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The 10 most innovative augmented and virtual reality companies of 2025

Fast Company Tech

Texas A&M University has brought AR/VR production into its celebrated Visualization program , letting students learn to build state-of-the-art virtual productions before they leave college. The businesses in Fast Company s Most Innovative Companies in AR/VR reflect that trend. In the U.S.,

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AllRight, an English language learning app for children, raises $5M from Genesis Investments

TechCrunch

The Ukraine-based startup will now enter new markets and strengthen its positions in Poland, Russia, Spain and Latin America. Since its launch in 2017, AllRight has launched Spanish-English, Polish-English and Russian-English language pairs and garnered 9,000 students, who take 50,000 lessons per month. There are approximately 1.5

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How You Can Help The People of Ukraine Right Now

Qgiv

American University in Bulgaria created a fund to support students affected by the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. UNICEF is mobilizing to provide humanitarian access to families and children who have suffered the adverse effects of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. American University in Bulgaria.

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Ghost kitchens ride into college campuses on the backs of delivery bots

TechCrunch

As more universities around the United States slowly become home to such robots, they’re finding that the bots are not just a neat new feature to appease hungry students or promote their willingness to welcome innovation. And campuses typically have neatly paved sidewalks, which are perfect for the small wheels of delivery robots.

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Kahoot drops $50M on Drops to add language learning to its gamified education stable

TechCrunch

Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Hungary, Ukraine and Russia. For students, educators and parents, they have become a way of connecting and teaching at a time when physical schools are either closed, or drastically curtailed in what they can do, in order to help limit the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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Go read this report about how researchers used Google Maps to track the invasion of Ukraine

The Verge

According @googlemaps , there is a "traffic jam" at 3:15 in the morning on the road from Belgorod, Russia to the Ukrainian border. Lewis and his students discovered the “jam” on February 23rd — just before the start of the Russian invasion. It starts *exactly* where we saw a Russian formation of armor and IFV/APCs show up yesterday.

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Why invest in Ukrainian startups today?

TechCrunch

Ukraine has been defending itself from Russia for 11 months now. In 2022, a record number of students enrolled in IT-adjacent majors. On the other, you have IT companies setting up bootcamps in said universities, scouting for talent and supporting students with equipment and practical internships. Why is this an important sign?

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