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Pill Cures Peanut Allergy For Four Years in Limited Study
Image: AP You’ve no doubt heard a peanut allergy horror story sometime in your life. Maybe a friend’s friend was on a plane that needed to make an emergency landing for an allergy sufferer, or someone you knew had an allergic reaction from kissing their romantic partner. We now have things like epi-pens to help,…
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EpiPen Maker to Finally Pay $465 Million for Ripping Off Taxpayers
Photo: Getty EpiPen manufacturer Mylan has been involved in a contentious legal case over its overcharging of the US government. On Thursday, the Department of Justice finalized its settlement with Mylan, which will pay $465 million in penalties. But many believe that’s not enough. Senator: EpiPen Manufacturer Ripped Off the US Government for $1.27 Billion…
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US Voting Machine Supplier Leaks 1.8 Million Chicago Voter Records [Updated]
Photo: Getty A leading US supplier of voting machines confirmed on Thursday that it exposed the personal information of more than 1.8 million Illinois residents. State authorities and the Federal Bureau of Investigation were alerted this week to a major data leak exposing the names, addresses, dates of birth, partial Social Security numbers, and party…
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New Method Could Allow Scientists to Catalog Every Human Cell
Image: NIH NIAID/Flickr Cells, they’re all different. Even two similar-looking cells that are supposed to work together in the same tissue might express completely different traits, and make different proteins. So how do you make left and right of it all? Being able to quickly classify lots of cells quick and efficiently has been a…
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Twisted Anatomy Book Shows What it Would Be Like to Dissect Your Favorite Pokémon
Image: Christopher Stoll Pokémon-obsessed kids who grew into pokémon obsessed-semi-adults probably think they know everything there is to know about these mythical creatures. Honestly, though, it’s not good enough to merely “catch” ‘em all—to be a real pokémaster means knowing them inside and out. Literally. PokéNatomy—An Unofficial Guide to the Science of Pokémon is a newly…
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Before Getting Banned From OkCupid, White Supremacist Chris Cantwell Wrote Tips for Dating Online
Source: YouTube OkCupid has banned white supremacist Chris Cantell from their dating site after a Vice News documentary about the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, featured him expressing his violently racist views. Gizmodo first learned of OKCupid’s decision from a now-deleted tweet by Vice News social editor Rex Santus. OkCupid confirmed to Gizmodo…
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Rutte: black day in Barcelona
DEN HAAG-THE HAGUE “A black day in Barcelona”, prime minister Mark Rutte in response to the attack in the Spanish city of know. “Horrific images from the Ramblas in Barcelona after a cowardly attack against innocent people. A black day in a place where many people from all over the world come together. Our thoughts…
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Belgium fipronilspoor from september 2016
BRUSSELS – The Belgian fasfc FASFC has a track of the toxic pesticide fipronil found that dates back to september 2016. The watchdog ordered samples from poultry farms to analyze for the outbreak of the eiercrisis were taken. Fipronil was by the Dutch company Chickfriend illegally added to a means to the chicken mite in…
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Catalan government confirms 13 dead and at least 50 wounded
Barcelona – The minister of Home Affairs of Catalonia, Joaquim Forn, has Thursday night via Twitter confirmed that the terreuranslag on La Rambla in Barcelona thirteen people it has killed. In addition, there are certainly fifty wounded to regret. Read everything about the attack in Barcelona.
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Intel begins to create a fleet of 100 self-driving cars
Not so long ago we reported that one of the giants of the IT industry, Intel has acquired the Israeli company Mobileye, which specializes in the manufacturing of chips for optical positioning systems of unmanned vehicles. Intel decided a long time not to think about what to do with “buying”, and declared quite ambitious plans…