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    Clinical trial will attempt growing new liver from lymph node

    Lab grown liver not valid in the state of Florida.
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    775 brand-name drugs saw price hikes this year so far: Report

    By "at least the same" I think you mean "5-10x as much on marketing as research"
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    Concorde engine sells on eBay, may end up as bits of furniture

    Doing the math on the fuel economy puts the plane at about the same as an F150...
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    Hackers stole ancestry data of 6.9 million users, 23andMe finally confirmed

    Yeah. I had an account because family were tested. Got a letter from them. Also how are they claiming it to be from reused passwords? My password was a unique 16ish character password.
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    “Stunning”—Midjourney update wows AI artists with camera-like feature

    I would really like to see what artists this trained on, but I suspect we never will because they likely didn't get permission from any of them.
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    Diet sodas are not actually good for your diet, WHO guidance suggests

    Not the best guidance I've seen. Its essentially "Hey we haven't seen them working any better than telling people to drink water."
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    Diet sodas are not actually good for your diet, WHO guidance suggests

    I think the takeaway is that switching to diet doesn't make you magically lose weight. Most of us are simply responding to this with "duh".
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    Company that makes rent-setting software for landlords sued for collusion

    Gas is different because the majority of time the price is dictated by a couple of wholesalers that "totally don't collude with each other". The stations themselves usually make only slim margins on top of that.
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    New Play Store rules block most apps from scanning your entire app list

    I am referring of course to the current restrictions on scanning storage that Pokemon Go bypasses already.
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    New Play Store rules block most apps from scanning your entire app list

    Any app that provides big income will of course be allowed to bypass this restriction. Last I checked Pokemon Go still uses workarounds to scan your entire device.
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    It took a year, but Gwyneth Paltrow figured out how to exploit the pandemic

    I thought by definition ignoring science was a right wing thing.
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    Google wants Samsung to kill Bixby, Galaxy App Store

    What device does this not work on? I have mine remapped on an S9+
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    Sophisticated Android backdoors have been populating Google Play for years

    Kapersky is in the business of selling "antivirus for android". Creating a feeling of fear, justified or not, is literally in their financial interests.
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    Google wins victory royale over Epic Games, snags Fortnite for Google Play

    Is google still offering 85/15 split for subscriptions? If so then that should indicated that they are still making a profit with only 15%. Only antitrust would really change this at this point.
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    Football Manager nixes plastic for eco-friendly cardboard game package

    What percentage of world plastic waste is coming from the dvd style packages? Is it even 1% of 1%? I have looked but I cannot find environmental sites that actual show the breakdown. Instead I see them talking about how the six ring can holders take years to break down which hasn't been true for...
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    Feds seek to seize all profits from Snowden’s book over NDA violation

    Seems like this will go on the cover of the next edition: "US Department of Justice supports the publication of these facts"
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    Privacy group asks court to reconsider FTC’s $5 billion Facebook deal

    You mean like civil asset forfeiture? Those rules only apply to poor people. ;)
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    Privacy group asks court to reconsider FTC’s $5 billion Facebook deal

    They basically try to get you to click accept to open-ended permissions for EVERYTHING, with the alternative being to delete your account.
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    OnePlus 7 Pro Review—The fastest, best-designed, best-value Android phone

    Has anyone else been told that curved glass is actually to reduce shatter likelihood?
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    Dutch F-16 takes cannon fire from... itself

    Was this actually the bullet part or just the casing/magazine?