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• Apple unveils 'HomePod' speaker, first new product in years

  05-06-2017 22:52 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  SAN JOSE, Calif. - Apple nodded to several up-and-coming technology trends, unveiling a new "smart" home speaker and device features touching on virtual reality, online privacy and a form of ...
  
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• The Latest: Apple's HomePod speaker coming this year

  05-06-2017 21:41 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  SAN JOSE, Calif. - The Latest on Apple's annual conference in California (all times local):12:35 p.m.Apple is transplanting its digital assistant Siri into an internet-connected speaker that will become the ......
  
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• Apple kicks off event with virtual reality, browser privacy

  05-06-2017 20:42 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  SAN JOSE, Calif. - Apple nodded to several up-and-coming technology trends, unveiling new device features touching on virtual reality, online privacy and a form of artificial intelligence called machine learning.New ...
  
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• Conservation group rescue injured turtle off Liberian coast

  05-06-2017 20:05
  
  (Reuters) - A marine conservation group marked World Turtle Day by rescuing an injured loggerhead turtle they found off the coast of Liberia while on an expedition to crack down on illegal fishing.
  
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• Food startup Hampton Creek fires three executives amid claims of planned coup

  05-06-2017 19:30
  
  Chief technology officer among those accused of trying to push out co-founder and give investors control of company behind Just Mayo eggless mayonnaise The billion-dollar Silicon Valley food startup Hampton Creek fired three of its top employees on Monday amid accusations they were engaged in a coup meant to take control from its co-founder and hand it to investors.The company behind the popular Just Mayo eggless mayonnaise spread and other products wrote to staff Monday to inform them that Jim
  
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• Why Wonder Woman is a masterpiece of subversive feminism

  05-06-2017 18:16
  
  Yes, the new movie sees its titular heroine sort of naked a lot of the time. But the film-makers have still worked to turn sexist Hollywood conventions on their headThe chances are you will read a feminist takedown of Wonder Woman before you see the film. And you’ll probably agree with it. Wonder Woman is a half-god, half-mortal super-creature; she is without peer even in superhero leagues. And yet, when she arrives in London to put a stop to the war to end all wars, she instinctively obey
  
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• The Latest: New speaker? Apple hopped on bandwagon before

  05-06-2017 18:10 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  SAN JOSE, Calif. - The Latest on Apple's annual conference in California (all times local):9:05 a.m.If Apple unveils a rival to internet-connected speakers from Amazon and Google, it wouldn't be ......
  
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• A first: All respond to gene therapy in a blood cancer study

  05-06-2017 17:49 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  CHICAGO - Doctors are reporting unprecedented success from a new cell and gene therapy for multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that's on the rise. Although it's early and the study ...
  
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• Liz Weston: Money hacks for real people

  05-06-2017 16:51 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Everyone loves a hack — an uncommon solution to a common problem. There's a reason so much of the internet revolves around things like "This One Little Trick" and "The ...
  
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• Corn gazpacho is a great starter for Fourth of July party

  05-06-2017 16:51 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Simple and delicious straight out of the garden, abundant corn on the cob is one of the great things about summer. You boil it up, spread on a little butter, ...
  
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• How to Weigh Your Fixture Options and Create the Look You Want

  05-06-2017 16:23
  
  We hope you like the products we recommend. Just so you are aware, Freshome may collect a share of sales from the links on this page.Fixtures will play a key role in your kitchen or bathroom design. Source: Twelve ChairsWhen designing a kitchen or bathroom, every element counts. Since these rooms are so utilitarian, each piece does double duty in terms of providing a function and adding to the overall aesthetic. The fixture options you choose are no exception. That said, there’s a lot more
  
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• New smart speaker expected as Apple kicks off conference

  05-06-2017 15:47 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO - Apple appears poised to unveil a voice-activated, internet-connected speaker that would create a new digital pipeline into people's homes.Tapping Apple's Siri digital assistant, such a speaker is ...
  
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• Gin sales help fill Treasury coffers as spirits raise more money than beer

  05-06-2017 15:09
  
  Spirits duty overtakes beer for first time as British drinkers buy record amounts of ginTax revenues from sales of spirits have overtaken those from beer for the first time amid record sales of gin, according to HM Revenue & Customs.British drinkers downed 12% more gin last year, while beer revenue – despite the boom in craft beer – has fallen flat. Duties from spirits, which includes whisky and gin, rose by 7% to £3.37bn for the tax year 2016-17, while beer duty edged up b
  
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• Sixty years ago, I started panicking about the world – this is what I’ve learned

  05-06-2017 15:07
  
  It’s not silly or naive to bang on about global warming, extremism and Armageddon. Which is why I’m out canvassing, just like I have done since the days of Harold MacmillanI have been canvassing lately, for Labour. Nobody has been rude to us, and everyone plans to vote for us, except for one woman who wouldn’t say. Which isn’t surprising, because this is Jeremy Corbyn’s constituency. I have always supported him. I go on my dog walks plastered with Labour stickers. T
  
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• Vent like a %!^&ing scientist

  05-06-2017 14:37 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  I have great news for anyone struggling to cope with the emotional stress of modern life.If your best friend has hurt your feelings or a rude motorist has cut you ...
  
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• Drugs score big wins against lung, prostate, breast cancers

  05-06-2017 13:36 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  CHICAGO - Drugs are scoring big wins against common cancers, setting new standards for how to treat many prostate, breast and lung tumors. There's even a "uni-drug" that may fight ......
  
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• Poached peach recipes for knickerbocker glory and peach melba | Guest cook

  05-06-2017 13:00
  
  When it comes to pudding, fruit is ripe for whimsical reinvention. Try an ostentatious knickerbocker glory or a so-kitsch-it’s-cool peach melbaLast summer, I read Pomiane, Master of the Unsacrosanct, an essay by Elizabeth David. She praises Docteur de Pomiane for his scientific explanations of cooking principles and also for challenging “the holy rites of the ‘white-vestured officiating priests’ of classical French cookery”. In many ways, de Pomiane could almost be
  
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• Crossword blog: Meet the setter – Screw

  05-06-2017 10:58
  
  The latest in our series where we turn the tables on the torturers. Under the spotlight this time is Dave Warder, AKA ScrewScrew had his first Guardian cryptic published in March 2015. At the time, I wrote: “Keener readers might have noticed Donk in the comments hereabouts, as well as in the featured clues”, alluding to his Independent puzzles.
  Since then, he has established an economical, shrewd and occasionally cheeky style – so let’s meet the setter. (And if you are on
  
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• Several states moving to expand age kids must be in school

  05-06-2017 10:08 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LAS VEGAS - A dozen states are trying to keep children in school longer, from making kindergarten mandatory to raising the legal drop-out age. But it's not an easy sell.Nevada ......
  
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• Can mindfulness reduce fear of labour and postpartum depression?

  05-06-2017 09:00
  
  Anxiety about labour – and what might come afterwards – causes stress for expectant mothers and increases risk in childbirth. But there could be a natural solutionMany women feel anxious about giving birth. Fear of the unknown and over-sharing by others (“I felt I was ripped apart,” one mother told my antenatal group) can make labour daunting. Being frightened of childbirth can prolong labour – by an average of 47 minutes, but it feels longer – increase the ne
  
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• I was briefly a police officer 10 years ago – should I take it off my CV?

  05-06-2017 08:00
  
  I’m job hunting and interviewers seem to be more interested in that episode than my more recent experience and skills
  Twice a week we publish problems that will feature in a forthcoming Dear Jeremy advice column in the Saturday Guardian so that readers can offer their own advice and suggestions. We then print the best of your comments alongside Jeremy’s own insights.I am looking for a new job because my current one is a fixed-term contract, which will soon be coming to an end. I have
  
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• I have a very high sex drive but my long-distance boyfriend doesn't

  05-06-2017 08:00
  
  We rarely have sex when we’re together and it’s causing problems. I’ve tried talking to him about it, but he just gets defensiveMy long-distance boyfriend and I rarely have sex when we are together. I have a very high sex drive and I don’t think he does. I don’t want to end my relationship, but my sexuality has always been a big part of who I am. I have tried talking to him, but he gets really defensive. The notion of “high” or “low&rdquo
  
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• Green dreams: the growing case for medical marijuana

  05-06-2017 07:00
  
  Should medical cannabis be legalised? It makes sense to the woman with MS who pays £500 a month on it, and the neurologist whose patients resort to street drugsNicky Haynes has almost forgotten the pain she used to be in. She has been taking Sativex, a drug derived from cannabis, for about five years and says it has hugely improved her life. She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1994, and her condition progressively worsened to the point where she couldn’t sleep, where reachin
  
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