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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have sent their nieces and nephews, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, Christmas presents in the post as they won’t get to see them on the big day. The couple will spend December 25 with their son Archie in LA, the family’s first in their new home, and in […]
The Spurs have either made the playoffs or drafted a multi-time All-Star in all 43 of their prior seasons. After missing the 2020 postseason, San Antonio has the pressure on with No. 11 pick Devin Vassell. The Spurs’ highest-drafted player since Tim Duncan, Vassell even ranked No. 4 on my board. But that’s in a […]
Research led by Si-Qiong June Liu, MD, Ph.D., Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, discovered a surprising reciprocal interaction between chemicals in the brain resulting in accelerated loss of molecules that regulate brain cell communication. The research team’s findings are published online in Nature Communications, available here. […]
Apple Inc has placed supplier Wistron Corp on probation, saying on Saturday it would not award the Taiwanese contract manufacturer new business until it addressed the way workers were treated at its southern India plant. Early findings of an Apple audit in the wake of violence at the Wistron plant in India’s Karnataka state showed […]
Google plans to shut down Android Things, a stripped-down version of Android designed for smart home devices. The OS never really got off the ground, so this isn’t all that much of a loss, but it is yet another entry in Google’s expansive graveyard of shut-down projects. The smart home project got its start in […]
A “psycho” Tesco worker who slaughtered his wife and young daughter in a jealous rage has been jailed for life. Marcin Zdun will serve a minimum of 34 years for the “evil” murders of his wife and teenage daughter in Salisbury, Wiltshire. Zdun, 40, murdered Aneta Zdun and daughter Nikoleta on June 1 because he […]
Thomas Bryant was pissed off, Blake Griffin had just thrown him to the ground. Bryant bounced up looking to fight and a referee Jonathan Sterling jumped in between them — and then Bryant shoved Sterling multiple times, trying to push him out of the way to get to Griffin (who, like the veteran he is, […]
Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) results in greater weight loss than laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) seven years after surgery, according to a study published online Dec. 9 in JAMA Surgery. Sofia Grönroos, M.D., from Turku University Hospital in Finland, and colleagues compared weight loss at seven years in 240 patients (69.6 percent women) with morbid […]
Private equity firm Blackstone Group Inc is in talks to merge U.S. benefits services provider Alight Solutions LLC with a blank-check acquisition firm backed by veteran investor Bill Foley, according to people familiar with the matter. The merger with Foley Trasimene Acquisition Corp would result in Alight becoming a publicly-listed company at a valuation of […]
Twitter has begun testing its Spaces feature, the voice-based chat rooms it first announced last month. In the thread announcing the test, the company said a very small group of users would be given the ability to create Spaces, but that in theory anyone could join them — though who would be allowed into any […]