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This next-generation video game requires a prescription

Vox

On the frosty planet of Frigidus, a virtual world full of icy caverns and treacherous waterfalls, your mission is to race down a track and target the animals that come flying your way. Patients with a prescription are sent an access code they can use to download the game. Courtesy of Akili.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

And so some of the things because of those work on nonprofit side, again, all all around the InfoSec community, but looking at these different villages, and if you remember to 2014 Around that time before that or so, car hacking was starting to be in the news, people were talking about it. So it was a good variety of things.

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How the pandemic inspired creative uses of technology in 2020

The Verge

Librarians used Google Forms to create virtual escape rooms. Not only did they take away some of the tedium and chaos of online teaching and learning, but the virtual escape rooms were tools for staff development and community building. million views and benefited nonprofit organization No Kid Hungry.

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Half of all Facebook moderators may develop mental health issues

The Verge

I wrote about it today at The Verge : In a landmark acknowledgment of the toll that content moderation takes on its workforce, Facebook has agreed to pay $52 million to current and former moderators to compensate them for mental health issues developed on the job. I just wish that Facebook would recognize that.”. Sarah Perez / TechCrunch ).

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24 things we think will happen in 2024

Vox

As political scientists Robert Erikson and Christopher Wlezien have noted, “polls from the beginning of the election year have virtually no predictive power” when it comes to calling presidential races. Disclosure: I worked on the issue on and off from 2012 to 2017 at animal welfare nonprofits prior to joining Vox.)

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