Second Life to let users filter adult content

Second Life is getting a little less steamy for people who want to use the virtual world for a myriad of PG-rated experiences, such as taking classes, prototyping buildings or designing virtual goods.

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Virtual affair leads to real divorce for UK couple

A virtual affair is ending a real-life marriage in southwest England.

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Get real! Virtual campaign draws followers

It's not just Earthbound voters who are intensely following the U.S. presidential campaign: The race also is a hot topic in the virtual world of Second Life.

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Woman charged in "Second Life" kidnapping plot

A woman is charged in Delaware with plotting the real-life abduction of a boyfriend she met through the virtual reality Web site "Second Life."

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Second Life's CTO Resigns

Virtual world Second Life's chief technology officer — a colorful Navy veteran who delights in mocking creationism — has resigned.

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Professors Learn in Virtual World

It's tough to teach a college class when your students are constantly flying around the room.

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Best Buy Offers Help in `Second Life'

The online world of "Second Life" is about to get even geekier.

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`Second Life' to Charge for Names

The online fantasy world "Second Life" will soon introduce the virtual equivalent of vanity plates, allowing residents to customize their characters' first and last names.

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Study: Virtual Men Are Standoffish Too

Males stand further away when talking to other males in the virtual world of Second Life and are less likely to keep eye contact, according to a study that shows at least one aspect of human behavior carries over into the virtual realm.

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Blogger Gets 'Un-Cease-And-Desist' Note

A lawyer for the virtual world "Second Life" has responded to a parody with something that's quite different from the usual corporate cease-and-desist letter.

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'Second Life' 3-D Digital World Grows

In the beginning, Philip Rosedale created a virtual heaven and a digital earth, and then he said "let there be 'Second Life.'"

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SAN FRANCISCO - LINDEN Lab on Wednesday announced it is adding a new dimension to Second Life online world to give businesses private places for virtual meetings.

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Most gardens grow into beautiful things when they are nurtured and well-maintained.

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Second Life: The History of A Virtual Reality Dream World

Freedom of personal creativity, open communications, hardly any situational limitations, what more could online role players want? Second Life (SL), began as a creators dream June 23, 2003, an Internet-based virtual reality environment simulated to mimic the world that we live in …

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How much legal weight should actions in the virtual world carry back in the real one? For most people, the answer might be "none," but as online communities conduct actual financial transactions and draw in more participants, some legal experts think that it may be time to ex …

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you believe the results of the first annual Fiasco Awards then the answer would appear to be an unequivocal yes considering that Vista got a rather staggering 86 percent of the vote for the worst performing IT product of the year.

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But last October, Reuters closed its bureau, and let its specialized blog lapse. CNET and Wired also developed land in Second Life and both have largely abandoned their efforts (though CNET Japan still has an outpost).

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Those who can't do, teach. Second Life, the most overhyped virtual world, has been abandoned even by its most fervent journalistic promoters, like Reuters and Wired. It's now pitching itself as an online schoolhouse.

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Memo: NV/MSNBC Christmas Party

Dear fellow Newsviners, in case you did not get the memo, I am forwarding to you the memos I have received which will provide you with the latest status on the company party as I understand it.

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People have been saying for years that it was about time that computer games grew up.

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A string of bank collapses prompted Alan Greenspan, U.S. economic guru and former head of the Federal Reserve, to admit last month that lending institutions could not always be trusted to regulate themselves.

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In July we launched Lively in Google Labs because we wanted users to be able to interact with their friends and express themselves online in new ways.

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Reporter seeks sleaze in Second Life

In last weeks Daily Mail (Friday 14th November, 2008), Tom Rawstorne wrote an article entitled: Living a Second Life, a fantasy world awash with sex and porn. An article that portrays Second Life as a pool of virtual sleaze and immorality.

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A couple have divorced after the wife saw the husband having online sex in the virtual world of Second Life. So how do avatars have sex?

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Cross Reality, Dual Reality, X-Reality: all of these terms describe the recent work of an MIT Media Lab team to bring the virtual into the real and vice versa.

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- A British couple who married in a lavish Second Life wedding ceremony are to divorce after one of them had an alleged "affair" in the online world.

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A woman has divorced her husband for 'cheating' on her in a virtual reality game. Amy Taylor and David Pollard married after meeting and falling in love on an internet chatroom.

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A woman is divorcing her husband after she caught him having an affair with another woman in an online virtual reality game.

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A 43-year-old Japanese piano teacher's sudden divorce from her online husband in a virtual game world made her so angry that she logged on and killed his digital persona, police said Thursday.

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Virtual worlds like Second Life came with the promise that all of the limitations of this terrestrial sphere would vanish.

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In the Internet age with its endless playground for reinvention and resources for human understanding, it's painfully clear just how hung up we are on appearances.

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The companies that rushed to set up bases within the cult virtual world of Second Life appear to have wasted their time as many have shut down and others are "ghost towns", an Australian researcher has found.

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The companies that rushed to set up bases within the cult virtual world of Second Life appear to have wasted their time as many have shut down and others are "ghost towns", an Australian researcher has found.

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Museum of Robots in Second Life debuts its line of real world housewares at the New York International Gift Fair. The line features plates and tableware with a robot motif and will be available for wholesale purchase.

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The first steps to developing virtual-world interoperability are now being tested between Second Life and other independent virtual worlds, thanks to the launch of Linden Lab's Open Grid Beta, a program designed for developers to test new functionality.

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With the launch of Google's Lively, the fully immersible virtual world becomes a mainstream experience, though Second Life got there first. Lively's a whole new level of networking—an interactive, 3D meshing of 'real life' with your virtual presence.

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