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The Saints worked out a pair of veteran safeties Friday. They are signing one of them. Amie Just of The Times-Picayune reports the Saints have agreed to terms with Jeff Heath. The team also worked out Andrew Sendejo. Heath has remained a free agent since the Raiders released him May 4. Heath, 30, was the […]
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When the Taliban entered Kabul, Nilofar Bayat, the captain of Afghanistan’s female national wheelchair basketball team, knew she had to get out. “There were so many videos of me playing basketball. I had been active in calling for women’s rights and the rights of women with disabilities,” she said. “If the Taliban found out all […]
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Synopsys Inc (SNPS.O) said on Monday one of its customers used artificial intelligence software to get a 26% gain in the power efficiency of a computer chip, a leap that usually has to wait for a new generation of chip manufacturing technology. Modern computing chips are made of billions of transistors and wires laid down […]
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This week, iFixit reviewed the reparability of the Playdate — the upcoming retro handheld console from Panic. Overall it seems to be a fairly repairable machine with some nice surprises inside. iFixit expressed some nitpicks in its review but no serious issues. It still worked after having been completely taken apart and reassembled. iFixit admits […]
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An 80-pound cougar was removed from a New York City apartment where she was being kept illegally as a pet, animal welfare officials said Monday. The owner of the 11-month-old female cougar surrendered the animal on Thursday, Kelly Donithan, director of animal disaster response for the Humane Society of the United States, said in a […]
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Seahawks left tackle Duane Brown has been absent from the team facility the past couple of days. Coach Pete Carroll said Brown had an urgent family matter back home but returned today. Brown hasn’t practiced in training camp as he seeks a new deal, a deal the Seahawks appear reluctant to give him. Russell Wilson […]
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The hottest summer nights of my life were in Australia around the Christmas of 1988. My brother was on a gap year with a mate, working in a factory in Dandenong, a suburb of Melbourne. They were living in a tiny, scruffy caravan in an overgrown field when I went to visit. It had come […]
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Japan’s 7-Eleven convenience stores chain plans to launch a super-fast delivery service in five years, stepping up competition with Amazon.com (AMZN.O), the Nikkei financial daily reported on Monday. Seven & i Holdings (3382.T), which operates the 7-Eleven chain, is to offer shipping times as short as 30 minutes, the report said.
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Worldwide PC shipments are expected to grow 14.2 percent to reach an estimated 347 million units in 2021 according to International Data Corporation. While that might sound impressive at first, the figure is actually down from the research firm’s May forecast of 18 percent growth for the full year due to sustained supply chain and […]
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Spotted in a car at a McDonald’s drive-through in Wisconsin: A cow — all of it. Jessica Nelson of Mosinee pulled into the drive-through at a McDonald’s in Marshfield on Thursday and said she looked up to see a cow in the backseat of a Buick sedan three cars ahead of her. “I thought it […]
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