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The housing boom is alive and well—online. After an investment of $9.95 a month for more than two-and-a-half years, a virtual real estate agent has become a millionaire by selling virtual real estate.

Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) had many hobbies on The Office. Fans got to see him play Second Life in one episode and Jim (John Krasinski) had fun with it. The profile still exists and an actor ...

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This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Tor Karsvalt is an unusual head of state for several reasons.

The creator of one of the earliest and most enduringly iconic virtual worlds is returning to his roots. Second Life’s founder Philip Rosedale will rejoin the company he founded in 1999 as a strategic ...

Linden Lab, the developer of Second Life, has sold its payments business, Tilia, to Thunes. In the transaction with the global payments processor, Tilia will be rebranded to Thunes and remain in San ...

On the screen of my overheated computer, I was staring at an endless horizon of sky and water and islands and small buildings, designed to look realistic but giving themselves away with too-sharp ...

Second Life is still consistently updated to this day, with its most recent patch shipping on March 14. (Linden Labs Image) Philip Rosedale has spent a lot of time thinking about the “metaverse,” long ...