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For Sébastien Borget, what started as a passion for gaming has flourished into co-founding The Sandbox, now one of the most recognized metaverse ...

A male sanderling in breeding plumage is something to see, a bird with a classic shorebird profile – horizontal torso, slim, longish bill, respectable set of black gams – wrapped in a complex serape ...

After a brief hiatus, the hottest weekly series in combat sports is back in your life for another round of Muay Thai, MMA, ...

Netflix is metaphorically flexing its muscles and spiking the football this week, announcing both record fourth-quarter subscriber gains and price hikes for nearly every one of its plans. In other ...

Atlassian’s venture capital arm has thrown its money behind a $US180 million ($290 million) bet on a UK-based start-up that helps companies create artificial ...

With thousands of Scottish children waiting for an autism diagnosis, could technology speed things up? A new study announced ...

Synthesia co-founder Victor Riparbelli just raised $180 million at a $2.1 billion to make his startups AI-generated video avatars more lifelike ... $180 million in a round led by NEA which ...

The UFC shared an animated video of Israel Adesanya depicted as Gaara, a popular character from the Naruto anime series, which created a buzz and garnered a reaction from veteran fighter Stephen Thomp ...

Nvidia unveiled a prototype AI avatar at CES 2025 that lives on your PC’s desktop. The AI assistant, R2X, looks like a video game character, and it can help you navigate apps on your computer.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Maybe attending sports events in person is too been-there, done-that in the modern age. So, apparently, is watching the actual action on a TV, laptop or phone.

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 ...