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UK doctors plan country’s first three-person fertilization procedure

UK officials have approved two women for mitochondrial replacement therapy, the fertilization procedure that results in a baby technically parented by three people, the Guardian reports. The procedure, which still isn’t approved in the US, was legalized in the UK in 2015 and the Newcastle Fertility Centre, where the two women will be treated, was granted a license to perform the procedure last March. While it’s not the first time a procedure like this has been done, it is the first time it will happen in the UK.

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VPNs may not protect your information as well as you think

VPNs (virtual private networks) are a popular choice for sidestepping censorship and geographic restrictions on services like Netflix with more than 20 percent of Europeans using them. However, researchers at the Queen Mary, University of London recently examined 14 of the region’s most popular VPN providers and found nearly all of them leaked information about their users to some degree.

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Kendrick Lamar’s ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’ Lands At No. 1 On The UK & Australian Charts. Will Take Top Spot In The U.S.

Good Kid, M.A.A.D City made Kendrick Lamar a global superstar. For proof, look no further than the early success of his new album, To Pimp a Butterfly.

According to Billboard, the disc sits atop the charts in both Australia and the United Kingdom.

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