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Arrest in city centre following reports of assault and discovery of Class A drugs – thestar.co.uk
Arrest in city centre following reports of assault and discovery of Class A drugs thestar.co.uk
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Government-run grocery stores face renewed scrutiny after Chicago’s experiment fizzles
Chicago has abandoned its plans for government-run grocery stores after Save A Lot, a discount grocery chain, collapsed, reviving scrutiny of similar publicly backed retail schemes elsewhere in the United States. The proposal had been championed as a way to tackle “food deserts”, areas where residents lack easy access to affordable, fresh groceries, but critics…
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Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving to Launch Discovery Loop
Jeff Dean and other high-profile Google executives have founded Discovery Loop, a startup that will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in everything from drug discovery to chip design.
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Pulsar to study how we all use our gaming mice to make them better, offering prizes to those who help them build the mouse of the future
The article text provided does not contain the actual news content — only website navigation, membership promotions and newsletter sign-up boilerplate from PC Gamer’s site. Based on the headline alone, the piece appears to concern gaming peripheral maker Pulsar launching a study into how people use their gaming mice, with the aim of improving future…
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Former Pokémon Exec Accused of Hiding Video Cameras in Office Bathroom to Record Women and Girls
The Pokémon Company’s former director of engineering at its Bellevue, Washington headquarters is now the subject of a class-action lawsuit, after the discovery of a hidden camera concealed in one of the building’s bathrooms.
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Dawn Richard Announces New Album Creole Culture: Hear “Enough”
R&B artist Dawn Richard has announced her new album Creole Culture, out 9 October on Merge Records, continuing the exploration of her Black and Native American New Orleans heritage that has defined earlier records such as 2019’s New Breed and 2021’s Second Line. The announcement matters as the culmination of a loose trilogy in which…
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What can scientists learn from a stray SpaceX rocket hitting the Moon?
A discarded upper stage from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is believed to have struck the Moon near the Einstein crater on Wednesday, creating an accidental impact that scientists are treating as a valuable research opportunity. Because researchers already know the object’s exact size, speed and point of impact, the collision effectively becomes a controlled…
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Cougars Lower the Risks of Car Crashes by Hunting Deer
A study published in the journal Current Biology has found that car accidents involving deer in the US could fall by as much as 76% in areas with healthy cougar populations, as the big cats’ presence deters deer from foraging near roads and forest edges. This matters because deer-vehicle collisions have risen steadily since the…
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Pesticide warning as study finds link to terrifying motor neurone disease – exposure could raise risk by up to 70%
A new study has linked exposure to certain pesticides to a significantly increased risk of developing motor neurone disease (MND), a devastating and incurable condition that progressively destroys nerve cells controlling movement. The findings add to growing concern about environmental and occupational risk factors for the disease, which affects around 5,000 people in the UK…