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5 years ago+13 13 0Jury says Bayer must pay $80 million to man who alleged Roundup caused his cancer
A U.S. jury on Wednesday awarded $80 million to a man who claimed his use of Bayer's glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup caused his cancer, in the latest legal setback for the company facing thousands of similar lawsuits. The jury in San Franc ...
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5 years ago+11 11 0Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm
Apple’s third-generation butterfly keyboard was supposed to fix all the previous defects but buyers are still having problems.
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5 years ago+8 8 0Michael Avenatti's alleged co-conspirator is reportedly Jussie Smollett lawyer Mark Geragos
The Michael Avenatti Nike extortion saga just got even stranger. Prosecutors on Monday indicted Avenatti, Stormy Daniels' former lawyer, for allegedly trying to extort $20 million from Nike, saying he and a co-conspirator threatened to release d ...
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5 years ago+23 23 0The Best of Europe’s Web Went Dark Today. We Can’t Let That Be Our Future.
We’re into the final days before members of the European Parliament vote on the Copyright and the Digital Single Market Directive, home of the censoring Article 13, and the anti-news Article 11. Europeans are still urging their MEPs to vote down thes ...
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5 years ago+19 19 0Canada is becoming a tech hub. Thanks, Donald Trump!
US companies are going to keep hiring foreign tech workers, even as the Trump administration makes doing so more difficult. For a number of US companies that means expanding their operations in Canada, where hiring foreign nationals is much easier. D ...
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5 years ago+4 4 0Biker gangs stand guard by NZ mosques at first Friday prayers
Bikers have vowed to stand guard outside New Zealand mosques as Muslims take part in their first Friday prayer following the Christchurch shootings. Gangs like The Mongrel Mob, King Cobra and The Black Power have promised to protect their local Musli ...
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5 years ago+11 11 0EU regulators hit Google with $1.7 billion fine for blocking ad rivals
The European Union on Wednesday ordered Google to pay 1.49 billion euros ($1.69 billion) for stifling competition in the online advertisement sector. The European Commission said Google had placed exclusivity contracts on website owners, stopping the ...
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5 years ago+13 13 0Woman Quits Successful City Career So She Can Live in the Woods With Over 100 Rescued Animals
Daria Pushkareva was a successful photographer living in Russia’s capital city of Moscow when she decided to leave the bustling city life behind – which is why she now lives in the woods with over 100 rescued animals. As a child growing up in Russia, ...
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5 years ago+4 4 0Manafort gets 7 years, bids for Trump pardon
Manafort gets 7 years, bids for Trump pardon: Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, got a second prison sentence this week.
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5 years ago+22 22 0SpaceX's Crew Dragon could land with abort thrusters in emergencies, says Musk
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says that Crew Dragon – originally designed to propulsively land like Falcon 9 – is still technically able to do so, a capability that could give the already uniquely redundant spacecraft yet another level of safety during Earth ...
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5 years ago+18 18 0Apple and Stanford’s Apple Watch study identified irregular heartbeats in over 2,000 patients
Apple and the Stanford University School of Medicine each issued press releases today citing the results of the Apple Heart Study that they jointly announced in November 2017. Stanford Medicine also took its findings to the American College of Cardio ...
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5 years ago+32 32 0 x 1'No vaccine, no school' in Italy
Italian children have been told not to turn up to school unless they can prove they have been properly vaccinated. The deadline follows months of national debate over compulsory vaccination. Parents risk being fined up to €500 (£425; $560) if they se ...
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5 years ago+27 27 0Don’t take Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of Facebook’s future too seriously
It’s conceivable that Mark Zuckerberg’s Wednesday blog post “A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking” is a historic document not only for Facebook but for the technology industry, period. Zuckerberg outlines a vision for Facebook where content ...
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5 years ago+14 14 0Disney to close “vault” for good as it moves film library to streaming service
Disney is rapidly preparing to launch its own streaming service, dubbed Disney+, later this year. While the debut date is still unknown, we now know that the service will include the entire Disney movie library shortly after the service launches. Acc ...
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5 years ago+19 19 0'Game of Thrones' first look: Inside the brutal battle to make season 8
The great battle is over. The snowy ground is streaked with blood. Beloved heroes lay dead outside the castle gates. Winterfell is quiet. And then… A sudden roar from above. A gust of wind. A blur of low-flying movement. A dragon? No. An ice dragon? ...
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5 years ago+4 4 0Babies cry at night to prevent siblings, scientist suggests
When a baby cries at night, exhausted parents scramble to figure out why. He’s hungry. Wet. Cold. Lonely. But now, a Harvard scientist offers more sinister explanation: The baby who demands to be breastfed in the middle of the night is preventing his ...
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5 years ago+29 29 0France Becomes The First Country To Ban All Five Pesticides Linked To Bee Deaths
However France has gone a step further and set the high bar in the effort to save the bees. Given the importance of pollinators to nature and the survival of the biosphere, this could not happen too soon! Studies have reported that the neonicotinoid ...
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5 years ago+3 3 0A hidden province of volcanoes in West Antarctica may accelerate sea level rise
Hundreds of volcanoes could be hiding beneath almost 2,000 meters of solid Antarctic ice, an area twice the size of Texas, according to data collected by a magnetic sensor on an aircraft of Antarctica’s subglacial topography. If these volcanoes begin ...
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5 years ago+15 15 0Spain will soon overtake Japan in life expectancy rankings. Here’s why
The importance of a healthy diet and lifestyle has long been acknowledged by healthcare professionals as one of the keys to a long and happy life. And for the people of Spain, the evidence bears this out as they’re about to topple the Japanese from t ...
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5 years ago+4 4 0Microsoft, Paradox allow open game modding on Xbox One for the first time
In a console industry first, Paradox Interactive and Microsoft are allowing Xbox One players to get direct access to game modifications created on the PC without any pre-approval from the console maker or publisher. This isn't the first time pla ...