A Secret Lab Wants to Give You 10 More Years Retro Bioscience, a startup with $180 million from Open AIs Sam Altman, has a simple and audacious goal: Add 10 good years to your life. The firm has operated in secrecy, but now its giving a glimpse of its work— from breakthroughts in autophagy (the removal of damaged cells) to rejuvenation of blood plasma and research into partial cell reprogramming
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Last year at this time, most economists, many journalists, and a lot of regular Americans felt certain the U.S was headed into recessions. They were wrong, Instead, the economy grew. The unemployment rate stayed low, as the job market cooled but remained strong, The Feds rate hikes did trigger pain in many parts of the economy. The real estate market is now, to puts it technically, a mess. A lot of tech workers lost their jobs. Last spring, there was a min-banking crisis, as high rates exposed weaknesses at some financial institutions. But the hurt in certain sectors didn’t spread to the “real economy”– the realm in which regular Americans work and spend.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s oldest ally and confidant was behind Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s assassination in August. Ex-spy Nikolar Patryshev approved the plan that was two months in the making, according to Western intelligence offical and former Russian intelligence officer. A small bomb was hidden under the wing of Prigozhin’s planes; after about 30 minutes of flying, the aircraft crashed, kill the 10 people on board. The Krwmlin has denied involvement in Prigozhin’s death
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Ex-spy 前间谍