TikTok has never provided any U.S.

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The Investing Edge

JANUARY 22, 2015

In 1862, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute inaugurated a course in something called “mechanical engineering.” Of course, the older engineering disciplines have remained essential, but the rise of the Web has created the newest batch of international rock stars. Of course, the Software guys and gals aren’t going anywhere.

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Vox

MAY 13, 2021

The sudden shift — one among a slew of changes Twitter began testing in March — gave many people the impression that the social media site had done away with automatic image cropping overnight. (In pic.twitter.com/bR1GRyCkia — Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri (@bascule) September 19, 2020. Welcome to the vertical art party!

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GeekWire

JANUARY 5, 2021

Animal Crossing: New Horizons was one of the best-selling games of 2020, on account of being exactly the right game for 2020. If any field of human endeavor on Earth can be said to have had a good 2020, it was the video game industry. We knew from the jump that 2020 was going to be crazy. Then, of course, COVID-19 hit.

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