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Monica Bass is a writer who covers arts, automotive, travel, and fashion. She's also an avid reader and enjoys writing about books.

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Avalanche App Battle.tech Brings SocialFi to Gaming With 'Player Passes'

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Will crypto be the solution to the esports industry’s growing pains? We’ve seen various attempts over the last few years, but now Avalanche-based app Battle.tech has a novel idea: pairing the concept of SocialFi with gaming. While it has no official connection to Friend.tech—last year’s buzzy app that renewed excitement around SocialFi after social tokens […]

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Packaging Innovations & Empack 2024 to hold biggest edition ever in Birmingham

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This year’s edition of Packaging Innovations & Empack already looks set to be the biggest ever, with a record-breaking number of visitors expected and over 400 exhibitors in attendance for the UK’s flagship packaging exhibition, compared to 340 last year. Featuring four distinct zones — Packaging Innovations & Empack, Food Service, Label & Print, and

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AI Act Clears First Vote in EU as Lawmakers Take Aim at Apps That 'Threaten Citizens' Rights'

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European Parliament MEPs have approved a preliminary agreement to create guidelines for the use of AI in the region. The Internal Market and Civil Liberties Committees voted 71-8, with 7 abstentions, to approve the result of negotiations with member states on the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act, according to a press release published by the European

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Bitcoin Hits $1 Trillion Market Cap as BTC Blitzes Past $51K

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After Bitcoin briefly dipped yesterday, thanks to an alarming consumer price inflation report in the U.S., the world’s oldest and largest cryptocurrency has come surging back to push past $51,000 in early morning trading. At the time of writing, the Bitcoin price is sitting at $51,341.12 according to CoinGecko data. It’s gained 2.5% in the

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The Fragrance Foundation to honour the career of Givaudan's CEO Gilles Andrier

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The decision has been made! Gilles Andrier, Managing Director of Givaudan, will receive the Hall of Fame Award from The Fragrance Foundation at the 2024 Fragrance Foundation Awards held in New York City on 5 June. The annual fragrance awards recognise and celebrate “extraordinary individuals, innovations, and achievements within the US fragrance industry.” Gilles Andrier

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Cardiologist answers some of the top heart health questions on Google for American Heart Month

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People are curious about heart health — and for good reason. Heart disease remains the leading killer of men and women in the U.S. — each year, around 695,000 people die from cardiovascular conditions, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). For American Heart Month, Dr. Martha Gulati, M.D., a leading Cedars Sinai

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Experimental lupus therapy could be ‘life-changing’ for patients with autoimmune disease, study finds

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Australian researchers may have found a breakthrough treatment for lupus. In a study published in Nature Communications on Feb. 6, scientists at Monash University revealed that they were able to “fix” defective cells that can cause lupus, an autoimmune disease. They accomplished this by infusing human cells — called regulatory T cells — harvested from

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You’ve Got Mail: Poring Over the Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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If you go to the Margaret Clapp Library at Wellesley College, you may encounter the exhibit of a door. You can face its immaculate varnished exterior and brass fittings. You can go around (but not through) to see its white-painted inner side and pretend you are in the hall of a house leased to a

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Steeped in War and Erasure: Amitav Ghosh on How Tea Funded the British Empire’s Expansion

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Largely because of tea, China was consistently among the top four countries from which Britain bought its imports. The value of the goods that Britain received from China vastly exceeded what it got from most of its colonies: In 1857, for example, the computed real value of imports into the United Kingdom from China was

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