How Duolingo became a $2.4B language unicorn
At the heart of Duolingo is its mission: to scale free education and increase income potential through language learning. However, the same mission that has helped it grow to a business valued at $2.4 billion with over 500 million registered learners.....»»
New Indo-European language discovered during excavation in Turkey
An excavation in Turkey has brought to light an unknown Indo-European language. Professor Daniel Schwemer, an expert for the ancient Near East, is involved in investigating the discovery......»»
Babbel price drop: lifetime subscription for $169.97
The September Babbel deal drives the cost of a lifetime language learning subscription to $169.97, a discount of $429.Babbel offers users the opportunity to learn a new language with ease, and this $169.97 price makes it even more affordable thanks t.....»»
Telling AI model to “take a deep breath” causes math scores to soar in study
DeepMind used AI models to optimize their own prompts, with surprising results. Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Google DeepMind researchers recently developed a technique to improve math ability in AI language models like.....»»
"Digital necromancy": Why bringing people back from the dead with AI is just an extension of our grieving practices
Generative AI—which encompasses large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT but also image and video generators like DALL·E 2—supercharges what has come to be known as "digital necromancy," the conjuring of the dead from the digital traces they le.....»»
LLM Guard: Open-source toolkit for securing Large Language Models
LLM Guard is a toolkit designed to fortify the security of Large Language Models (LLMs). It is designed for easy integration and deployment in production environments. It provides extensive evaluators for both inputs and outputs of LLMs, offering san.....»»
iOS 17 now available with StandBy, NameDrop, and interactive widgets
Apple has released iOS 17 to the public with more customization options, social features like NameDrop, and intelligence upgrades like a transformer language model for autocorrect.iOS 17 is hereAfter a summer filled with betas, the final public versi.....»»
Scientists compare humans and chimpanzees to uncover evolution of language-relevant brain areas
Language is one aspect that makes us human. Other animals can learn words or calls and communicate, but the ability to generate an infinite number of utterances based on a small number of syntactic rules is unique to humans......»»
How to say "jumping ants" in Uchinaaguchi
Recent publication of OIST research findings in the journal Integrative Organismal Biology likely marks the first use of Uchinaaguchi, the indigenous Okinawan language, in a scientific research publication. OIST researchers and staff translated an ab.....»»
Worse results and more drop-outs recorded when teaching is in English, Swedish study finds
Using English as the language of instruction in higher education has a marked negative impact on learning outcomes when it is not the students' first language, according to a new study from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Chalmers University of.....»»
SUPCASE UB Pro protects your new iPhone 15 from a 50-foot drop – or a bullet, 15% off [Sponsored]
When a company claims to offer the “ultimate” drop-proof case, you’d want to ask a few searching questions. But SUPCASE does have all the right answers for its Unicorn Beetle PRO, aka the UB Pro. The UB Pro won CNET’s first annual drop tes.....»»
CloudBees unveils a new DevSecOps platform
CloudBees has unveiled a new cloud native DevSecOps platform that places platform engineers and developer experience front and center. The platform is built on Tekton, uses a GitHub Actions style domain-specific language (DSL), and adds feature flagg.....»»
People with dyslexia can bring unique strengths and advantages to the workplace
Dyslexia is the most common learning disability in the world, and up to 15 to 20% of the population has a language-based learning disability. If you don't have dyslexia yourself, you likely know someone who does......»»
Burning Body is Netflix’s latest foreign language hit show. Here’s why you should watch it
Burning Body is heating up the TV show chart on Netflix, and we're sharing the three burning reasons why you should watch Netflix's latest foreign hit......»»
Sentra enhances data classification engine with LLMs to tackle data complexity and AI security
Sentra has unveiled that large language models (LLMs) are now included in its data classification engine, enabling enterprises to accurately identify and understand sensitive unstructured data such as employee contracts, source code and user generate.....»»
In the age of ChatGPT, what"s it like to be accused of cheating?
While the public release of the artificial intelligence-driven large-language chatbot, ChatGPT, has created a great deal of excitement around the promise of the technology and expanded use of AI, it has also seeded a good bit of anxiety around what a.....»»
Duolingo is adding music lessons to the syllabus
Duolingo, the language learning app, has announced music lessons as part of its course offerings. Attention, students: Duolingo is adding a new subject to its course catalog: music. On Wednesday, the popular language-learning app announced the.....»»
Apple TV+ unveils its first German-language show
Dark comedy "Where's Wanda?" has become the first German-language commission from Apple TV+......»»
“AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator
Meanwhile, readers say that some AI-penned articles switch languages halfway through. Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Last week, Gizmodo parent company G/O Media fired the staff of its Spanish-language site Gizmodo en Esp.....»»
Linguistics may help us to understand some "strangeness" of the genetic code
Linguists have developed the comparison of the genetic code with language where nucleotides act as letters, and introduced the concept of "a semiotic nucleotide"—the minimal element that makes it possible to distinguish between codons—coding unit.....»»
Speech and sun: New research on climate and how we speak
Whether it's another language, how you pronounce "pecan," or using the word "y'all" instead of "you guys," where you live has an impact on how you speak......»»