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Medium acquires social book reading app Glose

TechCrunch

Glose has been building iOS, Android and web apps that let you buy, download and read books on your devices. Sure, there are social platforms that let you talk about books, such as Goodreads. There are also some gamification features that help you stay motivated as you read difficult books — you get streak rewards for instance.

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Can AI help you binge books? BingeBooks is a new service to do … exactly that

TechCrunch

The pandemic has been terrible for many industries, but the book industry has gotten a rare reprieve in an otherwise dismal past decade. Locked in homes and forced to socially distance from others, us humans have more time on our hands and more need to connect to characters than ever before. No boring book clubs.

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5 Best Django Books for Beginners

The Crazy Programmer

Here you will find list of best django books for beginners to learn. If you’re one of them who prefer reading books offline more than reading stuff online then this article is for you. So here is the list of 5 best books for Django. Let’s see each book in detail. 5 Best Django Books. by Nigel George). Permissions.

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Chefclub raises $17 million to expand its food media brand beyond social networks

TechCrunch

Chefclub has been building a major media brand on social media platforms. It starts with cooking books, obviously. Chefclub has sold 700,000 books so far. As those books are self-published, the company gets to keep a good chunk of the revenue. Overall, they generate more than 1 billion views per month.

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Travel app Hopper raises $96M from Capital One to double down on social commerce

TechCrunch

Travel booking startup Hopper today announced that it closed a $96 million follow-on investment from Capital One, bringing the company’s total raised to $740 million. Travel app Hopper raises $96M from Capital One to double down on social commerce by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch.

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How social science research can inform the design of AI systems

O'Reilly Media - Data

He’s in the process of writing a book on these topics, and was gracious enough to give an informal preview by way of this podcast conversation. Continue reading How social science research can inform the design of AI systems.

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Early Snapchat employee debuts Yoni Circle, a social storytelling app for womxn

TechCrunch

Drimal, has now launched her own social app, Yoni Circle. Drimal came up with the idea for a social storytelling app, in part, because she saw the potential when working on the Snapchat “Our Stories” product. An early Snapchat employee who once architected the “Our Stories” product, Chloe?

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