Reality

Bowie ends 10-year silence with a new single

9 Jan 2013

British rock icon David Bowie broke a decade-long musical silence yesterday, unveiling a new single to coincide with his 66th birthday and announcing that he will release an album in March.

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Sword Art Online (Anime)

29 Jul 2012

A virtual-reality fantasy role-playing game becomes a living prison for 10,000 users; the only way out is to fight through 100 floors filled with monsters.

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Reality TV shows allow room to dream

6 Sep 2011

I am writing to comment on whether children should be allowed to watch reality television shows.

Shows such as Britain's Got Talent and America's Next Top Model...

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Grasp your bright ideas

29 May 2011

Often good ideas wither on the vine as we fail to act on them. But Stefania Lucchetti can easily tell you how to make ideas a reality: she is the author of Ideas in Reality: Making Your Ideas...

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Dreams into reality

29 May 2011

Stefania Lucchetti launched her second self-help book, Ideas in Reality, in Hong Kong on May 20. Organised by the Women Media Networks, the event was hosted at Pure Bar & Restaurant in the...

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press play

21 Oct 2007

What would it be like if real-life office workers functioned as avatars - their 3D graphical representations - in the virtual world of Second Life?

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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Enter danger zone, Matrix-style

Governments worry about the hazardous reality-blurring effects of online gaming

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David Bowie

Reality

(Sony)

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Understanding the need for war could help prevent it

Why is war so popular? All past civilisations have had wars, irrespective of their particular cultural assumptions and norms, so many people deduce that it must be an inevitable part of the human...

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Students learn the difference between fact and opinion

Four popular characters on Songbirds - Ted, Bax, Daisy and Alysha - are asked to write a story about an HIV/Aids clinic in Hong Kong. But how do you write a story about a controversial issue like...

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Real and virtual worlds blur

The fantastic technologies often shown in Hollywood science-fiction productions such as The Matrix may no longer be as fanciful as they seem.

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Ball Watching

Onward and upward. That's the motto of our age and as we are just days away from the advent of the year 2001, with all its connotations of progress, sports coverage is set to feel the full blast...

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