TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Only in the current market can one wonder how a celebrity avatar startup that sells NFT accessories took so long to hit a unicorn valuation. Genies, an LA-based digital avatar startup, announced Tuesday that it had raised $150 million in funding from Silver Lake, with participation from Bond, NEA and Tamarack Global.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Digital marketplace OpenSea has banned the PHAYC and Phunky Ape Yacht Club (or PAYC) collections, both of which are based on the same gimmick: selling NFTs with mirrored but otherwise identical versions of high-priced Bored Ape Yacht Club avatars. Like other avatars, though, anybody can technically copy or modify the associated ape picture.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

The NFT world is all about reshaping the idea of digital ownership, but art hardware startup Infinite Objects sees a big opportunity in making physical copies of those assets as it looks to reshape digital art and collectibles. Avatar startup Genies scores $65 million in funding round led by Mary Meeker’s Bond.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Subtlety is an art on the Social Web. Use a Horizontal Avatar. LinkedIn Groups are the only community discussed in this book that uses a rectangular avatar instead of a square one. LinkedIn Groups are the only community discussed in this book that uses a rectangular avatar instead of a square one.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

Initially, Your Progress Will Be Saved feels like something you’d find in a modern art gallery. This is art by way of Fortnite. Fittingly, the debut installation was created by LaTurbo Avedon , an artist and curator who also happens to be a digital avatar. But things get strange when you turn around.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Spatial, an early player in virtual reality workroom apps, is changing its focus to virtual art galleries showcasing non-fungible tokens, or NFTs. The latest iteration connects with MetaMask cryptocurrency wallets and lets people see a catalog of the NFT art they own. But that day is not today,” he says.

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TechNode

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

NetEases massively multiplayer online role-playing game Justice Mobile announced Thursday that the DeepSeek-powered non-player character (NPC) Shen Qiusuo will debut in the game’s martial arts world following next Fridays update.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Users simply take a photo with their iPhone and add special editing and art effects with one tap. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Instagram :: instagr.am.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Users simply take a photo with their iPhone and add special editing and art effects with one tap. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Instagram :: instagr.am.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Neal Stephenson famously coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash , where it referred to a 3D virtual world inhabited by avatars of real people. Real-time 3D computer graphics and personalized avatars. Right now these are mostly 2D art used as social media profile pictures.

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Google Research AI blog

JUNE 2, 2023

AVATAR ), which investigates the contribution of entire visual frames, and not just the mouth region. To achieve this, we augment an existing state-of-the-art ASR model ( Best-RQ ) with the following two components: (i) linear visual projector and (ii) lightweight adapters. LibriSpeech ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Remember the homeless avatar in Second Life that got a lot of attention a few weeks back? I also tracked down the avatar in Second Life and did an interview with the people from NGO involved in this campaign. We will start to train someone in Mensajeros de la Paz who's gonna be responsible for the avatar if the action works.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 14, 2020

As the name suggests, the game involves Bitmoji — those cutely grotesque customizable avatars — and painting. Our goal with Bitmoji has always been to be the world’s avatar, to give people a digital version of themselves that represents them and lets them be themselves online,” says Ba Blackstock, co-founder of Bitmoji. “And

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), Handwriting is quickly becoming a lost art form. It is clearly not a fad, and yet the vast majority of nonprofits have zero budgets for social media. 4) Read more books.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 5, 2014

There is an art and science to mobile and social media. Create avatars and banners for your chapters. The webinar was not recorded and there are no current plans to present the webinar again, so for those who could not attend, the notes from the webinar are below. Overview of Mobile for Good. Chapter 16: New Media Managers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

It will automatically pull in your avatar, apply your Twitter username to your Pinterest account (such as pinterest.com/nonprofitorgs ), and sync your account with Twitter in case you occasionally want to share Pinterest Pins with your Twitter community. If you have a Twitter account, sign up with your Twitter username and password.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

60) Search « M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study | Main | 51% of Donors Not At All Interested in Social Networks » Monday Apr 21 2008 EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life Monday, April 21, 2008 at 02:56PM | by Caitlin Ochs Imagine having the ability to translate virtual reality into actual reality.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Not everyone is a natural-born Twitterer, and it may take time to find the right person at your nonprofit to be the voice(s) behind your Twitter avatar, but it’s worth the investment of resources. Nonprofits that host many events or are related to the arts, animals, nature, or international development should definitely be using Flickr.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Users simply take a photo with their iPhone and add special editing and art effects with one tap. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Instagram :: instagr.am.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

It was my most memorable virtual presentation as my avatar was June Jetson and I made a flying entrance into the auditorium to the tune of the Jetson’s theme song. This year, Alan invited me to present a webinar for participants in the Marcus Institute Digital Education for the Arts on how Networked Nonprofits use Facebook.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Cinder players will use the Solana blockchain to purchase their “playable NFTs” — the Cinder Fae which will include 11,111 exclusive avatars designed by the WildWorks team. The minting is planned for early January. As for Feral, fans’ concerns over its future seem to be valid.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

60) Search « M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study | Main | 51% of Donors Not At All Interested in Social Networks » Monday Apr 21 2008 EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life Monday, April 21, 2008 at 02:56PM | by Caitlin Ochs Imagine having the ability to translate virtual reality into actual reality.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

AI-powered text-, art- and audio-generating systems will soon make — and already are making — their way into the tools people use every day, from programming environments and spellcheck plugins to concept art creation platforms. If software is eating the world, AI isn’t far behind.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Twibbon is a tool that allows your supporters on Twitter and Facebook to add a micro version of your nonprofit’s avatar to their profile pics. A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Users simply take a photo with their iPhone and add special editing and art effects with one tap. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Instagram :: instagr.am.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

He started putting together a thesis around NFTs and social networks while visiting Amsterdam, where he had a chance to closely observe how social networks formed in person at art galleries, restaurants, and parties around a shared interest in Solana. Primitives is designed to be easy to use, Gabeau said.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Users simply take a photo with their iPhone and add special editing and art effects with one tap. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Instagram :: instagr.am.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 26, 2021

Ari is the creator of DEGY World, an immersive avatar event platform. Audette is a virtual experience designer and Chief Experiences Officer at Catalyst Arts Entertainment. You’ll find him participating in conversations on how to create the best events to delight your audience. Amy Shey Jacobs (@chandelierevent).

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 8, 2025

NVIDIA NIM helps address these challenges by offering prepackaged, state-of-the-art AI models optimized for PCs. A Blueprint for Innovation By using state-of-the-art models, prepackaged and optimized for PCs, developers and enthusiasts can quickly create AI-powered projects. Sign up for Project R2X updates.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Play-to-earn games like StepN require players to purchase an NFT before they can participate, while other crypto video games offer users pricey upgrades such as virtual avatars and distinctive skins or costumes. Concept art for Halliday’s platform Image Credits: Halliday.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In 2024, Google released Gemini Ultra, a state-of-the-art foundation model that requires 50 billion petaflops. It created the 530-billion parameter Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation model ( MT-NLG ) that powers TJ, the Toy Jensen avatar that gave part of the keynote at NVIDIA GTC last year.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

to cutscene-quality video game avatars, to finally just fairly average video game characters roaming around a world with no particular purpose. We go from a veritable doppelganger of Reeves that must have been at least partially real-life footage, to uncanny valley puppetry (what robot is wearing Keanu’s skin?) Image: Epic Games.

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The Verge

MARCH 10, 2022

When a client asked him to make a vampire baby, Smith was drawn into a new subculture that would later influence his decision to pursue fantasy art full-time. “I One of the most popular fantasy models is the blue Na’vi alien from the film Avatar. Many dolls are made to fit preemie, newborn, or even Build-a-Bear clothes. Image: Rachel.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

With SPIN, users can enter the VR version of their favorite store and speak to avatar customer service agents to buy clothes. At the exhibition, visitors can use cryptocurrency to buy items on SPIN from their favorite independent designers and try on “phygital” — physical-digital — clothes using virtual avatars.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Users simply take a photo with their iPhone and add special editing and art effects with one tap. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Instagram :: instagr.am.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

I started off in Camden, Maine to teach at the PopTech Fellows program, New Jersey Center for the Performing Arts for a session with arts marketers , and finally to Washington, DC to attend a briefing at the White House and to keynote the last BlogPotomac conference. We've been in and out of touch over the years, but always virtually.

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The Verge

AUGUST 26, 2021

Plump and slumped over, unable to stand up on their own four hooves, and illustrated in a chunky 16-bit art style. The projects’ real selling point is supposed to be some combination of great art and access to a great community. Overweight unicorns, actually. Only one sold. This is a really easy in to a community of people.”.

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