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Design thinking: why it matters in global growth and localization
This non-conventional way of creating innovative products passes through five phases — empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test — and is most useful to...
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Interpreters Unlimited offers Uber-like app to book USA interpreters
Interpreters Unlimited (IU) has developed and released IU Customer App, a proprietary program that allows professionals and businesses to book foreign language interpreters and...
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TikTok begins rolling out translation, updated transcription feature
TikTok, a popular video-based social media platform, just became the latest big tech company to launch its own translation feature.
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Song title translation on Spotify complicates search for users
Spotify recently addressed user concerns regarding the automatic translation of song names into English, making titles in languages such as Chinese particularly difficult to...
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BigScience launches open-source LLM, BLOOM
BigScience, an artificial intelligence (AI) research initiative, recently launched BLOOM, an open-source large language model (LLM) that aims to make such technology more accessible.
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The Evolution of Airbnb’s Localization Strategy
In 2018, Airbnb began a major transformation in its localization strategy and operations, developing and executing countless decisions, projects, products, processes and improvements —...