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The Washington NFL franchise’s announcement of a “thorough review” of its name instantly was interpreted as a decision to change it. The Cleveland MLB franchise’s decision to consider changing its name wasn’t. Perhaps now it should be. “I think it’s time to move forward,” Cleveland manager Terry Francona said Sunday regarding the name, via the […]
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A common inherited genetic variant is a frequent cause of deafness in adults, meaning that many thousands of people are potentially at risk, reveals research published online in the Journal of Medical Genetics. Deafness in adults is known to be inherited. But, unlike childhood deafness, the genetic causes largely remain a mystery, say the researchers, […]
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TikTok will exit the Hong Kong market within days, a spokesman told Reuters late on Monday, as other technology companies including Facebook Inc suspend processing government requests for user data in the region. The short form video app owned by China-based ByteDance has made the decision to exit the region following China’s establishment of a […]
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I. Should Reddit pay its volunteer moderators? The thought had not really occurred to me until last week, when I joined a call with CEO Steve Huffman and his general counsel, Benjamin Lee. The executives were briefing me and some other reporters about a significant expansion of the site’s content moderation policies, which were unveiled […]
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“I took my car to the shop today, so I took my bike to get a ride in while they’re working it. First time riding the streets (and not a trail), so I decided to ride with my pistol. During the ride, I had a bike problem and as I’m looking down at me pedals, […]
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It’s a mistake for former Bill Belichick assistants to act like Bill Belichick, who brusque demeanor is backed up by six Super Bowl wins. It’s not a mistake for former Bill Belichick assistants to incorporate lessons learned from Belichick. Giants coach Joe Judge recently told Paul Schwartz of the New York Post that Judge will […]
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A new study from faculty at the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus looks at the relationship between opioid use and driving among older adults. The findings published today in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. “We chose to focus on older adults because they […]
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire urged German carmaker Daimler (DAIGn.DE) on Friday to reconsider plans to sell its factory in Hambach, France. The carmaker said earlier on Friday it would seek to sell the factory where it produces electric and combustion-engined variants of its two-seater Smart vehicles, as part of an overhaul of its […]
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Sarah Friar, CEO of the neighborhood-focused social network Nextdoor, says the company is to blame following widespread reports that moderators were deleting posts that discussed racial injustice or voiced support for the Black Lives Matter movement. The app will be changing its policies to explicitly allow discussion of the movement in future, and will be […]
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Tré Jones, 25, and Marcus Harvey, 24, were in the neighborhood when they noticed a fire. “I’m like ‘I smell some smoke. Somebody’s house is on fire,’” Jones said. “There’s people in the front yard, some of them recording.” “They basically tell us there’s a guy inside the house,” Harvey added. “We didn’t know where […]
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