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Spotify brings real-time lyrics to 26 countries, not including the US

The Verge

Lyrics have a complicated history on Spotify. Where available, users can access them by tapping the “lyrics” card at the bottom of the service’s “Now Playing” screen. The new feature uses lyrics provided by Musixmatch, and will be shown in the song’s language.

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Fish Tale Has DNA Hook

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Dan Janzen has continued to explore the power of DNA-barcoding, plus regular taxonomy, coupled with some extraordinary field-sampling (ecological forensic science) in Guanacaste National Park in Costa Rica, to probe the hidden diversity lurking beneath the surface of morphospecies - "Extreme diversity of tropical parasitoid wasps exposed by iterative (..)

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Meet Mighty, an e-commerce platform where kids are the boss; a “digital lemonade stand”

TechCrunch

In this case, Goldhirsh, who has been living in Costa Rica, began worrying about his two daughters, who attend a small, six-person school. Kids are spending more of their time online than at any point in history. As often happens, the concept derived from the founders’ own experience. The interest isn’t surprising.

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Gift the Gift of Charity: Make A Contribution to any of these Fabulous Organizations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When you give someone the gift of an acre of rainforest in Costa Rica, you're helping to protect and restore one of the world's most extraordinary yet highly threatened regions now and for future generations. Can't get much more pertinent for holiday hope than the gift of human beings caring for one another! Photo by Dmason.

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Break the Bias: Changing the Game for Girls & Women

Saleforce Nonprofit

Fundacion GOLEES is based in Costa Rica and works with girls and women ages 10-60. They recently launched the campaign “Change starts on the pitch,” which collected the voices of over 100 Costa Rican football players to celebrate their history, successes, and fight for gender equity.

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

TechCrunch

July 6, 2023 OpenAI announced the general availability of GPT-4 Starting July 6, all existing OpenAI developers “with a history of successful payments” can access GPT-4. We’re very excited for the impact they’ll have here at OpenAI,” OpenAI wrote in a brief post published to its official blog. users at launch.

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