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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. Julien Frei and Lea Perret [Image: 6pm in Paris] Learning as a lifelong journey Perret imagined 6pm in Paris as a way to help students learn French beyond the classroom.

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Unlocking Technology-for-Good Innovation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The typical incubator model works well where a team has formed around a technology innovation and is looking to graduate a for-profit company. What happens, however, with technology applications that could provide great social benefit but that won’t generate big profits? The typical for-profit incubator has a funnel of startup teams.

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BYU ESR conference on Social Entrepreneurship

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

His projection was that students were going to save more money on textbooks after three semesters of Flat World operations than investors had put into it. The Bookshare team is excited because we can take these books and do all the accessibility work because they are under an open license! I think they are onto something.

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Holberton raises $20M as it pivots to become an edtech SaaS company

TechCrunch

The original promise of Holberton was that it provided students — which it selects through a blind admissions process — with a well-rounded software development education akin to a college education for free. A number of students also accused the school of not giving them the education it had promised.

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Transfr raises $12M Series A to bring virtual reality to manufacturing-plant floors

TechCrunch

Companies have influence over the training they need, and students can turn into entry-level employees within vocational schools, on-site or within training facilities. Transfr makes money by charging a software-as-a-service licensing fee to companies, which can go for up to $10,000 depending on the size of the workforce.

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President’s Update - Spring 2012

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re not about profit ; we’re about impact. Our users depend on us to get things right, whether it’s protecting human rights information from attackers, ensuring a student has an accessible textbook in time for school, or guiding an environmentalist in the best ways to deploy their limited resources.

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The EU’s AI Act could have a chilling effect on open source efforts, experts warn

TechCrunch

In a recent example, Stable Diffusion, an open source AI system that generates images from text prompts, was released with a license prohibiting certain types of content. But it quickly found an audience within communities that use such AI tools to create pornographic deepfakes of celebrities. ” That well may be achievable.