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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. F2's Marcus has said the company plans is instead to use free person-to-person transfers to build up its user base, before branching out to become a more general payment provider and making money on merchant fees.

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

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AT&T named him chief scientist, and in that position he worked on developing architecture and protocols for a large-scale Internet so that customers could connect to it from their homes. In 1969 he was tasked with helping to build transmission lines in Bangladesh that connected the country’s eastern and western electrical grids.

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