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As the final promotion in its holiday promotion 12 Days of Free Games, Epic Games has made three titles on its store available for free for today only, two of which belong to the Darksiders series of games offering hack-and-slash action adventure gameplay, the third one being the extreme sports simulator game Steep, released by Ubisoft in 2016.

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In a report published online on Nature, researchers reported that changing the method of delivery of the TB vaccine from a subcutaneous injection to a direct injection into the bloodstream boosted the effectiveness of the vaccine. The TB vaccine is called BCG and is currently the only widely used TB vaccine, being discovered almost a hundred years ago.

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In 1965, Emily Hale, the mysterious muse of pioneering post-modernist poet T. S. Eliot, famous for his poems The Wasteland and Four Quartets, donated over a 1000 letters between her and Eliot to a library on the condition that they be released 50 yeas after their deaths, a period that was completed in 2019. Eliot scholars are excited to find hitherto unknown details about the artist in the correspondences.

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During a session at the New York Film Academy, Marvel Studios president and chief creative officer Kevin Feige, who has overseen the rise of the company's superhero film franchise since the release of Iron Man in 2008, has confirmed that the Marvel Universe will soon see its first transgender superhero, stating that the movie was currently in production, but did not provide any further details.

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German automobile manufacturer Volkswagen admitted in 2015 to cheating emissions tests for its new line of diesel cars, following which the cars lost their certification to be on German roads and legal action was taken against VW. The company recently announced that it was in talks to settle the dispute with German consumer organizations. The company's license in the US has remained unaffected since the scandal.

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German automotive supplier Bosch has announced that it has created a lower-cost version of a lidar sensor, a kind of sensor that provides a full 3-dimensional view of the road using light. This could drastically speed up the development of self-driving cars as no affordable sensors are currently available on the market.

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In a surprising move, popular gaming company Razer has revealed that it is teaming up with several other firms, including mobile internet firm LinkSure Global and car-selling platform Carro, to apply for an online bank license in Singapore, supported by its financial technology department Razer Fintech, to introduce an online banking platform consistent with its brand image as a popular choice with millennials and the youth.

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Google's Health division recently participated in a study where their AI program was put to the test of diagnosing breast cancer from images of mammograms, including scans from over 25,000 UK women and over 3,000 US women. The AI managed to not only perform better than radiologists at diagnosing breast cancer from the scans, but also reported fewer false positives than actual doctors.

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Canberra, the capital city of Australia, now has some of the worst air quality in the world according to the IQAir AirVisual website. The city is covered in a thick blanket of smoke that has been blown in from the bushfires still raging in nearby areas. According to the site, the air is twenty times worse than the level that is considered hazardous.

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Disney has announced that WandaVision, a Marvel show featuring the Vision and Scarlet Witch, will now be released sometime in 2020 instead of its original release date of 2021. The show will presumably premiere after The Falcon and Winter Soldier show is released this fall. It is currently unknown why they moved up the release date.

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Facebook has finally removed some ads that were spreading misleading information regarding some safe HIV medication, alleging that the medicine had harmful side effects. LGBT groups reported the ads and wrote an open letter to Facebook claiming the ads could put people's lives at risk. The ads have been up since December and have just now been removed.

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Indonesia's capital Jakarta has experienced a number of flash floods and landslides over the last few days and the death toll has risen to 21. This is one of the deadliest floods the country has seen in decades, with more than 30,000 people displaced and power outages around the city. According to the weather report, the city will see more heavy rain soon.

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Mexico City has now officially banned the use of plastic bags, encouraging people to go back to more traditional means of wrapping and carrying things. Many have switched to fiber bags or straw baskets although many others have complained about the ban, as plastic bags were often reused for a number of things.

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One of Snapchat's most popular features, Bitmoji, is now getting its own show. The company is launching Bitmoji TV, a show that will feature each user's personalized avatar in a small animated short that can only be accessed from within the app. The feature will be released in February 2020.

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A renowned US navy scientist and researcher has just filed for a patent for a compact nuclear fusion reactor. According to reports, the reactor would be able to fit inside of a vehicle and will be able to produce anywhere between 1 billion and 1 trillion watts of power, making it more powerful than any nuclear reactor in the US.

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It has now been confirmed that Square Enix is working on a Final Fantasy 7 remake as the opening cinematic to the game has been leaked onto Youtube. The cinematic is a frame by frame reproduction of the original but with significantly better animation and effects. Square Enix has not commented on the leak as of yet.

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Arsenal beat Manchester United at a home game, earning their first victory since Mikel Arteta became their manager. The match ended with a score of 2-0 and remained fairly one-sided as Arsenal kept control for most of both halves. Arsenal is now at 10th place in the league table while Manchester United is at 5th.

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Angolan president Jose Edouardo Dos Santos was removed from government in 2017 after 38 years in power, and under president Joao Lourenco's government his family is being investigated for corruption and nepotism, due to which the Angolan government has announced that it has frozen the assets of Dos Santos' daughter Isabel and her husband, who are rumored to be worth billions in USD.

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In a year that has seen the world's largest aircraft manufacturer Boeing face federal investigations and suspended licenses, Airbus has taken the number one plane manufacturer's spot for the first time since 2011, deploying additional resources mere hours before the end of the year to meet a record target of 863 planes manufactured, compared to Boein'gs 806 in 2018.

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Only months after India's Chandrayaan-2 mission in September failed to deploy a rover on the unexplored south pole of the moon, the Indian space agency has approved a third mission to re-attempt the landing, named Chandrayaan-3, which will launch in 2020 and will aim to cost even less than the second mission, marking the country's significant inroads in the development of cost-effective space missions.

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Former tennis world number one and one half of the formidable Williams sisters duo, 39-year-old Venus Williams has withdrawn from the Brisbane International tennis tournament after what is being called an "unexpected setback" during practice. Williams has won the Grand Slam singles title seven times, with her last win coming in 2008.

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Tsai Ing-wen, president of the island country of Taiwan, recently responded with a firm refusal to China's proposition of uniting the two countries under the so-called Hong Kong model, where Taiwan would be allowed to maintain its own political system while being part of China. Ing-wen stated that the Hong Kong model had clearly failed in Hong Kong, which saw rising anti-Chinese government protests and resentment last year.

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Graphics processing details have reportedly been leaked for Sony's new PS5 and Microsoft's new Xbox Series X family of consoles, with the new Xbox reportedly containing a graphics processor miles ahead of old consoles, capable of up to 12 teraflops. The new PS5's GPU will reportedly be capable of 9.2 teraflops and will operate on GDDR6 memory.

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Researchers concluded a 60-year experiment that studied the gradual domestication of silver foxes in Siberia. The study surprisingly found that domestication syndrome, a widely held theory which states that certain animals are genetically pre-disposed to domestication, may not necessarily hold true, and animals may have chosen to self-domesticate themselves instead by adapting to the human world.

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In a television interview, Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds confirmed a third Deadpool movie is in production at Marvel Studios, easing fans' worries about the future of the irreverent superhero comedy franchise after Disney's purchase of Fox. A definite or tentative release date has not been provided yet.

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