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14 predictions for 2014 that media experts find unlikely

The Next Web

I thought it might be nice to turn to my network of authors, strategists, social media executives, and entrepreneurs and ask them one question: “What is one prediction you’re seeing others make for 2014 that you just flat-out disagree with?”. I’m so sick of seeing that Facebook is doomed because teens don’t think it is cool anymore.

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Roblox, Discord, OpenAI and Google found new child safety group

Engadget

Roblox, Discord, OpenAI and Google are launching a nonprofit organization called ROOST , or Robust Open Online Safety Tools, which hopes "to build scalable, interoperable safety infrastructure suited for the AI era."

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Tunisian edtech startup GOMYCODE raises $8M to expand across Africa and the Middle East

TechCrunch

Yahya Bouhlel started coding in his early teens. His new job was to open a subsidiary for a French open source tech startup and that required hiring developers on the ground. Students are required to spend 50% of their time learning online and the other half at one of GOMYCODE’s network of 20 physical centers.

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Daily Crunch: Sources say creator platform Fireside will cozy up to a $125M Series A

TechCrunch

The company has built an open source data streaming tool. TikTok talks teen safety : The social service is bringing some of its safety tools aimed at minors around the world. Now, to dive into funding rounds, let’s start with a coven of data-related events: Redpanda raises $50M : Today in good startup names, am I right?

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7 LGBT Tech Projects You Need to Know

Tech Soup

Formed in response to the growing employment and economic barriers that plague the transgender (sometimes called "trans") community, Trans*H4ck is a series of hackathons that bring visibility to trans entrepreneurs and innovators while developing new and useful open-source tech products that benefit the trans community.

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Report: Thousands of harmful AI chatbots threaten minor safety

Mashable Tech

The trend has prompted alarm from child safety watchdogs and parents, heightened by high profile cases of teens who have engaged in extreme, sometimes life-threatening , behavior in the wake of personal interactions with companion chatbots. and the prevalence of deceptively-labeled mental health chatbots.

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2014 NTEN Awards at 14LCS

NTEN

This year''s inaugural Leading Change Summit brought together an amazing group of attendees: passionate people who know they aren’t alone in believing there’s another way to tackle a social issue, who see the world in a multichannel network, and who are looking to flip our cycle of adopting new technology on its head.

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