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“As a player, I’m a centre-back. I’m quite like an old-school centre-back, you might say. I focus a lot on defending: on blocking shots, on heading and things like that.” Kamran Kandola is a first-year scholar at Wolves. Just turned 17, he is at a crucial stage in his career as he seeks to earn […]
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National University of Singapore researchers have discovered that the MOAP-1 protein plays a role in reducing liver cancer risk by suppressing the hyper-active cancer-promoting Nrf2 cellular signaling pathway. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the primary form of liver cancer, is the fourth leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Although many risk factors and genetic aberrations have been […]
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Japanese automaker Mazda Motor Corp said on Thursday it expects a chip shortage to affect its vehicle production from this month. Mazda will revise its production plans based on the current assumption the shortage will affect around 7,000 vehicles globally in February, chief executive Akira Marumoto said on a post-earnings call. The semiconductor shortage, which […]
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Alongside “most ambitious free update” yet. Minecraft Dungeons, developer Mojang’s enjoyable co-operative dungeon-crawler spin-off, will receive its fourth paid DLC – titled Flames of the Nether – later this month on 24th February. Specifics are still a little thin on the ground, but Mojang says Flames of the Nether, which leads players on a journey […]
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Papis Fajita Factory in Denham Springs, Louisiana, has a wall with prepaid tickets for people that are hungry but can’t afford to buy food. The person in need can simply grab a ticket with a meal they would like, which has already been paid for by a previous customer. According to customers, the restaurant owners […]
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Sir Alex Ferguson has led the tributes to Tony Collins, the first black manager in English league football, who has died aged 94. Collins was appointed as Rochdale manager in 1960 and two years later took the club to the only major final in their history, in the League Cup. He went on to work […]
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American actor Robin Williams had a neurodegenerative brain disease called dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB)—a distressing disease with symptoms in common with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD). But unlike these two conditions, DLB also entails prominent mood and cognitive swings, sleep disorders, and vivid, sometimes terrifying, visual hallucinations. It is now thought that […]
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Ant Group Co plans to spin off its consumer-credit data operations, people with knowledge of the matter said, a concession to aggressive regulators that should help the Chinese fintech giant get its massive public share sale back on track. Hiving off the treasure trove of data on more than 1 billion people is a key […]
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Following the discovery – and subsequent abuse – of an invisibility glitch in Call of Duty: Warzone’s newly introduced Armored Royale mode, developer Raven Software has announced it’ll be removing the mode from rotation while it investigates the issue. There’s no indication yet of when Armored Royale might return, but it’s probably worth keeping an […]
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The Colorado Symphony will be able to pay its employees’ salaries and health insurance through summer 2021 thanks to a $2 million anonymous donation. Colorado Symphony’s usual packed schedule of shows and live movie scores has been furloughed most of the past year, along with every other performing arts organization, but leaders plan to present […]
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