Inside the Facebook Android app is dormant code that points to something called Facebook Avatars. Facebook Avatars are like Bitmoji, but for Facebook. The social network confirmed that Facebook ...

Facebook's Avatars have finally rolled out in the U.S., providing a useful new tool to socially distanced Americans worried they'll forget what their friends look like. Much like Bitmoji or those ...

Hidden inside the code of Facebook’s Android app is an unreleased feature called Facebook Avatars that lets people build personalized, illustrated versions of themselves for use as stickers in ...

The social network is developing a Bitmoji clone that will let you create cartoon lookalikes of yourself to use in comments and Messenger chats. I'm PCMag's managing editor for consumer electronics, ...

Facebook is preparing to trade the yellow smiley for emojis that actually look like you. Beginning Monday, June 3, Facebook Avatars allows users to create their cartoon lookalike — not unlike a ...

Researchers at Facebook AI Research and Tel Aviv University school of computer science published a preprint paper outlining how they created an automatic process to create VR avatars. The company’s ...

Your Facebook profile used to be the online version of “you”. But over the past year, Bitmoji has usurped Facebook to become the preferred way to share your ...

Facebook has cribbed a lot of things from the Snapchat playbook. (Ahem, Instagram Stories.) Now, it looks like the company might be about to do it again. Buried in the code for Facebook’s android app ...

The social network's long-rumored Bitmoji counterparts are available in Australia only, for now, but the US will get them later this year or in 2020. Facebook unveiled its long-rumored Bitmoji rip-off ...

It seems as if everything that Snap (NYSE: SNAP) does with its popular Snapchat platform, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) will promptly replicate and deploy to its much larger user base (across all of its ...

Facebook is launching Avatars, a playful way for users to represent themselves in chats and comments, TechCrunch reports. The feature allows users to create customized digital characters to represent ...

Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly said that visual communication is replacing text, hence the arrival of Facbook Reactions in 2016, and GIF comments last year. Next on the agenda appears to be Facebook ...