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

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Arthur Erickson Occupation: Aerospace engineer and founder, Hylio Location: Houston Education: Bachelor’s degree in aerospace, specializing in aeronautics, from the University of Texas at Austin Erickson founded Hylio with classmates while they were attending the University of Texas at Austin.

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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. Novi's targeting of remittances could also hint at a deeper goal, says Ludovico Rella , a research associate at Durham University in the UK.

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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. So a friend-group that included a computer science major from China, an AI-focused management science and engineering (MSE) major from Russia, and a business-oriented MSE major from Venezuela isn't an anomaly.

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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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He left there in 1966 to join the University of Cambridge as an assistant director of research. He earned his bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering in 1958 from the University of Bristol , in England. He worked at the university at the time of his death. He volunteered on projects in Guatemala and Honduras.

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