Hands-on look at the Asus ZenFone AR - augmented and virtual reality combined in one single handset

In the smartphone market, two new, yet popular features are virtual and augmented reality. Better known as VR and AR, they allow you to experience the world around you in brand new ways – either by escaping it entirely or by adding digital information into it. Virtual reality was first made popular ..

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Reality Check

The claim: England and Wales have the highest incarceration rate per head of the population in Western Europe.
Reality Check verdict: In 2014 England and Wales did indeed have the highest incarceration rate in Western Europe, marginally ahead of Scotland.
Former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg was on Radio 4"s Today programme on Thursday talking about prison reform.
Together with former home secretaries Jacqui Smith and Ken Clarke, he had written a letter to the Times calling for the prison population in England and Wales to be cut from the current level of more than 85,000 to the level in 1993 of about 45,000.
They referred to 1993 as being the year in which Michael Howard said that “prison works”.
Click to see content: prisonpopulation The prison population grew rapidly after that point, especially in the following five years. In the last five years it has been pretty much static at about 85,000.
Since 1993 the prison population has almost doubled over a period when the overa..

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Reality Check: Do men earn less for part-time work?

The Claim: Conservative MP Philip Davies, who has been voted on to the Women and Equalities Committee, has argued that there is a gender gap in part-time earnings, with men earning less than women.
Reality check verdict: Women who work between 10 and 30 hours a week receive a higher hourly rate than men. But in all other categories of part-time and full-time work, men earn more than women and if part-time and full-time work is taken together, men on average earn 18% more per hour than women.
MP Philip Davies has argued that tackling issues of discrimination against men is also important and therefore the Commons Women and Equalities Select Committee should drop the word “women” from its title.
In an interview on BBC Two"s Daily Politics programme about his new role on the committee, Mr Davies pointed out that women working part-time earned more per hour than men who work the same number of hours.
Is this true?
Women who work between 10 to 30 hours a week do indeed earn more on ..

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Russian reality show "allows rape and murder"

Image Caption: The online show sets 30 contestants against each other for nine months A new Russian reality TV show set in the -40C Siberian wilderness will “allow rape and murder”, its adverts boast.
Game 2: Winter, described as the “ultimate survival test”, sets 30 male and female contestants against each other and the elements for nine months.
It will be..

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Keiser Report: Fine Print Reality vs Big Print Dreams (E866)

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The shameful reality of manual scavenging

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Virtual reality app blends social network into experience

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Naked, Reagan mask-wearing creeper peeks in on reality star

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DNA: Cleanliness reality check at Delhi railway station

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DNA: The heart-wrenching reality of drought-hit Bundelkhand

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One Young Gambian Woman"s Fight To Expose Reality Of FGM

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Gaza Graffiti: Palestinian artists reveal harsh reality of society

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Reality Star Kristin Cavallari"s Brother Reported Missing

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The Reality of Prayer in Crisis Situations

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Hope vs harsh reality: challenges to global education goals in the 21st century - learning world

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UpFront - Reality Check: It"s the inequality, stupid

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THE BRAIN WITH DAVID EAGLEMAN | Messing With Reality | PBS

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Reality bites: Aishwarya on gender pay parity in Bollywood

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UpFront - Reality Check: Are the Greeks all that lazy?

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Behind the successes of Kota"s coaching centres, a harsh reality

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