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This new language app is like Netflix meets Masterclass, but for learning French

Fast Company Tech

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. Since the pandemic, her team also launched online classes toover 50,000 students. The outputs may be similar but the motivations are different.

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Why Now is the Time for Boys & Girls Clubs of America to Invest in Digital

Saleforce Nonprofit

For more than a century, Boys & Girls Clubs around the country opened their doors each day to millions of kids and teens, literally and symbolically. By: Sara Leutzinger, National Director, External Communications & Content Strategy for Boys & Girls Club of America. Opening doors.

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Bay Area Teens Share the Love of Coding (Part 1)

Tech Soup

On a balmy Californian Saturday afternoon, 14 kids, 8 boys and 6 girls, are figuring out the profit and loss of a lemonade stand. It has trained more than 470 students seventh grade and up in 13 libraries throughout Silicon Valley. It was recently recognized by the City of San Jose for raising awareness of computer science among teens.

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Tech forgot its umbrella

TechCrunch

of all VC funds in 2022, a drop from 2021 Image Credits: Emily Malan Gas Discord has acquired Gas, a compliments-based social media app for teens. Teens might be asked to choose which of four friends is the best DJ or has the best smile. Amazing advice for anyone who is a student or just … new. Billion, reports Bloomberg.

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Disrupt is around the corner — Here are the fintech players taking the stage

TechCrunch

Its Greenlight Family Cash Mastercard is a departure from the typical debit card most companies offer to teens. The company also turned its net loss from last year into a profit. million and that non-GAAP variable profit climbed to $32.9 million while gross profit jumped to $48.8 billion in the second quarter, up from $6.81

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This company is making digital humans to serve the metaverse

The Verge

He acknowledges that technology can improve schooling, but it’s a complex issue, and the idea of students using AI isn’t inherently dangerous. “It Soul Machines’ Humans OS 2.0 But these options, for all their business-centric benefits, could potentially feed existing prejudices and create a false sense of reality.

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Amid controversy, Dispo confirms Series A funding, high-profile advisors and investors

TechCrunch

Now, early investors in Dispo like Spark Capital, Seven Seven Six and Unshackled have committed to donate any potential profits from their investment in the app to organizations working with survivors of sexual assault. Early investors in Dispo to donate any potential profits from the photo-sharing app.

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