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Several fans pointed out that the animated avatars representing the players on the Australian Open's YouTuber steaming look like Wii characters. Tennis fans watching the Australian Open on YouTube ...

Who’s ready to return to Pandora? Across Avatar and its belated follow-up Avatar: The Way Of Water, cinematic master James Cameron has taken audiences into the lush jungles, crystal waters ...

Genshin Impact was originally announced for the Switch ... Reuters sources have confirmed that the Switch 2 runs on a custom Nvidia chip, while its Ampere-based GPU would reportedly allow the ...

Cameron has been working on Avatar for nearly three decades now, and it’s clearly a labor of love. Fans feel the weight of those years as well, having anticipated a sequel from 2009 to 2022.

Synthesia co-founder Victor Riparbelli just raised $180 million at a $2.1 billion to make his startups AI-generated video avatars more lifelike. As OpenAI, Google and Adobe vie with startups like ...

5.4 is the next major version of Genshin Impact, and it is a bit relaxed on new content. With Natlan's centuries-long conflict finding its cinematic conclusion in the previous patch, our blonde ...

Moreover, given how rapidly the technology is evolving, AI might ultimately be used to discover ways to lessen its own environmental impact. In early January 2025, amid the wildfires in Los ...