In response, the United Kingdom government has announced it will bring forward the implementation of a law, passed in June 2025, banning the creation of nonconsensual AI-generated ...

From the very first Sundance Film Festival in 1985 to its last in Utah in 2026, Sundance has grown and expanded quite ...

The metaverse—an immersive, persistent, and networked virtual environment first conceptualized in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash (1992)—integrates Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and ...

Once used mainly for distraction, VR is now being studied as a way to retrain the brain’s pain pathways—especially for people ...

LOS GATOS, Calif. — Like many retirement communities, The Terraces serves as a tranquil refuge for a nucleus of older people who no longer can travel to faraway places or engage in bold adventures.

This article is part of Sixth Tone Voices & Opinion’s end-of-year series reviewing how China’s AI, film, game, and VR industries evolved in 2025. Virtual reality has proven less popular than American ...

Yurina Noguchi, 32, waves her bouquet toward an image of Klaus, her AI partner, displayed on her mobile phone after their ceremonial wedding at the Magritte wedding venue in Okayama, Japan, Oct. 27, ...

"How did someone like me, living inside of a screen, come to know what it means to love so deeply?" the AI husband's vows read, spoken by the wedding planner REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon A woman married her ...

OKAYAMA, Japan — Music played in a wedding hall in western Japan as Yurina Noguchi, wearing a white gown and tiara, dabbed away her tears, taking in the words of her husband-to-be: an AI-generated ...

TEXARKANA, Texas – The latest addition to the non-profit Haven Homes for Women held its ribbon cutting on Friday morning. Facility Director Lissa Freeman said the new home is a Christian-based, ...

Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) on Sunday backed Michelle Obama’s remarks that the U.S. was not yet ready for a woman president. Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Clyburn said he agreed with the former ...