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On a small, unassuming German island called Riems lies one of the oldest virus research institutes in the world. And also one of the most dangerous.

The Friedrich Loeffler Institute is closed to the public. To access the island, approved visitors must first cross a small stretch of the Baltic Sea via a dam, which can be closed immediately in case of an outbreak. To enter the facility, they must take a shower and put on protective clothing. Inside, scientists study some of the world’s most deadly viruses, including bird flu, Ebola and mad cow disease.

The German island of Riems is home to some of the most dangerous virology research on the planet.

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Valve President calls metaverse a problem that was solved a decade ago.

Gabe Newell, the co-founder and CEO of Valve Corporation, the company that gave us iconic games like Half-Life and Portal, does not believe in the hype around the metaverse.

In an interview with PC Mag, Newell even went on to say “Most of the people who are talking about metaverse have absolutely no idea what they’re talking about”. ## The hype around the Metaverse.

After rebranding his former social media company, Zuckerberg spent billions of dollars in the last quarter of 2021 trying to build the metaverse. A survey conducted last month found that 78 percent of Americans who knew about the metaverse thought that it was all just hype. It wouldn’t probably ring very well for Mark Zuckerberg if he knew that 65 percent of people in this survey did not want to purchase anything in the metaverse.

While Newell wasn’t talking about one person per se, he called the metaverse ideas floating around a bunch of get rich quick schemes\.

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