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Douglas Stuart has won the Booker Prize for his debut novel Shuggie Bain. This year’s judges unanimously chose the Scottish writer to win the award. Shuggie Bain, which is based on Stuart’s childhood, is set in Glasgow in the 1980s and tells the story of a young boy growing up with a mother who is […]
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Pass rusher Vic Beasley is visiting the Raiders, Field Yates of ESPN reports. The Titans cut Beasley on Nov. 4. He signed a one-year, $9.5 million contract with Tennessee in the offseason. In five games with the Titans, Beasley had no sacks and four tackles. He played 38 snaps against Cincinnati with no tackles in […]
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Hormones are key players of the endocrine system and have a major influence on our emotional and sexual wellbeing. The hormone oxytocin is involved in a wide range of emotions from social bonding to maternal behaviors like nursing and lactation. But the most popular and well-known role of oxytocin, lending it its popular moniker of […]
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Apple Inc AAPL.O, advertising giant GroupM and others asked the judge hearing the Justice Department’s lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google GOOGL.O on Friday to allow them to designate certain data used by the government as “highly confidential,” to ensure that no-one from Google could see it. The Justice Department, which sued the search and advertising giant […]
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Facebook has always made it clear it wants artificial intelligence to handle more moderation duties on its platforms. Today, it announced its latest step toward that goal: putting machine learning in charge of its moderation queue. Here’s how moderation works on Facebook. Posts that are thought to violate the company’s rules (which includes everything from […]
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An elderly couple have told of how they forgave the daughter jailed for stealing £130,000 from them. Terence and Elizabeth Fordham were on a dream road trip in Europe when Melissa, 36, frittered their cash away. She got three years and her crime left them “in misery” as debt collectors hounded them. But they say […]
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers may ultimately come to regret their decision to sign Antonio Brown. However, there’s no indication the team currently has buyer’s remorse despite the recent revelation of another incident involving Brown prior to his signing with Tampa Bay earlier this month. Brown allegedly destroyed a surveillance camera and threw his bicycle at […]
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A randomized trial of more than 6,000 participants in Denmark adds new evidence to what is known about whether masks protect the wearer from SARS-CoV-2 infection in a setting where public health measures, including social distancing, are in effect but others are not wearing masks. The DANMASK-19 trial randomized participants to follow those public health […]
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With one million Twitter followers, the Reserve Bank of India has become the first central bank in the world to reach this milestone. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has beaten the US Federal Reserve and European Central Bank on Twitter by emerging as the most popular central bank on the microblogging site with one […]
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Now is a good time to get some Nintendo Switch games, whether you have the console or are hoping to get one soon. Best Buy and Amazon have knocked off as much as $25 off some fantastic titles that are easy to recommend, including Fire Emblem: Three Houses (my personal favorite from 2019), Splatoon 2, […]
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