An electric car with smooth four-wheel drive and a virtual friend for the coming age of automated driving are among the technology in development from Nissan. The Japanese automaker, eager to leave behind the scandal over its former star executive Carlos Ghosn, recently invited reporters to see several of its test models. Ghosn, who led […]
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Image copyright Getty Images People with long-term health problems such as arthritis are more likely to feel pain on humid days, a study has suggested. Folklore suggests the cold makes pain worse – but there is actually little research into the weather’s effects. And this University of Manchester study of 2,500 people, which collected data
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionMusician Rick Astley talks about the success behind his music “We’ve tidied up a bit,” says Rick Astley, welcoming us into his recording studio. “Well, my wife has… I don’t really like it. “I don’t trust anyone who has a tidy studio, do you know what I
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption What is Mario Draghi’s legacy? To be blunt, Mario Draghi doesn’t come across much like the hero in a video game. But he is sometimes named after one – Super Mario, a plumber who is the central character in a Nintendo game. The European Central Bank president has been
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In 2008, Rok Rozman was competing at the Summer Olympics. Now he is an activist who has kayaked across six countries to help defend rivers against dams. The Balkans is one of the last parts of Europe which has free-flowing rivers so Rok has helped set up the Balkan River Defence. This connects river conservation
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Microsoft on Wednesday reported its latest solid quarterly report card to Wall Street, buoyed by another round of business customers signing up for its cloud computing services. The company reported fiscal first-quarter profit of $10.7 billion, up 21% from the same period last year. The net income of $1.38 per share beat Wall Street expectations.
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Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred discounts the drop in home runs during the postseason and expects to receive a new report from scientists on baseballs by the end of the year. Batters finished the regular season with 6,776 home runs, shattering the previous record of 6,105 set two years ago. The average of 2.79 homers per
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Welcome back to the Impeachment Briefing. After a number of days dominated by the findings of the Democratic-led investigation, Wednesday brought an unconventional Republican response. [Sign up to get the Impeachment Briefing in your email inbox every weeknight.] What happened today About two dozen Republican members of Congress stormed the secure office suite where a
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When boredom strikes, your phone’s app store can be a haven of cheap entertainment. Thousands of game, shopping, utility and selfie-editing apps are just a click away. But if you remember the FaceApp challenge from earlier this summer, we were all reminded that some of these seemingly harmless apps can present security dangers. Of course,
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Turns out Lizzo is 100% that bitch who gives credit where she feels it’s due. On Wednesday, the singer responded on Twitter to multiple allegations that she plagiarized her now-famous lyric, “I just took a DNA test, turns out I’m 100% that bitch.” The lyric is featured at the beginning of Lizzo’s hit song “Truth
