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A lot of well-meaning parents really, really want their child to learn a second language. However, it’s hard to teach a language when you don’t actually speak it yourself. Flash cards, videos and apps are all great, but real retention only happens through regular social interaction.

Brasov, Transylvania, Romania-based ATi Studios, the creator of the Mondly language learning platform, has released a virtual reality app for language education. The VR app uses Mondly’s conversational voice chatbot, released by the company in August 2016 which has self-learning technology.

Among the recent technological innovations, like smartglasses, that have the potential to penetrate to the mainstream in the consumer and commercial segments, currently augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) headsets are poised to reach $117.

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When it comes to growing intestines, the first inch is the hardest—especially in a petri dish.

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Each year in the United States, more than 40,000 people die by suicide, and from 1999 to 2014, the suicide rate increased 24 percent. You might think that after generations of theories and data, we would be close to understanding how to prevent self-harm, or at least predict it.

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The unfortunate reality about sports is that they’re severely limited to what the laws of physics and the human body can allow and endure. That’s where “vsports” come in.

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