These volunteers taught Google Translate to read Sorani Kurdish
May 15, 2023 · When Google learned to speak Sorani Kurdish, the company announced it without much fanfare. The Translate team shared the news in a brief blog post last May, revealing Sorani alongside 23 other languages like Twi from Ghana and Dogri from northern India.The post highlighted the new “zero-shot machine translation” system, as well as “the many native speakers, professors and linguists who ...
An ancient language has defied decryption for 100 years. Can AI …
Feb 8, 2022 · It took professional and amateur epigraphists — people who study ancient written matter — nearly six decades of mental wrangling to decode Linear B. Officially, 30-year-old British architect Michael Ventris is primarily credited with its decipherment, although the private efforts of classicist Alice Kober lay the groundwork for his ...
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Oct 24, 2024 · Test your knowledge of e-commerce startups, 17th-century markets, and everything in between. By Rest of World. Creator Economy 17 October 2024. The Catholic Church condemned Santa Muerte. TikTokers gave her a makeover. A growing number of Santa Muerte devotees are using social media to rebrand the controversial Mexican deity of death.
The most used languages on the internet - Rest of World
Jun 7, 2023 · Meanwhile, Chinese and Hindi are the second and third most-spoken languages in the world, but the same scan found they account for just 1.4% and 0.07% of domains, respectively. Because the internet is so vast, the data comes with caveats and blind spots (detailed below), but the scan still reveals massive imbalances in language use.
Inside TSMC’s Phoenix, Arizona expansion struggles - Rest of World
Apr 23, 2024 · TSMC did not respond to a detailed list of questions from Rest of World. TSMC’s glass-walled office building at the construction site on the outskirts of northern Phoenix in March 2024. TSMC’s facilities are located on the outskirts of northern Phoenix, surrounded by miles of desert hills and wide roads. A glass-walled office building sits ...
Nigeria’s filmmakers turn to YouTube for distribution - Rest of World
Dec 11, 2023 · Another popular Nigerian filmmaker, Seun Oloketuyi, decided to start releasing his movies on YouTube in 2022, after battling piracy for years. “All it takes is just one person going to the market to buy one copy of the CD and send it to the U.K. and the U.S.,” he told Rest of World. “The person in these countries makes multiple copies and ...
How people laugh online - Rest of World
Dec 18, 2023 · We know the world can always use a little more laughter, so we’ve rounded up dozens of our favorite examples of how people from all over laugh online. awdjyt. Antiguan and Barbudan Creole. Abbreviation of “a wah di joke yah tarl,” used when shocked or amused. ههههه.
Who is Harsha Sai? Meet India’s MrBeast - Rest of World
Mar 21, 2023 · Harsha Sai is India’s most popular stunt philanthropist — a YouTube genre where generous acts of kindness are turned into spectacles garnering millions in views and ad revenue. Originally pioneered by MrBeast in the U.S., the model has been localized by Sai. But the economics of running a MrBeast-style channel in India are harder due to low ...
Amazon’s Africa expansion means a hiring drive in Nigeria - Rest …
Jun 15, 2022 · Amazon has been quietly recruiting salespeople and engineers in Lagos, hinting at an expansion of its streaming and cloud computing businesses in Africa’s largest economy, Rest of World has learned.The company has also hired a major advertising agency to work on its first push for Prime Video subscribers in Nigeria, while also investing in production and licensing deals with local film and ...
Five cool projects from India’s 2023 generative AI hackathon - Rest …
May 12, 2023 · This whole comic was created in 24 hours using popular AI tools. Creator Rasagy Sharma outlined the script with ChatGPT’s assistance, and created samples of AI-generated comics with tools such as Lexica, Stable Diffusion, Vectorizer.AI, Adobe Enhance and Beatoven.ai. The comic tells a fictional story of a man who challenges the gods, blending ...