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Can ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ and other tabletop games help youth build social skills?

GeekWire

(Game to Grow Image) A new whitepaper from two Seattle organizations exhibits research into how tabletop roleplaying games, such as Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeons & Dragons , can be used to help children and teenagers develop their social skills. ” The use of role-playing exercises for therapy goes back over a century.

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Romance Ruses to Watch Out for on Valentine's Day

SecureWorld News

These scams often start innocently on dating sites or social media but quickly escalate to requests for money or sensitive information. RELATED: 5 Emotions Used in Social Engineering Attacks ] Cybersecurity experts warn these tactics are becoming more advanced with the use of new technology.

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The potential massive social impact of gamification for weight loss and savings

Trends in the Living Networks

As such, we certainly need to apply what is being learned in the field of gamification, particularly its social aspects, to see how it can help positively change behaviors. Health Week Plan reports that: If UnitedHealth Group had its way, all of its members would own a Microsoft Xbox video game system and would use it every day.

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After personal experience with cyberstalking, tech founder launches startup battling deepfake content

GeekWire

Certifi AI Photo) In January, pornographic deepfake images of Taylor Swift were viewed by millions of people on X and other social media platforms before the sites took action. Melissa Hutchins, co-founder and CEO of Certifi AI. “The process for healing is difficult when there’s very few ways to make the activity stop.”

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Revolutionize Learning: Interactive Textbooks for Enhanced Engagement

Kitaboo

Modern educational systems are no longer associated with monotonous lectures, where generating and maintaining student engagement was a hit-or-miss exercise. For example, video-based content with captions and translation capabilities provides all learners with some or the other option to understand the content better.

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Music-licensing startup Audiosocket hits play on effort to get more digital creators using its products

GeekWire

Audiosocket Photo) TikTok videos posted by Charli D’Amelio , Miss Universe , and the Philadelphia Eagles are quite different from one another, but they share something in common thanks to a Seattle startup. On TikTok, the video-sharing social giant, Audiosocket’s artists are trending, amassing more than 300 million views this year.

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High school students learn how to spot misinformation at UW’s ‘Misinfo Day’ event

GeekWire

Students also learned how TikTok collects clicks and influencers create fake videos, and when to “share or beware.” This is really useful information to help protect yourself as a teenager on social media,” said Ballard High School student Amelia Wagenbrenner. High school students’ advice to new social media users.

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