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The Morning After: Meta’s Threads tops 100 million users in under a week | Engadget

[ad_1] In just four days of the app going live on Wednesday evening, Threads already has more than 100 million users, according to Quiver Quantitative’s Threads Tracker. Thread is a sibling app to Instagram, making it easy for that platform’s existing billion-plus users to sign up — unless they live in the European Union. It’s …

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SweetRush Named Training Industry’s Top Custom Content Development Company

[ad_1] San Francisco, Calif., July 10, 2023 — For the ninth year in a row, SweetRush is honored to be included on Training Industry’s 2023 Top 20 Training Companies™ list for Custom Content Development in corporate Learning and Development (L&D). SweetRush employs a client and learner-engaged approach to discovery, analysis, and ideation, led by consultative …

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Google is testing its medical AI chatbot at the Mayo Clinic | Engadget

[ad_1] Google is already testing its Med-PaLM 2 AI chat technology at at the Mayo Clinic and other hospitals, The Wall Street Journal has reported. It’s based on the company’s PaLM 2 large language model (LLM) that underpins Bard, Google’s ChatGPT rival — and was launched just months ago at Google I/O.  Unlike the base …

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Reddit Teachers Say There’s No Convincing Their Flat-Earther Students the World Is Round 😳

[ad_1] Boy. Coming to school one day with a bunch of eighth-grade boys screaming at me that “THE EARTH IS FLAT” was not on my agenda. Squashing every quippy comment about the earth being flat in group work? Also not on my agenda. Having to pause for a moment to figure out how to explain …

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Plenty of Black college students want to be teachers, so why don’t they end up in classrooms? | KQED

[ad_1] “There are a lot of potentially great educators who just aren’t making it to the classroom,” said Tara Kilbride, lead author of the analysis conducted by Education Policy Innovation Collaborative (EPIC), a research center at Michigan State University. The June 2023 research report, “Tracking Progress Through Michigan’s Teacher Pipeline,” analyzed prospective teachers of all …

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