Margie Pritchard
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Under Armour shares fell 15% following the announcement of poor second-quarter earnings this week and announced it expects sales to decline in North America throughout 2019. While similar sports retailers like Nike and Adidas are posting positive sales growth numbers relatively consistently in past years, Under Armour has sputtered. Under Armour wasn’t always the trouble-stricken…
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Forget the titanium Apple Card — Amazon’s latest payment method uses flesh and blood. The e-tailing giant’s engineers are quietly testing scanners that can identify an individual human hand as a way to ring up a store purchase, with the goal of rolling them out at its Whole Foods supermarket chain in the coming months.…
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Robert Kearns, 35, who had a blind left eye, had trouble seeing the road with traditional windscreen wipers. In 1962, he had a brainstorm… “what if a windshield wiper paused between each wipe, like a blinking eye? At this time, wipers only had two settings (one for light rain and one for heavy rain). At…
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While death is inevitable, knowing when it will come is usually more difficult to predict. Scientists have been trying to develop a test that could reliably and easily predict how long a person will live, or, more technically, how healthy they are and therefore how vulnerable they might be to major mortality risk factors. Blood tests are the most…
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T-cells extracted from a tumor, expanded and then re-introduced into the body have resulted in the disappearance of tumors in a woman with metastatic breast cancer. Research published in Nature Medicine by scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has described a new immunotherapy approach, which led to a complete disappearance of tumors in a woman with…