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EWA, which taps into popular media to teach languages, hits 51M downloads and 3.5M MAUs and raises its first outside funding

TechCrunch

In one of the more recent developments, a language learning app called EWA — which has built a media-based approach to language acquisition, with excerpts from films and TV, and books, to familiarize learners with vocabulary and speaking — has passed 51 million downloads and picked up 3.5

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AI touches everything, everywhere all at once at Disrupt

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In the past six months alone, TechCrunch has written nearly 600 articles focused on the impact of AI technology in our lives across industries as varied as film , healthcare , marketing and supply chains to name but a few. Like it or not, AI is part of our lives from here on out — for better or worse.

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How Ryan Reynolds and Mint Mobile worked without becoming the joke

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Lenovo famously hired Ashton Kutcher as a product engineer to help develop the Yoga 2 tablet, on which I assume you are all reading this post. Maximum Effort was founded to help promote the actor’s first Deadpool film. The film raked in $783.1 The bid appears to have worked.

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How To Implement Data Management Into Your AI Strategy

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Remember the films like “Terminator” or novels like “Robopocalypse”? Given the pace of development in the space of AI, we are witnessing the gap between fiction and reality closing day by day. The first impression most of us have about AI is likely from the sci-fi movies where robots overpower humans. But can it do it without the data?

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Superplastic raises $20M to expand its cartoon influencer universe

TechCrunch

The company owns an animated collab house of “synthetic superstars” — characters who live on social media and pop up everywhere else through partnerships with celebrities, iconic fashion brands and gaming platforms. New ‘No Ads’ Social Network Ello Is Blowing Up Right Now. Superplastic’s proposition is a strange one.

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11 most in-demand gen AI jobs companies are hiring for

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Businesses are turning to gen AI to streamline business processes, develop proprietary AI technology, and reduce manual efforts in order to free up employees to take on more intensive tasks. Generative AI is quickly changing the landscape of the business world, with rapid adoption rates across nearly every industry.

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Meet the Black Female Founders from TC Include at TC Sessions: Justice 2021

TechCrunch

We partnered with various founder organizations — who in turn nominated promising early-stage startup founders — and collectively provide educational resources and mentorship to help these young founders develop and succeed over the course of the year. 1 online learning platform for social impact. Founded by Kimberly Moore.

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