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Amazon customer support team makes geography fail and inadvertently unites Ireland

The Verge

An Amazon support member trying to help a subscriber on Twitter was apparently not fully up to speed on world geography when they suggested to the user that Northern Ireland wasn’t part of the United Kingdom. Northern Ireland is part of the UK. Chris Jones (@_chrisjones_) November 14, 2020. Amazon Help (@AmazonHelp) November 14, 2020.

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The United Kingdom wants to use genomic surveillance to prevent future pandemics

TechSpot

The publicly funded National Health Service (NHS) will partner with Oxford Nanopore, a UK-based company that developed a novel solution for DNA sequencing, to uncover dangerous infections within hours of. Read Entire Article

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Meet 4 more of Europe’s fastest-growing tech firms:  Leetchi, MAG Interactive, Run a Shop, and Hailo

The Next Web

These startups include companies from France, United Kingdom, Germany, and Sweden. The companies presenting were chosen from hundreds of startup submissions from seven European nations. The companies were chosen based on actual revenue, traffic and employee data between 2011 and 2013.

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UK clinical trials transfuse two people using blood produced in a lab

TechSpot

National Health Service (NHS) scientists in the United Kingdom, with help from Bristol and Cambridge universities, have successfully transfused two humans with blood grown in a lab. The BBC notes that this world's first is part of a continuing study to determine how lab-grown blood performs in the body.

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Global philanthropy responds to the Ukraine crisis

Candid

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimates that some 18 million people will ultimately become affected, including 6.7 The United States, United Kingdom, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, and Japan account for 91% of total grant funding for Ukraine to date.

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5 takeaways on trust in NGOs to manage new innovations and technologies 

Candid

Respondents in six wealthier nations—the Netherlands, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany, and Japan—fewer than half of respondents trusted NGOs. The media was trusted in nine nations and distrusted in 15, while government was trusted in eight nations and distrusted in 17.

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Natural Cycles’ data shows limited menstrual changes after COVID-19 vaccination

The Verge

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) put out a call last spring for research proposals that could look into the question of impacts on periods. The findings are consistent with data from a still-unpublished study in the United Kingdom, which didn’t find major menstrual changes associated with vaccination.

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