Month: November 2020

The touchscreen is your primary means of control over your iPhone, and if it doesn’t work, your phone doesn’t work. However, while an unresponsive touchscreen — any touchscreen that either doesn’t respond at all to your taps or that responds only occasionally — can be frustrating and alarming, there are a number of simple fixes
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Officers are given a chance to experience confrontations from the civilians perspective. Police officers operating out of the Strasburg Police Department in Strasburg, Virginia have begun receiving supplemental VR training centered specifically around crisis de-escalation. Put simply, this specialized immersive training provides officers with the skills and knowledge necessary to recognize and effectively defuse potentially
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Photo: Joe Raedle / Staff (Getty Images) A drug proven to help prevent hospitalizations in high-risk patients already sick with Covid-19 will soon become widely available, thanks to an emergency FDA clearance issued Monday night for an Eli Lilly & Co.-manufactured antibody therapy. Advertisement The drug, called bamlanivimab, is a single antibody treatment that must
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The TiVo Edge for Antenna is the best over-the-air (OTA) receiver in our opinion. With its 500GB of DVR storage, class-leading interface and content selection screens, dedicated remote, built-in streaming apps, and support for 4K, Dolby Vision, and Dolby Atmos, it’s the Ferrari of the OTA receiver world. We’ve spent a lot of time setting
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Learn the history behind pivotal moments in WWII from real-world veterans. Earlier today, developer Respawn Entertainment released a brand new trailer for its highly-anticipated WWII VR shooter Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond. In it, the team offers a behind-the-scenes look at the games “Gallery”, an in-game interview series featuring actual World War II veterans.
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Photo: Gizmodo While smart homes can be pretty convenient, they also require a certain type of never-ending vigilance. Specifically, you have to keep up with which companies support what platforms, and if any mergers or acquisitions have royally screwed your entire setup. Then, you have to decide whether you’re going to go through the hassle
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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla “Valhalla marries the best combat in the series with a more organic world.” Breathtaking combat Refined meta systems A more thoughtful open world Raiding never gets old Expanding your settlement is compelling Familiar story Buggy, especially on PC Stealth and modern-day content lacking MSRP $60.00 Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is my personal favorite
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Election workers count Fulton County ballots at the State Farm Arena on November 4, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia.Photo: Jessica McGowan (Getty Images) Tech companies of all shapes and sizes are apparently taking note of what happens when you let rampant misinformation, or conspiracy theories, flourish on your platform and don’t do anything about it. This
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Chat with friends across multiple platforms via this intimate socialVR app. VTime’s cross-platform social network vTime XR is now available on Facebook’s Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 headsets, offering standalone users a premium socialVR experience centered primarily around intimate group meet-ups. Unlike prominent VR platforms such as VRChat and Altspace VR which allow for
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Trans, gender non-conforming and gender non-binary people live largely in oblivion, and the lack of supportive systems, affirmative action, mentors and role models keeps younger individuals from coming to STEM. This story contains mentions of harassment, abuse and transphobia. Reader discretion is advised. By Sayantan Datta Anasuith P Pridhvish is met with a dilemma every
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U.S. President Donald Trump golfs at Trump National Golf Club, on November 7, 2020 in Sterling, Virginia. News outlets projected that Democratic nominee Joe Biden will be the 46th president of the United States after a victory in Pennsylvania.Photo: Al Drago (Getty Images) After getting through all the feelings—Hallelujah, thank God—that came up once former
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While the attention of most Apple observers and iPhone users has been riveted on the newly released and upcoming iPhone 12 series, customers who bought and still own the iPhone 11 have been looking forward to wrapping up the issues that made last year’s new phone experience somewhat less than perfect. For owners of Apple’s 2019 iPhone 11, iPhone
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The all-in-one AR display shows a weapon sites view, compass direction, enemy positions, and more. According to reports by the Army Times, US Army Soldiers and Marines could be wearing ruggedized augmented reality headsets in the field by as early as next year. Referred to as the Integrated Visual Augmentation System, these militarized Microsoft HoloLens
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Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, or Pu La Deshpande, was born in Mumbai on 8 November 1919. His family had an illustrious literary legacy: Pu La’s grandfather had translated Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali into Marathi. Google Doodle for Pu La, or Purushottam Laxman Deshpande’s 101st birthday The 101st birth anniversary of Purushottam Laxman Deshpande — better known as Pu
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President-elect Joe Biden waves as he arrives onstage for a drive-in campaign rally at Dallas High School on October 24, 2020 in Dallas, Pennsylvania.Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images) The past four years have felt like screaming underwater. The results of the election are a tentative gasp of fresh air, sharp and somewhat bitter on the
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