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Visit to Qatar

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after my first visit to the country of Qatar. The government of Qatar hosted the conference, and underwrote travel and accommodation. Mada: Qatar Assistive Technology Center Since the conference didn’t get formally going until noon on Sunday, I had the chance to squeeze in a morning visit to Qatar’s ICT Ministry.

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Bookshare without Borders: #3/3

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The second blog post looked at our growing Bookshare Spanish-language program. Now another important aspect of our strategy for enhancing Bookshare’s new language capabilities is developing the capacity to handle non-European scripts and languages so that the content may be presented in its original form in our members’ native languages.

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FanDuel founder and Sequoia bet on Spanish-language fantasy sports app Draftea

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Besides Jaime Misrahi, the core founding team includes Alejandra Lascurain, former product head at Mexico’s largest neobank; Miguel Gutiérrez-Barquín, who previously led growth at Rappi; Joe Cohen, Vercel’s former head of engineering; and Andreas Assad, who worked at EA Sports. Draftea founder and CEO, Alán Jaime Misrahi.

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Benetech: President's Update

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Our team has been thinking hard about scaling positive social impact of technology work. Through a funded partnership with the Mada Center in Qatar, in 2011 we will pilot Arabic language capability and content, enabling Bookshare to start serving readers throughout the Arabic-speaking world.

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Draftea kicks off LatAm fantasy football with NFL partnership, fresh funding

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. “There are 50 million NFL fans in Mexico, and it’s very interesting because everyone in Mexico has their local [soccer] team, they have their European team, they have their NFL team, their NBA team, their baseball team. The Draftea team on a video call Image Credits: Draftea.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

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Our team also made a dramatic investment in teacher training efforts, by not only providing several webinars each month, but also delivering our hands-on professional development workshops nationwide. The news that this is the largest accessible Arabic book collection in the world is bittersweet. Is Spanish more your bag?

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

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ChatGPT was recently super-charged by GPT-4 , the latest language-writing model from OpenAI’s labs. For example, having the model always respond in a given language. The entire team has joined OpenAI to work on our core products including ChatGPT.” And OpenAI is heavily investing in it.

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