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Cigarette-Crushing Computer Game Helps Smokers Quit, Study Shows

technologyreview.com | Posted 10.30.2009 | Technology

Read More: Games, Stop Smoking, Virtual Reality, Smokers, Smoking, Computer Game Smoking, Addiction, Cigarette, Quit Smoking, Virtual Reality Smoking, Video Games, Quit Cigarettes, Technology News

Smokers who regularly play a computer game that involves crushing virtual cigarettes could have a better chance of kicking the habit. At least, that's...

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The Facebook Other Woman and the Social Networking Casanova: An Old Story, a New Addiction

Ester Amy Fischer | Posted 10.22.2009 | Style

Read More: Infidelity, Extramarital Affair, Virtual Reality, Cheater, Facebook, Relationships, Social Networking, Internet Addiction, Married Men, Addiction, Facebook Affair, Online Relationships, Style News
Ester Amy Fischer

What happened to me is that I both fell in love and had my heart broken on Facebook. On Facebook. With someone I'd never met.

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Mouse Runs Through Virtual Reality Maze With Head In Brain-Scanning Helmet (VIDEO)

Posted 10.15.2009 | Technology

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Princeton University neuroscientists put sensors in the brains of mice, then hooked them up to a virtual reality maze in order to study neurological a...

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Like, Three Bridesmaids

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 07.10.2009 | Living

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Dr. Susan Corso

I don't know about you, but I've had enough of "like." So where does this linguistic fixation with "like" come from?

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Nonprofits Blaze Virtual Trails in Second Life Mixed Reality Lounge

Susan Tenby | Posted 07.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Gaming, Cystic Fibrosis, Avatar, Video Games, Virtual Reality, Gaming Industry, Second Life, Gates Foundation, Media News
Susan Tenby

Virtual worlds can enable a user to experience learning from an inside, walk-through perspective.

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DoD Seeks Software to Trick Soldier's Kids Into Believing They are Talking to Their Parents

Bob Ostertag | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: US Military, Department of Defense, Ceremonial Bugle, Military, Virtual Reality, Flat Daddies, Military Personnel, Flat Daddy, Technology, Breaking News, What-, Politics News
Bob Ostertag

The Department of Defense is soliciting proposals for a computer program that would allow small children whose parents are in Iraq or Afghanistan to "interact" with a virtual version of their missing parent.

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Second Life Hookers Way Less Interesting Than Real Life Hookers

Disgrasian | Posted 02.13.2009 | Style

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Disgrasian

If this is as good and imaginative and kinky as hookers get in Second Life, then life must be just as dull, pedestrian and predictable as it is in the First.

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