Huffpost Healthy Living March 10, 2015 Posted: 03/02/2015 3:58 pm EST Updated: 03/02/2015 4:59 pm EST follow us on twitter: @ GoAfricaNetwork In mid-February, the government released a scientific report that will shape its 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Think of it as America’s basic nutrition policy. Most people who read the report would have […]
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follow us on twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork TIME HEALTH CANCER Jan. 20, 2015 The sun is the biggest culprit in causing skin cancer, but there’s a beverage that may thwart some of the tumor-causing effects of ultraviolet rays You may grab a cup (or two) of coffee every morning to help you wake up and face the
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Follow Us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork 52 African countries are now connected to submarine cables, either directly or by terrestrial cross-border fibre optic networks. 44% of Africans live within a 25-km reach of a fibre node. The key question now is which cities and suburbs are taking the lead in building access networks? In an attempt
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Good news for laptop and smartphone buyers: a novel flash-memory design should cut costs and boost capacity. Intel, Micron and Toshiba want to give you the best of both worlds when it comes to flash memory, the storage technology used in smartphones, tablets and higher-end laptops. Today, smartphones and tablets
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Google’s Cloud service just got a little easier to use. Today, it announced Google Cloud Launcherwhich makes it easy to deploy applications like WordPress or entire stacks like LAMP in a single click. The new launcher features more than 120 open source applications that are either configured by Bitnami or
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Phase3 Telecom has revealed plans to begin the deployment of an aerial fiber optic infrastructure from Kano in Nigeria to Gazaoua in the Republic of Niger. According to Phase 3 Telecom, the network will run from Kano state through Katsina state before arriving at Gazaoua. Phase3 also revealed that the
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Journalist and author Howard W. French and more than 150 other writers and professors sent a letter to “60 Minutes” Executive Producer Jeff Fager on Wednesday faulting the CBS News program for its “frequent and recurring misrepresentation of the African continent.” “In a series of recent segments from the continent,
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork MTN Business has launched Bring Your Business Online, a platform that gives small and medium-sized businesses (SME) increased visibility by providing online presence on the MTN managed domain for less than R20 a month. “SMEs are the lifeblood of the South African economy, however, many of them are limited from
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k follow us on twitter: @ GoAfricaNetwork FEBRUARY Drink up, coffee lovers: Neurologists say a healthy appetite for coffee may reduce your risk of developing multiple sclerosis. We’re not talking a cup or two of joe in the morning. Even a triple espresso might not be enough to register a difference. In a new study,
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork A group of leading biologists on Thursday called for a worldwide moratorium on use of a new genome-editing technique that would alter human DNA in a way that can be inherited. The biologists fear that the new technique is so effective and easy to use that some physicians may push
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