Google is reinventing Docs to fight a two-front war
Workspace is finally moving into the modern age but its rivals are moving faster
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Let’s talk about some big changes announced to the platform where many of us get a lot of work done: Google Workspace, home to the suite of cloud-based tools that includes Docs.
The relative stagnation of Docs in a rapidly evolving world of productivity tools has been an ongoing fascination for me. When I’m writing for myself, I use slick, modern tools like Notion, Bear, and (more recently) Substack. But when I write for others, it’s most often in Docs, which launched 15 years ago and looks more or less the same as it has since the late 2000s.
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Schoolhouse.world is a new nonprofit started by Sal Khan, the founder of the Khan Academy, and Shishir Mehrotra, cofounder and CEO of Coda, in an effort to help students during the pandemic. Students who need support in math (pre-algebra, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, precalculus, calculus, statistics), AP exam prep, and ACT/SAT prep can sign up for free tutoring.
Descript raises $30M to build the next generation of video and audio editing tools
The popularity of podcasting and online video shows no signs of slowing down, and so we continue to see a wave of creators publishing a profusion of audio and video content to fill out the airwaves. Today, a company building a platform to make that work easier and more interesting to execute is announcing a round of growth funding to double down on the opportunity.
Descript, which builds tools that let creators edit audio and video files by using, for example, natural language processing to link the content to the editing of text files, has picked up $30 million in a Series B round of funding.