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.....»»
Chinese startup claims breakthrough with EV battery that overcomes cold weather
Chinese unicorn Greater Bay Technology says its new Phoenix cell can heat the battery back from -4F to 77F in five minutes, allowing it to operate as normal and charge within six minutes in all weather conditions......»»
Chinese unicorn claims breakthrough with all-weather EV battery
A Chinese battery startup claims to have overcome one of the key sticking points for electric car owners — the loss of power capability and range in cold climates......»»
AI chip shortage to last until 2024, according to top Chinese AI company
The large-scale language model (LLM) has triggered the continuous growth of China's computing industry. SenseTime, which kept a low profile, has recently been tasked to pilot the AI computing supply chain taking shape in the Shanghai FTZ's Lingang Ne.....»»
This GPT-powered Discord bot can teach you a new language — here’s how to use it
The Memrise bot allows you to learn language through conversation on Discord......»»
Asus will offer local ChatGPT-style AI servers for office use
"AFS Appliance" will avoid the cloud and place an AI language model on premises. Enlarge / The ASUS logo in front of an AI-generated background. (credit: ASUS / Stable Diffusion) Taiwan's Asustek Computer (known popularl.....»»
Apple promoting WWDC23 Swift Student Challenge winners, award includes AirPods Pro and special pin pack
Apple is showcasing three WWDC23 Swift Student Challenge winners who submitting original app playgrounds using Apple’s Swift developer language. The highlighted submissions include app playgrounds for strengthening eye muscles, sports and filmmaki.....»»
Growing generative AI applications to drive long-term prospects for ABF substrate industry
The growing popularity of large language model (LLM) applications, such as generative AI, is likely to drive demand for high-end CPUs and GPUs, ensuring long-term prospects for ABF substrates, according to industry sources......»»
LLMs to pave way for direct human interaction to enter into home-use robot market, says DIGITIMES Research
The methods for humans to interact with and operate robots are gradually being simplified and the keen development of large language models (LLM) is expected to drive up the popularization of the natural language interaction method, which is intuitiv.....»»
Minnesota passes a right to repair bill that actually matters
The right to repair the devices consumers own is a touchy subject, but for fans of the idea in Minnesota, there's good news.Apple repair programIn April of this year, both houses in the Minnesota Legislature passed right to repair language that's par.....»»
Translating Swahili language and knowledge in colonial and post-colonial Tanzania
In the 1940s, a student from Kenya named James Gekonyo applied to the Chemistry Department of Makerere University in Uganda. When his admissions interviewers asked him to explain the difference between a solid, liquid, and gas, Gekonyo said, "I can h.....»»
Lifetime Babbel language learning subscription gets steeper price drop, now $189.97 ($410 off)
A fresh $410 price cut has been issued on a lifetime Babbel language learning subscription, giving you access to 14 languages for $189.97.Save $410 on Babbel.Are you ready to learn a new foreign language or brush up on a language you took in high sch.....»»
Red Hat unveils Ansible Lightspeed to empower AI-driven IT automation
Red Hat utilizes natural language processing to seamlessly integrate the service with Watson Code Assistant. Red Hat utilizes natural language processing to seamlessly integrate the service with Watson Code Assistant.Read More.....»»
Simple OSINT techniques to spot AI-fueled disinformation, fake reviews
Error messages that ChatGPT and other AI language models generate can be used to uncover disinformation campaigns, hate speech and fake reviews via OSINT collection and analysis, says Nico Dekens, director of intelligence at ShadowDragon. AI-generate.....»»
Major carmakers, unicorn startups trimming software manpower to cut costs
Global autonomous vehicle unicorn startups and major carmakers have been on track to lay off employees in the underperforming departments since the second quarter of the year, especially software divisions, as part of their efforts to cut operation c.....»»
Timekettle Fluentalk T1 Translator Device review: Works well, but you already own an iPhone
The Timekettle Fluentalk T1 Translator Device is a well-built language translator that allows you to convert foreign text by verbalizing or photographing it — but you own an alternative already.Timekettle Fluentalk T1 Translator DeviceOne of the mo.....»»
DarkBERT could help automate dark web mining for cyber threat intelligence
Researchers have developed DarkBERT, a language model pretrained on dark web data, to help cybersecurity pros extract cyber threat intelligence (CTI) from the Internet’s virtual underbelly. DarkBERT pretraining process and evaluated use case sc.....»»
Apple bans internal use of ChatGPT-like tech over fear of leaks, according to leaked document
Internal documents and anonymous sources leak details of Apple's internal ban on ChatGPT-like technology and the plans for its own Large Language Model.Apple employees restricted from using ChatGPTLarge Language Models have exploded in popularity in.....»»
Reading comprehension not worsened by noise, study finds
Researchers of the HSE Centre for Language and Brain have investigated the impact of both auditory and visual noise on semantic processing during reading to determine if it results in a more superficial reading style that emphasizes the meanings of i.....»»
Asustek-affiliated TWS showcases Formosa Foundation Model, Taiwan"s first LLM
Taiwan Web Service (TWS) has created Taiwan's first large language model (LLM) called the Formosa Foundation Model (FFM), which will be released as an enterprise generative AI solution......»»
Genetic analysis of Indigenous Taiwanese peoples sheds light on Austronesian expansion
The Austronesian language family is one of the largest in the world, comprising more than 1,200 languages spoken from Madagascar to Hawaii. Dang Liu, Albert Min-Shan Ko and Mark Stoneking collected genome-wide data from 55 individuals from seven Taiw.....»»