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Rise Of Learning Platforms: Importance Of eLearning In Higher Education

Kitaboo

Here, students and instructors interact in real-time through virtual classrooms and video or audio conferring. Greater Flexibility The most evident advantage of eLearning is the greater flexibility it provides in comparison to offline classes. Such virtual learning communities help bridge the gap between offline and online learning.

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Researchers find 87% of U.S. classic video games are out of print and ‘critically endangered’

GeekWire

Sega’s crime drama/beat-’em-up Yakuza Kiwami is a 2016 remake of a 2005 game, but has resulted in the original game going quietly out of print. For comparison, this is slightly above the availability of pre-World War II audio recordings,” Salazar writes, “and slightly below the survival rate of American silent films.

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Meet the 5 finalists for CEO of the Year at the 2023 GeekWire Awards

GeekWire

Impinj went public in 2016. François Locoh-Donou , CEO of F5 Networks F5 CEO François Locoh-Donou on screen after a virtual recording of the GeekWire Podcast in his office at the F5 Tower in downtown Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Diorio founded Impinj in 2000 while teaching at the University of Washington.

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A short history of every time Apple CEO Tim Cook praised augmented reality

The Verge

While he once said it was hard to see the appeal of Google Glass , the AR wearable that proved unpopular with consumers, he’s held a consistently positive opinion on AR since at least 2016. July 2016: Cook says in a quarterly earnings call that “AR can be really great.”. “We This would become a running theme: AR good, VR not so good.

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Slack deal would pit Salesforce against Microsoft, with Tableau acquisition as a potential blueprint

GeekWire

Slack greeted the launch of Microsoft Teams in 2016 with a full-page newspaper ad reminiscent of Apple’s message to IBM when the tech giant entered the PC market. By comparison, Slack spent $219 million on marketing and sales in the first half of the year, a little more than half of its $364 million in revenue for the period.

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Elon Musk thinks we’re close to solving AI. That doesn’t make it true.

Vox

In October 2016, he predicted that a Tesla would drive itself from California to New York by 2017. (It He’s repeatedly argued that Teslas don’t need Lidar — a sensing system that virtually every other autonomous vehicle company relies on — on the basis of a misleading comparison between human vision and cameras in driverless cars.

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Technology Short Take #59

Scott Lowe

Welcome to Technology Short Take #59, the first Technology Short Take of 2016. Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Virtualization. Networking.

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