
Metaverse may be $800 billion market, next tech platform
Disney’s new CEO Bob Iger and crypto
L’Oréal is among new investors in Metaverse Developer Digital Village
LEGO is hiring staff for its new ‘metaverse experiences’
Seoul government opens city’s metaverse project to public
Virtual cringe: The 10 lamest brand stunts in the MetaverseMetaverse frenzy is re-emerging after the Generative AI interlude. To understand both, from a pop culture point of view, there are lists of recommended films. They show AI, AR and VR’s, Metaverse’s foundational technologies, mostly dystopian uses. Some of them provide previews of the Metaverse itself.There are also a wealth of informative readings. I recommend looking at old writings of two visionary pioneers: IJ Good’s “Speculations concerning the first ultra-intelligent machine”; and Warren Robinett’s “Synthetic experiences: A proposed taxonomy”. They are also linked to pop culture movies: IJ Good, a former Alan Turing assistant (and my professor at Virginia Tech), was featured on The Imitation Game and advised Stanley Kubrik in “2001 Space Odyssey”; and Warren Robinett, who greatly helped my VR research group at NOVA, has plenty of air time on Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One.
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Education
How mathematics stopped being defined by reality — and started to invent new ones
ChatGPT and VR – Changing the way we learn soft skills
Frontiers for young minds. “Science for kids, edited by kids.”
Visual Thinking: The hidden gifts of people who think in pictures, patterns, and abstractions
How games can make behavioral science better. Examples of gamification in science: Which English?; Are you a super-listener?; Glyph; and Moral Machine

AI policy of a Wharton professor. Via @dbkhan
Health
A hotter Planet takes another toll on human health
Sports
How Messi fans organized to break an Instagram world record
Inês Bettencourt on ESPN Sports Center Plays of the Day (any sport anywhere in the globe)
Mobility
 
Autostadt- VW car towers
China’s new hyperloop train completes first test runs successfully
Airbus is testing out autonomous flying tech in some of its planes
Hydrogen-powered planes take off with startup’s test flight

Most popular car in Europs vs. most popular car in US
Cities, Nature, and Clean Tech
Transgenic ants shed light on insects’ sense of smell
Native Lands around the World, US Native Lands and Canada Native Lands sites are most interesting from cultural and community tech development standpoints
John Deere vows to open up its tractor tech, but right-to-repair backers have doubts
This startup uses microbial fuel cells to clean up wastewater
Developing new companies
The big idea: what’s the secret of innovation?
Inside the structure of Open Ai’s looming new investment from Microsoft and VCs
How Barnes & Noble transformed its brand from corporate bully to lovable neighborhood bookstore
Secretary jobs in the Age of AI, by Noah Smith

An updated list of unicorns, by CB Insights
AR/VR/AI/IoT/Quantum Computing/Metaverse/Bio

Nreal achieves mass production of 100.000 AR glasses
A short note on large language models
Google’s Muse model could be the next big thing for generative AI
New generative AI tool instantly builds presentation decks and PowerPoints

Generative AI in architecture– a thread
Developing low-cost robots for agriculture
Robot gets the sense of smell using locust antennae
Hunting for the best bioscience software tool? Check this database
Far out
The elevan laws of showrunning
Animated chart: The rise and fall of music sales, by format (1973-2021)

Little Planet Factory
Google could make the Airtag alternative we really want

Scientists are getting eerily good at using WiFi to ‘see’ people through walls in detail
 
The ringtone came from this song. At the time, Nokia was ten times more valuable than Apple. “It would be another 7 years before the iPhone was released” @JonErlichman
Samsung introduced a new mobile phone screen concept at CES 2023
What is like to be a bat?

The Good Life. “Lessons from the World’s longest scientific study of happiness”
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Ana M Pereira | 2021-04-06
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Sempre boas escolhas. Obrigada.