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If you’ve ever been on a night out in a pub or bar and wondered if the bartender was flirting with you, it turns out there’s a sneaky way to find out. According to a Reddit user, some bartenders have a ‘secret code’ which they use to talk about customers without them knowing. The code […]
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Thomas Tuchel is confident that Édouard Mendy will start the Champions League final against Manchester City after scans indicated that the Chelsea goalkeeper’s rib injury is not serious. Mendy, who went off at half-time during Sunday’s 2-1 defeat at Aston Villa, had tests on the injury on Monday and the early signs suggest Chelsea will […]
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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) may cause chronic infection to the liver, which can result in irreversible liver damage and liver cancer. How HCV manages to evade the immune system to infect the host chronically is not entirely understood. In a new study, researchers from Osaka University discovered a novel molecular mechanism by which HCV interferes […]
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A Toshiba Corp unit said it was hacked by the DarkSide ransomware group, overshadowing an announcement of a strategic review for the Japanese conglomerate under pressure from activist shareholders to seek out suitors. Toshiba Tec Corp , which makes products such as bar code printers and is valued at $2.3 billion, was hacked by DarkSide […]
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Remember the 2016 clown sightings? It was all over social media and national news, so it was hard to miss, but just in case: That year, numerous reports of creepy-looking clowns lurking in places they should not be, flooded into local police departments. Posts on social media were aplenty. The scare disappeared almost as quickly […]
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A woman who “blabbed” to her delivery driver that she was having a bad day was stunned when he paid for her lunch. Julia shared her “modern-day love story” on TikTok where it has since been viewed by more than 1.3 million people. She explained that not long after she’d opened up to the delivery […]
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As Phil Mickelson became the oldest major winner of all time on Sunday, a number of other athletes who have achieved success in the later stages of their careers paid tribute. Mickelson claimed the US PGA Championship at the age of 50 and one of the first to offer their congratulations was his old rival […]
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Wei Yan, MD, Ph.D., and his research group have solved a longstanding mystery and scientific debate about the mechanism underlying the gamete and embryo transport within the fallopian tube. Using a mouse model that lacked motile cilia in the oviduct, Dr. Yan’s group demonstrated that motile cilia in the very distal end of the fallopian […]
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UniCredit’s largest investor BlackRock voted against the remuneration package that last month turned the Italian bank’s new boss Andrea Orcel into one of Europe’s highest paid bank chiefs, a document showed. Orcel narrowly avoided a shareholder revolt against his pay package worth up to 7.5 million euros ($9 million) a year, securing only 54% of […]
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A few months back, Epic assembled a small team of developers to see what they could come up with using the latest version of Unreal Engine 5. The end result was a new practical sample project called “Valley of the Ancient” and it’s being shown publicly now for the first time. It was just over […]
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