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Robots Could Help Kids Become Better Readers, According to a New Study

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-19 20:00:04

Learning to read is difficult, and reading aloud is anxiety inducing for plenty of kids. From not being able to pronounce a word, to being mocked by their peers for stumbling while speaking, reading out loud can cause anxiety and make kids less likely to want to read. The University of Chicago, University of Illinois Chicago and University of Wisconsin-Madison have released a new study that shows there may be an unlikely ally that can help. Social robots may be the key in helping kids build conf

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Google's new study tool personalizes your learning material - here's how

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-09-20 04:42:48

MirageC/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Learn Your Way is now available in Google Labs. Google's education-centered AI models personalize material. AI companies continue to market study tools to younger users. Google is introducing a new way to interact with textbooks, using gen AI to personalize your studying methods. The experience, called Learn Your Way, uses LearnLM, Google's education-specific models, to first person

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IEEE 2881: Learning Metadata Terms (LMT) Empowers Learning in the AI Age

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-09-22 14:00:29

Introduction Learning Metadata Terms (LMT) is a standard that connects metadata terms in practice with the purpose of solving many use cases common to e-learning. While there are other metadata standards, they have been inadequate for keeping up with machine-readable data requirements, which modern AI needs to achieve significance. While data models attempt to be free of technical bindings, there are fundamental design decisions that relate to whether data is intended to be stored in a graph da

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This new AI voice trainer can help you learn a new language

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-09-23 11:00:25

MirageC/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Babbel Speaks walks new speakers through language tests. The AI-powered voice trainer targets beginners. Babbel aims to go beyond language knowledge to in-practice use. While learning any aspect of a new language is hard, actually speaking it is often the most intimidating and challenging. Babbel Speak, a new AI-powered feature from language learning platform Babbel, aims to help, ta

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Robots Could Help Kids Conquer Reading Anxiety, a New Study Suggests

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-25 20:10:02

For many children, reading aloud can be nerve-wracking. The fear of stumbling over the text, mispronouncing words and being judged for it in front of a group of peers can spike anxiety and dampen confidence. A new study by researchers from the University of Chicago, University of Illinois Chicago and University of Wisconsin–Madison suggests a surprising ally — robots — may ease that stress. As AI sparks concerns about whether it undermines learning and the effort required to think critically, t

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After selling to Spotify, Anchor’s co-founders are back with Oboe, an AI-powered app for learning

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-01 20:27:55

The co-founders who sold their last startup Anchor to Spotify are launching their next project: Oboe, an AI-powered educational app that enables anyone to create lightweight, flexible learning courses on nearly any topic they choose, simply by entering a prompt. These courses can span a variety of verticals, including topics like science, history, foreign language, news, pop culture, preparing for life changes, and more. At launch, Oboe — a name inspired by the root of the Japanese word meaning

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'We're all kind of in shock.' Oracle's revenue projections leave analysts slack-jawed

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-10-02 12:51:37

Oracle Chair and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison speaks at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Sept. 16, 2019. John DiFucci from Guggenheim Securities said he was "blown away." TD Cowen's Derrick Wood called it a "momentous quarter." And Brad Zelnick of Deutsche Bank said, "We're all kind of in shock, in a very good way." That's how the analysts opened their comments and questions during Oracle's quarterly earnings call on Tuesday, as the company's stock price was in the

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Compare the New iPhone Models

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-03 12:26:25

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NotebookLM moves one step closer to replacing your real-life tutor

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-04 03:54:39

Stephen Schenck / Android Authority TL;DR Google is introducing a range of new NotebookLM features to improve learning. NotebookLM gets quizzes and flashcards, along with an Explain option, to help you memorize better. It also gets multiple new formats for reports and a Learning Guide that lets you ask open-ended questions and adapts to your learning style. While AI, in general, is marketed to enhance learning, NotebookLM has proven to especially boost understanding of concepts and enhance p

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New Apple Card offer allows users to earn boosted cash back with Uber and Uber Eats

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-06 19:39:52

For a limited time, Apple is offering a boosted 5% cash back on Uber and Uber Eats, allowing users to earn some extra cash back on their rides, food delivery, and more. This offer runs through September 30th, and you’ll need to use your Apple Card with Apple Pay to earn this special cash back rate. Using the card number for your Apple Card won’t allow you to earn this cash back bonus. There’s a $500 spend cap for this cash back offer, allowing you to earn up to $25. Plus, all Apple Card users

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ChatGPT Glossary: 56 AI Terms Everyone Should Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-08 15:23:03

AI is rapidly changing the world around us. It's eliminating jobs and flooding the internet with slop. Thanks to the massive popularity of ChatGPT to Google cramming AI summaries at the top of its search results, AI is completely taking over the internet. With AI, you can get instant answers to pretty much any question. It can feel like talking to someone who has a doctoral degree in everything. But that aspect of AI chatbots is only one part of the AI landscape. Sure, having ChatGPT help do yo

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The Paradigm

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 15:30:19

Over the past decade, some of the most remarkable AI breakthroughs—AlphaGo, AlphaStar, AlphaFold1, VPT, OpenAI Five, ChatGPT—have all shared a common thread: they start with large-scale data gathering (self-supervised or imitation learning, or SSL) and then use reinforcement learning to refine their performance toward a specific goal. This marriage of general knowledge acquisition and focused, reward-driven specialization has emerged as a the paradigm by which we can reliably train AI systems to

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Salesforce issues weak revenue guidance even as earnings beat estimates

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-10-12 04:32:43

Marc Benioff, co-founder and CEO of Salesforce, sits for an interview in San Francisco on April 25, 2025. Salesforce issued disappointing guidance on Wednesday, even as earnings and revenue topped estimates for the fiscal second quarter. The stock dropped 4% in extended trading. Here's how the company did in comparison with LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: $2.91 adjusted vs. $2.78 expected $2.91 adjusted vs. $2.78 expected Revenue: $10.24 billion vs. $10.14 billion expected Revenue incre

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CoreWeave acquires agent-training startup OpenPipe

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-10-12 08:38:36

CoreWeave, which provides cloud servers to large companies training AI models, has struck an agreement to acquire OpenPipe, a 2-year-old Y Combinator-backed startup that helps enterprises develop customized AI agents with reinforcement learning, the companies announced on Wednesday. “Reinforcement learning is emerging as a pivotal force to strengthen model performance on agentic and reasoning tasks,” said Brian Venturo, Co-founder of CoreWeave, in a statement to TechCrunch. “By combining OpenPi

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Can an AI doppelgänger help me do my job?

technologyreview.com James O'Donnell 2025-10-16 03:00:00

Who are they for? Delphi, a startup that recently raised $16 million from funders including Anthropic and actor/director Olivia Wilde’s venture capital firm, Proximity Ventures, helps famous people create replicas that can speak with their fans in both chat and voice calls. It feels like MasterClass—the platform for instructional seminars led by celebrities—vaulted into the AI age. On its website, Delphi writes that modern leaders “possess potentially life-altering knowledge and wisdom, but thei

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Effective learning: Rules of formulating knowledge (1999)

news.ycombinator.com Jakub Jankowski 2025-10-17 10:43:37

Dr Piotr Wozniak, February, 1999 (updated) This article will help you overcome one of the greatest difficulties you will face when trying to accelerate learning: formulating knowledge The speed of learning will depend on the way you formulate the material. The same material can be learned many times faster if well formulated! The difference in speed can be stunning! The rules are listed in the order of importance. Those listed first are most often violated or bring most benefit if complied wi

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Effective learning: Twenty rules of formulating knowledge (1999)

news.ycombinator.com Jakub Jankowski 2025-10-17 15:43:37

Dr Piotr Wozniak, February, 1999 (updated) This article will help you overcome one of the greatest difficulties you will face when trying to accelerate learning: formulating knowledge The speed of learning will depend on the way you formulate the material. The same material can be learned many times faster if well formulated! The difference in speed can be stunning! The rules are listed in the order of importance. Those listed first are most often violated or bring most benefit if complied wi

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ChatGPT can now create flashcards quiz on any topic

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-17 04:30:00

If you use ChatGPT to learn new topics, you might want to try its new flashcard-based quiz feature, which can help you evaluate your progress. I used a simple prompt: "Turn financial econometrics into a clean GPT flashcard quiz." In this case, I'm trying to learn Financial Econometrics, which is all about applying statistical methods to financial market data. Econometrics is a complex topic, and I want GPT-5 to come up with better questions, which is why I've selected GPT-5-Thinking, but you c

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MasterClass Labor Day sale: Get 50 percent off subscriptions

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-18 07:00:35

If you want to brush up on some skills or learn new ones, MasterClass offers a good way to do just that. The streaming service has hundreds of classes taught by professionals and experts in their fields, and now you can get a subscription for 50 percent less than usual. All MasterClass membership tiers are on sale right now, so you can sign up for as low as $5 per month. With a subscription, you could watch a class on writing taught by James Patterson, or learn cooking techniques from Thomas Ke

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A 20-Year-Old Algorithm Can Help Us Understand Transformer Embeddings

news.ycombinator.com A Href 2025-10-14 11:08:43

Suppose we ask an LLM: “Can you tell me about Java?” What “Java” is the model thinking about? The programming language or the Indonesian island? To answer this question, we can try to understand what is going on inside the model. Specifically, we want to represent the model’s internal states in a human-interpretable way by finding the concepts that the model is thinking about. One approach to this problem is to phrase it as a dictionary learning problem, in which we try to decompose complex emb

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MasterClass subscriptions are half off for Labor Day

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-19 20:30:37

MasterClass promises online learning with instructors who are the very best in their fields, and an annual subscription is currently 50 percent off across all tiers. Subscribers to MasterClass will have access to over 200 classes taught by iconic authors, chefs, athletes and leaders representing a diverse collection of skill sets and backgrounds. With a subscription, you could watch a class on writing taught by James Patterson, or learn cooking techniques from Thomas Keller. If you're trying to

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Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually

news.ycombinator.com Simon Späti 2025-10-21 18:40:58

Learning to Think Again, and the Cost of AI Dependency. There are so many (hype/boring) posts about AI coming out every day. It’s OK to use it, and everyone does it, but still learn your craft, and try to think. Similar to what DHH said: It’s also more fun to be competent in something than constantly waiting for an AI to complete. The probability that AI will make us unhappy is very high IMO. Use it, yes, but not for every task. For discovering, creating a historical overview, or creating di

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Computing’s Top 30: Mohamed Shehata

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-10-22 08:00:24

Among AI’s great promises in relation to medicine is its potential to use existing patient data—including MRIs—to identify and diagnose potential problems. Doing so has many potential benefits, including lower costs and fewer invasive patient procedures. Among the researchers making good on this promising AI potential is Mohamed Shehata. Shehata is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Louisville. He’s won numerous awards for his work using machine lear

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'Machines Can't Think for You.' How Learning Is Changing in the Age of AI

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-22 19:30:02

Entering her first year of teaching as a graduate assistant at Bowling Green State University, Sydney Koeplin had more on her mind than how to relate to her students. She was worried about how to deal with generative AI. At first, Koeplin took a "hard line" against allowing students to use AI beyond basic grammar and spelling checks. (The school's curriculum dictated that it could be used conditionally, but those conditions were left to the professor to define.) After several students in her fi

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AI Bubble Watch: Nvidia Shares Skid on Middling Q2 Results

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-10-23 02:21:24

Nvidia reported mixed second quarter earnings on Wednesday, meeting some market expectations but missing others. The company posted revenue of $46.74 billion, up 56% from a year ago. The number is higher than the $45 billion Nvidia shared in earnings guidance last quarter, and is just barely above the projected market consensus of $46.23 billion, according to Bloomberg. Adjusted earnings per share came in at $1.05, above the average market estimate of $1.01. Roughly $41.1 billion of that reve

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Nvidia Shares Skid As Data Center Q2 Revenue Disappoints

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-10-23 12:21:24

Nvidia reported mixed second quarter earnings on Wednesday afternoon, meeting some market expectations but missing others. The company posted revenue of $46.74 billion, up 56% from a year ago. The number is higher than the $45 billion Nvidia shared in earnings guidance last quarter, and is just barely above the projected market consensus of $46.23 billion, according to Bloomberg. Adjusted earnings per share came in at $1.05, above the average market estimate of $1.01. Roughly $41.1 billion of

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MasterClass memberships are 50 percent off for Labor Day

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-24 12:00:35

If you want to brush up on some skills or learn new ones, MasterClass offers a good way to do just that. The streaming service has hundreds of classes taught by professionals and experts in their fields, and now you can get a subscription for 50 percent less than usual. All MasterClass membership tiers are on sale right now, so you can sign up for as low as $5 per month. With a subscription, you could watch a class on writing taught by James Patterson, or learn cooking techniques from Thomas Ke

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Delphi in the Age of AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-20 22:54:03

How do I start using Machine Learning in Windows? Machine Learning is a branch of artificial intelligence that deals with the design and development of algorithms that can learn from and make predictions on data. Machine Learning algorithms have been used in a variety of applications, such as spam detection, facial recognition, and disease diagnosis. In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in Machine Learning, due to the availability of large data sets and advances in computing p

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Google Translate's latest feature is its take on Duolingo

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-26 07:00:35

Considering its popularity, Google Translate sure hasn't received much attention lately. However, that just changed with a big update. The latest app introduces AI-powered live translation along with new language learning tools that might give Duolingo a run for it's money. Google said it heard from users that the toughest skill to master was conversation — ie, learning to listen and speak with confidence. To that end, it's piloting a new language practice feature (on iOS or Android) targeted t

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The MasterClass Labor Day sale discounts subscriptions by 50 percent

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-29 03:46:25

MasterClass promises online learning with instructors who are the very best in their fields, and an annual subscription is currently 50 percent off across all tiers. Subscribers to MasterClass will have access to over 200 classes taught by iconic authors, chefs, athletes and leaders representing a diverse collection of skill sets and backgrounds. With a subscription, you could watch a class on writing taught by James Patterson, or learn cooking techniques from Thomas Keller. If you're trying to

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Latest Tech News

Robots Could Help Kids Become Better Readers, According to a New Study

Google's new study tool personalizes your learning material - here's how

IEEE 2881: Learning Metadata Terms (LMT) Empowers Learning in the AI Age

This new AI voice trainer can help you learn a new language

Robots Could Help Kids Conquer Reading Anxiety, a New Study Suggests

After selling to Spotify, Anchor’s co-founders are back with Oboe, an AI-powered app for learning

'We're all kind of in shock.' Oracle's revenue projections leave analysts slack-jawed

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New Apple Card offer allows users to earn boosted cash back with Uber and Uber Eats

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The Paradigm

Salesforce issues weak revenue guidance even as earnings beat estimates

CoreWeave acquires agent-training startup OpenPipe

Can an AI doppelgänger help me do my job?

Effective learning: Rules of formulating knowledge (1999)

Effective learning: Twenty rules of formulating knowledge (1999)

ChatGPT can now create flashcards quiz on any topic

MasterClass Labor Day sale: Get 50 percent off subscriptions

A 20-Year-Old Algorithm Can Help Us Understand Transformer Embeddings

MasterClass subscriptions are half off for Labor Day

Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually

Computing’s Top 30: Mohamed Shehata

'Machines Can't Think for You.' How Learning Is Changing in the Age of AI

AI Bubble Watch: Nvidia Shares Skid on Middling Q2 Results

Nvidia Shares Skid As Data Center Q2 Revenue Disappoints

MasterClass memberships are 50 percent off for Labor Day

Delphi in the Age of AI

Google Translate's latest feature is its take on Duolingo

The MasterClass Labor Day sale discounts subscriptions by 50 percent

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