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"This hasn't been formally announced by Google yet, but industry blogs are picking up on it and so are our readers: the company has started to include buttons that open up virtual keyboards when doing a search on non-English search portals."

"Christchurch earthquake victims are using the web as a virtual crisis centre, harnessing it for everything from finding and offering accommodation to locating missing people."

The use of virtual reality and simulations to treat soldiers for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). IT is used to recreate places and events to let soldiers re-experience them in a safe manner, helping them come to terms with events.

Over a single generation, the Web and digital media have remade nearly every aspect of modern culture, transforming the way we work, learn and connect in ways that we're only beginning to understand. FRONTLINE producer Rachel Dretzin (Growing Up Online) teams up with one of the leading thinkers of the digital age, Douglas Rushkoff (The Persuaders, Merchants of Cool), to continue to explore life on the virtual frontier. The film is the product of a unique collaboration with visitors to the Digital Nation Web site, who for the past year have been able to react to the work in progress and post their own stories online. Dretzin and her team report from the front lines of digital culture -- from love affairs blossoming in virtual worlds, to the thoroughly wired classrooms of the future, to military bases where the Air Force is fighting a new form of digital warfare. Along the way, they begin to map the critical ways that technology is transforming us -- and what we may be learning about ourselves in the process.

This is an interesting topic - as this has been broadcast on TV, it is not that graphic to be shown in a class of 16-18 year olds. The legality of this is discussed. Tracey Smith from the CBS Early Show explores the "steamier side of SL" SexGen Escorting and Virtual Sex are high...

Are there ways to make virtual assistants like Siri and Google Now more like the AI systems in the movies, capable of natural sounding conversations?

"Austin Police Department hopes a virtual training facility "

K12 Online Conference 2010 Julie Lindsay and Madeleine Brookes Inside ITGS is about classrooms globally coming together to form an online learning community for the IB subject Information Technology in a Global Society. Madeleine Brookes from Western Academy Beijing and Julie Lindsay from Beijing (BISS) International School, both in China, explore the impact of virtual communication and collaboration and feature the students from pioneer classrooms in a rare face-to-face meeting. It is through their eyes, as cyber-students, that we will learn more about how to use emerging technologies and build stronger more effective learning communities.

Good detail on military simulators - from the ground to the air.

The use of virtual reality applications to train soldiers heading to Iraq and Afghanistan.

by taking people out of the hazardous real training environment this tech can save lives

Virtual Revolution - how 20 years of the Web has reshaped our lives

Increasingly, however, the ads tailored to them are for specific products that they have perused online. While the technique, which the ad industry calls personalized retargeting or remarketing, is not new, it is becoming more pervasive as companies like Google and Microsoft have entered the field. And retargeting has reached a level of precision that is leaving consumers with the palpable feeling that they are being watched as they roam the virtual aisles of online stores.