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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. While a student at Staffordshire University , in England, he was an intern at electrical equipment manufacturer English Electric in Stafford.

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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. We knew about accent-reduction therapy and being taught to emulate the way someone else speaks in order to connect with them. All now work remotely, spread out internationally.

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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. But Novi seems unlikely to be able to capitalize on that value, as it has committed to charging zero fees for international transfers. And remittances are an obvious starting point, she adds.

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