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Running Signal Will Soon Cost $50 Million a Year

The encrypted messaging and calling app Signal has become a one-of-a-kind phenomenon in the tech world: It has grown from the preferred encrypted messenger for…

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Can Paralysis From Spinal Cord Injury Be Reversed?

The spinal cord is like a superhighway for the body’s nervous system. Partial injuries, like lane closures, let fewer brain signals through, but complete spinal…

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Why a Decades Old AC/DC Song Might Be Returning to the Charts

Not many things make us happier than when our favorite songs achieve great success, but could there be a wonderful Christmas present about to happen…

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The I-10 Freeway Fire May Have Been Fueled by Exploding Hand Sanitizer

That could make the I-10 blaze complicating LA traffic this week the third fire in the area involving leftover hand sanitizer. A different pallet yard…

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The First Crispr Medicine Just Got Approved

In sickle cell disease, abnormal hemoglobin makes a person’s blood cells hard and crescent-shaped. These misshapen cells clump together and block blood flow to organs,…

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11 Best Advent Calendars (2023): Lego, Bonne Maman, Lush

There’s something undeniably exciting about Advent calendars. To me, they were the first example of a little treat. I’d get done with a hard day…

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Win a Pearl Jam ‘Vs. 30th Anniversary Ten Club Vinyl + Cassette

It was one of the biggest albums of the ’90s, and this year Pearl Jam‘s Vs. is celebrating its 30th anniversary. To celebrate this special…

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How Fans Shaped ‘100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can’t Be Wrong’

100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can’t Be Wrong didn’t just name-check his most ardent followers. This gold-selling multi-disc collection of B-sides and rarities made them part of…

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Starship’s ‘We Built This City’ Wasn’t Meant to Be So Terrible

Starship launched the next phase of their career in 1985 with the release of “We Built This City,” the first single from their album Knee…

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44 Rock Artists Who Wrote Film Scores

One might assume that writing songs for an album and writing songs for a film’s soundtrack are two entirely separate forms of artistic processes. But…

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