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

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The company expanded its business to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, starting with just a pair of drones but eventually operating three spraying teams of four drones each. It’s a cheap, fast way to get something up in the air,” he says. They’re great for just learning, iterating, crashing things, and then rebuilding them.”

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Facebook Steps Toward Cryptocurrencies

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The limited pilot will be restricted to 200,000 users in the US and Guatemala. And it's far from clear that people drawn in by cheap remittances will also use the app for everyday payments, particularly when they have to be made in cryptocurrency rather than local currency.

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