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Virtual reality

One of the Coolest Sci-Fi Movies of the Year Is Only 8 Minutes Long

Arts, Culture & Media

A perfect short film about the perils of immersive video games will suck you in and freak you out. 

Phone screen

The science of engineering touch

Lifestyle
"American Gothic" on display at the Art Institute of Chicago.

4 ways museums will change over the next two decades

Culture
Screen grab showing Virtual Syria street being designed.

How to get right in the middle of the war in Syria — from thousands of miles away

Technology
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Virtual reality devices are getting pretty damn close to reality

Technology
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Mapping Our Digital DNA

We live in a time that is all about being tuned in and logged on. Our friends are online, our interactions are online, and our personal information, opinions and history are online. While we’ve learned in recent weeks that much more of our data is available to the government than we once realized, the millions […]

The Amazon through Google’s ‘Street View’

Environment

Google brings its Street View project to the Amazon forest — images of the river and communities will be turned into 360-degree panoramas.

Doctors embrace online health forums

Health & Medicine

Patients with life-threatening diseases are finding communities online. But what happens when people take their health information into their own hands online?

Internet addiction and depression

Health & Medicine

A new study from the University of Leeds in England finds links between excessive internet use and depression.

North and South Korea united in augmented reality app

Environment

An app allows people to see a united Korea through augmented reality.

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