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The Markup: Sources: Life360, a family safety app used by 33M people, has sold users' precise location since 2016 and is one of the data broker industry's top sources — The app is a major source of raw location data for a multibillion-dollar industry that buys, packages, and sells people's...

Australia is emerging onto the online used car dealership scene with Carma, a startup that just raised a $20 million (AUD $28 million) seed round from Tiger Global, an American investment firm. Carma has been operating in stealth for the past nine months, and says the funding has enabled the...

PMID: Mol Neurobiol. 2021 Oct 18. Epub 2021 Oct 18. PMID: 34661852 Abstract Title: The Possible Protective Role of Dark Chocolate Against Acrylamide Neurotoxicity in Weaning Rats Cerebellum. Abstract: Acrylamide (ACR) is selective neurotoxicity, could be found in foods processed by high...

PMID: Anticancer Agents Med Chem. 2021 Jan 11. Epub 2021 Jan 11. PMID: 33438563 Abstract Title: Lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus (D.C.) Stapf) Presents Antitumoral Effect and Improve Chemotherapy Activity in Prostate Cancer Cells. Abstract: BACKGROUND: Prostate cancer is the most common...

Emma Roth / The Verge: Google is investigating a report that a Pixel 5a, sent to an official repair center in Texas, was used to bypass 2FA on a number of owner's accounts — Google says it's investigating the latest report — After game designer and author Jane McGonigal sent her Pixel 5a in...

Wall Street Journal: The US plans to work with friendly nations to limit the export of surveillance tools and other tech used by authoritarian governments to suppress human rights — Administration official cites China's use of monitoring technologies, which Beijing has defended, in calling for...

The Markup: Investigation finds US predictive policing tool PredPol, used countrywide, often perpetuates biases, directing police to poor, Black, and Latino neighborhoods — Plainfield, N.J. Plainfield, N.J. Los Angeles — Orange County, Fla.

Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: UN report: 2.9B people, or 37% of the world's population, have never used the internet, while internet users rose from 4.1B in 2019 to 4.9B in 2021 — But the pandemic has fueled a rapid surge of worldwide internet users. — Alerts — Nearly two-thirds of the world's...

Bloomberg: Sources: China plans to ban companies from going public on foreign markets through variable interest entities, closing a loophole used by its tech companies — China is planning to ban companies from going public on foreign stock markets through variable interest entities …

Meet Upway, a French startup that is building a marketplace for second-hand electric bikes. The startup just raised a $5.7 million (€5 million) seed round from Sequoia Capital and Global Founders Capital.If you’re familiar with the world of online marketplaces for cars, Upway will sound...

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: UK-based Motorway, a second-hand car auction site used by 4K+ car dealers, raises a $190M Series C at a $1B+ valuation after raising a $67.7M Series B in June — It was only in June that Motorway - a U.K. platform on which professional car dealers can bid in an...

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Slice, whose credit cards are used by 5M+ people in India and let users pay their bills interest-free over three months, raises a $220M Series B — Rajan Bajaj, founder of fintech Slice, chimed in on a Twitter thread earlier this year and wondered aloud what he needs...

PMID: Front Pharmacol. 2021 ;12:735087. Epub 2021 Sep 16. PMID: 34603050 Abstract Title: Hesperetin Exhibits Anti-Inflammatory Effects on Chondrocytes via the AMPK Pathway to Attenuate Anterior Cruciate Ligament Transection-Induced Osteoarthritis. Abstract: This study aimed to determine...

PMID: Int J Mol Sci. 2021 Feb 15 ;22(4). Epub 2021 Feb 15. PMID: 33671896 Abstract Title: Preclinical Therapy with Vitamin D3 in Experimental Encephalomyelitis: Efficacy and Comparison with Paricalcitol. Abstract: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic demyelinating disease of the central...

Shikhani Shah, a criminal lawyer, and Sumeet Engineer crossed paths through an aunt who’d set them up, and little did they know that a regular arranged marriage meeting would turn into a life-altering event! A firm believer that a relationship is an equal partnership between two individuals...