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Palmer Luckey: US universities are falling behind China’s, and it shows

Palmer Luckey has a blunt warning about the US-China tech race: America is losing the classroom. The Anduril founder argues that US universities have stopped teaching engineers how to build. That, he says, hands China a lead well beyond cheap labour. He made the comments in a conversation with the Hoover Institution, highlighted by Fortune. [] This story continues at The Next Web
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