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Hack Education Weekly News

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Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Chegg has acquired the flashcard app StudyBlue for $20.8 ” Via the Microsoft AI blog : “ Microsoft improves facial recognition technology to perform well across all skin tones, genders.” ” That would be the founders of Minerva and Wayfinding.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Kno was headed by Osman Rashid, the co-founder of the textbook rental company Chegg, and the tablet was aimed at the college market. Robot essay graders — they grade just the same as human ones. In September 2010, Techcrunch founder Mike Arrington announced that Kno had raised $46 million from Andreessen-Horowitz and other investors.

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