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The 49ers completed only seven of a possible 10 organized team activity practices, calling an early end to their offseason program. Everyone thought at the time that it was because of season-ending injuries to Justin Skule and Tarvarius Moore. Instead, we find out today it was part of NFL Management Council discipline imposed on the […]
Healthy eating campaigns have largely failed in Britain for the last four decades because consumers have adapted confusing advice, and incorporated fast and convenience foods into self-defined ‘balanced’ lifestyles, a new study argues. Supermarkets and food manufacturers have been excessively blamed for Britain’s unhealthy eating habits since the 1980s, according to Cambridge historian Dr. Katrina-Louise […]
Bitcoin price continued to remain below $35,000-mark on Tuesday amid further crackdown on the cryptocurrency industry across the world. The world’s largest cryptocurrency saw a marginal increase of 0.74% on a day, to $34,673.09 at 0730 hours IST on June 29 on coinmarketcap.com Index. Over the weekend, Britain’s financial regulator said Binance, one of the […]
LG’s new range of Mini LED TVs, which it’s branding “QNED,” are releasing worldwide starting next month, the company has announced. The lineup consists of three sets, the 8K QNED99 and QNED95, and the 4K QNED90, but only the 8K QNED99 and 4K QNED90 are releasing in the US. The TVs range in size from […]
A dog saved the lives of his owners after he woke a sleeping couple while their house was on fire. Craig Jones and Marie Jordan were fast asleep in the early hours of Sunday morning when they were woken up by Shadow, their white German Shepherd. Assuming Shadow needed a visit to the loo, Craig […]
The Dolphins have extended the contracts of a couple of players from their 2018 draft class, but it doesn’t look like anything is imminent for tight end Mike Gesicki. Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald reports that there is “nothing percolating” between Gesicki and the team on the contract front right now. There’s no word […]
Women who develop heart failure following certain breast cancer treatments are generally healthier and have a better prognosis than those with heart failure from other causes, a new study finds. Two widely used treatments for breast cancer are known to harm the heart. A class of chemotherapy drugs called anthracyclines interferes with cancer cells’ DNA […]
The number of peopleinvestingU.S. stimulus money has risen sharply since last year, according to a survey released on Thursday by Betterment.com, and many respondents say they are actively day trading and expect to continue. Betterment ran a survey between April 26 and May 3 that examined the rise of retail trading in so-called meme stocks […]
Zoom has announced that it’s acquiring a company known as Kites (short for Karlsruhe Information Technology Solutions), which has worked on creating real-time translation and transcription software. Zoom says the acquisition is a move to help it make communicating with people who speak different languages easier, and that it’s looking to add translation capabilities to […]
The grieving family of a 26-year-old man fatally shot in broad daylight in an attack have released pictures in tribute to him. Patrick Boyle, known as Paddy to friends and family, was shot twice in the chest in a street attack on Thursday in Huyton, Merseyside . Witnesses reported seeing the gunman fleeing the scene […]