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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. In certain corners of the tech industry there is an attitude that the Global South represents an empty space where first movers can easily install themselves as the predominant intermediary for everything from payments to Internet connectivity.

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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 reached out to professors at Stanford and experts in industry to advise them.

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