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Is For-Profit The Future Of Education In Brazil?
iOS 8.1.3 Arrives
Why Is The University Still Here?
Messaging App Jott Is Blowing Up Among Junior High And High Schoolers
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Skipping Copper: The Consumerization Of Edtech
Your Algorithmic Self Meets Super-Intelligent AI
Facebook Platform Now Open Source: fbOpen Released
Rocketboom Founder Puts His Twitter Account On Sale
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OLPC 2.0: A Striking eBook and a Step In the Right Direction
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Peter Thiel: We're in a Bubble and It's Not the Internet. It's Higher Education.
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So, That’s It For Thunderbird
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The broken edtech ecosystem investors once avoided is changing
MOOC enrollment drops at HarvardX and MITx after free certifications disappear
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Sony wants to digitize education records using the blockchain
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Mona Lisa frown: Machine learning brings old paintings and photos to life
Zoom’s earliest investors are betting millions on a better Zoom for schools
Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets
Zoom introduces new SDK to help developers tap into video services
Google’s new voice recognition system works instantly and offline (if you have a Pixel)
Don’t outsource your parenting to a spy lamp
2U set to acquire non-profit edX for deal north of $600M
To save independent journalism, media must embrace web3 innovation
iHeartRadio modernizes the radio call-in with launch of ‘Talk Back,’ a tool for sending voice messages to show hosts
Perlego raises $50M to build out its vision of being the ‘Spotify for textbooks’
KQED launches free media literacy training course
Meta launches Sphere, an AI knowledge tool based on open web content, used initially to verify citations on Wikipedia
Now anyone can build apps that use DALL-E 2 to generate images
After inking its OpenAI deal, Shutterstock rolls out a generative AI toolkit to create images based on text prompts
‘Nothing, Forever,’ an AI ‘Seinfeld’ spoof, is the next ‘Twitch Plays Pokémon’
Twitter to end free access to its API in Elon Musk's latest monetization push
Damus, another decentralized social networking app, arrives to take on Twitter
Meta is working on a decentralized social app
WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires an ActivityPub plugin so blogs can join the Fediverse
Post, a publisher-focused Twitter alternative, launches to public
WordPress.com challenges Substack with launch of paid newsletters
Twitter is a mess, so former employees are creating Spill as an alternative
Gamified e-learning platform Kahoot gets acquired in a $1.7B deal led by Goldman Sachs, Lego and more
Maybe showing off an AI-generated fake TV episode during a writers' strike is a bad idea
Here's why Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter to 'X' is good, actually
OpenAI proposes a new way to use GPT-4 for content moderation | TechCrunch
WordPress blogs can now be followed in the fediverse, including Mastodon
Getty Images launches an AI-powered image generator
With Postmarks, social bookmarking is back -- but this time it's built on the fediverse | TechCrunch
Everything you know about the podcast industry is a lie | TechCrunch
OpenAI inks deal with Axel Springer on licensing news for model training | TechCrunch
Accenture to acquire Udacity to build a learning platform focused on AI | TechCrunch


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