Fallout Fallout: New Vegas' Mr. House was based on Howard Hughes, but the game's lead writer says his sense of the character 'has changed as we've seen the rise of Silicon Valley would-be messiahs' ...

Philip Rosedale is a digital pioneer andfounder of Second Life—one of the first virtual worlds and still a leading social platform for adults. Linden Lab, Second Life’s parent company, now has two ...

I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I explore wearable tech, VR/AR, tablets, gaming and future/emerging trends in our changing world. Other obsessions include magic, immersive theater, ...

A version of this article was published in TIME’s newsletter Into the Metaverse. Subscribe for a weekly guide to the future of the Internet. In 2007, Second Life founder Philip Rosedale made a bold ...

The other night, I had an odd conversation with ChatGPT, made somewhat stranger because the AI’s answers came out of a humanoid rabbit idly sucking on a juice box. He was standing alone in a virtual ...

Second Life, the online virtual world developed by Linden Labs, has been a gaming staple for decades. Unlike traditional ...