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555
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518
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349
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320
438
Cyberpunk 2077: How 2020’s biggest video game launch turned into a shambles
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315
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313
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283
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Stanford apologizes after vaccine allocation leaves out medical residents
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252
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246
691
California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 days a year in the state
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243
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London put in emergency lockdown as U.K. fights new strain
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206
22
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192
107
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176
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FDA grants authorization to Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine
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171
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169
56
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168
102
Boeing 'inappropriately coached' pilots in 737 MAX testing: U.S. Senate report
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164
94
Virtual Machine Detection in the Browser (2019)
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157
221
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144
47
Inciteful: Using Citations to Explore Academic Literature
https://inciteful.xyz/
80
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126
32
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125
31
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123
IceWM 2.0 – Ice Window Manager
https://ice-wm.org/
119
41
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115
52
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113
23
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110
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76
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74
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93
34
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36
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89
8
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85
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https://flurly.com/
83
3
Facebook’s campaign against Apple is against users and small businesses
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81
12
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https://github.com/argosopentech/argos-translate
37
Alien Hunters Discover Mysterious Signal from Proxima Centauri
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43
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73
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72
20
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45
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38
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