TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

million, funding that Xabi Uribe-Etxebarria, Sherpa’s founder and CEO, said it will be using to continue building out a privacy-focused machine learning platform based on a federated learning model alongside its existing conversational AI and search services. The company has closed $8.5

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NetWits

JULY 13, 2011

Because of Twitters timeline based tweets, organizations with mobile libraries, blood drives, medical services or other site-specific services can find Twitter useful for communicating where they will be at any given moment. Joining a Larger Conversation. Location Based Services. Timely Actions. Remote Participation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2021

Holler , described by founder and CEO Travis Montaque as “a conversational media company,” just announced that it’s raised $36 million in Series B funding. You may not know what conversational media is, but there’s a decent chance you’ve used Holler’s technology. ” Image Credits: Holler.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

Testing the tool To run our conformal prediction, my team used libraries of microplastic spectra from the Rochman Lab at the University of Toronto as the calibration set. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. In this case, you could bring in a human expert to examine the polymer closely.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

There was also an associated effort called the Trusted Intermediary Global Accessible Resources (TIGAR) project, to ease the exchange of accessible book files between libraries for the blind and print disabled. My biggest argument was the “library with holes” problem. The view of the World Blind Union was that the rightsholders (i.e.,

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

The architectural approach was inspired by conversations Ivy Ross, chief design officer of consumer devices at Google, and artist Lachlan Turczan had around the role of technology in our lives. Turczan has been developing these sculptures, dubbed Lucida, out of those conversations.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Instead, they’re an effort to stretch our imagination about what J.Crew representsand it’s about trying to ensure that the brand is part of the broader conversation. But some of the smaller, niche collabs aren’t necessarily about making a lot of money. We do some partnerships that are not just about revenue.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Great conversation, a little bubbly, and treats at the Innovation Summit. This format uses informal conversations to explore key questions and weave thoughts and ideas into a collective tapestry of knowledge. In case you still enjoy soaking up knowledge the old fashion way, we also added over 45 new posts to our blog library.

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The Verge

MARCH 22, 2022

Google Photos is getting a pretty significant layout change that should make it easier to find the photos and albums you’re looking for in the library and sharing tabs. The update transforms the current library tab layout from a mishmash of albums, favorites, and on-device folders to a grid or list view that you can sort through by category.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

These features include a Prompt Builder feature, which allows users to create their own directives for the AI assistant, and a Prompt Library, which includes suggested prompts from Glean, as well ones that a company has shared in its own prompt library. So no conversions are necessary, making the models response time super-fast.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Today, January 17, the 30th anniversary of the Betamax decision, we’re proud to mark Benetech’s participation in Copyright Week —a week of action that aims to engage communities in the ongoing conversation about changes to copyright law and celebrate six principles for a balanced copyright system. In the U.S.,

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

iOS 14 brings widgets to the iPhone home screen for the first time, gathers all of your apps into a new App Library, and adds picture-in-picture mode (which had already been available on iPads). But hey, new features are coming. There’s also a new Translation app.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 27, 2023

Google Campaign URL Builder :: ga-dev-tools/campaign-url-builder This a free tool from Google that allows you to easily create UTMs to track your website performance, such as referral traffic from social media campaigns and conversions from online ads. Having a fast-loading website is essential for a successful SEO strategy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 5, 2013

After all, Benetech’s Bookshare initiative is the largest online library serving people with print disabilities in the world. And once the United States Senate ratifies the treaty, it will be possible for libraries like Bookshare to get more content for Americans from sources outside of the United States and in more languages.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

They created conversation by telling animals’ stories. Film frequently to build a robust library of content you can manage and repurpose in different ways. Prepare a short list of questions to keep the conversation flowing. Rather than facilitating dialogue, scripts inhibit the conversation in this setting.

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sgEngage

MAY 17, 2021

This work includes everything from acknowledging the role that enslaved people played in building and establishing institutions, to the crucial conversations around renaming buildings and removing statues. The post Charitable Giving in Higher Education: A Conversation with CASE’s Sue Cunningham first appeared on npENGAGE.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Let’s start at the most fundamental place for this conversation. For this conversation, and those to have over the course of the next two days together at least, let’s work from the place that a movement is larger than coalitions. As an example, let’s think about a community library. What is a movement? Or engagement?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

If you want your nonprofit to be highly shared, retweeted, +1’d, repinned, and liked, then you absolutely must have photo-editing skills and a digital image library to work with. This reflects a seismic shift away from text to visual content. Engage authentically. Your nonprofit is not a person.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

I look forward to continuing the conversation the book has opened. To explain our approach, let’s look at Bookshare , our accessible online library for people with print disabilities. The Bookshare breakthrough put our users in charge of the collection with a crowd-sourced library built by—and for—the people it serves.

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Candid

MARCH 9, 2022

Q&A with a Toledo-based library on building community capacity. Toledo-Lucas County Public Library (TLCPL) has been part of Candid’s Funding Information Network since 1980, providing local nonprofits and the public with access to Candid’s resources, including Foundation Directory, for free.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Global firm DLR Group significantly broadened the scope of adaptive reusethe practice of repurposing existing buildings for new usesfinding new lives for buildings like department stores, hospitals, libraries, and even jails. In Whittier, it installed interior partition walls, colorful finishes, and new electrical and mechanical systems.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

This a free tool from Google that allows you to easily create UTMs to track your website performance, such as referral traffic from social media campaigns and conversions from online ads. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. HTML Tutorial :: w3schools.com.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

And yet, there was no one on the other side of the conversation as it was a chatbot app for bored teenagers. Hugging Face released the Transformers library on GitHub and instantly attracted a ton of attention — it currently has 62,000 stars and 14,000 forks on the platform. It looked like yet another messaging app.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Or, as seen by a growing trend this year, developers deliberately sabotaging their own software libraries as a means of protest — turning software into “protestware.” It wasn’t a malicious actor hijacking and altering these legitimate libraries. The recent rise of protestware.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. Otter uses Ambient Voice Intelligence to transcribe meetings, Zoom calls, and conversations into searchable notes that can be easily shared. See also the Noun Project. Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: archive.org/web.

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Candid

AUGUST 25, 2022

I was also unaccustomed to having to find all my own resources; I had spent the previous 15 years of my career working in higher education with access to a university research library, enterprise platform subscriptions, and myriad other resources. Now you can find me at the library frequently, combing through Candid’s resources.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Digital readers: refer to your Kindle library , your read shelf on Goodreads , listen history on Audible, timeline on Libby , or any doc or spreadsheet you maintain with your favorites. Use your voice: If talking jogs your memory, use conversation mode in ChatGPT , Claude , Googles Gemini , or Microsofts CoPilot.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

App Library suggestions. A folder in the new App Library layout will use “on-device intelligence” to show apps you’re “likely to need next.” It detects the languages being spoken and can even do live translations of conversations. It’s small but potentially useful. Translate app. Sound alerts in iOS 14.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

This will open up a search bar of Instagram's audio library. Instagram says folks can pin up to three messages per conversation. The update lets users share tunes in both one-on-one messages and group chats. Just open up the sticker tray and tap on the Music option. There are a couple of caveats here.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The first product is an open source, synthetic machine learning library for developers that strips out personally identifiable information. The company was founded last year, and they have actually used this year to develop the open source product and build an open source community around it. So we’re excited.

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The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Many association execs expressed the belief that declining trust is affecting their industry, including execs from higher education, medicine, public health, foreign affairs, media, real estate, government, technology, science, veterinary medicine, and libraries. The date is still TBD, but we’re aiming for early summer.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2023

” Everyone around the table goes, “Aaaah, yes,” and the conversation continues. In this story, we are diving into the 45+ pitch deck teardowns done so far , and pick apart some of the closing slides from our library of pitch deck examples. But then again, I wrote most of it, and I’m hella biased.

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Towards Data Science

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Well, PyrOSM is build on Cython (C Python) and it uses faster libraries for deserializing OSM data as well as smaller optimizations like numpy arrays which allows it to process data fast. Let’s get into what this library can do! ? PyrOSM is a package that makes the process of reading in and working with OSM data much more efficient.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Conversely, the Google TV UI uses that aforementioned “For You” tab as its home screen and then breaks out specific pieces of content into dedicated shows, movies, and live tabs, rather than collecting them all in one place. It also makes it easier to get to your purchase content through a library tab that Android TV lacks.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The company’s new iOS app is designed to give users conversation prompts to inspire family members to share stories about their lives. Once you select a prompt, you can record a conversation directly within the app. Greene believes that recorded conversations capture far more than cluttered photo libraries and static family trees.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2013

The analysis made news globally and expanded an international conversation. million downloads of accessible books through its online library, to over 200,000 people with disabilities such as blindness and severe dyslexia. Here big data affected a global policy debate—and will hopefully make a big difference.

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NetWits

MARCH 26, 2013

In your neighborhood, this might be the coffee shop where you work sometimes, the park where your kids play, the library, the grocery store. Perhaps there’s a part of the conversation you aren’t currently influencing, but should be.

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