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Nvidia is letting anyone use its AI voice animation tech
Nvidia is open sourcing Audio2Face, its AI tool that generates facial animations for 3D avatars based on audio input. Nvidia is open sourcing Audio2Face, its AI tool that generates facial animations for 3D avatars based on audio input. by Emma Roth Sep 25, 2025, 9:16 PM UTC Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Emma Roth...
Adult Swim’s new stop-motion series is a celebration of Latin American culture
Imagine if George Cukor’s The Women was a modern, Spanish-language telenovela set in Ecuador rather than a 1939 dramedy about the lives of wealthy Manhattanites. Now imagine if the series was directed by Pedro Almodóvar and its characters were brought to life with stop-motion animation instead of being portrayed by Hollywood heavyweights like Joan Crawford...
Showrunner, an AI-powered streaming service, launches in alpha this week
Fable, a startup designing tools to generate animated TV shows from scratch, is launching an AI-powered streaming service this week, Variety reports. The service is called Showrunner, and it will allow subscribers to generate scenes, view content created for Fable’s in-house AI-generated animated shows and even insert themselves into the animations they generate. Showrunner is...
New Android TapTrap attack fools users with invisible UI trick
A novel tapjacking technique can exploit user interface animations to bypass Android’s permission system and allow access to sensitive data or trick users into performing destructive actions, such as wiping the device. Unlike traditional, overlay-based tapjacking, TapTrap attacks work even with zero-permission apps to launch a harmless transparent activity on top of a malicious one, a behavior...
PNG image format receives HDR and animation support in first spec update in decades
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Why it matters: For decades, JPEG, PNG, and GIF have remained among the most popular image formats, even as newer options like WebP and AVIF have emerged. Now, PNG is getting its first meaningful update in over 20 years with the...
Outright Games teams with animation studio Aardman to make Chicken Run: Eggstraction
Outright Games, a publisher of family-friendly interactive entertainment, is working with animation studio Aardman on the game Chicken Run: Eggstraction. Based on Aardman’s iconic Chicken Run franchise, this top-down, heist game picks up where Aardman’s 2023 film Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget left off, as the gang works together to save chicken-kind. Chicken Run: Eggstraction will...
The Internet Archive modernizes its GeoCities GIF search engine
The Internet Archive made it easier to search for ’90s-era GIFs. GifCities contains millions of animations from the decade of flannel shirts and Soup Nazis. The GIFs were pulled from old GeoCities webpages, which (mostly) bit the dust in 2009. The new version of GifCities is much easier to search. You can now search semantically,...
Stunning new Witcher 4 footage runs at 60fps on standard PS5 with ray tracing
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Forward-looking: Unreal Engine 5 is taxing on PC and console hardware, especially with its Lumen ray tracing feature. A new Witcher 4 tech demo using UE 5.6 showcases improved performance without compromising visual quality. CD Projekt Red emphasized that the footage...
Gym Class (YC W22) Is Hiring Character Animation Engineering Lead
Play sports in virtual reality Unity Animation Engineer Lead (Mobile & VR) $160K – $250K / 0.20% – 0.50% Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups. Apply to role › About the role Role Summary Gym Class is a leading social game on Meta Quest with millions of downloads, 71K ratings, and 4.9 stars....










