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Create a fun learning game in minutes (we call these ‘kahoots’), made from a series of multiple choice questions. Add videos, images and diagrams to your questions to amplify engagement!

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Create a fun learning game in minutes - we call these 'kahoots'. The format and number of questions is up to you. Add videos, images and diagrams to your questions to amplify engagement.

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Kahoots are best played in a group setting. To join a game, you need a unique PIN. If you're the game host, you need a big screen. Players answer on their own devices, while questions are displayed on a shared screen. In addition to live games, you can also send kahoot challenges that players complete at their own pace - for example, for homework or remote training.
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The MediaWiki software is used by tens of thousands of websites and thousands of companies and organisations. It powers Wikipedia and also this website. MediaWiki helps you collect and organise knowledge and make it available to people. It's powerful, multilingual, free and open, extensible, customisable, reliable, and free of charge. Find out more and if MediaWiki is right for you.

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The MediaWiki software is used by tens of thousands of websites and thousands of companies and organisations. It powers Wikipedia and also this website. MediaWiki helps you collect and organise knowledge and make it available to people. It's powerful, multilingual, free and open, extensible, customisable, reliable, and free of charge.

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Twelve original video games, alongside several ports and other spin-offs, were released by Looking Glass Studios, an American video game developer, in its ten years of activity from 1990 to 2000. The first Looking Glass Studios video game was Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss, which was released in 1992 and received widespread critical acclaim and sold nearly 500,000 units. The studio proceeded to develop titles in multiple genres, including role-playing, sports, flight-simulation, and stealth video games. These were primarily published by Origin Systems, Electronic Arts and Eidos Interactive, with three games self-published by Looking Glass Studios. Their products were praised for innovations in video game technology and design. Several of their successes, such as Flight Unlimited and Thief: The Dark Project, sold more than half a million copies each. Its final project, Jane's Attack Squadron, was completed by Mad Doc Software and released by Xicat Interactive in 2002. (Full list...)

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Cirsium palustre, the marsh thistle, is a herbaceous biennial (or often perennial) flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Europe, where it is particularly common on damp ground such as marshes, wet fields, moorland and beside streams. In Canada and the northern United States it is an introduced species that has become invasive. It grows in dense thickets that can crowd out slower-growing native plants. Cirsium palustre can reach up to 2 metres (7 ft) in height. The strong stems have few branches and are covered in small spines. In its first year the plant grows as a dense rosette and in subsequent years a candelabra of dark purple or occasionally white flowers, 10-20 millimetres (0.4-0.8 in) with purple-tipped bracts. In the Northern Hemisphere these are produced from June to September. The plant provides an important source of nectar for pollinators. This C. palustre flower was photographed in Niitvälja, Estonia.
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Because the hottest new thing in tech isn't social networking. It's the Internet of things: networks of interconnected devices that communicate with each other.
Happy Holidays from OZY! Over the next few days, we're bringing you some of our best ideas, profiles and trends from 2014. We'll see you back, live and kicking, on New Year's Day!
Here's a phrase you're about to hear a lot more of - if you haven't already: the Internet of Things.

Why? It's about to be the next big thing. What does it mean? It's not just computers and phones that are linked up to the Internet - it's your stuff: refrigerators and glasses and trains and buildings.

The buzz about the Internet of things really took off earlier this year, when Google acquired smart thermostat and smoke alarm company Nest for $3.2 billion. What else is a member of this new club? Wearable devices like the Fitbit and Nike FuelBand trackers that monitor our physical activity and store that data in the cloud, Google Glass and more. But the surprising twist is that the big money in this next big thing may lie in a slightly less sexy arena than you'd think. The real future of devices that talk to each other may lie not in Google Glassholes (pardon the French) but in smart-ifying formerly clunky industrial companies.

This month, tech giants like Dell, Intel and Samsung announced they are joining forces to ensure the billions of smart devices in the future will all work together.

Folks who have worked on building automation, railroads, heating efficiency and more are stepping full force into the Internet of Things space. Companies like Cisco (" Internet of Everything"), GE (" Industrial Internet ") and others in the Valley that were around long before the dot-coms showed up now have the chance to make big-time bucks by smartening up a bunch of hefty, old-school stuff that affects our daily lives.

Examples? Take a smart sensor that GE is testing ... in prisons. Or GE's robotic hospital systems that would handle everything from deliveries to sterilization. Or Cisco's "Internet of Everything" public sector projects - now underway across the globe: In Stockholm, the company has put cameras on city streets to monitor traffic activity and sensors to track public buses.

Varun Nagaraj, one of the players in this hot new market, is CEO of an "old" (by Valley standards), $20 million company called Sierra Monitor Corp., which provides gas and flame detection systems and gateway products that connect old and new things to a network. He is more pumped about the industrial Internet of things than the consumer-focused market. Meaning he's more into railroads and building automation than your Jawbone and Fitbit.

Smart cities, smart trains, smart factories - as Nagaraj puts it, those are the changes that, "over the next 20 years ... will make a material difference to society, that will make a material difference to the economy ... as opposed to an individual being able to measure how fit he is or not."

The global market for the "Internet of Things" is expected to grow to $7.1 trillion in 2020, up from $1.9 trillion in 2013.

And though the Internet of Things is the hot new thing, it's actually been growing under the surface for ages - companies like Comcast, Verizon and AT&T have been selling home security packages with connected devices. But there remains a ton of potential to "connect" (hook up to the Internet) our transportations systems, our highways, our large-scale agriculture - even our warships. Smarter highways might mean lanes that could adapt to traffic flow or roads someday that could serve fleets of autonomous vehicles driving 100 mph, just inches apart.

Here's your cheat sheet for understanding the next Facebook - and here are three big reasons why the Internet of Things is about to explode:

1. Cost

It used to cost a ton of money to connect stuff to the Internet. No more. It's cheaper and easier to connect things than ever before, so more stuff can become intelligent. For example, Nagaraj says a parking meter can now be part of an intelligent city for just a few dollars - the cost of linking the meter to a sensor that detects if a spot is occupied or not, and to install a smart sign indicating to drivers if the parking spot is already taken. "In the past you could have done it, but it might have cost you $100," he said. "Now it costs you $5, and suddenly there is a business case to turn a parking meter into an intelligent parking meter."

2. Big Data and Analytics

We're all data nerds these days. And as Nagaraj explains, "All kinds of dumb devices in the past now suddenly have the ability to tell you what they know." With all the information flowing through, he says people can crunch the data to reveal new insights to make smarter decisions. For instance, smart streetlights in a city might be able to be dimmed on slowly during an evening when the electric grid is facing high peak demand - instead of wasting energy. Or a connected city with smart parking meters might be able to direct drivers to available spots.

3. Financial

The industrial Internet of Things has the potential to fundamentally move society forward, Nagaraj believes. These innovations could include cities developing connected transport systems and factories working only when they need to work, when demand requires it. "It is those changes over the next 20 years that will make a material difference to society ... [and] to the economy, in my opinion." But who stands to reap the greatest financial benefit remains to be seen: It could be the old industrial conglomerates (think GE, Siemens, Honeywell), small to midsized companies trying to build bigger, or the venture capital world.

Venture capitalists, for one, aren't fully on board yet - precisely because it's hard to track who the clearest financial winner will be. Which may actually be why big companies (GE, Cisco and others) will be the most successful. There can only be so many Nests.

Sanjay Sarma, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, tells OZY that the huge challenge remains that the Internet of Things is still in a Wild West state. (Sarma's colleague Kevin Ashton is credited with inventing the term "Internet of Things.") Everything's being developed in an "ad-hoc manner," says Sarma, which means the field is missing a "dominant architecture" or common language - like what the World Wide Web is to the Internet or what alternating current (AC) is to power grids. For designers, a dominant architecture makes things easy to understand and build systems around. Without that, Sarma says, security becomes a problem.

All of this - even the challenges - sound like a big, big opportunity for someone hungry to solve. So open the doors for the next big thing.

*This article originally published Dec. 26, 2014, misidentified Sierra Monitor Corp's revenue. It has been corrected and updated as of December 26, 2014.

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