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Rec Room teams up with NFL in latest partnership for Seattle gaming startup

GeekWire

Over the course of the last six years, both Rec Room and its player community have created thousands of pieces of virtual clothing for avatars to wear, such as hats, suits, T-shirts, and carried accessories. A new pop-up shop in the Rec Room app lets users purchase licensed NFL hoodies and hats for their avatars to wear.

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G.I. Joe’s Fortnite collaboration includes a Snake Eyes skin and action figure

The Verge

With all of its recent licensed characters, which includes everyone from Sarah Connor to The Mandalorian , the virtual battlefield of Fortnite is starting to resemble a playground full of action figures. When you think about it like that, a collaboration with G.I. Joe makes a lot of sense. Next stop, metaverse.

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Analysis: Nobody could dethrone ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ except Wizards of the Coast — and it may have done just that

GeekWire

based Kobold Press has used the Open Game License to publish material for D&D 5th edition, such as 2016’s Tome of Beasts , shown above. 5 leak via io9’s Linda Concerga indicated that Wizards had plans to deauthorize its Open Game License (OGL), a public copyright notice that the company adopted in 2000. Redmond, Wash.-based

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Microsoft updates Office apps to run natively on Macs running Apple’s homegrown M1 chips

GeekWire

The big unanswered question now is whether Microsoft will change its Windows licensing terms to let the Arm-based version of Windows 10 run natively on M1 Macs. The traditional version of Windows can currently run on Intel-based Macs via Apple’s Boot Camp virtualization software. But the Macs are certainly very capable of it.”

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CES 2022 will introduce HDMI 2.1a, another confusing new spec

The Verge

I’m kidding, of course. Given the usual trajectory of TV spec updates, though, it seems virtually guaranteed that in the majority of cases, users won’t be getting the new features until they buy a new TV that supports HDMI 2.1a As TFTCentral explains , according to the HDMI Licensing Administrator, now that HDMI 2.1 standard.

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The Lightning port isn’t about convenience; it’s about control

The Verge

The same, of course, isn’t true of Apple’s USB-C-based devices, which have a robust ecosystem that can broadly be defined as virtually every product that uses USB-C. And of course, USB-C iPads can be charged by any standard USB-C cable that’s capable of putting out enough wattage. Apple is a $2.4

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The Rise of OER and Digital Textbooks in Higher Education

Kitaboo

However, considering the power of DRM, it is best to check specific licenses like the Creative Commons licenses for re-use permissions. Here are some ways in which OER resources can be used: If you plan to create your digital content, you can develop resources using OER content that comes under Creative Commons licenses.