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In Machines We Trust: Harvesting the future with AI and satellites (Encore)

AI is used in farming in some ways you might not expect, like for tracking the health of crops—from space. We travel from test farms to labs in the second installment of our series on agriculture, AI, and satellites.  We Meet: Joseph Liefer, senior product manager of autonomy at John Deere Julian Sanchez, director of emerging technology at John Deere Shely Aranov, CEO of InnerPlant Rod Kumimoto, CSO of InnerPlant Credits: This episode was reported and produced by Jennifer Strong, Emma Cillekens and Anthony Green. It was edited by Mat Honan, and mixed by Garret Lang, with original music by Garret Lang and Jacob Gorski. Artwork by Stephanie Arnett.

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  The great commercial takeover of low Earth orbit

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  How generative AI could reinvent what it means to play

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  The entrepreneur dreaming of a factory of unlimited organs

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  Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. Where did it go wrong?

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  How a tiny Pacific Island became the global capital of cybercrime