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Key Takeaways: Starfield, a highly anticipated video game, allows players to build their own character and spacecraft, travel to multiple planets, and follow multiple story arcs. The game’s interactive music uses a palette of musical language that cultivates a contemplative soundscape, launching the listener into the vastness of space while remaining curious, innocent, and restrained. […]
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Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg recentlyย announced the tech giant will shift from being a social media company to becoming โ€œa metaverse companyโ€, functioning in an โ€œembodied internetโ€ that blends real and virtual worlds more than ever before. So what is โ€œthe metaverseโ€? It sounds like the kind of thing billionaires talk about to earn headlines, […]
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The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft is talking to Discord about acquiring the social audio company created in 2015, that has more than 250 million users and has so far focused primarily on creating communities of video game fans. The trigger for these talks has been the surprise success of Clubhouse, which is even smaller than Discord, but […]
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At a Twitter event for analysts, the company presented its plansโ€Šโ€”โ€Špreviously disclosed to the SECโ€Šโ€”โ€Što double its revenue by the end of 2023, with the goal of reaching 315 million monetizable daily users. The company, which is doing well in the wake of last yearโ€™s threat of a shareholder rebellion to replace CEO Jack Dorsey, has interesting plans for […]

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Key Takeaway: Neuralink, founded by Elon Musk, aims to implant a brain-computer interface (BCI) in people’s brains, allowing them to control computers or phones by thought alone. This technology holds the promise of alleviating human suffering and allowing people with disabilities to regain lost capacities. However, the long-term aspirations of Neuralink include the ability to […]

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I highly recommend reading the McKinsey Global Instituteโ€™s new report, โ€œReskilling China: Transforming The Worldโ€™s Largest Workforce Into Lifelong Learnersโ€, which focuses on the countryโ€™s biggest employment challenge, re-training its workforce and the adoption of practices such as lifelong learning to address the growing digital transformation of its productive fabric. How to transform the country […]

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