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NASA announced this week that it’s looking for some citizen scientists to help out with a project. Six orbiting instruments make up NASA’s Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) project and they are used to study Earth’s climate and the…

Trump enters the case for the first time, represented by the lawyer who handled Hulk Hogan’s sex tape lawsuit.

We know that games and movies are great to watch in virtual reality (VR), but what about the news? For those who think that watching the news in VR seems like it would be a great idea, you’ll be interested to learn that CNN has partnered up with Magnopus to bring the news onto the Oculus Rift.

This is actually not the first time that CNN has dabbled in VR. Previously the company experimented with bringing 360-degree stories on the web and mobile, like posting it on Facebook. They had also previously launched the CNNVR app on iOS and Android, so for them to launch the news on the Oculus Rift doesn’t come as a surprise.

That being said, launching the news on the Rift is an interesting move given that the Rift is a dedicated and more powerful VR headset (at least compared to watching it on your phone). According to CNN, one of the benefits of watching the news in VR is that it puts users in the role of the producer where they get to experience the news as if they were there themselves, creating a more immersive experience.

According to CNN, “The app launches with more than 100 virtual reality stories from dozens of countries, all delivered in 4K resolution with encoding by Pixvana. The CNNVR app also includes a CNN ticker scroll and social integration with CNN’s Twitter accounts, so you can get up-to-the-minute breaking news alerts throughout your experience.” The app is already available and if you have the Oculus Rift you can check it out.

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Late Friday night, Facebook has announced it’s suspending Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) from its site. While you may not have heard of SCL, its political analytics firm Cambridge Analytica has made headlines in the last few years due to…

If you’ve been looking forward to Avengers: Infinity War, you will be interested to learn that Marvel has since released a new trailer for the upcoming movie. This trailer gives us some scenes that weren’t released in the previous trailers, but if you’re trying to avoid spoilers of any kind then maybe you should give this a miss.

However for those who don’t care, the new trailer gives us more glimpses at Thanos and how he and his flunkies face off against the cast of the Avengers. However as many have since pointed out, Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye and Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man are conspicuously missing from both the trailer and the new poster that was released, so what’s the deal?

Speaking to Slashfilm, the Russo brothers (who directed the movie) said, “Coming out of Civil War, he’s in the same position that Cap and Falcon are at the end of that movie. And Ant-Man. Coming into this movie, you know… Characters on Cap’s side coming out of the Civil War, some made certain decisions and others made other decisions that led to different paths in them dealing with oversight in this movie in a different way. So Hawkeye’s on his own journey in this movie.”

The Russo brothers also add that the upcoming Ant-Man and the Wasp movie will have elements from the Avengers movie, and will show signs of it being impacted by the events in the movie. Avengers: Infinity War is set for a release on the 27th of April, 2018, which is about a week earlier than what Marvel had previously announced.

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