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The moon looms large in folklore, urban legends and myths from around the world. And on Monday Nov. 14, it will loom larger in the sky than it has in decades. Every full moon is a spectacular sight, if skies are clear. But November’s full moon is far from ordinary. It will be the closest full […]
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The Premier League will be split down the middle when the national lockdown ends next week, with half the division’s 20 clubs able to welcome back fans, including those in Liverpool and London, and the other half not. After the government announced new tiering measures for England on Thursday, 10 top-flight clubs were placed in […]
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An international research group has clarified the action mechanism of incretin-based drugs in the treatment of diabetes. The research group headed by Professor Seino Susumu included Researcher Okechi Oduori et al. (Division of Molecular and Metabolic Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine), Professor Shimomura Kenju (Fukushima Medical University), Professor Patrik Rorsman (University of Oxford, […]
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Benefits agency UWV denied Uber permission to dismiss a group of employees at its international headquarters in Amsterdam. According to UWV, the ride-hailing company failed to show that the dismissals were structurally necessary, NRC reports. In June, Uber terminated the contracts of 200 workers in Amsterdam as part of global layoffs. The company applied for […]
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Amazon-owned Eero is adding new features to its $2.99-per-month Eero Secure subscription plan, including new ways to give users more control over what content is accessible on Eero networks. One of the changes is to Eero’s content filtering system, which already let you restrict access to certain types of content on a per-person basis. (That […]
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Many people are putting up their Christmas trees earlier than ever this year in a bid to spread some festive cheer – but people have been warned they may also be bringing unwelcome guests into their homes. Those buying trees have been urged to look out for brown walnut-sized lumps, which look similar to pine […]
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Cambridge chairman Ian Mather, who hopes to have 2,000 fans at their next home game, says clubs have a lot to consider Earlier this year, Cambridge volunteered their Abbey Stadium as a test site for experts to assess the challenges of getting fans back into grounds. “We worked some of it out for ourselves but […]
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With everyone focused on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it’s easy to overlook the fact that there are other health threats still plaguing the world. Number one on the list is tuberculosis (TB), the disease that the World Health Organization calls the leading cause of death worldwide—some 1.5 million fatalities annually—from a single infectious agent (the […]
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If the aviation sector starts growing again after the coronavirus crisis, Minister Cora van Nieuwenhuizen of Infrastructure and Water Management will allow the sector room for this, according to the Aviation Memorandum the government agreed upon on Friday. The sector will have to reduce its environmental damage, but the demands are not all that demanding, […]
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Facebook says it is proactively detecting more hate speech using artificial intelligence. A new transparency report released on Thursday offers greater detail on social media hate following policy changes earlier this year, although it leaves some big questions unanswered. Facebook’s quarterly report includes new information about hate speech prevalence. The company estimates that 0.10 to […]
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