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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. They designed a spray system and made some software tweaks, and by 2018 the company began offering crop-spraying services, Erickson says.

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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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Stanford University prides itself on its international diversity, touting that today's undergraduates hail from 70 countries. And they filed the paperwork to incorporate as a company— Sanas. The company completed a seed funding round of US $5.5 They reached out to professors at Stanford and experts in industry to advise them.

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How Duolingo’s AI Learns What You Need to Learn

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We see our work at Duolingo as furthering the company’s overall mission to “develop the best education in the world and make it universally available.” But as immigrants themselves (from Guatemala and Switzerland, respectively), they recognized that not everyone has access to great teachers.

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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. He left there in 1966 to join the University of Cambridge as an assistant director of research. Fraser held several leadership positions at the company during his 30 years there.

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