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Welcome back to Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Yesterday’s tournament brought us our biggest upset to date with Venmo crushing Twitter’s dreams. RIP Twitter. Today, we have SwiftKey taking on DuoLingo. If you’re just tuning in, you can read all about our selection criteria for this historic contest right here. Check out the full bracket of contestants embedded below. And as always, if you think we missed your personal favorite app of all time, yell at us in the comments.…

Welcome back to Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Yesterday’s lineup was another nail-biter but with more than 53 percent of the vote, Duolingo threw Skype out on its culo. Today, the mighty flashlight takes on the only dating app in our lineup.If you’re just tuning in, you can read all about our selection criteria for this historic contest right here. Check out the full bracket of contestants embedded below. And as always, if you think we missed your personal favorite app of…

It’s Day 10 of Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! SwiftKey pulled off a surprise upset yesterday, eliminating Telegram and advancing to the next round. Today, we have two apps that don’t get a lot of attention but have changed the game in their own ways.If you’re just tuning in, you can read all about our selection criteria for this historic contest right here. Check out the full bracket of contestants embedded below. And as always, if you think we missed your personal favorite…

Duolingo’s stock surged more than 20% Thursday after the company reported 44% year-over-year revenue growth in 2023, totaling $531.1 million, during its earnings call Wednesday.The language learning platform’s shares closed at $195.51 Wednesday and soared to $240.77 Thursday morning, nearing its one-year high of $245.87. The company’s shares dipped slightly during trading throughout the day, settling around $230 at the time of this writing.Duolingo “achieved record high user engagement and a record number of subscribers”…

The interview and assessment platform CodeSignal has a new AI-powered, online learning platform that aims to build professionals’ technical skills, as companies everywhere struggle to keep up with rapidly changing technology.On Thursday, the company debuted CodeSignal Learn, which features about 100 technical skills courses ranging from intro to programming to full stack engineering. CodeSignal Learn will offer a free tier and a paid tier, which will cost $24.99 per month. The platform was announced at CodeSignal’s annual…

I love the premise of the Ahead: Emotions Coach app. It promises to teach you all of the things you never learned about emotions and wish you did, comparing the style to Duolingo. "The Duolingo for emotional intelligence," the description on the Apple App Store reads. But what does that mean and does it work? Simply put, emotional intelligence is the ability to be aware of your emotions, express them and handle them. This might sound simple, but so often we're taught to suppress emotions as kids, which can then have a…

Lost in translation? Or lost in automation? One thing is for sure, the translation industry is on the precipice of a massive change, in large part due to the advent of more powerful and ubiquitous artificial intelligence tools.Late last month, a Reddit user claimed that the popular language-learning app Duolingo had “offboarded a huge percentage of its contractors who did translations.” The user added that “this is because they figured out that AI can do these translations in a fraction of the time,” leading to…

Listen to article(1 minute)Some companies are kicking off the new year by trimming staff as a steady labor market shows signs of cooling off. The labor market flashed some warning signs at the end of last year. Hiring has slowed in recent months. Open positions also dropped at the end of 2023 compared with the beginning of the year, while employees are quitting at a lower rate than before the pandemic began. Copyright ©2024Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Listen to…

Duolingo has cut 10 percent of its contractors and using AI tools to handle the tasks they used to do, Bloomberg reports. "We just no longer need as many people to do the type of work some of these contractors were doing," a spokesperson told the news organization without saying what they did for the company exactly. "Part of that could be attributed to AI."As Bloomberg notes, Chief Executive Officer Luis von Ahn told shareholders in November that the company is using AI to create new content, such as scripts,…

Duolingo, the wildly popular language learning app, just added a big new feature. No, it's not a melting face app icon again — it's the Duolingo Year in Review for 2023! This is something we see from many popular apps toward the end of each year. There's Spotify Wrapped, Apple Music Replay, Reddit Recap — you get the idea. Lots of apps summarize your activity at the end of the year, and the results are usually pretty interesting. If you're a Duolingo user and want to see how you spent your time on the app in…