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Why would anyone be against life-saving malaria bednets?

Vox

This has occasionally popped up as an objection to bednet programs, notably in a 2015 New York Times article. That comparison already bakes in the fact that a third of households who received the nets weren’t using them. In 2015 ITNs were estimated to have saved more than 10 million lives — likely 20-25 million at this point.

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This 24-year-old entrepreneur wants to build the ‘first mainstream Web3 game’

GeekWire

Castaways plays its Web3 integration remarkably low-key, particularly by comparison to other games in its lane. Mills dropped out of high school in Missouri in 2015 (“it just felt like such a waste of time to me,” he says) to pursue a career in game design, and initially began by running private Minecraft servers for profit.

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Did smartphones “destroy” a generation? The debate, explained.

Vox

Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images What the evidence about social media and teens’ mental health really says. So argues the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. This dispute has generated reams of commentary as the media’s middle-aged social media users argue about whether their favorite apps are poisoning their kids.

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The Elizabeth Holmes saga is far from over

Vox

Often dressing in a uniform black turtleneck and embracing her status as a college dropout-turned-founder, Holmes also welcomed comparison to Silicon Valley royalty, like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. Holmes did have support from some prominent tech investors, including venture capitalist Don Lucas and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison.

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Top 20 Tech Websites & Blogs To Follow in 2020

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A recent report revealing that around 77% of users who have internet access read blogs while 23% of users spent their time on the internet by browsing social networks or reading some content on websites. It was launched by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg in 2014 and was acquired by Vox Media in 2015. million active visitors.

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Theranos’ greatest invention was Elizabeth Holmes

The Verge

She has sometimes been called another Steve Jobs, but I think that’s an inadequate comparison,” former defense secretary and Theranos board member William Perry told The New Yorker the same year. She has a social consciousness that Steve never had. CGI2015 — Theranos (@theranos) September 29, 2015. Perry knew Jobs.) “She

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Online Training Solutions and the Art of Enterprise Training Delivery

Kitaboo

Comparison between Online Training Platforms vs Traditional Training. Besides, collaboration tools such as social media elements, message boards, discussion boards, online communities etc., Employee Training / October 7, 2015. Video-based Training: Videos are more engaging by nature and help to capture learners’ attention.

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