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It’s a Sign: AI Platform for Teaching American Sign Language Aims to Bridge Communication Gaps

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NVIDIA, the American Society for Deaf Children and creative agency Hello Monday are helping close this gap with Signs, an interactive web platform built to support ASL learning and the development of accessible AI applications. Most deaf children are born to hearing parents.

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How to help Myanmar earthquake victims: 5 things you can do right now

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As a result of the conflict, many of the countrys public services, infrastructure, and access to aid were already operating under reduced efficiency. Save the Children: There are a large number of children in Myanmar who have been affected by the quake. You can donate to Save the Children here.

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Reddit Thread Prompts More Than $200,000 in Donations to Foster Children Nonprofit

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After a Reddit user posted to the Ask Reddit thread “What is something you've done purely out of the goodness of your heart but have not told anyone?" users shared an array of good deeds.

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The power of corporate philanthropy to engage employees

Fast Company Tech

However, according to a 2023 study from Ipsos Global Trends , 72% of consumers are concerned that in the future, governments and public services wont look after citizens, thereby widening the large gap nonprofits must step in to fill. In 2023, Americans gave over $557 billion to charities from individuals, foundations, and corporations.

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Elon Musk wants to privatize Amtrak. It would make train travel worse

Fast Company Tech

But this insistence that Amtrak should be profitable is an effort to impose a highly selective business model on what is really a public service. This goes back to the idea of Amtrak being a public serviceeven a public good. The passenger rail service is blamed for failing to show a profit, he wrote.

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Before Google Was Blamed for the Suicide of a Teen Chatbot User, Its Researchers Published a Paper Warning of Those Exact Dangers

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as an arms-length testing groundwhere it could quietly research the impact of human-like companion bots on the public, kids included. In particular, the Google researchers warn, these bots could target children and adolescents, who "can be more easily persuaded and manipulated than adults." Despite shoveling $2.7 is striking.

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29 Online Gift Stores That Benefit Nonprofits

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National Public Radio. Public Broadcasting System. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Museum of Modern Art. National Geographic. National Wildlife Federation. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Sesame Street. Sierra Club. Smithsonian Institution. Surfrider Foundation.

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