Simulating life, love and the Universe
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As a boy, Will Wright liked to fiddle with models. The man behind The Sims phenomenon liked to make ships, planes, and most things mechanical.
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Teaching online isn't unusual, but professors are taking advantage of Linden Lab's 3-D metaverse to shape meeting spaces to their needs and provide an added dimension to learning. By Daniel Terdiman.
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The magic of digital photography allows you to see a pregnancy progress over a mere 10 seconds, and the result is eerily science-fictiony. In Table of Malcontents.
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A Hong Kong company develops a &quot;virtual girlfriend&quot; for new cell phones with video capability. Artificial Life, Inc.&#39;s electronic love interest will appear as an animated figure on a telephone screen.
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Close your eyes for a minute and envision all the romantic parts of the human body.
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Unsuspecting residents are lured in by shiny, foreign objects that unleash a self-replicating worm and bring the virtual world to a grinding halt. In Game|Life.
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A new generation of complex, electronic birth simulators allow medical students to practice labor and birth -- especially when there are complications. Meet the mannequins.
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How do you get general relativity and quantum mechanics to live together? String theory is the darling for now, but other promising approaches are floating out there as well. By Mark Anderson.
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Hong Kong-based phone technology firm, Artificial Life, has announced the upcoming release of its new 3G game Virtual Girlfriend. Virtual Girlfriend is a mobile phone game that is based on intelligent animated
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By Paul Gromosiak  I must admit that I am a bit of a Luddite, but I have accepted my fair share of technology in my daily life. What concerns me is how rapidly technology seems to be taking complete control of our lives. Once our servant, I think it is now our master.
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A scientific-religious debate is shaping up over near-death experiences. A look at the dangers for both sides.
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Second Life's education program offers universities an extension campus unlike any they've ever had. After your BDSM workshop, you can sit in on a composition or sociology lecture. In Sex Drive Daily.
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A modern concept of love is spreading at the speed of sound to the minds of the humming masses.
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Wow!  There have been big events in the Ruby universe recently.  I&#8217;ll be writing about several of them over the next couple of weeks, but today I want to touch on one that gets pretty deeply into Ruby.
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Technology challenges us to question our assumptions about love, fidelity and who we can have sex with. Commentary by Regina Lynn.
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Using data from a NASA satellite, an astronomer has simulated the sound that he says followed the birth of the universe. Includes audio.
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For men seeking true romance there is now a new mating game with an unusual twist -- it is virtual and mobile. A fantasy world in which lovesick men can wine and dine a virtual girlfriend