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The tech helping crack decades-old cold cases
DNA science isn’t the only technology that are helping detectives solve cold cases.One of the challenges facing detectives on major cases investigations like the hunt for Sperino’s killer is the sheer amount of evidence they dig up.Officers…
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Cornell faculty member alleges “silencing of Jane Doe’s voice,” says her letter was not shared with Faculty Senate before crucial meeting
Some Cornell faculty members say a letter purportedly from Jane Doe in which she said she “felt unsupported and disbelieved” by university president Michael Kotlikoff was not shared with them. One faculty member called that a “silencing of…
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Portugal housing protests continue after police clear camps
Thousands of people rallied in Lisbon, Porto and other Portuguese cities on Tuesday evening, hours after police dismantled protest camps and arrested a total of 55 demonstrators. The protesters vowed to continue their campaign against Portugal’s…
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My wife Jo Cox was murdered in her constituency in 2016. The alleged attack on Helen Haines is a punch to the gut
It’s never a good sign when you turn on your phone to find a dozen messages asking if you are OK. For reasons you will come to understand, I only get those messages when something awful has happened.So on Monday, when I came out of an all-day…
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Why SpaceX’s stock is surging — and lifting the broader AI universe along with it
SpaceX just gave Wall Street a big reason to believe in the AI boom as demand for its computing power is off the charts.
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Netflix doesn’t want investors to worry, despite recent shake-ups, layoffs
Following a dramatic C-suite reshuffle and its largest round of layoffs in years, Netflix’s top executives reassured investors Tuesday that they have a plan to keep audiences hooked. The streaming giant announced that its third-quarter revenue…
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ADL condemns Trump’s antisemitic slur but fails to mention him by name
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) denounced the use of the term “shylock” as antisemitic on Tuesday, without explaining that the slur had been used a day earlier by Donald Trump in a speech in Kansas.Trump used the slur during a Monday night…
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Tighter rules planned to protect people from botched cosmetic surgery
Vampire facials involve drawing a patient’s blood and then separating out platelet-rich plasma from it using a centrifuge. The plasma is then injected back into the face through tiny needle puncturesDermal micro-coring involves removing tiny…
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NI universities face ‘substantial’ cuts amid budget delay
The chair of Stormont’s economy committee, Democratic Unionist Party assembly member Phillip Brett, said a further cut in university funding could mean that the universities would not receive money for three months for students they have already…
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The Wallabies to watch on northern tour
The Between Two Posts crew pick the Wallabies to watch on November’s northern tour.
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