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Why would anyone be against life-saving malaria bednets?

Vox

A young boy rolls up a mosquito net covering bedding at a refugee camp in 2023 in South Sudan. That mosquito nets are dangerous to people would be news to basically any public health professional who’s ever studied them. lives for every 1,000 children protected by nets. lives for every 1,000 children protected by nets.

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Kicking people off social media isn’t about free speech

Vox

The debate over deplatforming Trump has overshadowed how effective social media bans are at fighting extremism. Trump’s social media accounts were suspended across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitch, and TikTok. . | Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty Images. It’s not a violation of the First Amendment.

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Facebook boosts its climate commitments with pledge to cut greenhouse gases

The Verge

The social media giant is also setting a more ambitious target for 2030. The company’s new pledge to reach “net zero” carbon emissions puts it on track to offset its global power consumption and planet-heating pollution by investing in renewable energy projects and initiatives that capture and store carbon dioxide.

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Cloud, SaaS boost Oracle sales, but competition exacts costs

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, in comparison, Microsoft reported $22.1 billion, net income plunged 54% to $2.3 New customers for the ERP and HCM (human capital management) software include Tata Steel, Rogers Communications, BAE Systems, Canon and Zoom, Ellison said. billon in cloud revenue last quarter, up 32% year over year. billion.

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Some things Jeff Bezos can do with his $193 billion

The Verge

Forbes pegs his net worth around $193.2 For instance, last year, Bezos’ ex-wife, Mackenzie Scott, gave away $4 billion in four months — and her net worth is only a paltry $60 billion by comparison. His solution is increased wages and social safety net programs.

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Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence

The Verge

To do this, we pulled data from the analytics tool Social Blade to track the Twitter following of every guest who went on Rogan’s podcast between December 2019 and July 2021. Those first two appearances in 2019 netted him over 1,100 followers each. That gain jumped to nearly 1,700 followers in 2020.

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How Nvidia beat everyone else in the AI race

Vox

From games to crypto mining to AI In 1993, long before uncanny AI-generated art and amusing AI chatbot convos took over our social media feeds, three Silicon Valley electrical engineers launched a startup that would focus on an exciting, fast-growing segment of personal computing: video games. Now it has over 27,000.