Aisha Malik is an award-winning independent journalist with a background in journalism and communications. From her very first post, since joining the TechCrunch team in early 2021, she excelled and expanded our consumer news department…She has an honours bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto and a master’s degree in journalism from Western University. With these credentials, she’s made herself a well-respected and credible voice in today’s technology landscape.
At TechCrunch, Malik has turned his reporting consumer daily news, telling the consumer how technology affects their real life everyday. Her work is accessible through her dedicated author page on TechCrunch’s website, where readers can explore her articles and analyses. Before that, she was a telecom reporter at MobileSyrup, where she learned the tools of the trade covering tech.
In her new position, Aisha Malik finds herself at the crossroads of many growing patterns in tech, including exciting new advancements in artificial intelligence. Recently, Google announced the expansion of its NotebookLM AI podcast feature to include additional languages, enhancing accessibility for users globally. This update comes with a lot of cool new foreign languages! You can finally learn Javanese, Georgian, Kannada, Korean, Konkani, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Maithili, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, and Burmese (Myanmar) and Nepali.
Through this expansion, we hope to reach a wider, more linguistically diverse audience by making it easier for content to be shared and understood across language barriers. As Google stated, “For example, a teacher preparing a lesson on the Amazon rainforest can share resources in various languages — like a Portuguese documentary, a Spanish research paper, and English study reports — with their students.” This new feature is intended to help educational resources be even more inclusive and accessible.
Aisha Malik’s experience and training as an engineer and journalist make her the perfect fit to cover paradigm-shifting developments in emerging technologies. Her long-standing approach on consumer news means she’s able to break down what all of this means to actual real advancements commercial users.
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