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AI Has Killed an Entire Industry — People Who Got Paid to Do Homework for College Kids (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-11 | by Jon Small | tags: chatgpt, kenya, essay writing

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Mobile education builds resilience during shocks in five countries (feeds.nature.com)

2026-09-09 | by Angrist | get Nokia unlocked basic cell phone → | tags: aser test, nepal, kenya

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Kenyans Did College Students' Homework for Years. Then A.I. Arrived (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-08 | get They Say I Say academic writing book → | tags: kenya, artificial intelligence, contract cheating

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Workshops Educate African Researchers On How to Publish With IEEE (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-09-07 | by Kathy Pretz | get Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association 7th Edition → | tags: ieee, ieee xplore, academic publishing

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Spare a Thought for the Kenyan Essay Writers Who Used to Help Students Cheat Before AI (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-07 | tags: kenya, essay writers, academic cheating

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How these growing businesses are making their mark (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-16 | get Business Growth Strategy Book → | tags: yondr, xenco medical, kenya health project

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Massive Protests Erupt in the Streets of Kenya Due to the Trump Administration’s Mysterious Ebola Facility (futurism.com)

2026-06-14 | by Joe Wilkins | get Ebola Awareness Face Mask → | tags: trump administration, ebola virus, kenya protests

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Kenyan court blocks Trump admin from dumping Ebola-exposed Americans there (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-29 | get Ebola Protective Suit → | tags: ebola, kenya, us air base

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Microsoft's $1 Billion AI Data Center Will 'Switch Off Half of Kenya' (slashdot.org)

2026-05-12 | get Microsoft Azure Data Center → | tags: center, country, data center

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Microsoft's massive Kenya AI data center would require switching off 'half the country' to meet power requirements, government says — $1 billion project stalls over capacity disagreements and lack of infrastructure (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-12 | by Luke James | get Kenya Data Center Power Adapter → | tags: capacity, center, country

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Microsoft's $1 billion Kenya AI data center could require switching off "half the country" (techspot.com)

2026-05-12 | get Microsoft Azure Data Center → | tags: microsoft, kenya, azure

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Meta Had the Worst Possible Response When Its Workers Were Watching Naked Footage of Its Ray-Ban AI Glasses Users (futurism.com)

2026-05-03 | by Frank Landymore | get Ray-Ban Stories Smart Glasses → | tags: meta, ray-ban, sama

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Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-30 | tags: meta, smart glasses, sabastian sawe

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Inspiring Tomorrow’s Innovators: IEEE CS Juniors TechXperience Kenya 2026 (computer.org)

2026-04-28 | get IEEE CS Junior Robotics Kit → | tags: ieee, techxperience, kenya

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Sebastian Sawe breaks iconic sub-two-hour marathon barrier (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-27 | get Marathon Training Shoes → | tags: sebastian sawe, sub-two-hour marathon, kelvin kiptum

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Students Renting Smart Glasses to Cheat on Tests (futurism.com)

2026-03-31 | by Victor Tangermann | get Smart Glasses for Students → | tags: meta ray-ban, rokid ai glasses, smart glasses

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AMD Zen 6 'Venice' ES chips break cover with up to 192 cores, 32 per CCD, in early stress test — Kenya, Congo, Nigeria platforms leaked (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-30 | by Aaron Klotz | get AMD Ryzen 9 7950X → | tags: amd, zen 6, epyc

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Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-09 | get Smartwatch → | tags: ray-ban meta-shot, sama, kenya

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Can Meta see your private life through its Ray-Ban smart glasses? What to know (zdnet.com)

2026-03-06 | by Maria Diaz | get Smart Glasses → | tags: meta ray-ban smart glasses, meta ai, nairobi kenya

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Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom (arstechnica.com)

2026-03-05 | get Smartwatch → | tags: ray-ban meta-shot, sama, swedish newspapers

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Meta’s AI glasses reportedly send sensitive footage to human reviewers in Kenya (theverge.com)

2026-03-05 | by Emma Roth | get Google Glass → | tags: kenya, meta glasses, nairobi

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Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-02 | by Naipanoi Lepapa | get Augmented Reality Glasses → | tags: meta ai glasses, facebook, nairobi kenya

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A hidden workforce behind Meta’s new smart glasses (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-02 | by Naipanoi Lepapa | get Augmented Reality Glasses → | tags: meta smart glasses, facebook, nairobi kenya

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The workers behind Meta's smart glasses can see everything (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-02 | by Naipanoi Lepapa | get Augmented Reality Glasses → | tags: meta glasses, facebook, nairobi kenya

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Kenyan court declares law banning seed sharing unconstitutional (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-05 | by Musambi Is An Associated Press Reporter Based In Nairobi | get Seedbox → | tags: farmers, food, indigenous

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Shadow scholars: inside Kenya’s multibillion-dollar fake-essay industry (feeds.nature.com)

2025-11-06 | by Mckie | get Scholarship → | tags: kenya, kingori, oxford