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You could lose weight when your avatar exercises
2013-07-01 23:12:42| CNET News.com
Researchers find that women who spend 15 minutes once a week watching an avatar demonstrate healthy weight loss behaviors end up losing on average 3.5 pounds in a month. [Read more]
RockBridge Resources to acquire Avatar Energys oil and gas assets in Alberta, Canada
2013-06-14 09:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
RockBridge Energy Alberta, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canada-based RockBridge Resources, has signed a purchase and sale agreement with Avatar Energy to acquire its certain oil and gas properties in southern Alberta, Canada, for about $80,000 in cas
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Feeling kind of blue? This digital avatar can tell
2013-04-03 20:57:31| CNET News.com
University of Southern California researchers are developing SimSensei, an avatar that uses facial recognition tech and depth-sensing cameras built into Microsoft's Kinect to conduct mental health interviews. [Read more]
Lord British seeks $1 million for Shroud of the Avatar
2013-03-11 22:10:00| CNET News.com
Richard Garriott is back with plans for a new RPG that's already attracting thousands of backers. [Read more]
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HP's building an avatar to manage your mobile connections
2013-02-01 14:45:56| InfoWorld: Top News
Hewlett-Packard researchers are developing a cloud-based "avatar" to manage all of a user's mobile devices and wireless networks. Their idea is to give individual users an identity that transcends the many smartphones, tablets, and other devices they may carry, as well as all the Wi-Fi and cellular networks they use in different situations. HP's avatar would pick the best combination of hardware and network for each situation and automatically set up and take down connections, said HP Fellow Paul Congdon, who works in the company's Networking & Communications Lab.
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