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The Lakers have been looking for a better second shot creator and ball handler and they are about to land a good one — Oklahoma City’s Dennis Schroder. The Lakers are in “advanced talks” to trade for Schroder — who finished a close second in Sixth Man of the Year voting last season to Montrezl […]
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Exoskeletal-assisted walking is safe, feasible, and effective in individuals disabled by spinal cord injury, according to the results of a federally funded multi-site randomized clinical trial. The article, “Mobility skills with exoskeletal-assisted walking in persons with SCI: Results from a three-center randomized clinical trial” (doi: 10.3389/frobt.2020.00093), was published August 4, 2020 in Frontiers in Robotics […]
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Walmart is retreating from Japan, giving up on a near 20-year attempt to crack the grocery market in the world’s third largest economy. Walmart (WMT) is selling most of its stake in Japanese supermarket chain Seiyu to KKR and Rakuten (RKUNF) in a deal that values Seiyu at 172.5 billion yen ($1.6 billion). The deal […]
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Massachusetts voters approved a measure requiring car manufacturers to let people access vehicle data for repairs. Question 1 amends a landmark 2012 “right to repair” law in the state. After it’s adopted, manufacturers will have until car model year 2022 to install a standard open data platform. The platform will let vehicle owners and independent […]
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For those who like to gaze at the night sky, this week there will be a lively show as the Leonid meteor stream, as well as all seven planets, will be visible throughout the night—the lack of a strong moon helping immensely to see everything. Jupiter and Saturn will be visible in the early night, […]
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Cleveland Cavaliers second-year swingman Kevin Porter Jr. was arrested in Mahoning County early Sunday morning on a charge of improperly handling a firearm in a motor vehicle. According to Cleveland.com, the Ohio State Highway Patrol pulled Porter over near Canfield (about 90 minutes outside Cleveland). There was a loaded firearm in the car, a violation […]
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Osteoarthritis (OA), a widely acknowledged cause of disability that affects patients’ quality of life and has significant economic impact through healthcare costs and loss of earnings. In a novel study researchers have identified cytoplasmic localized histone deacetalyse 6 (HDAC6) as a promising therapeutic target to postpone development of and possibly treat OA using the HDAC6 […]
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PepsiCo’s line of chubby plastic 2-liter bottles are getting a slimmer redesign — the first in about three decades. Beginning this week, some US customers will see in stores a new bottle with an enhanced “grip point” at the bottom that’s 25% slimmer than the old bottle, among other design changes. The “modern, functional and […]
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Preorders for the iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max are officially live, and with it, Apple has also offered more pricing and release information on the next wave of iPhone 12 accessories, including the MagSafe Duo charger and the leather cases for the new phones. The MagSafe Duo has officially gotten a $129 […]
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Centered around the small archipelago of Tristan da Cunha in the Southern Atlantic, governments and ecological organizations have created the fourth-largest marine protected area on Earth, and the largest in the Atlantic Ocean. Spanning 265,347 square miles, Tristan da Cunha is almost three times as big as the island of Great Britain, and will protect […]
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