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Several hundred tech workers, homeless-service providers, politicians and other San Franciscans gathered Wednesday night with a goal of identifying solutions to one of the city’s most vexing problems: homelessness. The town hall was organized by Greg Gopman, the former CEO of tech company AngelHack who made headlines in December 2013 for a Facebook post deriding homeless people as “degenerates,” likening them to hyenas and saying they shouldn’t be in Mid-Market, where business people work. After being blasted online and in the media, Gopman studied the city’s homelessness problem for a year and organized the town hall meeting to share ideas for solving it. Gopman mostly stayed out of sight Wednesday in the balcony of the Nourse Auditorium, which he rented, while professionals in the homeless-services field took the stage. Rose Broome, who founded HandUp, a charitable giving website that allows donors to contribute to individual homeless people, said … [Read more...] about Ex-tech CEO who blasted ‘degenerates’ hosts S.F. homeless event

The Oculus Rift has come a long way since its first development kit, and this spring the virtual reality headset will finally be available to the public as a finalized product. I tried out the consumer version of the Oculus Rift, along with Oculus VR's optional Touch controllers, here at CES 2016. The final version of the Rift is similar in design to the Oculus Rift Development Kit and the DK2: a black plastic VR headset that you connect to a computer. This version features its own built-in headphones, which were missing in the earlier versions. The hardware is more powerful and complex than the development kit versions', but the consumer model actually feels a bit lighter on the head. I didn't notice it shifting on my nose or becoming misaligned when I moved my head, which occasionally happened when I was using the development kits. The Touch by Oculus controllers are wireless hand grips equipped with face buttons, triggers, and analog sticks similar to halves of a … [Read more...] about Hands On With the Oculus Rift and Oculus Touch Controllers

A woman who built up debts of £70,000 by betting online is calling for more support for female gambling addicts.Kelly Field shared her story with the makers of ITV's Cleaning Up. where Sheridan Smith plays an office cleaner who turns to crime to cover her gambling debts.Ms Field said she hopes the show will highlight how gambling addiction is not just a problem for men."There aren't as many women speaking out," she said."Gambling is seen as bookies and men and dogs and horses. But there's probably just as many women who are gambling addicts as men."Why women gambleMs Field said she was contacted by the programme makers and told them her story of how she used online gambling as "escapism" after a stressful period when she was off work due to a grievance.According to Mark Marlow, the writer of Cleaning Up, Sheridan Smith's character Sam "came alive" when he spoke to women about their gambling and how it affected family and friends. Barclays introduces 'spending blocker' Online … [Read more...] about Gambling addict who lost £70,000 calls for more support for women

SINGAPORE - Media OutReach - December 11, 2019 -Stamford American International School - Sleeping Out in Solidarity. To raise awareness of homelessness and the refugee predicament worldwide, a pioneering group comprising of 16 Grade 11 and 12 students as well as 4 teachers took part in their first ever Sleep Out on school premises as part of The World's Big Sleep Out. World's Big Sleep Out at Stamford American International School Singapore The World's Big Sleep Out is now an annual global event to help raise awareness and funds to help the world's homeless and displaced. The Sleep Out was held across 52 cities, with over 50,000 people taking part. Even celebrities such as Will Smith and Dame Helen Mirren read bedtime stories to participants who braved the winter weather to sleep on the street in New York and London respectively. The Stamford students participated as part of the Creativity, Activity and Service Program (CAS). CAS is one of the three essential elements … [Read more...] about Stamford American International School Supports The World’s Big Sleep Out

Rafa Esparza, building: a simulacrum of power, 2014. Performance on the site of Michael Parker’s The Unfinished (2014). Photograph by Dylan Schwartz. Photo: Dylan Schwartz/Courtesy of Clockshop The 2017 Whitney Biennial got caught in an almost extinction-level political crosswind. Research and the selection for the show began in 2015 at the height of the Age of Obama, the apotheosis of the granular politics of identity and multiple subjectivities, systemic investigation into socioeconomic structures, biographies and autobiography, the rise of personal trauma narratives, and continual attempts to set historical records straight. This was to be the first biennial in a brand-new, beautiful downtown building dedicated to these progressive truths which the art world holds to be self-evident (and which Michelle Obama, in fact, had helped inaugurate). Half of the show is women and people of color; there are no art stars or heavy footprints of mega-galleries or the market. The arc of … [Read more...] about The 2017 Whitney Biennial Is the Most Politically Charged in Decades

Nguyen Binh Khiem Primary School located in District 1 of HCMC has just launched the project ‘Experimental Teaching in Social and Natural Science Subjects’ for third graders. Ms. Tran Bich Ngoc, teacher in charge of the lesson named ‘My Current City’, shared that she needed to integrate knowledge of various subjects like History, Moral lessons, Geography, Arts, and Music in order to present the content. Thanks to advanced equipment such as interactive boards and digital image databases, her pupils had a chance to observe attractive pictures, video clips about famous locations in HCMC like Ben Thanh Market, Nguyen Hue pedestrian street. Similarly, Le Quy Don Junior High in District 3 has introduced Mozabook software this year, taking advantage of its huge 3D database and simulation lessons so that students are able to obtain knowledge in the most exciting and colorful way. In one such lesson called ‘Green Mission’, learners first watch a documentary … [Read more...] about Technology impressively improves teaching quality in HCMC