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The company is working on a locketlike Muse device that hangs on a necklace or keychain and will, purportedly, let you talk to your Muse when doing so via your phone is too much work.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026
Videos have emerged on social media purportedly showing explosions in the night skies in the Moscow region, and of a burning warehouse.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Proceeds from loans made by Walter’s insurers passed through firms purportedly controlled by each of these four entities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
All of the regimens surrounding Maddie and her illness are purportedly designed to be easily accessible for healthy, honest living.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
The Neylan board’s first case involved a former Los Alamos chemist named Robert Hurley, who had fallen under suspicion because his Latvian-born wife purportedly had leftist sympathies.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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