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A Worm’s Hidden Map for Growing New Eyes

Planarians have unusual talents, to say the least. If you slice one of the tiny flatworms in half, the halves will grow back, giving you two identical worms. Cut a flatworm’s head in two, and it will grow two heads. Cut an eye off a flatworm — it will grow …

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Amazon launches AI-powered code review service CodeGuru in general availability

Amazon today announced the general availability of CodeGuru, an AI-powered developer tool that provides recommendations for improving code quality. It was first revealed during the company’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2019 conference in Las Vegas, and starting today, it’s available with usage-based pricing. Software teams perform code reviews to …

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Questions About Retirement Savings Priorities, Gas Grills, Gap Years and More

What’s inside? Here are the questions answered in today’s reader mailbag, boiled down to summaries of five or fewer words. Click on the number to jump straight down to the question.1. Living on debt2. Prioritizing saving for retirement3. Extending life of gas grill4. What happens in August?5. More on sanded …

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