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Guatemalan Engineer Ascends From Poverty to Ph.D.

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Discovering robotics and mechatronics in high school Caal was introduced to technology when, at age 14, she received a government scholarship to attend the Instituto Técnico de Capacitación y Productividad , a high school in Guatemala City. Her efforts were in direct opposition to longstanding gender norms in Guatemala.

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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. And while marrying this with a home-grown cryptocurrency might reduce its processing costs, the real ambition is to become the main payments intermediary for it's enormous global user base. That might be easier said than done though.

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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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