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Gordon Hayward is back. In the bubble. He’ll soon be cheering on his teammates from the sidelines, but he’s not going to be playing. Celtics’ coach Brad Stevens announced it during his pregame media availability on Saturday. Hayward suffered a nasty Grade III ankle sprain during Boston’s first playoff game, a win over the 76ers. […]
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Thermal imaging has been available for decades to detect temperature differences on the skin that could signal breast cancer without exposing patients to radiation, although the method is not as reliable as mammography. New research performed at the University of Texas at Dallas and published June 22 in Nature Research’s Scientific Reports takes a critical […]
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Boston Federal Reserve President Eric Rosengren said on Friday the U.S. jobs report was stronger than he had expected. “At this point markets well understand that we are not planning raising rates any time soon,” Rosengren said in an interview with CNBC.
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It could improve VR headset audio, too A new Facebook experiment shows how sound could play a major role in augmented reality. Chief scientist Michael Abrash and his team at FRL Research (formerly Facebook Reality Labs) released details today about what the team calls “perceptual superpowers” — AR systems that figure out what you’re trying […]
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A study reveals shocking levels of abuse waged against women – and calls for a specific offence to be created Organising charity Citizens UK said women were three times more likely than men to experience threats and acts of sexual violence and assault. Horrific examples uncovered by researchers include a Jewish woman slammed against a […]
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Now we have a series. Game 4 on Saturday looked and felt like the hard-fought playoff series everyone (including fans of both teams) expected before it tipped off — intense, with physical defenses throwing off usually strong offensive players. It wasn’t pretty, but it was fun to watch. It was dramatic. It was playoff basketball. […]
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In 2017, the UN Special Rapporteur Dr. Dainius Pūras noted that mental healthcare services around the world were in a crisis and rightly called for a ‘revolution’ in mental healthcare. He identified problems of power asymmetries, an over-reliance on psychotropic drugs, and a system that revolves around profits for experts and the pharmaceutical industry. These […]
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In the week since the Federal Reserve made a landmark shift in its approach to monetary policy, details are emerging on what it could look like in practice, with two Fed policymakers on Thursday saying they’d be comfortable with leaving interest rates near zero even if inflation rises to levels not seen on a sustained […]
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The changes will go live with iOS 14, but Apple will start enforcing them early next year Apple is delaying a controversial new privacy feature it’s implementing with iOS 14 that will require developers ask users for permission to gather data and track them across mobile apps and websites on the iPhone and iPad, the […]
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David Jackson, 73, of Woodmancote, Dursley, was told by a judge he deserved a severe prison sentence – but he was given a suspended sentence ‘in case he contracts Covid-19’ David Jackson, 73, of Woodmancote, Dursley, was told by a judge he deserved a severe prison sentence. But Judge Ian Lawrie QC said: “Because of […]
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