SIMULATION

A New Jersey man has admitted installing a hidden camera in his neighbor’s bathroom in hopes of videotaping a 13-year-old nude.

A new virtual reality simulation is helping hospice workers and medical students see what it’s like to die. An end-of-life simulation by Embodied Labs is now educating staff and students at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough, Maine. It’s also a required experience for medical students at the University of New England. Grant money awarded to UNE paid for...

An Encinitas firefighter survived one of the deadliest mass shootings in history and now he’s helping local first responders prepare for future active shooter emergencies. Encinitas Deputy Fire Chief Jon Blumeyer was among the group of police and firefighters who took part in an active shooter simulation in Bonsall on Saturday. Blumeyer was attending the Route 91 Harvest Music festival...

Thousands of university students and employees targeted by email phishing schemes this year have taken the bait. Fortunately, they were duped not by real scammers, but by their own schools — in simulations meant to make them more adept at spotting real threats. When Ohio State University did its first student-focused phishing in January — a strategy also used in...

Nancy Notaro from Animal Care and Control explains how to play with your cat.

Twenty years later and fans still haven’t let go. National Geographic is teaming up with director James Cameron for a one-hour special that will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the “Titanic” film, the network announced on Tuesday. “Titanic: 20th Anniversary” is set to air in Dec. 2017 on National Geographic and will feature Cameron and a team of experts looking...

After ample build up and the promise of a dramatic face-off, Michael Phelps finally raced his fiercest competitor on Sunday night. But a computer-generated great white shark, to the disappointment of many viewers, snagged the gold in Discovery Channel’s anticipated Shark Week kick-off, “Phelps Vs. Shark: The Battle for Ocean Supremacy.” In the previously recorded stunt, the trained athlete and...

Identifying “fake news” may have just gotten more difficult. Researchers at the University of Washington have developed an algorithm that can take an audio clip and convert it into an artificial video of someone speaking those words. This week, the team behind the technology released a video of a synthesized President Obama that they created by pulling audio from his...

Masaya Nakamura, the “Father of Pac-Man” who founded the Japanese video game company behind the hit creature-gobbling game, has died. He was 91. Nakamura, who died on Jan. 22, founded Namco, part of Bandai Namco, in 1955.

A robotic mannequin that helps doctors practice delivering babies could usher in a new era of health care, some doctors believe.

Alzheimer’s can be difficult to understand for those who do not suffer from the disease. A senior living center in Kentucky is helping caretakers of those diagnosed with the condition better understand it with a “virtual dementia tour,” according to NBC affiliate WAVE.