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Do you eat meat, reader? If so, what is your meatball of choice — beef, chicken… mammoth? Yes, you read that right. 

Newsletter editor Hallam Bullock here, coming to you from London.

An Australian startup has engineered a giant meatball made from woolly mammoth DNA. Yet, it turns out nobody can taste it because humans could be allergic to the 5,000-year-old protein. 

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Twitter added a "US state-affiliated media" label to NPR's account on Tuesday.
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Welcome back to another edition of 10 Things in Tech. My colleague Diamond Naga is still out, leaving me, Asia Martin, to fill in this week.

If there's one thing I enjoy sharing with people, it's my fondness for hiking and the great outdoors. We're now in the full swing of Spring where temperatures are typically comfortable and plants are blossoming for the first time this year. (Sorry to you allergy sufferers.)

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A screenshot of the New York Times account without its gold verified check, as of Sunday morning.