article thumbnail

Cuba Becomes First Country to Vaccinate Young Kids Against Covid-19

GizModo VR

Cuba started vaccinating children as young as two years old against covid-19 this week, becoming the first country in the world to inoculate toddlers. At least 12 young kids have died from covid-19 in Cuba this year, while there were no infant deaths from the disease in that country during 2020, according to the Miami … Read more.

Cuba 145
article thumbnail

Rex Tillerson Screwed Up Investigation Into Cuba 'Sonic Weapon' Attacks, New Report Says

GizModo VR

and Canadian diplomats in Cuba and other locations since 2016. A newly released report says Rex Tillerson’s State Department responded in a slow, disorganized fashion to the “Havana syndrome”—the mysterious rash of neural disorders that has plagued U.S. Read more.

Cuba 116
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Bringing virtual reality to Cuba

VR Playhouse

Filmmaker Fifer Garbesi wrote a wonderful blog post on her efforts to bring VR to the artists and thinkers of Cuba; efforts that our very own co-founder, Ian Forester, had the opportunity to help with. They were recently in Havana shooting 360 footage for an upcoming documentary and hosting the island's first VR Festival.

Cuba 40
article thumbnail

Ransomware Gang Says Its Selling Data from Cyberattack That California DMV Warned About

GizModo VR

A ransomware gang called “Cuba” claims to be selling off data on the dark web belonging to Automatic Funds Transfer Services (AFTS), a Seattle-based financial services and data management firm that suffered a bad ransomware attack in early February. Read more.

Data 142
article thumbnail

Cuba is getting a crash course in internet culture — and it’s changing everything

Digital Trends

Those changes have had both positive and negative effects.

Cuba 119
article thumbnail

In This Best of World SF Story, an Artificial Daughter Longs for Her Mother in Near-Future Africa

GizModo VR

Edited by World Fantasy Award winner Lavie Tidhar , The Best of World SF: Volume 1 collects 26 new short stories from authors representing 21 countries , including France, China, Singapore, Nigeria, India, Japan, Italy, and Cuba. io9 has a first look at the entry by Tlotlo Tsamaase, who hails from Botswana. Read more.

Botswana 130
article thumbnail

Featured 360: Fidel Castro, LA Noir and Santa’s Sleigh

VRScout

For this week’s installment of Featured 360° you can become an LA Noir reporter, experience Fidel Castro’s farewell in Cuba and sit shotgun with Santa in his sleigh. Cuba Honoring Fidel Castro. Experience the emotions of Cubans saying goodbye to their controversial leader in this moving piece.

Cuba 150