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K.J. Wright wants to have his cake and eat it, too. The veteran linebacker has played for the Seahawks since the club drafted him in the fourth round back in 2011. But now his contract is up and he’s slated to become a free agent next month. Though he’s talked about wanting to stick with […]
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Gradual exposure to light restored vision to a migraine sufferer who developed miner’s nystagmus after an extended period of severe light deprivation, reports a team led by UCL experts. Nystagmus is characterized by involuntary eye movements causing jumping and blurred vision, and is sometimes known as wobbly eyes or jerky eyes. Miner’s nystagmus is a […]
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Activist hedge fund manager William Ackman, whose bets on companies are closely watched, updated investors on how his flagship fund earned a record 70.2% return in 2020 on Thursday in a socially distanced way by sending out a 57-page presentation. Normally this would be one of the rare occasions where investors could pepper the billionaire […]
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Pudding Daintytot is a pink cat, with hearts sprinkled over its chest, a rainbow cresting behind it, draconic horns, wings and a tail. “Born” in January 2019, Pudding is a “cryptokitty”: an example of what is known as a “non-fungible token”, the latest cryptocurrency craze – unique images, film clips, animations and even poems, which […]
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A baby found in an underground dumpster in Amsterdam on Sunday night, is a newborn girl. She is in a stable condition in hospital, the police said on Monday. Investigators are looking for witnesses or anyone who knows more about this case. At around 10:40 p.m., a passerby called the police and reported hearing crying […]
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Saints defensive tackle Sheldon Rankins is headed into free agency for the first time and he knows that his health is a question that teams will have this season. Rankins tore his left Achilles in the 2018 playoffs and then had surgery on his right Achilles the next year to prevent another tear. He returned […]
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In the first few months of their lives, babies cry, babble, gurgle and make a variety of other peculiar sounds. It can be difficult to imagine that they are actually laying the foundations for later speech with these utterances. However, there is a determining element that proves that even their cries can be assigned to […]
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Waze has struggled to grow within Alphabet Inc’s Google, the navigation app’s former top executive said, renewing concerns over whether it was stifled by the search giant’s $1 billion acquisition in 2013. More than 140 million drivers worldwide use Waze monthly, up from 10 million when it was acquired, according to a Wednesday blog post […]
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Bitcoin hit a new high on Friday, giving it a market value of more than $1tn for the first time. Bitcoin rose 6.4% during trading on Friday to reach an all-time high above $55,000, and was on track for a weekly gain of about 14%. The surge took its market capitalisation – the value of […]
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A strange package police found in front of a restaurant on the Groene Hilledijk in Rotterdam on Monday morning turned out to be a grenade. The Explosives Disposal Service (EOD) secured the area and is now looking into the matter. On December 30, 2020, a shooting took place in the same street. Police are now […]
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