Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 16, 2011

For example, all residents with the qualifying disabilities in Australia, Denmark and Qatar, to pick just three examples, now have free access to Bookshare thanks to our joint efforts with local and national disability groups in these countries.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

is an iOS App that allows users to earn points for doing things like volunteering at local food banks or animal shelters. Points can later be redeemed for deals and free items at local merchants. If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 2, 2017

Snappa is a simple-to-use graphics design tool with a built-in stock photo, illustration, and icons library. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. For small regional nonprofits, the service could be used for local events and regular meetups.

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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. Dulingo provides access to free online language learning tools. For nonprofit social media managers that work internationally, Dulingo’s design and gamification make it fun to learn the basics of a new language.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I have good news: For $5 million a year, we can build a global library that provides tens of millions of people around the world who are blind, low vision, or dyslexic free access to books that will work for them. Our Bookshare library has over 550,000 books that have been delivered digitally over 10 million times.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Spanish is the second-most-common language in the United States, with an estimated 40 million Americans speaking Spanish as their primary language. Spanish-Language Products Available at TechSoup: read more. Accounting software — perfect for organizations that work across borders.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. Rote is a web-based grant writing tool that saves your past language in one place – organized, filterable, and at your fingertips when you need it to write a first draft of a new proposal. Rote :: inrote.app.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. Giving Library :: givinglibrary.org. If you are interested in having your nonprofit listed on the Giving Library, you can apply here. Local Impact Map :: datamarket.azure.com/application.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

I explained Benetech’s efforts to grow the impact of our Bookshare library globally, specifically discussing partnerships with groups in India and Kenya. Of course, we’d have to focus on local language content. While English might be very useful in Nairobi, Swahili would be the language needed in rural Kenya.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

It can also translate your messages in multiple languages. TechSoup is a nonprofit with a clear focus: providing other nonprofits and libraries with technology that empowers them to fulfill their missions and serve their communities. In addition to text quotes, Quoto also has a digital library of quotes embedded on images.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

is an iOS App that allows users to earn points for doing things like volunteering at local food banks or animal shelters. Points can later be redeemed for deals and free items at local merchants. If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 5, 2008

The native people of Guam are called Chamorros, and the language is resurgent. It's actually hard to get local cuisine in the restaurants, far easier to get Japanese food. It's actually hard to get local cuisine in the restaurants, far easier to get Japanese food. education laws as part of receiving extensive funding.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2018

Snappa is a simple-to-use graphic design tool with a built-in stock photo, illustration, and icons library. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. Dulingo provides access to free online language learning tools. Snappa :: snappa.com.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

CityOptions is an environmental initiative to help local governments—particularly small and mid-sized ones—plan and execute effective sustainability initiatives. Our goal is to revolutionize the effectiveness of local governments in responding to climate change and other environmental impacts. Read2Go Bookshare goes mobile!

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 18, 2013

rst glance, implementing a speech synthesizer/recognizer library may seem like a relatively simple task of determining the phonetic sounds of the input and outputting a corresponding sequence of audible signals. In fact, the task requires a considerable grasp of both Natural Language Processing and Digital Signal Processing techniques.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 27, 2008

Plus, as we get more permissions from India publishers, we'll be able to source English language books locally. And, hopefully in the future we'll be able to do books in Indian languages like Hindi and Tamil (and many others, of course). I assume that this is like what Google Books uses to scan library books.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. But, some companies want to empty the library shelves and insist that only books that can’t be purchased are allowed to be stocked in such libraries. Bookshare was created under the Section 121 U.S.

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VisionLink

NOVEMBER 27, 2009

One of the past presidents of the AIRS board said it well: "The AIRS/211 LA County Taxonomy is to the information and referral field what the Library of Congress catalog system is to libraries, nationally and internationally.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. For small regional nonprofits, the service could be used for local events and regular meetups. Dulingo provides access to free online language learning tools. Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: archive.org/web.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

For the most part, the English language textbooks were as modern as textbooks you'd see in mainland U.S. The books in the local languages were not in as great a shape. In this school, they also had content in Pingelapese, which is a dialect related to the main island language, Pohnpeian.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Anaconda also launched the AI Navigator, a curated library of 200+ pre-trained models for natural language processing, code generation and more. The desktop app offered enterprise-grade security and local AI deployment, enabling users to harness generative AI while safeguarding sensitive data.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

If youve used one to build up a library over the years, that one is most likely to be in tune with your musical tastes. Other notable music streaming services Jeff Dunn for Engadget Deezer Deezer has an attractive app, CD-quality streaming, a competitive library, a (limited) free tier and the option to upload local MP3 files.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

On December 9, 2021, a critical zero-day vulnerability affecting Apache’s Log4j2 library, a Java-based logging utility, was disclosed to the world and broke the internet. He leads the product management and engineering functions for VMDR (Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response) at Qualys.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Room to Read , a San Francisco based non-profit, will help us make that happen by bringing libraries and literacy to the world's poorest regions. Based on my experience with the Sharing Foundation in Cambodia, I know how important it is for children in developing countries to have books to read in their own language.

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NTEN

JULY 22, 2021

Some major victories were also won on both the local and federal levels in getting government recognition and support around digital access. We saw more organizations and individuals becoming digital equity champions, affirming that we need government support in the sector.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 22, 2012

Bookshare , Benetech's online library for people who are blind or otherwise print-disabled, is fortunate to have a variety of summer interns and volunteers working in our Palo Alto office this year. Our main focus has been our text book image description project.

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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2015

In part 1 of this series, we introduced MathAndCoding , a nonprofit that offers teen-led programming classes for children in public libraries in the Silicon Valley area. As the first librarian to host it, Karin Bricker, library manager for youth and outreach services at Mountain View Public Library, had to overcome some initial skepticism.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

NIM microservices include everything needed to run optimized models on PCs with RTX GPUs, including prebuilt engines for specific GPUs, the NVIDIA TensorRT software development kit (SDK), the open-source NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM library for accelerated inference using Tensor Cores, and more. For example, Black Forest Labs FLUX.1 With FP4, FLUX.1

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NVIDIA AI Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Sometimes a case — like a malpractice suit or a labor dispute — requires special expertise, so judges send court clerks to a law library, looking for precedents and specific cases they can cite. Like a good judge, large language models ( LLMs ) can respond to a wide variety of human queries. An example application for RAG on a PC.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

If youre thinking about getting a live TV streaming service, youre probably looking for some combination of live news, local stations, linear channels and live sports without having to sign a cable contract. Still, a live TV streaming service is your best bet for the most comprehensive access to news, sports, linear and local channels.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

“The real game changer is that a small advertiser can run a great-quality ad in a minute or two,” Wedel said, pointing out the potential for localization and personalization. But what’s unclear is whether all of those voice actors chose to be included in Adthos’ library in the first place.

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Engadget

MARCH 31, 2025

Its fairly simple to set up, too, though youll need to buy an external module if you want to store clips locally. Though Music Unlimited isnt a top pick in our guide to the best music services , it still gets you lossless streaming quality and an extensive library of both music and podcasts. Also at Best Buy and The Home Depot.

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2022

As AT&T said last year, the deal will allow the two companies to “combine WarnerMedia’s storied content library of popular and valuable IP with Discovery’s global footprint, trove of local-language content and deep regional expertise across more than 200 countries and territories.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

UBITS offers companies an annual subscription per user so that they pay to give their employees unlimited access to a virtual content library and live sessions. The startup also partners with “top local experts” to offer micro courses and live classes.

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Engadget

MARCH 10, 2025

The 8-inch display is fine and the DualSense-style controls are great, so PlayStation diehards who want a second screen for local PS5 streaming may see the appeal. They arent necessarily ideal for emulation or playing the latest multiplatform titles; instead, they often have distinct game libraries.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

Nonprofits, faith-based organizations, libraries, and networks such as the NetSquared Local should be leading this movement as they are already committed to social good. AirBnB will allow hosts to donate to local causes; will add smoke detectors, will work on joint campaigns with the city and improve disaster preparedness.

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Towards Data Science

JANUARY 26, 2023

Please note that our choice of specific services, APIs, libraries, etc., For this and all subsequent code snippets, we assume that your AWS account and local environment have been appropriately configured to access Amazon S3. There a number of methods for downloading a file to a local disk. client('s3') s3.upload_file('2GB.bin',

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