TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2022

OK, with that, here’s what I think will happen next year: the return to in-person, five-day work weeks for tech workers. This week, TC’s Sarah Perez spotted the rise of AI art apps all over the App Store , seemingly jumping off the success of Lensa AI’s viral avatar generators. The impact of hype with Clubhouse’s Paul Davison.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

is the brainchild of CEO Maria Grineva , who sold a previous data startup called Orb Intelligence to Dun & Bradstreet back in 2020; CTO Fedor Soprunov , previously a machine learning researcher at Russian tech titan Yandex; and product head Dmitry Pyanov , who has worked in product teams at companies including Yandex and Replika.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Generative AI is already looking like the major tech trend of 2023. And then there is London-based Synthesia , backed by a swathe of high-profile investors , which is more about creating digital avatars from text for use in training and how-to videos. However, it’s worth considering potential mis-use of this kind of technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

Jonathan Fanton, above next to my Second Life avatar, engaged in a discussion with Philip Rosedale (Linden) of Linden labs about the role of civil society in virtual worlds and answered questions from the more than 200 avatars that packed the space. tech into their giving practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

danah boyd has a post called " On Being Virtual " (be sure to read the comments) As Kevin Gamble on the SLED list notes, what she seems to be saying is that if you look at the rise of social tech amongst young people, it's not about divorcing the physical social structures to live virtually. web geeks and cardboard cutout avatars.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. After a supporter follows your nonprofit, your avatar is how they will mentally and visually connect your brand to your Instagram posts. Then, in 2022, contact Nonprofit Tech for Good and let us know how it worked!

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The Verge

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook , held a presentation today where it announced its rebranding and showed off what it imagines the future of computing will look like — but amid all the fluff, it actually had some interesting tech demos. According to Meta, this is both a virtual avatar and a virtual environment.

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The Verge

JANUARY 13, 2021

Which tech made it to our homes, and which will stay only in our hearts Looking through the deluge of CES articles is like staring into an unreliable crystal ball: maybe what you’re looking at is the future, the shape of tech for years to come, or maybe it’s something that’ll get talked about for a week and never heard from again.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

What was so compelling about the members of the de facto club that had formed among the owners of the exorbitantly priced avatars? I tweeted, I ‘grammed, I texted college friends who had gone into the tech industry — nothing doing. Hype drives value. It’s not even made primarily up of people who work in tech. Holy s**t.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Sam isn’t a real person — she’s a digital human created by Auckland-based tech company Soul Machines. When we think of the metaverse, popularly depicted as a game-like virtual environment where humans use avatars to live, work, and play, we’re often the main characters. Does that make me more relatable to you?”

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The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Raimondo also enlisted the help of US tech companies to help stop the spread of the disease. The tech giants already suspended requests for data from the Hong Kong government after the law was announced Monday night. It will be in Congress. Governing.

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