Erotic Hollywood producer’s companies gleaned millions from unusable dating sites

Erotic Hollywood producer’s companies gleaned millions from unusable dating sites

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China’s Shenzhen investment group targets 400 million consumers in COMESA bloc as it sets base in Kenya

China’s Shenzhen investment group targets 400 million consumers in COMESA bloc as it sets base in Kenya

Kenya is emerging manufacturing zones ranging from Export Processing Zones (EPZs) in Athi River to Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in Dongo Kundu, Eldoret and Naivasha, are set to benefit from such collaborations, especially as the country seeks to raise its manufacturing contribution to GDP from 7.6 per cent to 20 per cent by 2030.

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There’s no such thing as a free lunch: Listening billionaires’ stories it’s obvious they are sick of human species, whom they see as inferior beings around them

There’s no such thing as a free lunch: Listening billionaires’ stories it’s obvious they are sick of human species, whom they see as inferior beings around them

In order to roll back the labour victories of the postwar era (which had become harder to justify in the wake of falling profits), American elites both empowered finance capital (leading to a series of bubbles) and embraced deindustrialization, with many industries shifting to the Global South (notably China).

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Vice President JD Vance is the loyal convert-in-chief and he is on top of the world after roping in for tech billionaires for Donald Trump

Vice President JD Vance is the loyal convert-in-chief and he is on top of the world after roping in for tech billionaires for Donald Trump

After serving in the Marines and graduating from Yale Law School, Vance bounced around from a stint on Capitol Hill in Texas senator John Cornyn’s office to a federal clerkship in Kentucky to a brief stint in corporate law before cutting his teeth in the VC field at Mithril Capital, a firm founded by billionaire Peter Thiel.

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Alternative medicine: Why after FDA finding that snake venom in approved drugs treats stroke convinces biohackers humans can live forever

Alternative medicine: Why after FDA finding that snake venom in approved drugs treats stroke convinces biohackers humans can live forever

For the biohackers, decentralisation is a feature, not a bug. It’s a safeguard against corruption. “The biohacking community,” Fabrizio “Fab” Mancini, a chiropractor and frequent flier of the daytime TV medical circuit, tells me, “is not owned by any one entity. It’s actual individuals.” In a community for whom deregulation is entirely the point, though, how do you screen for bullshit?

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New data doubt if Covid vaccines saved ‘millions and millions’ of lives, calls it a drug marketing gimmick

New data doubt if Covid vaccines saved ‘millions and millions’ of lives, calls it a drug marketing gimmick

Building on our prior work, we critically examined the hypothetical statistical models that produced this extraordinary figure, as well as multiple randomised and controlled trials and large-scale observational studies that served as the empirical basis for the vaccine efficacy estimates fed into these models.

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Air India Dreamliner crashes into college hostel as it takes off from Adani-operated Ahmedabad Airport, kills 300

Air India Dreamliner crashes into college hostel as it takes off from Adani-operated Ahmedabad Airport, kills 300

Ahmedabad Police Chief G.S. Malik said the bodies recovered could include both passengers and people killed on the ground. The dead included Vijay Rupani, the former chief minister of Gujarat state, of which Ahmedabad is the main city.

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Why Apple Inc founder Steve Jobs nearly declined to give a commencement speech, which turned out to be the best ever

Why Apple Inc founder Steve Jobs nearly declined to give a commencement speech, which turned out to be the best ever

Jobs woke up on the morning of the 12th riddled with anxiety. “I’d almost never seen him more nervous,” Laurene Jobs would tell Schlender and Tetzeli. Even on the short drive from his home to the stadium – their three kids in the back – he rode shotgun in the family SUV, still tweaking the speech. When they tried to get to the VIP parking lot, they couldn’t find the pass that would gain them entry. They had trouble convincing the guard that the frazzled guy in a black T-shirt and ripped jeans was actually the commencement speaker, but they finally got through.

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Newly released materials show how Apple Inc founder Steve Jobs went from hopelessly flailing to delivering greatest graduation speech ever

Newly released materials show how Apple Inc founder Steve Jobs went from hopelessly flailing to delivering greatest graduation speech ever

Jobs dreaded giving this speech. The Jobs I knew stayed in a strictly policed comfort zone. He thought nothing of walking out of a meeting, even an important one, if something displeased him. His exacting instructions to anyone charged with preparing his meals rivalled those for the manufacture of iPhones.

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Funding shortfall frustrates researchers and innovators, places at Kenya 96 out of 132 in the world

Funding shortfall frustrates researchers and innovators, places at Kenya 96 out of 132 in the world

official data from the National Research Fund shows that the National Treasury allocated a mere Ksh343 million ($2.7 million) for research in the 2023/ 2024 financial year out of the possible Ksh200 billion ($1.544 million) needed annually as per to conform to the 2013 act.

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