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Tight end Nick Vannett has bounced around a bit over the last couple of years, playing for the Seahawks, Steelers, and Broncos since the start of the 2019 season. After entering the league as a Seahawks third-round pick back in 2016, he’s made a limited impact wherever he’s been. But after Denver released him in […]
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The urgency to remember a dangerous experience requires the brain to make a series of potentially dangerous moves: Neurons and other brain cells snap open their DNA in numerous locations—more than previously realized, according to a new study—to provide quick access to genetic instructions for the mechanisms of memory storage. The extent of these DNA […]
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Australian telecom firm Telstra Corp (TLS.AX) said it will sell a 49% stake in its mobile tower business for A$2.8 billion ($2.1 billion) and return half the sale proceeds to investors, sending its shares to their highest level in over a year. A consortium of Australia’s sovereign wealth Future Fund and pension funds Commonwealth Superannuation […]
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Nintendo, which is often associated with being a toy maker, is teaming up with, of all companies, luxury watchmaker Tag Heuer. The two companies revealed their collaboration on an upcoming Super Mario-themed watch in a psychedelic teaser posted on Twitter early Friday morning. You can sign up now on Tag Heuer’s website to get early […]
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An unopened copy of Nintendo’s Super Mario 64 has sold at auction for $1.56 million. Heritage Auctions in Dallas said that the 1996 game sold Sunday, breaking its previous record price for the sale of a single video game. A spokesman did not immediately respond to an inquiry about who purchased the game. Super Mario […]
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Giants running back Saquon Barkley repeatedly has declined to put a timetable on his return from a torn anterior cruciate ligament. During The Rich Eisen Show on Thursday, Barkely repeated what he has said for months: He is taking things “day by day.” “Trying to get 1 percent better every single day,” Barkley told Eisen, […]
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Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major human pathogen and a leading cause of several infectious diseases including pneumonia, the third-leading cause of death in Portugal. In Europe, S. pneumoniae is the most common cause of community-acquired bacterial pneumonia in adults. Still, very little is known about its colonization within this age group. A team of researchers […]
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Lawyers fighting the extradition of Huawei’s chief financial officer to the United States on Tuesday presented internal emails from British bank HSBC (HSBA.L) that they said disproved U.S. claims that Huawei misled the bank. CFO Meng Wanzhou’s legal team said the emails and documents submitted to a Canadian court showed at least two senior HSBC […]
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iPhone builder Foxconn is dangling a massive electric vehicle project in front of Wisconsin after burning the state with promises of a multibillion-dollar LCD factory that never happened. The Taiwanese conglomerate has also already fallen behind its own arbitrary deadline for choosing where it will build the EV factory. The Taiwanese conglomerate said Friday that […]
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Priyanka Gandhi Vadra with son Raihan Rajiv Vadra. Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra took to Instagram this afternoon to share three photos from her son’s debut photography exhibition. ‘Dark Perception: An exposition of Light, Space and Time’ by Raihan Rajiv Vadra opened at Delhi’s Bikaner House on Sunday. This is the first solo exhibition for […]
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