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West Virginia Starts New Fake Culture War Against Blackrock

GizModo VR

West Virginia won’t use BlackRock’s investment funds any longer as part of its banking transactions, positioning itself as defending poor, defenseless American fossil fuel companies. The boycott is based on BlackRock’s recent public statements on climate—but ignores the realities of where the financial giant is… Read more.

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Amazon Might Make Its Drivers Assemble Your Furniture

GizModo VR

In yet another bid to completely dominate all things e-commerce, Amazon’s reportedly begun testing a premium service that lets its customers opt into having their deliveries assembled once they reach their door. The service is planned to first hit shoppers based in Virginia and “two other markets,” according to an… Read more.

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Amazon Makes AMD Rome EC2 Instances Available

Anand Tech

After many months of waiting, Amazon today has finally made available their new compute-oriented C5a AWS cloud instances based on the new AMD EPYC 2 nd generation Rome processors with new Zen2 cores. Amazon had announced way back in November their intentions to adopt AMD’s newest silicon designs.

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The Spatial Web: How the Next Generation of the Internet Will Impact Us All

ARVR

Currently, when you’re walking around the United States accessing the web, your digital self is likely heading physically to one of four major data centers operated by Amazon Web Services in either California, Oregon, Ohio, or Virginia.

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Apple Mum on AR/VR for iPhone 7, but Here’s How We Know They’re Still Working on It

Road to VR

.” Not a month later and the company was seeking four additional hires with immersive tech talent , including a ‘VR/AR Programmer’ Then there was Apple’s hiring of Doug Bowman , Director of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech, and an influential figure in the world of virtual reality academia.

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Astronaut Barbie finally — literally — goes to outer space

Mashable VR

Two Barbies blasted off on a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spaceflight from Wallops Island, Virginia, on Feb. When they return, they'll go on display at the National Air and Space Museum's Udvar Hazy Center in Virginia, where her predecessor, Miss Astronaut , has lived ever since Mattel donated one to the collection in 1995. Credit: Mattel.

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Big News from Altspace VR, Apple, Disney, Lloyd’s, and the US Justice Department

XR Today - Big XR News tag

The US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia is hearing the case with the backing of attorney generals from eight states. Recently, Microsoft and Amazon cut back roughly 10,000 employees, and Meta dismissed approximately 11,000 people.

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