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Bill Gates and TED’s itchy adventure… with mosquitoes

Guess techies should have brought some mosquito repellent to the Technology, Entertainment, Design conference this week.

Bill Gates, former CEO of Microsoft, opened up his TED speech by saying, “Not only poor people should experience this,” and released a swarm of mosquitoes on the unsuspecting audience.

According to Switched, the stunt was meant to promote the efforts of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to eradicate malaria.

Thanks to real-time Twittering by Ev Williams, CEO of Twitter, and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, the rest of the Internet soon heard about Bill’s stunt. 

Yeah, maybe Gates is sort of going stir-crazy at home ;-P

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