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Duolingo can’t teach you how to speak a language, but now it wants to try

TechCrunch

It has a popular and meme-ified mascot in the form of the owl Duo, a creative and engaging product, and ambitious plans for expansion.There’s just one key question in the midst of all those milestones: Does anyone actually learn a language using Duolingo? million premium subscribers and $190 million in booked revenues in 2020.

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7 Keys to an Effective Social Media Ambassador Program

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Some supporters may jump at the chance to be a social media ambassador for an organization they care about, but do you really want messages about your initiatives intermingling with political rants or drinking memes? Do you use “they” in the singular to avoid binary language? Be direct with your expectations.

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How Bunny the dog is pushing scientists’ buttons

The Verge

Most of the memes are really funny, I got a good laugh out of them,” she says. Bunny’s journey started when Devine saw videos from Christina Hunger, a speech-language pathologist who has been teaching her dog Stella to use a board full of buttons with words prerecorded on them. Devine has been enjoying the parodies.

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The product-led growth behind edtech’s most downloaded app

TechCrunch

Duolingo CEO and co-founder Luis von Ahn was tired of the gray and dreary design aesthetic edtech companies used to emulate universities. Duolingo didn’t just throw out the old colors though — it wanted to completely rethink language learning from the bottom up for mobile. he remembers asking. Each skill is a prerequisite for another.

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Loot is a viral social network that looks like nothing you’ve ever seen

The Verge

When I wrote in March about non-fungible tokens , or NFTs, I tried to dazzle you by rattling off some of the more impressive sales numbers from the time: $600,000 for the Nyan Cat meme, $5.8 In December, he began to teach himself Solidity, the programming language for creating smart contracts on Ethereum. That brings us to Dom Hofmann.

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Reaching Gen Z on social media: Expert advice vs. Gen Z opinion

Candid

But other suggestions, like using pop culture slang and memes to catch Gen Z’s shorter attention span, feel a little off. Prefers language that is both relatable and easy to understand (with some experts saying it’s important to use their slang ). While I’m not an expert, I’d say that some of the tips out there seem pretty accurate.

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Sayso is launching an API to dial down people’s accents a wee bit

TechCrunch

Funny memes and people shouting at their cars aside, it’s a real problem. A lot of speech-to-text technologies use natural language processing (NLP) to take a qualified guess at what someone is saying. The interesting part is that this is language and accent independent. “This is suitable for real-time processing.

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