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Virtual reality check: Futurists dissect Amazon’s new ‘Upload’ TV series, and its digital afterlife

GeekWire

The new series “Upload” on Amazon Prime Video is set 13 years from now, depicting a future in which people can choose a virtual reality afterlife. He’s uploaded to a luxury hotel setting called “Lakeview,” with his in-VR credits paid for by the girlfriend he left behind. Amazon Prime Video Image).

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One weird trick to accelerate your organization’s generative AI strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

For example: at the time the Four Seasons hotel chain was founded , “Traditionally, hotel employees were poorly paid and considered transient and replaceable.” But now imagine the opposite case: another hotel chain that still operates on a “high expected turnover” model.

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What you need to know to accelerate your cloud and data strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

At Choice Hotels , cloud is a tool to help the hospitality giant achieve corporate goals. Kirkland will describe key points on how cloud is enabling business value, including its sustainability initiatives, at CIO’s Future of Cloud & Data Summit , taking place virtually on April 12.

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Orbite’s plans for space training complex get a boost from famed French designer Philippe Starck

GeekWire

” The 72-year-old Starck has designed projects ranging from hotels and yachts (including a yacht for the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs ) to bathroom accessories. August’s program, for example, featured a space-food tasting session as well as zero-G and high-G airplane flights. “Is that the right size?

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Amazon Glow makes video calls more immersive, with projected and interactive space for kids

GeekWire

Using a special mat, kids can play a game, follow along in a story, build a puzzle or do art activities in that projected space, using physical items, while users on the other end can use their own tablet to interact digitally in the shared virtual space in real time through the Amazon Glow app. Amazon Photo).

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Huawei Unleashes the Power of Technology for a Sustainable, Digital Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

It was 2021 when the Europe Commission proposed the Digital Decade policy program, aimed at guiding Europe’s digital transformation through 2030 with the purpose of achieving a digitally-skilled population, secure and sustainable digital infrastructures, digital transformation of businesses, and digitalisation of public services.

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Here’s the deluge of announcements from Amazon’s fall devices event

The Verge

You can request an invite to buy it as part of Amazon’s Day 1 Edition program, and it costs $999.99. If you want to try Glow, you can apply to the early access program, and if you’re selected, you can buy it for $249.99. Disney’s new “Hey Disney” virtual assistant is built on Alexa. Image: Amazon. The Echo Show 15.

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