Kabosu, the dog best known to the internet as the inspiration behind the Doge meme cryptocurrency, has died. Kabosu died on May 24, according to a blog post from his owner Atsuko Sato published the same day (translated from Japanese by Google Translate). A farewell...
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An eighth Amazon employee has died of COVID-19. The news comes as the company is under scrutiny for failing to be more transparent about the wider number of infections among its warehouse workers. A spokesperson confirmed the reports of the death, telling TechCrunch, “We are...
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Sam Lloyd, best known as sad-sack lawyer Ted Buckland on Scrubs, died Friday. He was 56. The actor had been diagnosed with lung cancer in January 2019, per Entertainment Weekly, only weeks after his wife, Vanessa, gave birth to their first child. At the time,...
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In the risk-filled world of cryptocurrency, “sorry for your loss” has a very specific meaning. In the case of Canadian crypto-exchange QuadrigaCX, it’s become a rather grim double entendre. The exchange’s founder, 30-year-old Gerald Cotten, died unexpectedly in December 2018. According to a Jan. 31...
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February 1, 2019 albert
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