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Move Over, Tractor—the Farmer Wants a Crop-Spraying Drone

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Today, Erickson is the CEO of Houston-based Hylio , a company that builds crop-spraying drones for farmers. Launched in 2015, the company has its own factory and employs more than 40 people. One lesson was the need to build in redundant pieces of key hardware, particularly the GPS unit.

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Global geothermal industry passes 12,000 MW operational

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Financing was announced for projects in Costa Rica, Dominica, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Tanzania, and the United States, while projects in drilling and start-of-construction phases made headway in Chile, Germany, Guatemala, Italy, Japan, Montserrat, The Philippines, Rwanda, and Zambia.

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Facebook Steps Toward Cryptocurrencies

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The company has launched its Novi digital wallet, but without the Diem cryptocurrency, which was supposed to be the cornerstone of the enterprise. The limited pilot will be restricted to 200,000 users in the US and Guatemala. The company says it still plans to transition to Diem once it receives regulatory approval.

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This 6-Million-Dollar AI Changes Accents as You Speak

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They also had an idea, sparked by a conversation with another friend, a computer science major who had gone back to his home in Guatemala, where he had gotten a job at a call center doing tech support in order to support his family. “We They dedicated their empty pandemic hours to building a solution. "We

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How Duolingo’s AI Learns What You Need to Learn

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But as immigrants themselves (from Guatemala and Switzerland, respectively), they recognized that not everyone has access to great teachers. Duolingo then doubled down on building personalized systems. The founders weren’t trying to replace great teachers. In 2020, we launched the first version of Birdbrain.

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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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telephone companies. He began his career at Ferranti , an electrical engineering and equipment company in Manchester, England. Fraser held several leadership positions at the company during his 30 years there. In 1994 he became associate vice president for the company’s information science research department.

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