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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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Stanford University prides itself on its international diversity, touting that today's undergraduates hail from 70 countries. Andres Perez Soderi, Sanas "When he got the job," Soderi said, "we told him that he'd be the best tech support person they'd ever had, he's the smartest guy we've met and always had a smile on his face."

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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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How Duolingo’s AI Learns What You Need to Learn

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But from the learner’s perspective, it simply feels as though the green owl is getting better and better at personalizing lessons. 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.” The founders weren’t trying to replace great teachers.

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