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Virtual reality may have just given autistic children a new lease of life. Autism has always been associated with learning difficulties, especially with kids affected by the Asperger’s Syndrome. It is indeed heartening to know that it is not the end of...
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People infected with parasitic worms may be much more susceptible to the AIDS virus, according to a study published on Tuesday that may help explain why HIV has hit...
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Bleeding cash and with its very survival uncertain, Ford Motor Co., an icon of American automaking, will try to import some of its success from across the Atlantic.
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Now Amy Adams’ love life is “Enchanted,” too.
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The Justice Department in 2002 told the CIA that its interrogators would be safe from prosecution for violations of anti-torture laws if they believed “in good...
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The Bush administration underscored its continued support for Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday despite fresh allegations from a former U.S. anti-drug official...
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The Secret Service has asked for an extra $9.5 million to cover unexpected costs of protecting the presidential candidates during what has turned into an historic year...
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MTV is staking its brand on a lesser-known one: Russell Brand.
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A $5000 dollar reward is being offered to any Auckland University student who can make a successful citizen’s arrest of United States Secretary of State...
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The Environmental Protection Agency moved Thursday to stop the use of the pesticide carbofuran on all food crops, including those that are imported.
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Obama has a problem: What do you do when you’re a lightly accomplished one-term senator, a...
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More letters, cards, bill payments and other first-class mail items are getting to their destinations on time than ever before, the Postal Service said Thursday.
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A federal judge in Boise says convicted child-killer Joseph Edward Duncan III is mentally competent to face a death penalty hearing.
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Some U.S. motorists sick of getting clobbered at the pump seem willing to do just about anything for free fuel, from giving up the right to name their children to...
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Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, fresh from an Iraq trip with Democrat Barack Obama, said the presidential candidates should focus on the war’s future and stop...
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Scientists have exposed some of the mystery behind the northern lights.
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In Arthur C. Clarke’s forward to his novel 2001 A Space Odyssey, he wrote that
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Agriculture futures traded mostly higher Thursday on the Chicago Board of Trade.
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Forecasters say Dolly has weakened to a tropical depression with 35 mph winds as it moves north over Texas.
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Ford Motor Co. posted its worst quarterly loss ever Thursday in a roiling global auto market that also saw profits fall at Daimler AG, Hyundai Motor Co. and AutoNation...
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“Are supercomputers on the verge of creating Matrix-style simulated realities? Michael McGuigan at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, thinks so....
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Students of art have found a neat new hangout on the cyberpunk virtual world that is Second Life and now a room (Teaching 2: 144, 198, 24) on the FIT land in the...
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Up on display in the gaming innovation area at CES is the Dreamflyer. It’s a lightweight and compact personal virtual reality flight motion simulator designed to...
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Remember the good old days when Virtual Reality was the bomb and everyone was expected to be walking around with some sort of a massive 3D video helmet! Well, many...
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Have you ever thought how a full-color 360-degree 3D display will look like? You don’t need to visualize it now as a team of researchers led by Susumu Tachi ay the...
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Are you planning to visit Rome anytime soon? If so, you now will have the advantage beyond crowds and time, pollution induced damage to the monuments. You can now view...
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Endemol, the company behind Big Brother, is all set to launch a virtual world where people can take in online versions of shows like Big Brother, Deal or No Deal and...
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The video games are finding their applicability in the real life too as the months ago the report claimed that the researchers are trying to find out the panacea to the...
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Virtual Reality is a terminology many can forget but at least a gamer can’t! A 3D virtual world created by Linden lab somewhat three or four year back is showing its...
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Virtual Reality systems can perform at slow and medium speeds that make the humans interacting with the game feel that they are in a virtual environment.
Scientists...
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Back in the 1960s a researcher named Stanley Milgram was conducting an experiment in which the volunteers were told to deliver electric shocks to another person as a...
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