Now, Meta is expected to launch at least one new piece of hardware at the event. Potentially including the official branding and more details about its “Project Cambria” device. That’s just one of up to four new VR gadgets expected to arrive before 2024. That means that this could be a significant event for the company. Project Cambria is expected to be Meta’s most ‘high-end’ device yet. However, the company has suggested that the bulk of its time will be spent on “updates” to its progress in VR....

UK ministers are considering introducing mindfulness lessons in state primary and secondary schools. At a commons education select committee this week, Liberal Democrat Mr. Laws was asked whether the Department for Education planned to promote mindfulness courses to boost children’s well-being. His reply (from Daily Mail online): “We are very interested in promoting this and we certainly think that it’s an area that merits consideration based on the evidence we’ve seen to date […]Mindfulness or meditation has been shown to be an invaluable tool to help bolster young people’s resilience to psychological stress....

Whippman’s article is part of an expected and welcome backlash on an ancient practice intended to assist people in the reduction of suffering. This work, of course, has been secularized and scientificized, therefore making it culturally congruent and palatable for this time and place. Where the uptake has been most striking and for which there is the most evidence is in the area of mental health. Mindfulness is not a panacea, and its adoption in schools, the workplace, over the sink, while rinsing Spaghetti-Os, or engaged in the drudgery of a mind numbing job far outweighs the evidence for its efficacy and effectiveness....

The Motorola Edge X30 will have a triple camera setup with two 50-megapixel cameras The Motorola Edge X30 will have a triple camera setup with two 50-megapixel cameras The Motorola Edge X30 was leaked just recently, and that leak showed us what the device is going to look like. The phone has what looks to be a glass back panel with a vertically oriented rear camera package. The power and volume buttons will be on the right side of the phone and it will come without a headphone jack....

The phone comes with a flat display, and a centered display camera hole. Its bezels are quite thin, though the bottom bezel is thicker than the rest of them. That’s the usual occurrence on budget smartphones. Three cameras sit on the phone’s back side, and they’re all a part of the same camera island. Both the company’s logo and general branding (name) are included on the back. All of its physical buttons sit on the right-hand side....