The Verge

JANUARY 19, 2021

While details are scarce, it seems like Naver already sees Wattpad as a natural pairing with one of its other brands — Webtoon, an online webtoon publishing portal that similarly allows artists to upload their own work and similarly spawns TV and anime adaptations.(Here’s Here’s a handy list of those adaptations from Wikipedia.).

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

That’s likely why it took us 450 years after being “discovered” to grab a map of the world, turn it on its head and put Latin America in the center of things (thanks to the Uruguayan artist and thinker, Joaquin Torres-Garcia ). What does our so-called inferiority complex have to do with the tech scene in Latin America?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

The models were trained on a data set called The Pile, a mix of internet-scraped text samples from websites including PubMed, StackExchange and Wikipedia. The company is in the crosshairs of legal cases that allege that it infringed on the rights of millions of artists by developing AI art tools using web-scraped, copyrighted images.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

When he’s not at Benetech, he’s still traveling the world and getting tattoos – by the same artist who does tattoos for Johnny Depp. Ryan Fan Before Ryan Fan, a high school senior, came to Benetech for his school’s career day, he consulted Wikipedia to understand this concept called “social entrepreneurship.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

According to wikipedia , The earliest known occurrence of the word "widget" is in Beggar on Horseback (1924), a comedy play written by George S. Wikipedia's definition of widget also points to some popular, cultural, and technical, including: A comic book character and copyrighted image. Kaufman and Marc Connelly.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Few-shot Regional Machine Translation FRMT is a few-shot evaluation dataset containing en-pt and en-zh bitexts translated from Wikipedia, in two regional varieties for each non-English language (pt-BR and pt-PT; zh-CN and zh-TW). Wiki-conciseness A manually curated evaluation set in English for concise rewrites of 2,000 Wikipedia sentences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

I was first introduced to the concept of the gift economy and pay it forward many years ago when I was the community builder for a first generation online network for artists, called ArtsWire.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

In Chapter 3, McCloud identifies six different methods by which comic artists transition from one panel to another (for example, scene-to-scene or action-to-action). X-Men) and artists. side, consider these different major venues: A little explanation: Wikipedia is mostly about content. Now there’s a new judgement to be made.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Users active in online social environments based on social objects like Flickr (photography), Ravelry (knitting), and Wikipedia (information) often trend older. This means that teens are not necessarily more savvy or more interested than other groups in engaging in communities of practice around content experiences.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

Regardless of how museums and libraries portray themselves, it’s clear to users: Wikipedia belongs to them. The good news is that there are hundreds of thousands of people debating the content of every book, scientific principle, and artistic movement on the Web right now. From the Web 2.0

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

However, this context pales in comparison to his actual art and artistic process — the brief glimpses of which are more enticing than the film surrounding it. It's a documentary of immense detail and a vast number of opinions on Maron's personality, and how he deals with loss through stand-up comedy.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

The entirety of English Wikipedia constitutes just 0.6 It’s hard to estimate the total size, but we know that the entirety of the English Wikipedia, spanning some 6 million articles, makes up only 0.6 Type a question and GPT-3 directs you to the relevant Wikipedia URL for the answer. percent of GPT-3’s training data.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2023

Somewhere in the midst of all that, Boston Dynamics demoed an improved bipedal robot, Wikipedia launched a redesign and major universities banned TikTok from their campus networks. Wikipedia gets a makeover: This week, Wikipedia, a resource used by billions every month, got its first makeover on the desktop in over a decade, Sarah writes.

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The Verge

JULY 27, 2020

It’s here where MSCHF founder Gabriel Whaley and his motley crew of artists, designers, and product developers have decided to make their mark on the internet, by which I mean the world. I spotted a tarp over a spot on the second floor spray-painted with the word “forbidden.” The company is cagey about the money, too. We just wouldn’t do it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

We read the Wikipedia article about IWD , and learned stuff. Also, Aisha reports that Spotify has new growth and discovery tools for artists. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Happy International Women’s Day!

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 20, 2007

According to Wikipedia , 20 million people have viewed a Bodyworlds exhibition. We're surpassing revenue projections. Science centers that have never worried about lines are suddenly managing huge queues, putting up sold out signs for the first time. In 2007, Bodyworlds most quickly brings to mind one word: blockbuster.

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

Wikipedia editors are questioning what it means to be a platform committed to “neutrality.” they had to commission an artist to make this pic.twitter.com/qJjBoxxLAS — Jeremy Nguyen (@jeremywins) June 15, 2020. Private Facebook groups are using the name “Justice for George Floyd” to hide racist behavior. Those good tweets.

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

Artist: William Joel. The Wikipedia page entry for astroturfing notes that Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar begins with Cassius writing fake letters from “the public” to convince Brutus to assassinate the title character, and the idea has inspired the business community ever since.

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