New webcam-based anti-cheating monitoring is so stressful, it’s made some students cry, the Washington Post reports: “Online proctoring” companies saw in coronavirus shutdowns a chance to capitalize on a major reshaping of education, selling schools a high-tech blend of webcam-watching workers and eye-tracking software designed to catch students cheating on their exams. They’ve taken in millions of dollars, some of it…
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Insignia Project Aims To Resurrect Xbox Live For the Original Xbox
Last week, Kotaku reported on a new project, called Insignia, “that aims to recreate the original Xbox Live service, potentially restoring online play to many dozens of classic Xbox games that fell offline when the original Xbox Live service closed on April 15, 2010.” From the report: The project’s announcement on the r/originalxbox subreddit came from SoullessSentinel, a screen name of…