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Protesters crowded in front of the US federal courthouse in Portland and the Oregon city’s justice center late on Monday night, before authorities cleared them out with flash-bang grenades. It was the latest confrontation arising from nightly protests which began after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers in late May. Many such […]
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Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Flipboard (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)The Nationals announced on Monday that Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National […]
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When prostate cancer progresses to a more-dangerous metastatic state, it does so by resurrecting dormant molecular mechanisms that had guided the fetal development of the prostate gland but had been subsequently switched off, say scientists from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The study, an international collaboration with The Netherlands Cancer Institute, was published in Nature Genetics. “It […]
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Wall Street gained ground on Monday and surging technology shares pushed the Nasdaq to a record closing high, as promising trial results from potential COVID-19 vaccines helped investors look beyond spiraling new cases of the disease. Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) provided the biggest boosts to the Nasdaq and the S&P500, but industrials […]
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Forager, developer HopFrog’s adorable – if fearsomely compulsive – open-world scavenging oddity, has finally updated its PlayStation 4 and Switch releases to add all the post-launch content that’s made its way to PC over the last year. Since its launch last April, Forager on PC has continued to enhance its core gameplay loop of ceaseless […]
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A gunman in Ukraine armed with an automatic rifle and grenades has surrendered to police and released 13 hostages after the country’s president consented to his demand to recommend the 2005 animal rights documentary Earthlings, narrated by Joaquin Phoenix. The niche film recommendation, delivered by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy over Facebook, helped end an hours-long standoff […]
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Last night’s exhibition schedule saw San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler and multiple baseball players kneel during the National Anthem. In Oakland, Kapler and two other Giants — right fielder Jaylin Davis, who is African American, and first base coach Antoan Richardson, who is Black and who is from the Bahamas — joined Kapler. Down […]
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Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive disorder in which the nerve cells (neurons) in a person’s brain and the connections among them degenerate slowly, causing severe memory loss, intellectual deficiencies, and deterioration in motor skills and communication. One of the main causes of Alzheimer’s is the accumulation of a protein called amyloid β (Aβ) in clusters […]
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International Business Machines Corp (IBM.N) beat estimates for second-quarter profit on Monday and signaled that demand in its cloud computing business would get a boost as large corporations accelerate their digital shift due to the coronavirus crisis. The company’s shares rose 5% in after-hours trading. IBM has jettisoned some of its legacy business to focus […]
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Golftopia, the slightly absurd sci-fi golf resort management game from Space Pirates and Zombies 1 & 2 developer MinMax, will enter Steam early access next Tuesday, 21st July. MinMax calls GolfTopia a humorous “building, management, tower defense hybrid”, but its core is something like a retro-futuristic spin on the classic SimGolf formula. Players are given […]
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