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One of the world's most advanced social robots visited our office recently for a candid conversation

Hardware like the headset made by Oculus VR will allow virtual worlds to offer person-to-person interactions that compete with real life.

"The animal kingdom is often portrayed as a simpler world, free from the complications of man. But, as scientists have learned time and time again, all is not as it seems. Animals are anything but simple and we have much to learn from them."

Microsoft's open source project hosting web site. You can use CodePlex to find open source software or create new projects to share with the world.

The Vision Of Infinite Dimensions (THE VOID), the world's first Virtual Reality (VR) theme park, will open its doors in Pleasant Grove, Utah, in the summer 2016. THE VOID will combine physical environments with VR technology to offer the ultimate entertainment experience. "At THE VOID you will walk into new dimensions and experience worlds without limits," says THE VOID's website. "From fighting intergalactic wars on alien planets, to casting spells in the darkest of dungeons, The Void presents the Future of Entertainment."

Bina48 is one of the worlds most advanced social robots based on a composite of information from several people. She is a member of the LifeNaut.com team.

It will soon be Watson's world.

A new technique to create a single-molecule diode has been developed by scientists, and, in doing so, they have developed molecular diodes that perform 50 times better than all prior designs. This research group is the first to develop a single-molecule diode that may have real-world technological applications for nanoscale devices.

The Open Content Alliance (OCA) is a collaborative effort of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that helps build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia material. An archive of contributed material is available on the Internet Archive website and through Yahoo! and other search engines and sites.

The mystery of the avatar who looks like Benedict Cumberbatch deepens: Darius Godric not only looks like actor playing the BBC's latest incarnations of Mr. Holmes, but he's build out an incredibly detailed recreation of the show's 221B Baker Street....

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