China’s TikTok this week launched an education program in India as the popular short-video app looks to expand its offering and assuage local authority in one of its biggest markets. From a report: This is the first time TikTok has launched a program of this kind in any market, a spokesperson told TechCrunch. TkTok, owned by the world’s most valued startup…
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Coursera Launches New Employee Benefit to Cover the Full Cost of Master’s Degrees
By Rich Jacquet, Chief People Officer Learn, change, and grow is our mindset at Coursera, and we take learning seriously. Employees have had free access to more than 3,600 courses and certificates on the platform since 2017 and have completed thousands of courses over the years — from the blockbuster AI for Everyone to A […]
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Pinterest Says AI Reduced Reported Self-Harm Content By 88%
Pinterest says it’s using machine learning techniques to identify and hide content that displays, rationalizes, or encourages self-injury. The company says it has achieved an 88% reduction in reports of self-harm content by users and that it’s now able to remove such content 3 times faster. From a report: Additionally, over 4,600 search terms and phrases related to self-harm have been…
Coursera for Campus: A New Way to Help Universities Everywhere Deliver Job-Relevant Learning
By Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO of Coursera Higher education worldwide is at a historic crossroads. With more than 300 million people entering the workforce in the next 10 years, universities urgently need to augment their capacity to meet the aspirations of a young and growing demographic. Employers rely on universities to provide them with graduates armed […]
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Seattle Startup ‘Picnic’ Unveils Pizza-Making Robot That Makes 300 Pies/Hour
Seattle startup Picnic has emerged from stealth mode with a system that assembles custom pizzas with little human intervention. According to GeekWire, “Picnic’s platform assembles up to 300 12-inch pizzas per hour, far faster than most restaurants would be able to make the dough, bake and serve the pizzas.” From the report: That speed comes in handy in places where large…
Sony Cuts PS Now Subscription Price For PS4 Worldwide
In anticipation for Google’s upcoming Stadia cloud gaming service and Microsoft’s Project xCloud, which enters open beta this month, Sony is lowering the price of PlayStation Now for PS4 and PC. “Monthly subscriptions are now available for $10, which is a considerable reduction from the previous $20 price point,” reports GameSpot. “Quarterly subscriptions, meanwhile, will now cost $25, having previously been…
YouTube is Experimenting With Ways To Make Its Algorithm Even More Addictive
While YouTube has publicly said that it’s working on addressing problems that are making its website ever so addictive to users, a new paper from Google, which owns YouTube, seems to tell a different story. From a report: It proposes an update to the platform’s algorithm that is meant to recommend even more targeted content to users in the interest of…
Kickstarter Defends Firings As Not Anti-Union, But Strong Criticism Continues
“Kickstarter’s CEO Aziz Hasan sent an email to staff Friday, explaining why the company fired two staff members and laid off another who played an instrumental role in organizing a union at the company…” reports Motherboard:
Hasan insisted that the firings were related specifically to job performance issues, not union organizing. “We understood how these firings could be perceived, but it would…
DoorDash Confirms Data Breach Affected 4.9 Million Customers, Workers, and Merchants
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: DoorDash has confirmed a data breach. The food delivery company said in a blog post Thursday that 4.9 million customers, delivery workers and merchants had their information stolen by hackers. The breach happened on May 4, the company said, but added that customers who joined after April 5, 2018 are not affected by…
Google Loans Cameras To Volunteers To Fill Gaps in ‘Street View’
NPR explains why a man “applied to borrow a 360-degree camera through Google’s Street View camera loan program.” Kanhema, who works as a product manager in Silicon Valley and is a freelance photographer in his spare time, volunteered to carry Google’s Street View gear to map what amounted to 2,000 miles of his home country. The Berkeley, California, resident has filled…