i actually don't know what to say

Two that came my way via Towleroad:

Artificial life likely in 3 to 10 years.

Frozen Smoke will save the world.

My alma mater's psychology department just released some study about the impact of playing video games on visual acuity. OK, so I should probably find the study more interesting than I do, me being a psychology major from said school..... buuuut, tucked in at the end of the article is a paragraph that makes it sound like they're working on a bonafide holodeck! Hello! The future is now!