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Bookshare without Borders: #3/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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France pledges to build one gigawatt of new nuclear to speed up its AI ambitions

Engadget

The news follows Macron and United Arab Emirates leader Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan's February 6 announcement to put between 30 million and 50 million ($31 million to $51.6 Most of these chips are made by Nvidia, which FluidStack claims will send chips over when they need them. million) towards a one-gigawatt AI center.

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An online propaganda campaign used AI-generated headshots to create fake journalists

The Verge

They argue for more sanctions against Iran, praise certain Gulf states like the United Arab Emirates, and criticize Qatar (currently the subject of a diplomatic and economic embargo from the UAE and other states in the Middle East because of the country’s alleged support for terrorism).

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Headout raises $12M, plans to hire 150+ people as domestic travel rebounds

TechCrunch

It’s seeing the highest demand in places with relatively high vaccination rates, like the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union and the United Arab Emirates. . “To The company began focusing on domestic tourism in the last quarter of 2020.

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5 takeaways on trust in NGOs to manage new innovations and technologies 

Candid

The innovations and technologies mentioned in the survey are: green energy, such as biofuels, liquid hydrogen, and wind and solar power; artificial intelligence, including machine learning, natural language processing, and generative AI; gene-based medicine, such as mRNA vaccines, gene splicing, and gene therapy; and genetically modified foods.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We hope to work on this thorny challenge further with our partner, the Mada Center, in Qatar, and benefit others throughout the region, such as the members served by our new partner, Emirates Association for the Visually Impaired, in the United Arab Emirates. Is Spanish more your bag?

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DigestAI’s 19-year-old founder wants to make education addictive

TechCrunch

We’re calling it ‘federated learning,’ where it’s sort of siloed in and language models are operating on a use case basis,” Pativada said. At first, he just made the app as a tool for his classmates — but his work ended up being honored by the United Arab Emirates’ government.