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New science centre aims to help fight pandemics Danny Fullbrook BBC News, Essex Getty Images The centre is expected to open fully in 2038 A new science centre is being built which aims to help protect the UK from future pandemics. The government has pledged a “multi-billion-pound” investment to makeContinue Reading

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It’s been more than a half-century since the GOP swept all state executive offices A month after the unexpected announcement last April that Iowa Republican Governor Kim Reynolds would not seek a third full term in 2026, Democratic Auditor Rob Sand launched his campaign for the office. Sand famously emergedContinue Reading

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says that Americans should expect future natural disasters to be handled similarly to the recent deadly flooding in Texas—and no, she wasn’t being ironic.  During a press conference in Nashville, Tennessee, Thursday, Noem was in denial about just how badly she’d managed the Federal EmergencyContinue Reading

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WOOHOO, a restaurant that bills itself as “dining in the future,” is set to open in September in central Dubai. Food will be assembled by humans, for now, but everything else — from the menu to ambience to service — will be designed by a culinary large-language-model called “Chef Aiman.”Continue Reading

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Five Years Ago This week in 2020, we saw a new breed of scammers start abusing the DMCA on YouTube, and a new evolution of copyright trolls abusing the DMCA to take down social media accounts and demanding money to reinstate them. We also saw the debate following the Harper’sContinue Reading

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China, France, Germany, Russia and the UK are the remaining parties to a 2015 nuclear deal reached with Iran., China, France, Germany, Russia and the UK are the remaining parties to a 2015 nuclear deal reached with Iran. Iran, France, Germany and the United Kingdom will hold nuclear talks inContinue Reading