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Technology Has Shaped Human Knowledge for Centuries. Generative AI Is Set to Transform It Yet Again.

Singularity Hub

We stand on the brink of the next knowledge revolution. Where would we be without knowledge? Everything from the building of spaceships to the development of new therapies has come about through the creation, sharing, and validation of knowledge. Today, we stand on the brink of the next knowledge revolution.

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Flat World Knowledge Partnership

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

By announcing we're doing open content college textbooks with Flat World Knowledge, a cool for-profit startup. Because they are covered by open content licenses, we don't have to have people prove they have qualifying disabilities. How were we going to top that one?

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Inside the booming edibles economy

Fast Company Tech

Cozzolino and his team cultivated organic hemp and marijuana, produced its own low-dose gummies with natural organic ingredients, and sold the product to licensed dispensaries. He let go of his cannabis licenses, downsized his facilities, and within 60 days built a website where he could sell directly to customers.

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Choose the Best Magento Agency for your Business

Byte Technology

You want to have explicit knowledge and understanding of what you need before reaching any Magento development company. Furthermore, your eCommerce business should determine the numbers needed for hosting and licensing costs. And this leads to more difficulties with eCommerce stores. Be Clear About Your Needs.

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How machine learning can be used to identify microplastics

Fast Company Tech

It does not require the user of the machine learning algorithm to have any detailed knowledge of the algorithm or its training data. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The user just needs to be able to run the prediction algorithm on a new set of spectra. Read the original article.

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This new language app is like Netflix meets Masterclass, but for learning French

Fast Company Tech

The concept is simple yet effective: Each week, you pick a short film from a curated collection of French licensed movies. Diligent learners can also review a phrasebook of key words and idioms, then take a short quiz to reinforce their knowledge. For now, the team has licensed more than 60 short films by local filmmakers.

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Bookshare to Convert Open Content Textbooks to Accessible Formats

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Accessibility is a huge asset of open content materials, which are frequently released under the Creative Commons licenses and are freely distributable. We've been big fans of OERs and CC licensing, and it seems like the field is on the brink of really going to scale. We also can (and do) make them freely available on our website.