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How a bot-fighting test turned into edtech’s most iconic brand, Duolingo

TechCrunch

student at top-ranked Carnegie Mellon University when he attended a talk by Yahoo’s chief scientist about 10 of Yahoo’s biggest headaches. One issue stood out: hackers were creating bots that register thousands of email addresses to send spam. Luis von Ahn, the inventor of CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA, and co-founder of Duolingo.

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QuickVid uses AI to generate short-form videos, complete with voiceovers

TechCrunch

Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI are being sued in a class action lawsuit that accuses them of violating copyright law by allowing Copilot, a code-generating system, to regurgitate sections of licensed code without providing credit. Moderation and spam. Copilot was co-developed by OpenAI and GitHub, which Microsoft owns.) images). .

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Twitteracy (Twitter Literacy)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sure, Twitter is banal and trivial, full of self-promotion and outright spam. Students will acquire the tools needed to make their tweets glimmer with a complete lack of forethought, their Facebook updates ring with self-importance, and their blog entries shimmer with literary pithiness. It's called poetic license when writers do it!

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What does the future hold for your nonprofit in 2021? Look inside this crystal ball…

Pamela Grow

One of our long-time students wrote in: “We’re 74% of the way to our revenue budget and we’re not quite halfway through our fiscal year and are up 322% year over year (last year we raised almost $770K) How are we doing it? Far too many of them will view this as a license to abandon direct mail. They will be making a major mistake.