On June 21, the Metaverse Standards Forum was launched by its 35 founding members, including Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Cesium, the Web3D Consortium and the Web 3d Consortium. Noticeably missing among these founding members, however, are tech giant Apple, gaming ...
CNN journalist Jim Acosta recently grilled Andrew Yang, a former Democratic presidential candidate, about his decision to leave the Democratic Party and start the Forward Party. Acosta didn’t pull any punches: “Is this an attempt to pump up book sales?” he asked, noting how Yang’s new ...
Bjorn Lomborg runs the think-tank the Copenhagen Consensus, where he offers a non-traditional analysis of global challenges from disease and hunger to climate and education. For his work, Lomborg was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world. He joined ...
In Great Britain, residents are facing energy bills soaring by more the 100 percent, costs so high the new prime minister is considering a freeze on energy prices. French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has warned her nation’s businesses about the risk of energy “rationing” this ...
For teachers and librarians, returning to school means getting students back to stories. Stories matter, and they make a difference in our lives. Often, the jarring stories are most magnetic and make lifelong readers. An angry little boy sent to his room for punishment finds it transformed ...
Every day, corporate America has launched a new initiative that reasonably could be described as “woke.” At first glance, this wokeness doesn’t seem so bad. Doesn’t America have a history of racism, discrimination and injustice? Don’t these persist? Shouldn’t we seek to remedy ...
