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Jason Rubin, Facebook VP for special gaming initiatives, on how Facebook thinks about gaming and how Oculus Quest can get AAA games like Call of Duty (Seth Schiesel/Protocol)

Seth Schiesel / Protocol: Jason Rubin, Facebook VP for special gaming initiatives, on how Facebook thinks about gaming and how Oculus Quest can get AAA games like Call of Duty  —  Jason Rubin, Facebook’s vice president for special gaming initiatives, tells Protocol how Facebook thinks about gaming — and why streaming games are the future.

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Zoom is investigating performance and connectivity issues affecting many users in the US and UK (Steven Musil/CNET)

Steven Musil / CNET: Zoom is investigating performance and connectivity issues affecting many users in the US and UK  —  Users report being unable to host or join videoconference calls.  —  Some Zoom users early Sunday reported performance issues with the videoconferencing app that prevented them from joining … Zoom is investigating performance and connectivity

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Zoom hit with Sunday morning outage

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Users of videoconferencing platform Zoom are reporting problems hosting and joining meetings and the company is investigating, according to the its status page. “Our team is investigating the root cause of issues joining Zoom Meetings. These issues appear to be limited to a subset of users,” according to

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Mitigating Con Deprivation: Disobey 2020

While the Coronavirus-induced lockdown surely makes life easier for the socially anxious and awkward ones among us, it also takes away the one thing that provides a feeling of belonging and home: conferences. Luckily, there are plenty of videos of past events available online, helping to bypass the time until we can mingle among like-minded

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In the AI era, universities need to strengthen students’ creativity

Advances in artificial intelligence in the early 2010s, particularly in deep learning, triggered a new wave of panic and fear about technological unemployment. Further intensifying those fears were a host of sensational articles about the magical capabilities of AI algorithms and ambiguous statements by company executives creating the impression that human-level AI is just around the

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US Secret Service memo warns a crime ring is targeting state unemployment insurance programs to commit fraud by using data belonging to identity theft victims (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: US Secret Service memo warns a crime ring is targeting state unemployment insurance programs to commit fraud by using data belonging to identity theft victims  —  A well-organized Nigerian crime ring is exploiting the COVID-19 crisis by committing large-scale fraud against multiple state … US Secret Service memo warns

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