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Stephanie Rolfe and Stuart MacDonald have been told to “dismantle” the moveable home they began work on in 2018 over a planning application row but their local MP has intervened A family who have been ordered to demolish their home before Christmas are hoping a Human Rights Act ruling could save their house. Stephanie Rolfe and Stuart MacDonald, who have two children, had been given fewer than 50 days to “dismantle” their moveable house because it was ruled that they did not have the correct planning permission to replace a garage on the same site. However, after meeting with Solihull…

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This story is part of CNN Business’ Nightcap newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free, here. All week, there have events in the news that have come in under of the banner of “this hasn’t happened since 2007/2008.” Yields on the 10-year Treasury briefly surpassed 4%, a level not seen since 2008. That movement helped push mortgage rates to their highest level, 6.7%, since — wait for it — July 2007. Across the pond, where the UK bond market crashed earlier this week, one seemingly frazzled London banker told the Financial Times: “At some point this…

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Google’s Nest Cam with battery is a home security camera by Google that offers an innovative portable outdoor/indoor security solution with advanced features at an entry-level price of $179.99. Now, with a product bundle from smart home accessories brand Wasserstein, the Nest Cam can be paired with a new 3.5-Watt Premium Solar Panel priced at $79.99. This Nest Cam battery-included model has a unique design that makes it a multi-purpose security device. The video cam is a white sphere with a metal base plate and a strong magnet. Depending on where you install it, you can attach the magnetic part…

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A man was charged with illegally blocking access to a New York Planned Parenthood clinic that provides reproductive health services, including abortion. Christopher Moscinski, 52, was arrested Thursday. He’s accused of fastening padlocks and bicycle locks to the gated entrance of the Hempstead facility early July 7. Some of the locks had glue poured into them, according to court documents.An attorney who is thought to be representing Moscinski was not immediately reached for comment Thursday.In charging documents, law enforcement officials say that Moscinski returned to the health center in a religious robe and used his body to block vehicles from entering…

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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Officials at NASA have signed a Space Act Agreement with SpaceX to investigate the benefits and risks of having a private mission provide service to NASA’s nearly 33-year-old Hubble Space Telescope, boosting it to a higher orbit to extend its life, the space agency announced Thursday. “Hubble is amazingly successful. … It’s doing great science as we speak,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, during a news conference. But SpaceX approached the space agency a few…

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Artificial intelligence is getting better and better at generating an image in response to a handful of words, with publicly available AI image generators such as DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion. Now, Meta researchers are taking AI a step further: they’re using it to concoct videos from a text prompt. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on Facebook on Thursday about the research, called Make-A-Video, with a 20-second clip that compiled several text prompts that Meta researchers used and the resulting (very short) videos. The prompts include “A teddy bear painting a self portrait,” “A spaceship landing on Mars,” “A baby…

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Caught a nasty cold recently? You’re not alone. Every year, millions of people in the United States get sick with the common cold — in fact, adults have an average of two to three colds every single year, and kids have even more than that, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And with every sniffle, you’re probably left wondering about the best cold remedies.“Colds are due to viruses for which we really don’t have any cure or way to truly treat, so what we rely on are various methods to alleviate some symptoms,” Dr. Erich Voigt, clinical…

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