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Pentiment gets updated with more languages and a new map area

Pentiment, the award-winning narrative RPG from Obsidian Entertainment, is getting updated with expanded language support and a new area.

Windows Central

Chinese Indonesians reflect on life 25 years from Soeharto’s fall

The ethnic minority can now openly express their cultural identity but remain vulnerable to prejudice.

Al Jazeera

Sign language is set to become South Africa's 12th official language after a long fight for recognition

Sign language is on its way to become the 12th official language in South Africa after parliament recently agreed to amend the constitution to this end. The move will bring to fruition three decades of a struggle to empower the country’s deaf community. An official language has legal status in…

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Appoint a government minister to protect Scots and Gaelic, Humza Yousaf told

HUMZA Yousaf must appoint a Minister for Scottish Languages in order to develop and preserve the country’s “unique linguistic heritage”,…

The National (Scotland)

Meta's ChatGPT rival could make language barriers a thing of the past

Meta has put its AI project to work dismantling language barriers... and that's very exciting.

TechRadar

South Africa's 10 year-olds are struggling to read -- it can be fixed

More than 80% of South Africa’s grade 4 pupils – who are on average nine or 10 years old – cannot read for meaning. That means they can’t answer basic questions about or draw inferences from a text they’re reading. This worrying statistic emerged from the 2021 Progress in International…

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Beatrix Potter's famous tales are rooted in stories told by enslaved Africans – but she was very quiet about their origins

Peter Rabbit, the cute and wily bunny who wears a bright blue jacket, is the best-selling creation of English author Beatrix Potter. Originally published in 1902, the Tale of Peter Rabbit – the first of 23 tales in the series – has since been translated into more than 45 languages…

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'You can’t speak what you can’t hear' – how Māori and Pacific sports stars are helping revitalise vulnerable languages

We’re becoming more used to hearing and seeing te reo Māori in everyday use these days. And Pacific languages are becoming increasingly familiar too – especially during the Pacific language weeks now under way.

The Conversation

NDTV plans to launch 9 news channels, set to seek I&B nod

Gautam Adani-owned NDTV is planning to launch nine news channels in different Indian languages, suggests the company’s disclosure before the National Stock Exchange of India.

Newslaundry

Speaking Russian became too painful for Olena Fedosieieva so she ditched her mother tongue

Despite growing up with Russian as her dominant language, Olena Fedosieieva has now largely ditched the language in a show of solidarity. And she's far from alone.

ABC News

An epic mission

Citadel, officially reported as the second most expensive show ever made on the platform behind last year's The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power, is the newest action-packed, sci-fi thriller series in which Amazon teamed up with renowned filmmakers, the Russo brothers, and stars Priyanka Chopra Jonas (The…

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Top 3 features coming to Windows 11's next update

Windows 11 is receiving a new update soon, with its focus on adding additional accessibility options (particularly in voice recognition) throughout more languages.

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In Tennessee, Black immigrants navigate a tricky course to a coveted driver's license

Being able to drive makes life easier. It can open up job opportunities. But it also has challenges, especially if there's a language barrier. And traffic stops can be especially high stakes.

WEKU

Zulu vs Xhosa: how colonialism used language to divide South Africa's two biggest ethnic groups

South Africa has 12 official languages. The two most dominant are isiZulu and isiXhosa. While the Zulu and Xhosa people share a rich common history, they have also found themselves engaged in ethnic conflict and division, notably during urban wars between 1990 and 1994. A new book, Divided by the…

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Google’s Bard AI chatbot launches in Australia with vow to develop it ethically

Company says its AI programs will include watermarks and metadata identifying AI-generated content as ChatGPT rival rolls out in more than 180 countries

The Independent UK

Justice Dept. settles with New Jersey county over ballot languages, highlighting widespread barrier

The Justice Department has reached a settlement with a New Jersey county over language barriers for Spanish-speaking voters, emphasizing a growing challenge for certain minority communities nationwide

Tom’s Hardware

Google Announces New Bard Features, Drops Waitlist, Integrates With Workspace

Google drops Bard waitlist, adds new features and languages, and names its Workspace integration 'Duet AI'

The National (Scotland)

Poets invited to enter competition celebrating Scotland’s three indigenous languages

POETS from around the world are being invited to enter an annual celebration of poets and poems in Scotland’s three indigenous languages.

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Pratilipi signs a deal with Newcomers' Initiative for screen adaptation of their stories

Pratilipi, a digital storytelling community across 12 major Indian languages, has signed a deal with the Newcomers’ Initiative to create content in various formats and languages and offer it to filmmakers across the country. Collective Artists Network [CAN], a talent management agency, is also a part of this collaboration.

The Hindu

Karnataka elections: Political parties go an extra mile to woo migrant voters with special meetings and campaigns

Not just politicians speaking in multiple languages, but political parties are taking the extra step this time to woo migrant voters

The Hindu

10 Indian languages to get technical-term dictionaries

The CSTT will bring out what it calls fundamental (basic) dictionaries with 5,000 words per language, in three to four months.

TechRadar

Google AR translation glasses: why it's finally time for them to become reality

It's almost exactly a year since Google's revealed its AR translation glasses – and they now need to become reality.

The Hindu

Karnataka Assembly Election | BJP stands for promotion of all languages, says Amit Shah

Dismissing the allegation that the BJP and the Union government were trying to impose Hindi in the southern State, Mr. Shah said the Narendra Modi government had put in systems to conduct various recruitment tests in all languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution.

The Conversation

UK students are abandoning language learning, so we're looking for a more creative approach

There is a storm brewing for modern language education in the UK. The uptake in higher education has more than halved in the past 15 years. And in the same period, ten modern language university departments have closed, while a further nine have been significantly downsized.

Windows Central

Bing Chat adds the best of ChatGPT and more in major feature announcement

Microsoft just announced multiple major new features for Bing Chat. The AI-powered chatbot will soon support chat history, visual answers, and improved summarization of longer documents.

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