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American Airlines London-bound flight turns back to Miami after passenger refuses to wear mask

American Airlines Flight 38, with 129 passengers and 14 crew members, turned back to Miami about an hour into the trip.

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DeepMind co-founder leaves Google after a rocky tenure.

Mustafa Suleyman, who played a key role in the companys work on health care technology, is joining Greylock Partners, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm.

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Tesla's Plant in Germany Nears Completion, Raising Union Concern

IG Metall, the German union that represents autoworkers, said a vote for a works council, which helps set factory policies, had been scheduled for Feb. 28.

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U.S. Drops Its Case Against M.I.T. Scientist Accused of Hiding China Links

Gang Chen, a professor of mechanical engineering, was arrested a year ago, accused of concealing his affiliations with Chinese government institutions.

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Can Big Tech Be Disrupted?

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Why Balance in Your Life Matters for Your Business Success

Heres some food for thought. If you dont work hard, you wont be successful. If youre not successful, its not fun to work hard. If youre not having fun, its likely you wont stay motivated to work hard in the long term. This interesting little cycle can work for you or against you. You can []

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Omicron was probably in N.Y.C. well before the first U.S. case was detected, wastewater data suggest.

The findings provide more evidence that wastewater surveillance can serve as an early warning system about the spread of new variants.

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3 Business Opportunities in the Booming World of Smart Cities

Panelists at CES discussed the future of smart cities and the related business opportunities for entrepreneurs.

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Teen pilot Zara Rutherford becomes youngest woman to fly the world solo

The 19-year-old lands at Flanders Airport in Kortrijk, Belgium, completing an epic 41-country journey spanning over 52,000 kilometers, and broke two Guinness World Records in the process.

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McDonald's expands test of McPlant burger created with Beyond Meat

McDonald's is expanding its test of the plant-based McPlant burger, created as part of its partnership with Beyond Meat.

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$2.5 billion wiped from Peloton's market value as shares tumble below IPO price

Peloton's stock hit an all-time intraday high of $171.09 on Jan. 14 of last year.

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Target CEO Says Consumers To Shop Less, Stay Home Amid Inflationary Storm | ZeroHedge
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80 Years Ago the Nazis Planned the Final Solution. It Took 90 Minutes.

As Germany observes the anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, witnesses of the Nazi era are dying and antisemitism is resurgent in Europe and the United States.

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No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World Heart Federation

GENEVA (20 January 2022) In a new policy brief, the World Heart Federation (WHF) is challenging the widespread notion that drinking moderate amounts of alcohol can decrease the risk of heart disease, and calling for urgent and decisive action to tackle the unprecedented rise in alcohol-related death and disability worldwide. In 2019, more than []

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SpaceX signs a deal to rocket military cargo around the world

The Air Force wants to move more of its logistics into space.

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Stocks sink for a third day as Wall Street's rebound fades.

The S&P 500 fell 1.1 percent, after earlier climbing more than 1 percent, while the Nasdaq composite dropped 1.3 percent.

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American Airlines Posts $931 Million Quarterly Loss

The Omicron variant weighed on demand in the final three months of 2021, but the airline said it hoped to turn a profit this year.

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Ted Cruz spoke to Apple CEO Tim Cook for 40 minutes about antitrust

The phone call from Apple's CEO directly to lawmakers is a sign of how important Apple considers the specifics of the legislation to be.

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Opinion: This bill could help to end energy poverty in the US

The Heating and Cooling Relief Act would significantly increase funding for the government's Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps low- and moderate-income families pay their home energy bills.

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US charges Belarusian officials for diverting flight carrying dissident journalist

United States federal prosecutors charged four Belarus officials with piracy-related charges for diverting a RyanAir airplane mid-flight last year to arrest a journalist critical of the government.

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US accuses Russia of recruiting Ukrainian officials to take control of Ukraine's government as it unveils new sanctions

The United States accused Russia of recruiting current and former Ukrainian government officials to attempt to take control of Ukraine's government as it unveiled new sanctions on Thursday.

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Opinion | Why Are So Many Americans Killing One Another?

Five ways of looking at the rise in murders and how to bring them back down.

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Dozens Die in Church Stampede in Liberia

Worshipers were gathered for a revival meeting in the Liberian capital, when word of armed gang members robbing people set off deadly panic.

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Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm violated stock disclosure law 9 times

The energy secretary failed to disclose at least 9 stock sales within the required 45 day window.

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Why car prices remain so stubbornly high

Relief from record high auto prices could be coming soon. But that doesn't mean those prices will go back to where they were before the pandemic.

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Serbia scraps plans for Rio Tinto lithium mine after protests

President Aleksandar Vuis government had been accused of ignoring projects potential for environmental harm

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Twitter is rolling out verified NFT profile pictures

Twitter on Thursday began rolling out a feature that will let some users set NFTs that they own as their profile picture to signal their investment in the emerging digital art space. The move makes Twitter one of the best-known tech platforms so far to launch a feature for the flashy NFT trend.

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Taliban launch raids on homes of Afghan women's rights activists

Campaigners arrested by armed men days after anti-hijab protest in Kabul, with beatings reported

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In unpredictable times, a data strategy is key

Processes to store, organize, access, and act on vast troves of data can be frustratingly complex, but theyre crucial to guide decisions that drive business growth.

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Exclusive: Goldman Sachs bonus pool for investment bankers up 40-50%

Goldman Sachs increased its annual bonus pool for top-performing investment bankers by 40% to 50%, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said, after a record-breaking year for Wall Street dealmaking.

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The Surprising Impact of Meeting-Free Days

No-meeting days allow for efficient collaboration while preventing focused, heads-down work from being disrupted.

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Gloomy Netflix forecast erases much of stock's pandemic gains

Netflix Inc dashed hopes for a quick rebound after forecasting weak first-quarter subscriber growth on Thursday, sending shares sinking nearly 20% and wiping away most of its remaining pandemic-fueled gains from 2020.

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Was South Africa ignored over mild Omicron evidence?

South African scientists say their research was not taken more seriously because it was from Africa.

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U.S. Researchers Test Pig-to-Human Transplant in Donated Body

The latest in a string of experiments to help save human lives with organs from genetically modified pigs

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Cambridge: Artificial pancreas hailed success for diabetic children

An app learns how much insulin a child needs so parents do not need to monitor children constantly.

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This group of tech firms just signed up to a safer metaverse

But it's going to be harder than it seemsand there are some glaring missing names.

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Burnout Is About More Than Long Hours.

Nonstop work is part of what leads to burnout, but it's not the whole picture. Enduring productivity is often about balancing intense output with periods of regeneration.

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Alphabet's unprofitable Verily unit in skin-care deal with L'Oreal

Alphabet Inc's money-losing health tech arm Verily on Thursday announced a new tie-up in its search for sustainable revenue, saying it would study skin health and explore new products with cosmetics maker L'Oreal SA .

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A Research Base In Antarctica Is Now Covid Infected

For the first time since the start of the pandemic the coronavirus has reached an Argentine research base in Antarctica, causing the evacuation of nine unvaccinated staff who tested positive for Covid-19, an official said Thursday.

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Diversio secures fresh capital to diagnose companies' DEI pain points

Diversio uses AI technology, data analytics and knowledgeable subject matter experts to find where a companys process is breaking down and create an action plan to get it back on track.

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Zingtree turns complex customer service processes into clear action plans

Customer service is making and breaking companies over the past two years as shopping moved online and consumers wanted more out of the traditional service companies were offering. Zingtree provides interactive contact center software that guides agents to the next best action so that they can cate

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CodeSee pulls in a $7M secondary seed to build out code visualization platform

CodeSee is an aptly named startup, one that is building a set of tools to help developers understand how all the parts of a code base fit together. Today, the company announced a $7 million secondary seed on top of the $3 million it received in 2020. The round was led by new investors Wellington [&

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Caden launches with $3.4M to help consumers take control of their data

Entrepreneur John Roa believes in the value of privacy. After selling his design consultancy, KTA, to Salesforce in 2015, he decided to spend a few years off the grid on an island in Europe. Now, hes back in New York City, launching Caden, a startup that allows consumers to share their data wit

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Plaid buys Cognito as it moves beyond merely connecting accounts

Plaid, a fintech unicorn known for its APIs that connect consumer bank accounts to financial applications, announced today that it is buying Cognito. The price is around $250 million, paid in a blend of cash and stock TechCrunch understands, though we couldnt suss out the exact mix of each.

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Clench your jaw to skip a track: That's the magic of Wisear

By adding some electrodes and some electronics to your earbuds, Wisear can make your music experience a lot more hands-free than before. Bite down on your own teeth twice to pause a track, or three times to skip to the next tune without making a noise, hand gesture or much visible movement

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South Korea's agtech startup Green Labs raises $140M Series C to accelerate global expansion

Green Labs, a South Korean agtech startup, announced this week it has closed a $140 million Series C led by BRV Capital Management, with participation from Skylake Incuvest and SK Square. The startup plans to use the Series C, which brings its total raised to $170 million to date, to expedite its g

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5 areas where VCs can play an outsized role in addressing climate change

Many climate unicorns are on the way, but current VC levels are dwarfed by the mind-boggling funding amounts that are needed to give humanity a fighting chance.

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Inside Secfi's 2021 state of stock options equity report

Record public exit activity is good news for founders and investors, but what about the employees who were granted stock options in those companies?

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TBD turns an STI into NBD with at-home testing for sexually transmitted infections

Sexual health isnt the taboo it once was, but that doesnt mean everything is all roses and unicorns in the land of STI testing. TBD Health is taking a fresh new approach with at-home testing made available for vagina-havers. The company has been offering a five-panel check your

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Don't underestimate first-time founders

If its possible for a first-time founder to build a billion-dollar company, why dont we talk about it more often?

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How to build a product advisory council for your startup

In order to design, build and maintain a product that meets changing customer demands, companies need a mechanism that provides unbiased insights from people that represent them.

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Prophecy raises $25M for its low-code data engineering platform

Prophecy, a low-code platform for data engineering, today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series A round led by Insight Partners. Existing investors SignalFire and Berkeley Skydeck, as well as new investor Dig Ventures, also participated in this round, which brings the companys to

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New Greylock venture partner Mustafa Suleyman is looking for AI's next best thing

Suleyman says the time has come for AI due to the ecosystem maturing and more people understand the strengths and limitations of AI and how to use it.

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Metalenz PolarEyes upgrades digital sensing with polarized light

Tech sees differently, and can fuse multiple types of data we cant even perceive: lidar, IR, ultrasonic and so on. Metalenz, maker of highly compact 2D cameras for advanced sensing, hopes to bring polarized light into the mix for security and safety with its PolarEyes tech. Pol

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Weavit's new app wants to be a 'Shazam for your thoughts'

A new app called Weavit wants to be a Shazam for your thoughts that is, it wants to offer people a different way to quickly capture their thoughts in a note-taking tool with the press of a button, which are then matched to other content in a broader knowledge base. Currently,

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On a mission to be the 'Affirm for B2B,' Vartana secures $57M in debt, equity

While buy now, pay later startups have largely focused on the consumer, a growing group of them are now focusing on the B2B space. The premise behind that is that after all, businesses need more flexible payment options, too. For example, in December, Affirm spinout Resolve, which specializes in b

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Changes to corporate investing rules could diminish China's resilient venture landscape

Losing Chinese corporate venture capitalists entirely, and overnight -- which will not happen, mind -- would be sharply contractionary but not lethal.

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Britishvolt: Electric car battery plant gets government funding

Britishvolt says the money unlocks huge private investment for a protect that will create thousands of jobs.

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Bankers told to return to desks as restrictions end

Standard Chartered and HSBC ask staff to come back as business groups welcome end of home working.

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Superdry warns prices to rise as it axes shop discounts

The chain says rising costs will mean higher prices, but social media influencers have boosted its sales.

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Dozens feared dead after immense explosion rocks western Ghana | Ghana | The Guardian

The blast, which flattened hundreds of buildings and killed at least 17 people, was the result of a mining explosive vehicle colliding with a motorcycle

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Canada's Prince Andrew high school announces plan to change name | Prince Andrew | The Guardian

School attempt to distance itself from the growing controversy surrounding the Duke of York

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Djokovic-backed 'biotech' firm's approach likened to homeopathy | Biotechnology industry | The Guardian

Exclusive: QuantBioRes says it designs treatments for viral diseases based on electromagnetic frequency

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What happens when your star is cancelled but you can't cancel the film? | Film | The Guardian

Scandals affecting Armie Hammer, Kevin Spacey and Johnny Depp have all hit their movies. We look at how film companies cope when leading players box-office stock crashes

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'His family robbed the country': personality cult of ex-Kazakh leader crumbles | Kazakhstan | The Guardian

Anger over corruption and economic inequality is largely directed at Nursultan Nazarbayev and family

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By 2050, a quarter of the world's people will be African

Africas unprecedented population growth will impact geopolitics, global trade, migration and almost every aspect of life. Its time for a reimagining of the continent

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Covid-19 map of the US: latest cases state by state | Coronavirus | The Guardian

There have now been more than 68m confirmed cases of Covid-19 across the United States

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The genetic engineering behind pig-to-human transplants | Ars Technica

A paper on a transplant to a brain-dead recipient provides details on the donor.

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The U.S. Bombed a Dam in Syria That Was on a 'No-Strike' List

A military report warned that striking the giant structure could cause tens of thousands of deaths.

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F.B.I. Director Calls Texas Synagogue Attack an Act of Antisemitism

Christopher A. Wray said the hostage taker targeted the Jewish community, contrary to the agencys initial statement.

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Three Black Senators Play Outsize Roles in Voting Rights Debate

Senators Cory Booker, Tim Scott and Raphael Warnock brought vastly different perspectives to proceedings that highlighted the Senates striking lack of diversity.

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He Taught the 'Brutal Business' of Dog Fighting. Now He's Going to Prison.

The defendant, Vernon Vegas, 49, of Suwanee, Ga., trained dogs for fights hosted by a cocaine trafficking and dog fighting ring that operated in at least three states, federal prosecutors said.

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Why Whales Don't Choke

Scientists have discovered a new anatomical structure that allows lunge-feeding whales to take in massive amounts of water without choking.

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Deborah Nickerson, Pioneering Genome Researcher, Dies at 67

Using the Human Genome Project as her guide, she helped find genes responsible for cardiovascular disease, autism and a rare disorder called Miller syndrome.

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