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The Enormous Black Hole At The Heart Of Our Galaxy Is Flickering – Why It Matters

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At the heart of our galaxy lies a monstrous black hole named Sagittarius A*. Researchers say it is flickering, though probably not for the reason you think.

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10 best kids' movies on Netflix streaming right now

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Seeking kid-friendly entertainment that is sure to satisfy? Netflix has a ton of options, but frankly they can be overwhelming. So, we've made things simple by highlighting ten excellent films that'll delight children — or those who are still a child at heart. Whether you want a stellar movie musical , a madcap adventure, a spooky treat, or something to get you into the holiday spirit - we've got you covered.

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How Astronomers Are Investigating This Nebula Where Stars Are Being Born

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New research on the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud shows how stars were born and how more can form in the future.

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Marvel's Avengers' Take on the Mighty Thor Sounds Worth Its Own Full Campaign

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With Thor: Love & Thunder just a week and change away and bringing in Jane Foster’s Mighty Thor , it’s no surprise that Square Enix’s Marvel’s Avengers game is adding her to its superheroic roster. While she’s sure to basically play about the same as Thor Odinson from the base campaign, the bigger question—for those… Read more.

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

To avoid awkward and sometimes disastrous learning content, instructional designers must use authentic translation in the right context to get optimal results. For example, even a simple phrase like “got milk” translates to “are you lactating” in Mexico. Can you imagine what a straight translation might do to your course? With over 317 million people in the US and over 6.7 billion potential customers in the world, personalizing training seems logical.

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Why You Won't See A Movie Villain Using An iPhone

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Apple is happy to have good guys in movies and TV use its products, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a buy guy using an iPhone.

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Smart Toasters Exist, But Are They Worth It?

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It seems like everything is smart these days. Case in point? Toasters on the market that costs hundreds of dollars and promise high-end toasting experiences.

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Stunning fat bear wakes up from hibernation and is still huge

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Alaska's fat bears lose up to a third of their weight during their deep winter slumber. They often appear in spring or early summer looking relatively gaunt. But the live streaming explore.org wildlife cameras in Katmai National Park and Preserve recently spotted the aptly-numbered bear 747 (a number randomly assigned by park biologists) returning to the river in hulky form.

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NASA's Psyche Mission Just Got Some Bad News

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NASA's Psyche mission was due to launch before Oct. 11, but will now be delayed beyond 2022 due to testing concerns.

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NASA Hopes to Launch a Very Special Microwave-Sized Satellite on Monday

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A tiny satellite is poised to set the stage for something far grander: a full-blown lunar space station. NASA’s CAPSTONE satellite is scheduled to launch on Monday and then travel to a unique lunar orbit in a pathfinder mission for the Artemis program , which is seeking to return humans to the Moon later this decade. Read more.

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How to Train Employees 65% Faster With Virtual Reality

With a rapidly changing economy, Avangrid Renewables looked to virtual reality to develop a standardized form of immersive training in order to onboard and upskill technicians faster than ever before.

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Jupiter Became Enormous By Swallowing Smaller Planets, Researchers Suggest

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Jupiter, a gas giant, may have gained its massive size through the dubious act of swallowing planetesimals.

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Marvel Studios is Coming Back to Comic-Con

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Comic-Con is looming on the horizon, and that typically means some big announcements courtesy of Hall H. It’s been a few years since Marvel Studios had a panel to themselves, and the last time they did, they announced a lot of stuff —like Thor: Love & Thunder, Shang-Chi , and Hawkeye —most of which has now seen the light… Read more.

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The Reason The Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid Was A Failure

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Years ago, Chevy released a hybrid version of its massive Tahoe SUV, and though the model managed to drag on for several years, it was never a hit.

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Samsung's Wildest Design Collabs, From BTS to Supreme

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There’s nothing people love and hate more than a collab. Whether it’s a fashionable collaboration between two designers, or two musicians teaming up on a “hybrid” kind of musical genre, it’s an easy way to create a fusion to appeal to folks beyond the usual suspects. Read more.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon

Remote meetings are here to stay - and many are BORING. If you are trying to engage your learners (or any audience), compelling content is critical. But trying to create stimulating content with the same tools you’ve always had is hard, right? Thankfully, wrong! Terrific tools in PowerPoint along with visual assets help you create the kind of dynamic content you need to capture your remote audience’s attention, with functions that allow for interactive sequences and navigation.

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Why You Need To Change Your TV's Motion Processing Setting

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Motion smoothing is meant to account for discrepancies in frame rates on your TV, but it doesn't always look as seamless as you'd like.

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Chris Pratt Hypes Up the Supposed Greatness of His Mario Voice as "Updated" Version

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Chris Pratt is going to voice Mario for Nintendo and Illumination’s Super Mario movie, and each day we sit with this knowledge feels like being actively aware there’s a clone of yourself just somewhere in the world. This movie’s entire voice cast feels like a fever dream, from Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach to… Read more.

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Yes, there are 100 million rogue black holes wandering our galaxy

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Black holes aren't evil. But they are fantastically weird, gravitationally powerful places. And astronomers suspect there are some 100 million of these objects — realms so dense that not even light can escape their grasp — wandering our Milky Way galaxy. Now, for the first time, scientists published compelling evidence that they detected one of these rapidly moving, rogue black holes.

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10 Conspiracy Thrillers for the Truly Paranoid

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I’m a big fan of the thrillers in general, but what I love in particular are conspiracy thrillers. This genre is a mostly forgotten art because, in my opinion, few movies today are able to capture the truly unhinged paranoia of prior decades. It might also be that we have enough conspiracies in real life to satisfy. Read more.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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Google warns of 'hermit spyware' infecting Android and iOS devices

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As part of Google's efforts to track the activities of commercial spyware vendors, the company's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) released a report Thursday on spyware campaigns targeting Android and iOS users. Google TAG researchers Benoit Sevens and Clement Lecigne go into detail about the use of entrepreneurial grade spyware dubbed "Hermit." This sophisticated spyware tool allows attackers to steal data, private messages and make phone calls.

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How will we know when an AI actually becomes sentient?

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Many scientists and technologists believe AI will eventually become sentient. But how will we know when that happens? Currently, there's no good way to tell.

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Scientists film a jellyfish with a belly full of prey in the deep sea

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Biologists spotted a deep sea critter that just devoured a hefty meal. The Monterey Bay Aquatic Research Institute (MBARI) recently tweeted deep sea archival footage of a jellyfish with its stomach filled with food. Scientists say the prey would have most likely been krill, which are tiny shrimp-like creatures with hard shells. As jellies are transparent, it’s pretty common to see them with something in their stomach, said Steven Haddock, a marine biologist at MBARI who observed this creat

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See the crater left by a space junk impact on the moon

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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped an image showing the crater created by a Chinese rocket booster which crashed into the moon earlier this year.

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

Speaker: Treion Muller, Chief Strategy Officer at ELB Learning

Since when has learning and development (L&D) become such a negative experience with its intended learners? Could it be because learners have been conditioned by very poor learning experiences over the past two decades, combined with the kinks of technological innovation? Or is it because learning has typically been designed as a one-size-fits-all solution, despite the fact that humans are not clones?

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Strange Martian rock reveals Mars' wildly different past

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Mars used to be a wildly different land. Though the red planet is bone dry today, NASA's Curiosity rover recently rumbled by poignant evidence of an ancient watery world. The car-sized robot snapped an image of a unique rock that looks like its composed of stacked layers. Such a rock likely formed "in an ancient streambed or small pond," the space agency wrote.

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How to watch NASA launch a satellite into an experimental lunar orbit

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This Monday, NASA is launching a tiny satellite with a big mission - to test a never-before-tried orbit around the moon for a future lunar outpost.

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What losing abortion rights will mean for people's mental health

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The day that Americans knew was coming is finally here. Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that created a constitutional right to abortion, is gone. In many ways, we know what this means. More than half of American women live in states that are hostile to abortion rights. They will lose access to abortion in the coming weeks and months. The majority of those seeking abortion care live below the poverty line and will find it difficult to travel to where the procedure is legal.

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NASA’s moon rocket could launch as soon as August this year

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NASA says there's a chance that its next-generation rocket, the Space Launch System, could launch for the first time this summer.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?