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Tests indicate that Alexei Navalny was the victim of a poisoning and he is being treated with atropine, the same antidote used after the 2018 nerve agent attack in Salisbury, the German clinic where the Kremlin critic is a patient said on Monday. While Berlin’s Charité hospital did not identify the specific poison responsible for […]
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Conor McGregor vs. Max Holloway full fight video to see McGregor pick up a decision win over Holloway in what would turn out to be a battle of future champions at a UFC Fight Night in Boston on Aug. 17, 2013. Before Conor McGregor and Max Holloway rose to stardom, they faced each other early […]
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People are better at learning and decision-making when trying to avoid harm to others, according to new research published in JNeurosci. Humans are often motivated by self-interest. Participants in one study, for example, learned a game faster when they earned money for themselves as opposed to another person. However, this pattern changes when physical harm […]
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Germany’s motor vehicle authority KBA is investigating Volkswagen’s (VOWG_p.DE) luxury sports vehicles unit Porsche AG over the suspected manipulation of petrol engines to achieve improved emissions data. A KBA spokesman said on Monday the investigation involved petrol engines that Porsche produced for the European market before 2017. Porsche had confirmed a newspaper report on Sunday […]
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Some of the first credible reporting about the “Apple iWatch” I remember reading described it as being “made of curved glass.” The eventual Apple Watch did use curved glass to an extent, of course, but it wasn’t really a defining feature of the product. After all, in 2013 The New York Times said Apple’s watch […]
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The Wisconsin national guard was deployed to Kenosha on Monday in advance of more protests expected after a man appeared to have been shot several times in the back by the city’s police on Sunday. The police officer in question is being investigated by the Wisconsin justice department amid uproar over the incident, which prompted […]
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Bellator 244 this past Friday night delivered an explosive main event as Vadim Nemkov took out Ryan Bader to become light heavyweight champion, but the overall ratings didn’t deliver. The event averaged 275,000 viewers over the course of the broadcast that kicked off at 10 p.m. ET on the Paramount Network. Overall, Bellator 244 finished […]
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Despite intensive treatment, high-risk solid tumors like neuroblastoma, Ewing sarcoma, and rhabdomyosarcoma are challenging to cure because the disease in those high-risk patients does not respond to therapy. Conventional chemotherapy given by vein or by mouth delivers only a small amount of the drugs to the tumor, which not only renders the treatment ineffective but […]
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Video-conferencing company Zoom Video Communications Inc (ZM.O) said on Monday it had restored service to its U.S. users after a partial outage left many unable to log in to work meetings or attend school classes remotely. The San Jose, California-based company has experienced a surge in usage during the coronavirus pandemic, as millions of people […]
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Spotify experienced a widespread outage affecting song playback today. The problems first started around 8AM ET and prevented a large number of Spotify users from playing songs properly for more than an hour. Songs only played only for a few seconds before they paused and the Spotify client displayed the error “can’t play the current […]
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