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Game of Tongues: How Duolingo Built A $700 Million Business With Its Addictive Language-Learning App

Beg for your life in Spanish,” demands Duo, a plump green owl. The viral meme circulating on Twitter stars the mascot for Duolingo, the hugely popular language-learning app, downloaded by more than 300 million people worldwide. While the meme is a joke, the real app is plenty insistent

24 июля 2019 11 мин. 12367

A Digital Path to Health for All

BASEL/SEATTLE – Global leaders at the recent annual gathering of the World Health Assembly in Geneva expressed worry and optimism in almost equal measure. Delegates at the Assembly – the decision-making body of the World Health Organization – likened the scope of the world’s health crisis to that of the threat posed by climate change. They also agree, however, that digital technology and data will play a crucial role in accelerating efforts to achieve health for all

23 июля 2019 5 мин. 7409

KazMunayGas heads to participate at the Downstream Caspian and Central Asia

An extensive delegation of senior representatives of Kazmunaygas and its subsidiaries and refineries will participate in the Downstream Caspian and Central Asia conference on the 23th-24th September in Nur-Sultan

22 июля 2019 2 мин. 5045

Boris Johnson and the Threat to British Soft Power

EDINBURGH – Since the United Kingdom’s Department of International Development (DFID) was created 22 years ago, it has lifted millions out of poverty, sent millions of children to school, and saved millions of lives through vaccination programs and other innovative initiatives. Most recently, it has been a world leader in delivering development aid to poor countries facing the ravages of climate change

19 июля 2019 5 мин. 10200

The Exploitation Time Bomb

NEW DELHI – Since reducing inequality became an official goal of the international community, income disparities have widened. This trend, typically blamed on trade liberalization and technological advances that have weakened the bargaining power of labor vis-à-vis capital, has generated a political backlash in many countries, with voters blaming their economic plight on “others” rather than on national policies. And such sentiments of course merely aggravate social tensions without addressing the root causes of worsening inequality

18 июля 2019 4 мин. 6863

Thumbs Down to Facebook’s Cryptocurrency

NEW YORK – Facebook and some of its corporate allies have decided that what the world really needs is another cryptocurrency, and that launching one is the best way to use the vast talents at their disposal. The fact that Facebook thinks so reveals much about what is wrong with twenty-first-century American capitalism

17 июля 2019 5 мин. 10252

The Limits of Mass Protest in a Dictatorship

LONDON – Hong Kong is not Beijing. And July 1, 2019, is not June 4, 1989. First of all, in 1989, the violence in China came almost entirely from the side of the government; the weeks of demonstrations in Beijing and other cities had remained remarkably peaceful throughout. This was mostly true in Hong Kong as well, until a small number of young protesters lost their cool and ransacked the Legislative Council chamber with crowbars and hammers

16 июля 2019 5 мин. 10692

Facebook's New Poker AI Can Beat The World's Top Players

It might be time for poker players to cash in their chips after Facebook and Carnegie Mellon researchers created an artificial intelligence (AI) bot that can beat top human professionals in six-player no-limit Texas hold'em poker, the most popular form of the card game