2025-04-22

Duolingo will soon start offering chess lessons

Duolingo will soon add chess to its list of non-language courses, alongside music and math. The company has revealed that it will add chess lessons to its app, which will initially be available in bet [...]

2025-04-25

The Morning After: The Switch 2 pre-order struggle

Nintendo may not have enough Switch 2 consoles for everyone, it seems. It’s struggling to meet demand both in Japan and the US, where pre-orders were already delayed due to the tariff fiasco. The of [...]

2025-01-16

'TikTok Refugees' are learning Mandarin Chinese on Duolingo for RedNote

In a few days, TikTok could be banned in the US, rendering the app unusable and removing it from app stores. Instead of making do with Instagram Reels, people looked for a closer alternative and found [...]

2025-04-29

Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI

Duolingo is now going to be "AI-first," the company has announced — aka it will drop employees in favor of using AI. In a publicly shared email, CEO Luis von Ahn outlined how Duolingo will [...]

2025-04-29

Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI for content creation

Duolingo is now going to be "AI-first," the company has announced — aka it will drop employees in favor of using AI. In a publicly shared email, CEO Luis von Ahn outlined how Duolingo will [...]

2025-06-15

ChatGPT lost badly to Atari's 1979 Video Chess engine

ChatGPT lost badly to Atari's 1979 Video Chess engine. It gave solid advice and explained tactics, but couldn't track the game.<br /> The article ChatGPT lost badly to Atari's 197 [...]

2025-09-16

Duolingo Chess Players Soon Can Play Matches With Others

Chess instruction launches on Android phones, and Duolingo customers with iPhones will soon be able to play chess against each other. [...]

2025-09-03

reMarkable’s Paper Pro Move is a pocketable version of its e-paper tablet

reMarkable knows you’d like to use its e-paper tablet on the go, but the size of its current products don’t make that easy. To address this, it’s launching a smaller, pocket-sized version of its [...]

2025-04-29

Duolingo announces major shift toward generative AI and automation

Duolingo is restructuring its operations to focus on generative AI for content creation and process automation. The company plans to gradually reduce reliance on contractors wherever AI can handle the [...]