GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Chromium steel, commonly referred to as stainless steel, is thought to be a recent manufacturing innovation, but new evidence suggests ancient Persians stumbled upon an early version of this alloy some 1,000 years ago, in what is a surprise to archaeologists. Read more.

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Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2020

COVID-19 has now spread to 114 countries and territories, with China, Italy, Iran, and Korea seeing the greatest number of cases so far. The virus has seen more than 118,000 confirmed cases and 4,200 deaths, according to the latest information from the World Health Organization.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 27, 2021

With great popularity comes great scrutiny. Following WhatsApp’s controversial announcement of changes to its privacy policy, users have flocked to the encrypted messaging app Signal. The app has maintained a relatively small userbase for years, but in the last month, it has reportedly doubled in size. And now it’s… Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 5, 2020

The Iranian military accidentally sunk a target barge used as a mockup U.S. aircraft carrier in recent exercises while towing it back to port, according to a report by Forbes , causing a major sea-lane hazard. Read more.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

A startup in Iran recently suffered a large data breach in which millions of its user records were exposed to the internet and then subsequently destroyed by a cyberattack involving a bot. The disruption appears to be part of an ongoing trend in which bad actors surf the web looking for insecure databases, then pounce… Read more.

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GizModo VR

JULY 9, 2021

Cyberattacks reportedly disrupted Iran’s railway system on Friday, causing “unprecedented chaos” at stations throughout the country, according to state media. Read more.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Qatar, Oman, and Iran also reportedly approached national records. Meteorological winter is less than a month away, but you wouldn’t know it in the United Arab Emirates. The country hit 103 degrees Fahrenheit (39 degrees Celsius) to start the week, a November record. Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 25, 2022

We’ve all grown accustomed to hearing about foreign-seeded disinformation campaigns, but we seldom hear about America’s own covert influence operations. On Wednesday, however, social media researchers revealed details about what appears to have been a long-running U.S. disinformation effort aimed at web users in… Read more.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 6, 2020

The search engine giant also banned several channels linked to Russia and Iran.

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Cats and VR

AUGUST 16, 2017

Originally from Iran, Koosha is currently hindered by Trump’s travel ban, which targets people from majority-Muslim countries and bars them from entering the United States. London-based electronic musician Ash Koosha will perform in the US for the first time via virtual reality in TheWaveVR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 30, 2017

It’s short but urgent, a snippet of what it’s like to be a journalist in Iran who’s being forced to confess to crimes by an oppressive regime. Lajevardi was an actual prison warden of the infamous Evin Prison in Iran, and at the end of the game, I saw a photo gallery of journalists who had been killed for reporting on their governments. “It

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ARVR

AUGUST 25, 2021

SW : I love the music and embedded texts you sometimes include in your work, in particular your own writing on your experience in Iran during the 1979 Islamic revolution. Would you have characterized yourself as an artist in Iran, or do you feel the revolution (and it’s aftershock) spurred you on in a particularly creative direction?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 10, 2023

.” I said, “Sure, let’s find the balance, but we have to find the balance together” We have to not ignore the minorities, people like me, whose identity once lost, it’s a dangerous world if I step into certain demographics, or certain countries like Iran, China, or even India for that matter.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 12, 2021

It certainly looks like Israel just cyber attacked Iran again. Authorities with the Islamic Republic are claiming that a blackout at one of the nation’s top nuclear facilities is the result of Israeli sabotage, and an Israeli media outlet has similarly claimed that the attack may have been the work of the… Read more.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Cast: Violeta Ayala, Genesis Owusu, Celina Debassey, Anamaria Gómez Jaramillo, Jesse Odom, Nicole Ukelele.

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VR Spies

JANUARY 3, 2018

Over the years I have done a lot of VR experiences that have had me a bit anxious but Blindfold has taken that anxiety to a whole new level! iNK Stories has brought a very chilling experience to the Rift that has the player locked in an Iranian prisons interrogation room. Needless to say it is a very uncomfortable feeling.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 23, 2021

Department of Justice seized 36 domains associated with news outlets in Iran, Yemen, and Palestine on Tuesday, according to a press release from the DOJ. The websites were taken for allegedly promoting disinformation campaigns and for violating U.S. sanctions against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard and… Read more.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 29, 2022

Aside from the few countries that have restricted or outright banned them (including Belarus, China, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Oman, Russia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and the United Arab Emirates), VPNs are perfectly legal in most of the world. Hold up — are VPNs legal?

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Mashable VR

APRIL 17, 2022

Inspired by a stranger-than-fiction CIA scheme, Argo follows an imaginative agent (Affleck), who goes undercover as a sci-fi movie producer so he might rescue Americans from the Iran hostage crisis of 1979.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 1, 2022

Inspired by a stranger-than-fiction CIA scheme, Argo follows an imaginative agent (Affleck), who goes undercover as a sci-fi movie producer, so he might rescue Americans from the Iran hostage crisis of 1979.

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EON Reality

APRIL 22, 2024

By opening this cutting-edge center in Iran, EON Reality endeavors to nurture local talent, endow students and professionals with future-ready skills, and exploit the distinct opportunities within Iran’s burgeoning tech-centric market.

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VRScout

APRIL 23, 2018

And as president, he did as he promised and implemented an executive order that would restrict travel from seven Muslim-majority countries: Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. “I’m calling, very simply, for a shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” said Donald Trump from the campaign trail. With Trump v.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 14, 2022

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, recently posted an animated video to his website depicting former President Donald Trump getting nailed by a drone strike. Read more.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Navy destroyed a mock intercontinental ballistic missile over the Pacific Ocean early Tuesday morning in a successful test of America’s experimental missile defense system, according to press releases from the U.S. Missile Defense Agency and defense contractor Raytheon. The new test was notable for destroying… Read more.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Tehran in the '80s during the Iran-Iraq War is the last place you’d expect to be facing a djinn, but in Under the Shadow , that’s exactly what’s up. Where to watch: Uncut Gems is now streaming on Netflix. Under the Shadow. Under the Shadow" builds solid tension amid destruction. Credit: Moviestore / Shutterstock.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 28, 2019

You’re not using AI to say, “OK, you look like you’re from Iran. Alan: And if you unpack that just a little bit further, this kind of eliminates personal biases as well. You’re using AI to identify potential threats. So I should pull you over.”

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 28, 2019

You’re not using AI to say, “OK, you look like you’re from Iran. Alan: And if you unpack that just a little bit further, this kind of eliminates personal biases as well. You’re using AI to identify potential threats. So I should pull you over.”

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 28, 2019

You're not using AI to say, "OK, you look like you're from Iran. Alan: And if you unpack that just a little bit further, this kind of eliminates personal biases as well. You're using AI to identify potential threats. So I should pull you over." Paul: Yeah.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 18, 2021

In the weeks since Trump-sympathizing rioters laid siege to the U.S. Capitol , platforms have scrambled to account for the ways right-wing zealots used their communication networks to strategize, coordinate or otherwise inflame tensions related to the deadly insurrection. Apparently, Telegram has been no exception: On… Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 7, 2020

Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is running new Facebook ads that insist the president is an advocate for peace and will stop America’s so-called “forever wars.” Oddly enough, the ads also acknowledge that Trump dabbles in political assassinations. In fact, those assassinations are central to Trump’s idea of… Read more.

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GizModo VR

JULY 15, 2020

An explosive Yahoo News report out Wednesday describes the Trump administration’s efforts to expand the Central Intelligence Agency’s power in 2018 to launch offensive cyberattacks against America’s foes. Read more.

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EON Reality

OCTOBER 11, 2018

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EON Reality

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

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EON Reality

OCTOBER 29, 2018

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EON Reality

AUGUST 29, 2017

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EON Reality

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

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EON Reality

JULY 13, 2016

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