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Talespin raises $15 million for AR/VR enterprise training

Talespin made itself famous for a virtual reality demo where managers learn how to fire a hapless worker named Barry. Now the company has raised $ 15 million to further develop extended reality (XR) — using technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality — for enterprise training. Cornerstone OnDemand, …

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Stop Buying These 20 Products You Can Make Yourself

Jesica Martinez / Shutterstock.com Most of us would agree that a clean home is a more pleasant — and more healthful — place to live than one with dirt, mold and funky smells. What’s more, the smell of homemade pizza dough baking in the oven — for just pennies compared …

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I Went to Iraq to Take Photographs. I Stayed On as a Medic.

We heard the explosion, likely a car bomb. There were many that day. Thirty minutes later, three Humvees came barreling around the corner of nearby buildings with wounded civilians on their hoods and packed inside. They pulled up to our trauma-stabilization point, a makeshift medical unit in an abandoned home …

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