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Oracle, co-founded by Chairman Larry Ellison, releases limited breakdowns in its financial disclosures, meaning that investors don’t get a clear picture of the company’s effort to move its customers to the cloud -- software stored in Oracle data cent...
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On Tuesday, Farfetch announced a strategic partnership with Harrods to provide the department store with a global e-commerce platform. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but the "endorsement of Farfetch’s global e-commerce model by Harrods,...
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If humanity pumps enough carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, one of Earth's most important types of cloud could go extinct. And if the stratocumulus clouds -- those puffy, low rolls of vapor that blanket much of the planet at any given moment --...
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Unusual bare circles in the grasslands of Australia and the Namib Desert called "fairy circles" aren't the work of termites, new research suggests.Fairy circles are a long-standing mystery. Some scientists have argued that they mark ter...
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When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, the volcano's molten rock, scorching debris and poisonous gases killed nearly 2,000 people in the nearby ancient Italian cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.But not everyone died. So, where did the refugees,...
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Fox Searchlight is planning to remake “Sleeping With the Enemy,” the 1991 film starring Julia Roberts, as part of a new overall producer deal with Damian Jones and his DJ Films Limited, the company announced Tuesday.Jones, who first partnered with Fo...
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Bacteria lodged deep in Ella Balasa's lungs were impervious to most antibiotics. At 26, gasping for breath, she sought out a dramatic experiment — deliberately inhaling a virus culled from sewage to attack her superbug.
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science / science - 5 years ago
Do you have a stomach bug or food poisoning? Doctors shed light on how to tell the difference.
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The sources asked that neither they nor their banks be identified because they were not allowed to speak to the media. Gunvor, formed at the start of the century by Tornqvist and his former Russian partner Gennady Timchenko, first specialized in Rus...
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Saudi Aramco's chief executive said on Tuesday the oil industry is facing "a crisis of perception" and the views of some observers that the end of oil is near with the rise of electric vehicles are illogical and not based on fact. Amin Nasser, CEO o...
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Brent oil edged up to $65 a barrel on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia and the rest of OPEC were expected to stick to their policy of cutting production, despite renewed pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump. Crude had slid on Monday, when many traders w...
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Growing up, I knew I wasn’t vaccinated, and my mom spoke openly about her beliefs, suspicions. But after doing my own research, I knew I had to act.
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Two crane ships early on Tuesday began raising a submerged Norwegian navy frigate which collided with an oil tanker in November and has remained stranded off Norway's west coast since, the armed forces said. The accident injured eight people and cau...
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British drugmaker AstraZeneca Plc said on Tuesday its cancer drug being jointly developed with U.S.-based Merck & Co met the primary goal in a late-stage study for a rare type of pancreatic cancer. The study showed that Lynparza was successful as a...