avatars
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X Prize Offers $10 Million Dollar Bounty For Building Robot Avatars For Humans By 2021
From Power Rangers to Pacific Rim, we’ve always had the same dream: Controlling a badarse robot and saving the world. Now’s the time.
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Deepak Chopra Has The Worst Avatar Ever On Twitter
Deepak Chopra, online werewolf and mortal nemesis of Gizmodo’s Matt Novak, wants you to know the “possiblities” are infinite. A message he decided to share with the world using the only medium that matters anymore — his Twitter avatar. The possibilities are so infinite, in fact, that he has freed himself from the shackles of…
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Twitter Bans Animated GIF Avatars
Amid all the profile design changes and new policies Twitter has implemented in the past six months, one of the few saving graces is that people could still use animated GIFs as avatars — until now.
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Computer Program Uses Avatar Role Play To Help Children Combat Social Anxiety
Computer programs have long been used to help teach children important life skills: Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing a shining early example of a virtual world in which kids could learn.