Legal Law

“Pink slime” local news outlets erupt all over US as election nears

Enlarge / Chicago City Wire is a hyper-partisan website masquerading as an outlet that does journalism. FT Montage The number of partisan news outlets in the US masquerading as legitimate journalism now equals genuine local newspaper sites, researchers say, as so-called pink slime operators gear up ahead of November’s presidential election. Pink slime sites mimic

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Medicine

Getinge and CellRev Launch Livit ACE Platform

Getinge has partnered with the bioprocessing company CellRev in the development of a continuous cell processing platform called Livit ACE (Adherent Cell Expansion).  “Both our companies are dedicated to helping the development of life-saving therapies gain momentum. CellRev’s technology combined with our latest bioreactor systems has the potential to transform allogeneic cell therapy manufacturing,” says

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Auto

Renault Captur revamped in pursuit of small SUV sales crown

The Renault Captur has been redesigned and heavily upgraded for 2024 in a bid to propel it up the ranks of Europe’s hotly contested small SUV segment. Renault calls it “the B-segment car for living”, touting its small footprint but spacious (and ‘modular’) interior as attributes that make it “at home in the city or off

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Cryptocurrency

Levi Strauss (LEVI) earnings Q1 2024

Levi Strauss, which has long relied on wholesalers like Macy’s and Kohl’s to drive its business, is now doing nearly half of its sales through its own website and stores, the company said Wednesday when reporting fiscal first-quarter earnings.  In the three months ended Feb. 25, direct-to-consumer sales made up a record 48% of overall

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Legal Law

Man pleads guilty to stealing former coworker’s identity for 30 years

A high-level Iowa hospital systems administrator, Matthew Kierans, has admitted to stealing a coworker’s identity and posing as William Donald Woods for more than 30 years, The Register reported. On top of using Woods’ identity to commit crimes and rack up debt, Kierans’ elaborate identity theft scheme led to Woods’ incarceration after Kierans’ accused his

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Medicine

Roche Receive FDA Approval for Molecular Test to Screen for Malaria

Roche have announced that the U.S. FDA have approved the cobas Malaria test for use on the cobas 6800/8800 Systems. This approved test can aid healthcare professionals in reducing potential risks of patient infection from transfused blood products. The cobas Malaria test provides a highly sensitive solution to help ensure that infected blood units are removed from the blood

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Technology

Finnish industrial groups launch AI and robotics ventures

Multinational Finnish industrial groups Outokumpu, Metsä and HKScan are scaling-up deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) to drive international growth and strengthen performance-based efficiencies in their production and product-based core research operations. The AI-focused capital investments earmarked by the three Finnish companies reflect the wider adoption and exploitation of AI and robotics technologies by industrial groups

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Business

PFC pays Rs 2,033 crore interim dividend to Govt for FY24

New Delhi: State-owned PFC on Wednesday said it has paid a total dividend of ₹2,033 crore to the government for the financial year 2023-24. The company has paid the dividend in three instalments of Rs 554 crore, Rs 832 crore and Rs 647 crore, it said in a statement. “PFC pays the highest-ever interim dividend

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Finance

India aims Rs 1 lakh cr seafood export in 2 years

New Delhi: India aims to increase its seafood exports to Rs one lakh crore in the next two years from Rs 64,000 crore in FY23 by increasing its processing capacity and shifting to higher value-added products, an official said Wednesday. New Delhi is the largest supplier of seafood, particularly frozen shrimps, to the US and

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Medicine

Building A Sustainable Future for the Biopharma Industry

Written by: Maria Elena Gasperini, Director of Sustainability Life Sciences, Jacobs. As part of the global effort to address climate change, the biopharma industry is committed to decarbonising its operations and making manufacturing more sustainable. To support this seismic shift, biopharma companies are working closely with solutions providers to incorporate sustainability practices into their operations and

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Real Estate

did ambergris caye real estate market crash

ambergris caye real estate Belize is a country that sits between Central America and The Caribbean. It is nestled south of Mexico and east of Guatemala, making it unique in the sense that it has both mainland & island communities. The majority of Real Estate on Ambergris Caye is located in the town of San

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Sports

Big blow for CSK! Star pacer leaves camp and travels home

Chennai Super Kings | Pic: X (CSK) Chennai Super Kings (CSK) has suffered a major blow ahead of the game against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024. Star pacer Mustafizur Rahman has been ruled out of the game against Orange Army, slated to take place on Friday (5th April).  Chennai Super

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Auto

Dacia resists price hikes as EU-mandated safety kit introduced

The Dacia Jogger, Sandero and Sandero Stepway have been updated with safety features mandated by the European Union’s new safety regulations – without the price hike imposed on many rivals. The General Safety Regulations 2 (GSR2) mandate that all cars on sale in the EU from 7 July 2024 include systems including speed limit detection, lane-keeping assistance and driver

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Medicine

Bespak Complete Inhaled and Nasal Drug Delivery Business Separation from Recipharm

Bespak have announced the completion of the transaction to separate Recipharm’s former Advanced Delivery Systems Business Unit from the Recipharm Group to form a new standalone company. Both Bespak and Recipharm are backed by EQT Private Equity. The spin-out has created a leading global contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) focused on drug-device combination products and

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Auto

Porsche K1: Electric seven-seat luxury SUV shows off radical design

Already three years in conception and planning, the K1 aims to build on the success of the Porsche Cayenne and Porsche Macan, Porsche’s two best-selling models over the past two decades. When it arrives, it will be the sixth Porsche EV after the Porsche Taycan, the electric Macan, an electric Porsche Boxster and Porsche Cayman pairing due in 2025 and an

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Medicine

Automation Means a Scalable Supply Chain for Clinical Trials

Written by: Paul Knight, Managing Director of CME Automation Systems  One of the biggest challenges facing the life sciences industry is how to implement automated ‘just-in-time’ clinical supply chains that will increase speed, flexibility, and efficiency in clinical trial drugs manufacture.   It’s clear that these are exciting times for the clinical trials sector. As demand

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Technology

Finish industrial groups launch AI and robotics ventures

Multinational Finnish industrial groups Outokumpu, Metsä and HKScan, are scaling-up deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) to drive international growth and strengthen performance-based efficiencies in their production and product-based core research operations. The AI-focused capital investments earmarked by the three Finnish companies reflects the wider adoption and exploitation of AI and robotics technologies by industrial groups

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Finance

Viksit Bharat: Mission 2047: India charts road to a developed economy

India is drawing up near, medium and longterm goals in line with its target to become a developed economy by 2047, with a focus on electric mobility, digitisation of payments infrastructure and high-speed expressways, officials said. All central ministries will soon firm up plans indicating five-year budgetary requirements for better financial management, they said. Extended

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Legal Law

Google agrees to delete Incognito data despite prior claim that’s “impossible”

To settle a class-action dispute over Chrome’s “Incognito” mode, Google has agreed to delete billions of data records reflecting users’ private browsing activities. In a statement provided to Ars, users’ lawyer, David Boies, described the settlement as “a historic step in requiring honesty and accountability from dominant technology companies.” Based on Google’s insights, users’ lawyers

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Medicine

PhaSER Biomedical Agree Partnership with Sanders Tri-Institutional Therapeutic Discovery Institute

PhaSER Biomedical has agreed a long-term partnership with the Sanders Tri-Institutional Therapeutic Discovery Institute (TDI) to enhance the institute’s groundbreaking pre-clinical drug discovery research.   Headquartered in New York, TDI is a unique partnership consisting of three world-renowned scientific and medical institutions; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, The Rockefeller University and Weill Cornell Medicine who recognised that

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Auto

How to clamp down on roadside rubbish

There was a good column in The Times recently about the state of Britain’s roadsides, which frequently are liberally strewn with litter. It suggested that we get serious about cleaning it up. Any campaign to get that done would receive my support, too. But I don’t know that we should feel quite so much shame

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Business

Sanofi plans to launch 1 or 2 products in India every year

Mumbai: Sanofi is committed to the Indian market and plans to launch 1 or 2 products every year from its innovation portfolio in the country, said a top executive of the French drugmaker. The company is in the process of launching its much-awaited product Soliqua, a combination of insulin glargine 100 units/mL and lixisenatide, in

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Home Kitchen

Make Mary Berry’s fruity Easter biscuits recipe

Ready in as little as 20 minutes, baking enthusiasts can whip up Mary Berry’s Easter biscuits in no time. Making the dough from scratch can give such a sense of accomplishment, so why not give it a go? Mary instructed: “Use half of the dough to make traditional fruited Easter biscuits, and half to make

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Legal Law

Apple, Google, and Meta are failing DMA compliance, EU suspects

Enlarge / EU Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton talks to media about non-compliance investigations against Google, Apple, and Meta under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). Not even three weeks after the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) took effect, the European Commission (EC) announced Monday that it is already probing three out of six

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Medicine

Corteria Pharmaceuticals Announces Initiation of Phase 1 Study

Corteria Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of transformative therapies for heart failure and obesity, have announced the initiation of its Phase 1 study to evaluate the company’s first-in-class corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor 2 (CRF2) agonist, COR-1167, for the treatment of Worsening Heart Failure (WHF). COR-1167 is a once-daily subcutaneous CRF2 agonist that has

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Auto

Best used cars for £50,000 and under

5. Mercedes AMG GT (2014-2022) 9 Believe it or not, a few of these creep into our budget with middling mileages, full service histories, and high specifications. But choose wisely. AMGs historically let their dynamic flourishes come to life with low-slung, top-rung GTs like this. And the AMG GT gets off to a good start,

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Business

HAL revenue up by 11% at Rs 29,810 crore

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited on Monday said that it has recorded revenue from operations of over Rs 29,810 crore (provisional and unaudited) for the financial year 2023-24 registering a growth of around 11 per cent as against nine per cent in the previous fiscal. The corresponding figure for the previous year was Rs. 26,928 crore, the

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Medicine

Upperton Pharma Open New Development and GMP Manufacturing Facility

UK-based contract development and manufacturing organisation Upperton Pharma Solutions was joined by Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine co-inventor Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, biotech industry representatives and local leaders to celebrate the official opening of a new 50,000 square foot development and GMP manufacturing facility in Nottingham. In addition to Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, the plaque-unveiling ceremony included local

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Auto

BMW X6 M Competition Review (2024)

The facelifted X6 and X5 have had quite the interior makeover – not entirely for the better, we must say – and most of those changes have come to the M versions as well. Nearly the whole dashboard was binned and replaced in order to accommodate BMW’s Curved Display, which is a combination of a

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