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The most innovative companies in applied AI for 2025

Fast Company Tech

In November 2024 the company released DeepL Voice for Meetings, which lets participants speak in their preferred language during meetings and video calls, with real-time captions of others comments in their chosen language. DeepL Voice for Conversations does the same thing, but for one-on-one conversations happening on mobile devices.

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The most innovative companies in education in 2025

Fast Company Tech

This year, the most innovative companies in the education sector are tackling a dizzying array of challenges facing students and schools alikenot to mention parents. As a teletherapy platform, Parallel Learning enables schools and special education providers to counsel students and track their progress.

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Namecoach raises cash to teach users how to correctly pronounce names

TechCrunch

In a piece for Fast Company, Madhumita Mallick, the head of inclusion, equity and impact at Carta, recalls how her name became a source of anxiety even when she was a grade-school student. even just stumbling over a name they had never seen before, the tone set by a teacher about a student’s name [is] something significant.”

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Only 2% of tech jobs are held by Black women. Cristina Mancini knows thats unacceptable.

Mashable Tech

When diverse voices are absent from the tech industry, innovation suffers, and systemic biases are perpetuated. This video-based coding academy teaches coding skills in a fun, accessible, and engaging format on YouTube and other social media platforms (for free!). and one designed for middle schoolers, which is Code Along.

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Back to school: The best apps for students

TechCrunch

Summer is coming to an end, which means students will (hopefully) be in air-conditioned classrooms and away from this unrelenting heat wave. From math problem solvers and note-taking tools to book trackers and summary apps, we’ve compiled a list of our favorite educational and organizational apps for students to try this year.

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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

My mother taught me many things, and I feel like with every year she teaches me more – whether she knows it or not. Her students consistently score at the top of over 120 schools in the Arusha district of Tanzania. I’m incredibly inspired to participate in this year’s To Mama With Love campaign from Epic Change.

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Hadley China

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In 2005 the principal of Hadley-China, Rongqiang Xia, contacted Hadley students and staff who spoke native English to see if they would like to teach Chinese Hadley students English over the internet. Hadley-China students, support staff from Hadley-China, and native English speakers log onto a website at the same time.

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