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Leslie Smith is not one to stay silent when it comes to important issues. The Bellator featherweight has long been an advocate for fighter rights, but she’s currently focused on getting involved with more pressing matters, namely the Black Lives Matter protests that have surged across North America in the wake of George Floyd’s death […]
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New work by a leading team of diabetes researchers has discovered how to target a problematic protein to help prevent kidney damage and significantly slow disease progression. The findings from the University of Lincoln, which could have major implications for diabetes sufferers around the world, come as we mark Diabetes Week 2020 (8th-14th June) to […]
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Renault (RENA.PA)’s partnership with Japan’s Nissan (7201.T) has entered an “incredibly positive” phase after episodes of strained relations in recent years, the French carmaker’s chairman Jean-Dominique Senard said on Thursday. “We’ve put the work in, we’re in an incredibly positive dynamic,” Senard told a hearing in France’s lower house of parliament, after Renault and Nissan […]
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Sega revealed that it is looking into a cloud-gaming service that utilizes an infrastructure it has termed “fog gaming.” The concept involves using idle arcade gaming cabinets to serve streaming games to at-home players.Arcade gaming is still pretty big in Japan. A report by the Japanese Amusement Machine and Manufacturers Association stated there were 15,612 […]
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Two sisters died after being stabbed multiple times while they were in a London park celebrating one of their birthdays. Bibaa Henry was celebrating her 46th with sister Nicole Smallman, 27, and a group of friends in Fryent Country Park, Wembley, last Friday. Gradually their friends left the party until the sisters, both from Harrow, […]
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Johnny Eduardo wants to add his name to the list of bantamweights interested in facing undefeated prospect Sean O’Malley in the octagon. The Nova Uniao veteran made his professional mixed martial arts debut a week after O’Malley celebrated his second birthday in 1996, compiling a 28-12 record that includes UFC knockouts of Eddie Wineland and […]
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Researchers who made a knock-in mouse-model of the genetic disorder retinitis pigmentosa 59, or RP59, expected to see retinal degeneration and retinal thinning. As reported in the journal Cells, they surprisingly found none, calling into question the commonly accepted—though never proved—mechanism for RP59. “Our findings bring into question the current concept that RP59 is a […]
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Credit-rating firm S&P Global Ratings on Thursday questioned SoftBank Group Corp’s financial discipline as the tech conglomerate pursues a massive 2.5 trillion yen ($24 billion) share buyback program in volatile markets. The buyback plan raises doubts about its intention to adhere to “financial soundness and creditworthiness”, S&P said, with SoftBank looking to raise up to […]
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While we’d all love for hardware to run indefinitely, the truth of the matter is that aging hardware is simply unable to keep up with the demands of evolving software. When it starts to degrade the user experience, companies are left with little choice but to abandon support and focus on newer products.Hulu later this […]
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Shocking moment two police officers are attacked in Hackney, London An attack on police officers who stopped to help an apparent assault victim was condemned as ‘sickening, shocking and disgraceful’ by the Home Secretary last night. Footage posted on social media shows one uniformed officer tackling a suspect to the ground in Hackney, north east […]
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