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Facebook-owned Oculus has decided to slash the prices on its virtual reality Rift headset and Touch motion controllers by $200 in an effort to spur sales and draw more people to VR.

Two University of Oxford biomedical researchers are calling for robots to be built with real human tissue, and they say the technology is there if we only choose to develop it.

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Today we are routinely awed by the promise of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). Our phones speak to us and our favorite apps can ID our friends and family in our photographs. We didn’t get here overnight, of course.

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Scientists at the University of Manchester, led by Professor Ross D. King, have created a new DNA-based computing device. If you think of DNA as being the code for generating life, then it’s not hard to see it as capable of performing other tasks.

WASHINGTON — Deep-freezing donated organs might one day help improve the transplant supply but scientists must first figure out how to thaw the delicate tissue without it cracking.

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Do you really want to strap on a backpack, or chain yourself to a beefy computer, to step into a VR world?You may not need to, if Qualcomm keeps on trucking. The chipmaker’s building a cord-free, hand-sensing, eye-tracking headset reference design that could make it way more compelling.

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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.