At times, the word is used as shorthand for images with overlaid text, but the core idea is that memes travel from one person to the next, online or off.

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A capture from BadVR’s augmented reality geospatial data environment, which allows users to visualize multiple live and historical datasets via overlays relevant to their environment.

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The researchers then overlaid these estimates on distribution maps of nearly 20,000 species of birds, amphibians and mammals.

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When people we love die young, it becomes difficult to think of them without an overlay of sorrow.

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As you can see, Google is clearly giving searchers a quick snapshot of the information in this overlay so the searcher does not have to leave the search result page.

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The algorithm works by training on footage of a person and then overlaying a generated version of the person’s face onto a “base actor.”

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MoveOn is trying out chat prompts that pop up automatically with get-out-the-vote messages and screen overlays that show deadlines for voting by mail, he says.

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