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Musicians in the U.S. and Japan are collaborating in honor of the first Olympic karate competition: Composers tracked the brainwaves of people performing karate, and turned that data into music. (Image credit: Gene Coleman)

This morning Allocations, a fintech startup building software to help smaller private equity funds form and operate, announced that it has raised a $4 million round at a $100 million valuation. The startup also shared a host of performance metrics,

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Maxwell Berry, 22, of Norwalk, Ohio, punched a Frontier Airlines flight attendant and groped two others on a flight from Philadelphia to Miami, the authorities said.

The State Department is investigating what happened to it.

The actor was recently quoted as saying that he had decided to “retire” the word his daughter calls the “f-slur” after she objected to a joke he made.

It’s hard to define but easy to identify.

The non-grabby Cuomo doesn’t look good, either.

Cuomo facing impeachment votes from majority of NY Assembly if he doesn’t resign: report  Fox News Andrew Cuomo’s utterly disastrous response to the AG report findings  CNN Opinion | Andrew Cuomo’s grotesque behavior was an assault on women — and on the