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The impact of insurance fraud in the US
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Low cost launching for Cubesats
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Trump criticizes several U.S. democratic Congresswomen: “Back to your country.”
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, attacked several Democratic legislators on Sunday, urging them to return to their countries of origin, which he described as "places infested...
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Artificial intelligence resolves Rubik’s cube in less than a second
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