⭐️💁‍♀️"Whether it's stars or fashion, it's all about machine learning"

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⭐️💁‍♀️"Whether it's stars or fashion, it's all about machine learning"

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Intro
I came across this real-life animation created by an army of drones in China.
If each of you donated a thousand bucks, we could do a 1000 ft. statue of Mukesh Ambani – the man who brought you 4G data – vaulting across the Bombay skies powered by un-manned drones.

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🤷‍♂️How to Become the Best in the World at Something

It’s better to have three okay tools than a single, perfect one. The axe is great at breaking obstacles, but not that useful to jump over pits. The grapple is great to jump over ice or pits, but not amazing for slaying dragons. The only way to win is by having both tools. Illustrations: Tomas Pueyo.

🇮🇳India had its first ‘WhatsApp election.’ We have a million messages from it

This is the first piece in a series about monitoring political communications during the 2019 Indian elections on WhatsApp, a closed messaging network that’s difficult for researchers and journalists to enter.

🎧An oral history of Limewire: the little app that changed the music industry forever

LimeWire started at a row of desks right in front of me in the spring of 2000. But at first I didn’t notice. I was busy dealing with the twilight days in the brief life of Lime Objects [a subsidiary eventually merged into LimeWire], where I stocked a pipeline of developer hires, one of whom was an intern who was experimenting with [peer-to-peer] network Gnutella, which would prove to be the model of the future.

👨‍🌾How India's farmers are using technology to feed more than a billion people

Hundreds of millions of people in India depend on farming for their livelihoods, but many of them struggle with losing crops to disease, getting them to market or achieving the right price when they do. Several startups are trying to change that.

🛒The Style-Quantifying Astrophysicists of Silicon Valley

Space scientists are abandoning the heavens to help you decide what to wear and watch and listen to. Whether it's stars or Stitch Fix, it's all about machine learning.

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