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Plumbing can be a very personal type of home improvement. It involves particular needs of an individual’s home. This vast world has so many techniques, equipment, and regulations that it can seem a bit confusing as to where you need to begin. These tips can help you make sense of the confusion. Rigid copper is […]
On Thursday night, Chiefs outside linebacker coach Britt Reid crashed his truck into a pair of cars that had been pulled over to the side of the road. A five-year-old girl suffered serious injuries. A GoFundMe account has been established to raise money for the ongoing care of Ariel. To date, it has raised nearly […]
Women suffering from chronic conditions that result in painful intercourse represent about 10% of females of reproductive age—triggering a combined economic burden of more than $7.7 billion per year—yet scant knowledge about the origins of this pain is preventing an effective way to treat it. Researchers at Flinders University are working to remedy this situation […]
Boeing delivered 26 jets in January, logging one of its best months since the grounding of the 737 Max in March 2019. The 737 Max helped boost those figures, with 21 delivered in the month. The company has been working through a backlog of more than 400 737 Max jets that were built during the […]
Spotify now boasts 155 million premium subscribers and 345 million monthly active users, according to its latest earnings report released today. Those numbers represent a 24 percent and 27 percent year-over year increase. Its biggest increase was in ad-supported monthly active users, which rose 30 percent to 199 million. Last quarter, it reported having reached […]
We’re into what feels like month 7859 of lockdown – and we don’t know about you, but we’re seriously missing pubs and clubs right now. And one group who have really missed out on nightlife culture are university students. Posting on TikTok, one member of the uni house, in Sheffield, revealed how they transformed their […]
Plenty of Patriots fans still love to watch Tom Brady. Via John Ourand of Sports Business Daily, the TV rating in Boston actually surpassed the TV rating in Tampa. According to Ourand, Boston generated a rating of 57.6, which means that 57.6 percent of all TVs in the market were turned to the game. In […]
Cancer ranks as a leading cause of death in every country in the world, and, for the first time, female breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer, overtaking lung cancer, according to a collaborative report, Global Cancer Statistics 2020, from the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). […]
Audi’s new E-tron GT, unveiled Tuesday, presents something that is becoming rare in the world of electric vehicles, an actual car. While Audi’s most recent electric vehicles have been SUVs, as have many new electric vehicles, the E-tron is designed to appeal to those who put a premium on the driving feel of a car, […]
TikTok will start displaying warnings on videos that contain questionable information that couldn’t be verified by fact-checkers, and it’ll begin warning users when they go to re-share those videos that the information hasn’t been confirmed. The app will now display a warning label on these videos that reads, “Caution: Video flagged for unverified content.” This […]