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'Harvesting data': Latin American AI startups transform farming
'Harvesting data': Latin American AI startups transform farming
by  AFP

For centuries, farmers used almanacs to try to understand and predict weather patterns. Understanding how water moves, how wind moves, how different solar exposures operate throughout your farmland," he said at Web Summit, of which AFP is a media partner this year.

'Halving' arrives for bitcoin miners
'Halving' arrives for bitcoin miners
by  AFP

The bitcoin market on Friday engineered the "halving" of the reward for operating the cryptocurrency, a much-anticipated step designed to limit production and boost the digital money. However, since the digital currency's launch in 2009, the reward has been halved for every 210,000 blocks in a process called halving.

Microsoft teases lifelike avatar AI tech but gives no release date
Microsoft teases lifelike avatar AI tech but gives no release date
by  AFP

Researchers at Microsoft have revealed a new artificial tool that can create deeply realistic human avatars -- but offered no timetable to make it available to the public, citing concerns about facilitating deep fake content. "It paves the way for real-time engagements with lifelike avatars that emulate human conversational behaviors," researchers said in the post.

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