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Zoom will now let you temporarily pause meetings so you can kick out “Zoombombers” or disruptive individuals, the company announced in a blog post. As Zoom usage skyrocketed during the pandemic, pranksters and hackers found ways to invade Zoom calls and display shocking videos and disruptive content, a practice that has become known as “Zoombombing.” […]
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A father and son have left their mark on a Texas police academy after they graduated from the program together. Winston and Christian Edmondson both recently completed Tarrant County College’s Law Enforcement Academy, marking the first father and son duo in recent memory to graduate from the academy together, CBS affiliate KTVT reported. “As we […]
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Nothing official has been said about the injury suffered on Sunday by Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow. Burrow has said plenty. “Thanks for all the love,” Burrow tweeted. “Can’t get rid of me that easy. See ya next year.” Obviously, this implies he won’t be back this year. The Bengals have shown promise with Burrow. If […]
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No evidence found to support differing advice according to age and ethnicity Current UK guidance on drug treatment for high blood pressure—which differs depending on a patient’s age and ethnicity—could be simplified in line with other international guidelines, suggests a study published by The BMJ. The results show similar reductions in blood pressure for three […]
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A pilot by online giant Amazon and two stock exchanges showed how moving share trading from costly physical servers to cloud computing could save money and reduce the potential for outages, the companies said on Friday. The Singapore Exchange SGX, London-based Aquis Exchange and Amazon Web Services said they undertook a proof of concept to […]
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Today, Twitch is rolling out something it’s calling “multiplayer ads” in closed beta. They’re ads triggered by streamers that all viewers watch. (Currently, ads shown to viewers are targeted; these are not.) After one of these ads plays, creators can run a poll for their viewers that awards the streamer bits depending on how many […]
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Scientists from two universities in Ontario, Canada reported progress on their efforts to release the world’s first hand-held home test kit designed to screen for cancer. A home-based screening kit for different kinds of cancers would be game-changing in the quest for more proactive health monitoring. To this end, researchers from McMaster and Brock universities […]
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It was a rare day for Dolphins fans as they were rooting for the Patriots. The Dolphins own the Texans’ first-round draft choice in 2021. But the consolation for Dolphins fans is they got to see the Patriots’ postseason hopes take a hit. Houston beat New England 27-20 to improve to 3-7. The Patriots fell […]
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When it comes to understanding why children from non-white race groups have such poor health outcomes compared with their white counterparts, it’s time for researchers to look beyond their genes and delve deeper into social factors, according to a commentary published today in the journal Pediatrics. “Framing race in biological terms within health sciences is […]
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Luminar Technologies, the self-driving sensor startup that is about to go public, said on Friday that it will supply laser-based lidar sensors to Intel Corp’s INTC.O Mobileye subsidiary for its test fleet of self-driving vehicles. Mobileye is one of the world’s largest suppliers of camera-based sensors used by most top automakers in their advanced driver […]
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