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Chargers wide receiver Keenan Allen played the 99th game of his career today. He’s had more catches this far into his career than any other NFL player, ever. With nine catches today, Allen now has 623 catches in 99 games. The previous record for the most catches in a player’s first 100 games belonged to […]
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Men with hemochromatosis HFE p.C282Y homozygosity have an increased risk for incident primary hepatic malignancy and death, according to a study published in the Nov. 24 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Janice L. Atkins, Ph.D., from the University of Exeter Medical School in the United Kingdom, and colleagues conducted a cohort […]
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As a business journalist I spend most of my time with business leaders – most of who, regardless of the way they voted in the referendum, are holding their heads in their hands at the prospect of an economically damaging no-deal Brexit. They simply can’t believe that the UK government would risk whole sectors of […]
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Boston Dynamics, the company behind a strange and often terrifying series of robots, has been acquired by Hyundai Motor Group for around $880 million.Reports of Hyundai’s interest in Boston Dynamics arrived last month. The robotics firm has changed hands several times since it was spun off from a Massachusetts Institute of Technology project in 1992, […]
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A family on the school run have been caught up in what appears to be a terrifying road rage attack as a man brandishing a machete attacked their car. Stunned fellow parents and the school dialled 999 as the man was seen smashing his weapon against the windscreen and onto the car bonnet as a […]
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Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians made running back Leonard Fournette a healthy scratch on Sunday, giving his spot to veteran LeSean McCoy. McCoy made the most of it and, in turn, he made Arians look like a genius. “I love Leonard,” Arians told reporters after the game. “I think he’s a heck of a kid and […]
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A team of McGill University researchers has found that young adults who perceived higher levels of social support reported fewer mental health problems. In a study published today in JAMA Network Open, the team led by Marie-Claude Geoffroy, Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology at McGill, reassessed the impact of the […]
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In a landmark lawsuit, US regulators have accused Facebook of buying up rivals in order to stifle competition. They have made it clear they will seek a drastic remedy – the sale of Instagram and WhatsApp. On this week’s Tech Tent we ask whether it is really likely that the social media giant’s empire will […]
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Mini PC maker Simply NUC has announced the Ruby and Topaz family of high-end, SFF PCs. Both models use the company’s 4×4 Universal Chassis, with the Ruby powered by AMD’s 4000-series Renoir chips and the Topaz lineup running Intel’s 11th-gen Tiger Lake silicon. While they share similar specs in terms of memory, storage, and I/O […]
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A woman killed at a Travelodge hotel was a receptionist who was working an overnight shift alone, a witness has claimed. One of her colleagues called 999 for help and desperately tried to stop the bleeding as he pressed some material onto her stomach, hotel guest Paul Ford said. The woman, who was in her […]
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