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The Future of Reading: Augmented Reality Books

Kitaboo

Augmented reality books have facilitated active participation in learners as opposed to the conventional teaching-listening method. While using augmented reality books , a person can continue accessing paper-based textbooks with an add-on of a virtual environment for an immersive experience. What are Augmented Reality Books?

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What Is An ePUB Book, And How Does It Work?

Kitaboo

Today, people can access written content in digital book format using various devices, including smartphones, tablets, e-readers, computers, etc. This is where ePUB books come into the picture. ePUB books are a type of eBook that you can open and access using almost all devices. Table of Contents What Are ePUB Books?

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What Is the Difference between Audiobooks and Digital Books?

Kitaboo

Audio and Digital books are the modern tech-savvy cousins of old hard-bound prints. On the one hand, digital books are becoming increasingly popular, thanks to platforms like KITABOO that make it a breeze to create and publish interactive digital books. So why have digital books become so popular? Let’s find out.

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Dark secrets of developer motivation

CIO Business Intelligence

Developers are also looking for meaning, the sense that their work has purpose, but they have unique ways of finding it that may not always obvious. If you yourself are not a coder, then much of what you think about the unique nature of development work may be incomplete. Measure the right outputs.

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Orbite begins the launch countdown for its commercial astronaut training programs

GeekWire

(Orbite Photo) After getting its start in Seattle and testing its business model in France and Florida, a space travel venture called Orbite is ready to start signing up customers for private-sector astronaut training programs. Prices for the five-night suborbital training program start at $49,500 per person.

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Gates offers $1.5B for carbon-cutting innovation if lawmakers enact public-private program

GeekWire

Bill Gates authored “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster” and spoke to GeekWire about the book in February 2021. Department of Energy (DOE) to remove planet-warming carbon from the atmosphere, provided that lawmakers approve a program for developing new technologies in this space. Bill Gates has pledged to invest $1.5

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Google will now consider letting your video, music or book app evade its 30 percent cut

The Verge

Google is opening up applications to a new program for developers of media apps that lets them keep more of what they earn — paying a lower 15 percent commission to Google in exchange for supporting certain platforms and features ( via 9to5Google ). Google has mirrored other Apple olive branches to developers as well.

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