The International Association of Virtual Assistants (IAVA) was founded to alert businesses to the potential of using VAs, and also to give home workers a forum to share acheivements and problems.

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An upstart organization calling itself the International Association of Virtual Reality Technologies (IAVRT) looks to be out to bring back the VR glory days, recently announcing that it's planning nothing short of an entirely new network that'll be all VR all the time, existing alongside the plain-old, apparently not-suitable-for-VR Internet.

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Already, some 4% to 6% of young people are hooked into addicted or problematic gambling, as defined by the American Psychiatric Association, and with no way to keep them out of virtual casinos, those rates would surely grow.

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