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As streaming continues to dominate the home entertainment market, DVD rental service Redbox is set to shut down after 22 years in business.Redbox’s parent company, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, changed its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing last month to a Chapter 7 liquidation filing on Wednesday. The change means the company can’t come up with a repayment plan for its outstanding debts and will soon have to rely on selling assets to repay creditors.The Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing would result in the firing of all employees and the closure of Redbox’s 24,000 kiosks. Chicken Soup for the Soul’s lawyers…

Samsung is moving away from monitoring sleep behavior. Menstrual cycle tracking.South Korea-based technology company It was published At its Galaxy Unpacked event in Paris on Wednesday, the company announced an expansion of its wearable products, including the much talked about new Galaxy Ring, which has end-to-end integration with its smartphones and smartwatches and can be worn 24/7.Introducing the Samsung Galaxy RingThe Samsung Galaxy Ring was shown off during a media preview at the Samsung Galaxy Experience space in New York on July 9, 2024. Yuki Iwamura/APThe Galaxy Ring is Samsung’s latest foray into wearable devices aimed at health-conscious and tech-savvy…

C. Marsicano Gaiacia geniaeReaching a length of 4.5 metres, this newly discovered freshwater apex predator lurked in swamps and lakes some 280 million years ago. Its broad, flattened head was fitted with powerful jaws full of enormous fangs, ready to snatch any prey unlucky enough to swim past. The problem is, based on what we know, this dinosaur couldn’t have been that big, it couldn’t have been extinct tens of millions of years before it was known to have lived, and it couldn’t have been found in northern Namibia.”Gaiacia “This is our first opportunity to get a good look at…

A new study has identified brain neurons that distinguish between fullness and nausea in obesity drugs, paving the way for treatments that suppress appetite without causing side effects.Research suggests that new drugs may be developed that suppress appetite without causing nausea.The next chapter for the popular, buzzworthy obesity drug may focus on understanding post-meal satiety and the brain’s regulation of nausea. Monell Chemical Senses Center They identified populations of neurons in the brain that control food intake without causing nausea in animal models and distinguished between the beneficial and side effects of these drugs.The study was published in the journal…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Tachyons are hypothetical particles that travel faster than the speed of light. These faster-than-light particles are the “children of enormity” of modern physics. Until recently, it was commonly believed that tachyons were an entity that did not fit into the special theory of relativity. However, in one paper Published in Physics Review D Research by physicists from the Universities of Warsaw and Oxford has proven that many of these prejudices are unfounded: tachyons are not only refuted by the theory, but also allow us to better understand its causal structure. Movement beyond speed speed The speed…

July 11, 2024 3:02 PMPHILADELPHIA — A U.S. appeals court dealt the NCAA a blow Thursday, ruling that college athletes who act primarily for the benefit of their schools can be considered employees entitled to a salary under federal wage and hour law.In the latest challenge to the NCAA’s long-held idea of ​​amateurism in college sports, the court said a test should be developed to distinguish between students who play college sports for fun and those who make efforts to “cross legally recognized lines into their work.””With professional athletes being the clearest indicator, playing sports is indeed a remunerative occupation,”…

There is a severe lack of research on chronic diseases that affect women, and the National Institutes of Health and other agencies should do more to explore the issues that lead to worsening health care for women, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.Women suffer disproportionately from chronic diseases such as Alzheimer’s and depression. According to a study commissioned and published by the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health: Wednesday.But a lack of research on women’s health “prevents a comprehensive understanding of how these and other chronic conditions affect women,” the report authors…

Getty Images Veteran showrunner Tim Doyle Last year, he was publicly rebuked by the Writers Guild of America West after a panel of judges found him guilty of posting racist images on Facebook. “The Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) has filed a complaint against member Tim Doyle under Article 10 of our Constitution and Bylaws (the “Constitution”),” union officials wrote in a message sent to members on Thursday. “The complaint alleges that on August 9, 2023, Doyle posted an image to a WGAW member Facebook group that members perceived as a racist and offensive depiction of a lynching. Doyle…

Biden administration officials are unhappy with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. President Biden A key NATO summit kicked off in Washington this week, highlighting the challenges the United States faces in its relationship with NATO, which it considers one of its most important.Moscow meeting The announcement came despite senior administration officials conveying concerns to the Indian government earlier this month that the timing would complicate “impressions” for Washington, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.Those involved included Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, who met with External Affairs Minister Vinay Kwatra…

Marathon Oil Co. will pay a record $64.5 million in fines and invest an estimated $177 million in pollution reduction measures to resolve alleged Clean Air Act violations at its North Dakota oil and gas operations, the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Justice announced Thursday.The EPA said the fine is the largest ever for a violation of the Clean Air Act at a stationary source, which includes oil refineries, power plants and factories. They called for increased enforcement. After four years of lax oversight under President Trump, the country’s bedrock environmental laws Donald Trump.”Today’s record-setting Clean Air Act settlement…