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NEW YORK — Not even the NBA’s leading defensive team could slow down the surging Los Angeles Clippers. Kawhi Leonard scored 28 points and the Clippers rang up the highest point total of the season against the New York Knicks on Sunday, winning 129-115 for their 10th victory in 11 games. The Clippers shredded the […]
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Being constantly flooded by a mass of stimuli, it is impossible for us to react to all of them. The same holds true for a little fish. Which stimuli should it pay attention to and which not? Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology have now deciphered the neuronal circuit that zebrafish use to […]
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Facebook Inc. in 2019 redesigned its flagship product to center on what it called Groups, forums for like-minded users. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg called them the new “heart of the app.” Now the social-networking giant is clamping down on Groups. The effort began after Facebook’s own research found that American Facebook Groups became a vector […]
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This won’t be the first video game based on Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers; there was a real-time tactics title (Starship Troopers: Terran Ascendancy) released in 2000 and a FPS in 2005. Starship Troopers: Terran Command has been developed by The Aristocrats, the studio behind Order of Battle: World War Two. It follows the attack on […]
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LONDON — A tiny nonprofit in the city of Nottingham, England, was little known before a major financial frenzy flung it into the social media spotlight. The World Wide Robin Hood Society, based in Sherwood, Nottingham, is run by a middle-aged couple enthusiastic about championing their hometown and the fable of the beguiling English legend […]
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Utah came in the hottest team in the league: It hadn’t lost since Jan. 6 — 11 wins in a row — and had the best record in the NBA. In the two weeks leading into the game, the Jazz had the best defense in the league, and their offense was right there with it. […]
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People with enlarged fluid-filled spaces in the brain around small blood vessels may be more likely to develop cognitive problems and dementia over time than people without these enlarged spaces, according to a new study published in the January 27, 2021, online issue of Neurology. Perivascular spaces are involved in clearing waste and toxins from […]
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The trillion-dollar market value club has a new member: bitcoin. The total number of bitcoins trading are now collectively worth more than $1 trillion. That’s because the price of a bitcoin hit a number of new all-time highs Friday. One bitcoin currently costs around $55,000 — and there are about 18.6 million bitcoins in circulation […]
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Cybersecurity firm Coveware’s latest quarterly ransomware report shows that after continuously rising since Q3 2018, average ransomware payments fell 34 percent in the fourth quarter of last year to $154,108. Median ransomware payments, meanwhile, were down 55 percent to $49,450. Generally, anyone who suffers a ransomware attack is advised not to hand over any crypto […]
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Sophie, the Grammy-nominated Scottish disc jockey, producer and recording artist who had worked with the likes of Madonna and Charli XCX, has died following an accident in the Greek capital of Athens. She was 34. The musician, whose full name was Sophie Xeon, died in the early hours of Saturday morning, according to a statement […]
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