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Weird dust balls seen impossibly close to our galaxy’s huge black hole

At the centre of our galaxy, six strange clouds that look like dust and gas orbit a black hole so closely that if they were really just clouds they should have been sucked in by now




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A star exploded into a supernova but it weirdly isn't very bright

Astronomers have spotted a star that is exploding with a brightness 100 times less than expected – and it’s a mystery exactly why the explosion is so dim




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Weird clumps of air that disrupt radio signals found on Mars

In our atmosphere, strange dense patches of charged air sometimes bounce radio waves around and disrupt radar – and now they have been spotted on Mars




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A wobbling star may explain pattern of weird radio signals from space

We’ve spotted strange blasts of radio waves from space in a pattern that may be produced by a magnetised neutron star wobbling as it spins




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Earth has acquired a brand new moon that's about the size of a car

Astronomers have spotted an asteroid that has been captured by Earth's gravity, making it a temporary mini-moon. It will probably fly away again in April




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First private space rescue mission sees two satellites latch together

A private satellite that is low on fuel could survive five more years because another satellite has come to its rescue – a technique that could be used by future service spacecraft




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Weird star was born when two white dwarfs merged instead of blowing up

White dwarf stars are common in the galaxy, but astronomers have found one that doesn't seem to obey the rules. They think it was born when two smaller white dwarfs merged together




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Liquid iron rain spotted on super-heated exoplanet WASP-76b

Exoplanet WASP-76b, which is about 390 light years from the solar system, has a strange iron signature in its atmosphere, suggesting the metal is raining down on the planet's night side




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Pluto formed quickly with a deep ocean covering its entire surface

Pluto’s ancient oceans may have come about just after the icy world was born, melting from ice in a process that suggests the dwarf planet took just 30,000 years to form




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Supermassive stars may have formed by repeatedly eating their siblings

Some black holes are way bigger than we can explain, and they may have come from supermassive stars that formed by devouring the other stars around them




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Weird magnetic threads in sun's corona seen for the first time

New images reveal threads of ultra-hot gas woven throughout the sun's corona, in the most detailed look at previously unseen parts of the atmosphere of our closest star




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Weird radio signals spotted in our galaxy could solve a space mystery

Weird blasts of radio waves from space called fast radio bursts have been baffling astronomers since they were discovered, but after finding one in our galaxy we may finally know what creates them




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SpaceX mission control to do social distancing for first crewed flight

SpaceX’s first crewed launch is planned for 27 May and will be run from a mission control with desks set six feet apart to comply with social distancing protocols




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Tara Reade Tells Her Story in First On-Camera Interview

Megyn Kelly's exclusive sit down with Tara Reade




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In Flynn Case, Barr Again Takes Aim at Mueller Inquiry

The Justice Department's move was the latest example of the attorney general's effort to chisel away at the special counsel investigation and emphasize an alternate narrative.




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Coronavirus news: संक्रमण फैलाने वाले कानपुर के 9 तब्लीगी जमातियों को थाने से मिली जमानत

कानपुर में पकड़े गए तब्लीगी जमातियों पर पुलिस की कार्रवाई जारी है। पुलिस ने शहर के नौ जमातियों को गिरफ्तार किया। शुक्रवार को थाने से सभी को जमानत दे दी गई।




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Coronavirus in kanpur: हैलट अस्पताल में तीन और कोरोना संदिग्ध रोगियों की मौत

हैलट अस्पताल के कोविड अस्पताल में 24 घंटे के अंदर तीन और कोरोना संदिग्ध रोगियों की मौत हो गई। उनके नमूने जांच के लिए लैब भेजे गए हैं। शवों को बॉडी बैग में सील कर दिया गया है। रिपोर्ट आने के बाद कोरोना गाइडलाइन के तहत अंतिम संस्कार कराया जाएगा।




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Coronavirus in UP: कन्नौज में एक और कोरोना पॉजिटिव मिला, संक्रमितों की संख्या आठ हुई

कोरोना वायरस देश भर में तेजी से पांव पसार रहा है। कोरोना मरीजों की संख्या लगातार बढ़ती ही जा रही है। कन्नौज जिले में शनिवार को एक और पॉजिटिव केस सामने आया है।




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Coronavirus in UP: जालौन में एक दिन में बढ़े 18 कोरोना के मरीज, एक पुलिसकर्मी भी शामिल, संक्रमितों की संख्या 30 हुई

कोरोना वायरस देश भर में तेजी से पांव पसार रहा है। कोरोना मरीजों की संख्या लगातार बढ़ती ही जा रही है। शनिवार को जालौन जिले एक साथ 12 कोरोना मरीज बढ़ गए। इसमें एक पुलिसकर्मी भी संक्रमित है। 




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Coronavirus in UP: हमीरपुर में पहला कोरोना पॉजिटिव केस सामने आया, मचा हड़कंप

ग्रीन जोन में चल रहे हमीरपुर जिले को झटका लगा है। यहां कोरोना ने दस्तक दे दी है।मुस्करा ब्लॉक क्षेत्र के चिल्ली गांव में एक युवक कोरोना पॉजिटिव निकला। युवक किडनी का इलाज कराने उरई मेडिकल कॉलेज जाता रहा है।




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Coronavirus update: फर्रुखाबाद में मिला पहला कोरोना पॉजिटिव, मुंबई से आया था युवक

फर्रुखाबाद जिले में पहला कोरोना पॉजिटिव मामला सामने आया है। शमसाबाद कस्बा के मोहल्ला मीरादरवाजा निवासी युवक मुम्बई में एक शॉपिंग स्टोर में काम करता था। वह 7 मई को टेंपो से वापस आया था।




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Coronavirus: चित्रकूट में तीन कोरोना पॉजिटिव मिलने से मचा हड़कंप, देर शाम अधिकारियों ने की पुष्टि

चित्रकूट जिले में कई चरणों में कोरोना सैंपल की रिपोर्ट निगेटिव आने के बाद शनिवार देर शाम तीन मरीजों की रिपोर्ट कोरोना पॉजिटिव आने से प्रशासन और स्वास्थ्य विभाग में हड़कंप मच गया। चित्रकूट में भी कोरोना ने अपने पांव पसारने शुरु कर दिए हैं।




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DARPA Subterranean Challenge: Tunnel Circuit Preview

Get ready for the first scored event in DARPA's latest Grand Challenge




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AI Chemist Finds the Best Recipe and Stirs Up Molecules From Scratch

A new automated lab bench combs through known chemical reactions to figure out how best to synthesize compounds




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All of the Winners in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge Tunnel Circuit

It's about more than just first place as teams look toward more competitions in 2020




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Blue Ocean Robotics Acquires Beam Telepresence Robot From Suitable Technologies

Beam now belongs to a Danish robot venture factory




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U.S. Energy Department is First Customer for World’s Biggest Chip

Cerebras aims to speed deep learning at supercomputing centers




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NASA Hiring Engineers to Develop “Next Generation Humanoid Robot”

Job postings from a NASA contractor suggest that a new humanoid robot is under development




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Video Friday: Caltech's Drone With Legs Takes First Steps

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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Next-Gen AR Glasses Will Require New Chip Designs

A Facebook executive challenges the Arm processor community to create tech building blocks for augmented reality glasses




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Watch Astrobee's First Autonomous Flight on the International Space Station

For the first time, NASA's Astrobee robot has demonstrated autonomous free flight in space




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We're at IROS 2019 to Bring You the Most Exciting Robotics Research From Around the World

As always, our coverage will feature the coolest, weirdest, and most interesting things that we find at this massive robotics conference




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Harvard's UrchinBot Is One of the Weirdest Looking Robots We've Ever Seen

The unique body and locomotion strategies of echinoderms inspired this robot that emulates a juvenile sea urchin




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The Blogger Behind "AI Weirdness" Thinks Today's AI Is Dumb and Dangerous

Janelle Shane talks about the absurdity, perils, and limits of AI



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Andrey Markov & Claude Shannon Counted Letters to Build the First Language-Generation Models

Shannon's said: “OCRO HLI RGWR NMIELWIS”



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Why People Demanded Privacy to Confide in the World’s First Chatbot

In 1966, the Eliza program couldn’t say much—but it was enough



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Cerebras Unveils First Installation of Its AI Supercomputer at Argonne National Labs

Argonne will use the CS-1 to help discover cancer therapies and understand colliding blackholes




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Caltech and JPL Firing Quadrotors Out of Cannons

The fastest, safest, and most exciting way to launch a quadrotor may be ballistically




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Japanese Researchers Teaching Robots to Repair Themselves

Whether for maintenance or augmentation, robots that can use tools on themselves are more independent and capable




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Map: Confirmed coronavirus cases, worldwide

More than 3.9 million people have been sickened and more than 270,000 killed by the coronavirus around the world. This map is updated daily.




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CoronaVirus in Jharkhand: बोकारो में कोरोना संक्रमण का एक और मामला, राज्य में कुल संक्रमितों की संख्या 14 हुई 

झारखंड के बोकारो जिले में चंद्रपुरा प्रखंड के तेलो गांव में कोरोना वायरस संक्रमण के एक और मामले की पुष्टि हुई है




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Coronavirus in Jharkhand: कोरोना के संक्रमण में आया दो दिन का बच्चा, रिम्स के आइसोलेशन वार्ड में भर्ती

रांची प्रशासन ने कहा कि सदर अस्पताल के कर्मचारी जिन्होंने महिला को अटेंड किया था उनका अब परीक्षण किया जाएगा।




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Coronavirus: झारखंड के सीएम हेमंत सोरेन ने साधा केंद्र पर निशाना, बोले- देश में कोरोना पैदल चलकर नहीं हवाई जहाज से आया

झारखंड के मुख्यमंत्री हेमंत सोरेन ने देश में लॉकडाउन लगाने के मामले में केंद्र सरकार पर निशाना साधा है। उन्होंने कहा कि लॉकडाउन लगाने से पहले केंद्र ने राज्यों को भरोसे में नहीं लिया और उनसे कोई बातचीत नहीं की।




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Fairfax-APN fears outlined

New Zealand’s competition watchdog has cited areas of overlap from a Fairfax-APN merger.




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Chinese airlines eye Qantas

It could be a matter of time before a Chinese airline tries to buy a strategic stake in Qantas.




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Peekaboo!: Home Air Vent Dragons With Light-Up Eyes

These are the vent dragons made and sold by artist David Lee Pancake. The dragons are available in a variety of dragony colors, cost $200 apiece, and are made to be hung on the wall, NOT cover an actual air vent. "But--" Hey, if you want to be hot all summer because the A/C isn't blowing in the living room, that's up to you.

Vent Dragons comes with a little remote control to light up the eyes of the two little monsters and surprise your guests and friends. The lights are powered by 3 AA batteries and should burn for 150 hours before you need to replace them. To replace the batteries unscrew the grate and lift off, the batteries are in a small pack inside. The lighted eyes have 8 different settings from fast blinking to continually glowing and there is a timer to turn them off in 6 hours. Enjoy! Size: 12x7 inches. Do NOT install in an actual heating/AC vent.
Gosh, just think how much you could save on home heating and cooling costs if you had ACTUAL fire and ice breathing dragons living in your air vents. I mean granted they'd have to be trained, but I have seen all those movies. Keep going for a few more shots of some of the different colors.



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  • dang i wish i had $200 to spend on vent dragons
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Yikes!: Russian Helicopter Accidentally Fires Missiles At Journalists

This is a video from Russia's Zapad-2017 military exercises where a KA-52 Alligator helicopter accidentally fired two missiles towards a group of journalists covering the event (allegedly as a result of a short-circuit in the helicopter's electric system according to the Russian military *eyebarrelroll*). Three of the journalists were injured in the incident (amazingly not critically either), including the one seen strolling along the highway to the danger zone the video. Man, those missiles come QUICK. If you think you're gonna outrun one of those things like a tarantula in Animal Crossing, think again. I mean sure The Flash could do it, but he could also pleasure himself infinitely in the time it took you to read this article. "Huh?" How his penis doesn't catch fire is beyond me, there must be other superpowers at play too. Keep going for a couple versions of the video (the second with slow-mos), as well as a news report which includes the copter's gun view.




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The Circle Of Life: Praying Mantis Eating The Brain (And Rest) Of A 'Murder Hornet'

Because we don't have enough on our plates as it is, now we've got 'murder hornets' flying around the United States. Murder hornets (actually Asian Giant Hornets, but that name didn't strike enough fear into the masses) have a sting powerful enough that China recommends medical treatment if stunk more than ten times, and emergency treatment if stung more than 30. *pours out a little liquor for Macaulay Culkin in My Girl*. And where is his glasses?! He can't see without his glasses! Put his glasses on! Here's a video of Coyote Peterson getting stung by one (the Japanese Giant Hornet was previously believed to be a subspecies of the Asian Giant Hornet, but has since been recategorized as a color morph). This is a video of a praying mantis eating a Giant Asian hornet until it's just a pile of limbs. So yeah, praying mantises -- start breeding them. And make sure to selectively breed them too so we can produce them bigger and bigger until they're preying on us because the way things are going how is that not how this ends? Keep going for the video while I surround my Animal Crossings town with preying mantises to protect my villagers and keep my five-star rating (okay, three).




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I'll Take The Stairs: Elevator Starts Ascending Before Man Is Fully Inside

This is a terrifying elevator cam gif from Korea of an elevator that begins ascending before a man enters, tripping him and almost creating a classic horror movie death scene in real life. Thankfully he was able to escape. And this is exactly why I don't take elevators -- or escalators. "So you're a stair guy?" Please *jiggling belly* jetpack or grappling gun only. Thanks to PK, who agrees they always say use the stairs in case of emergency, and what's 2020 if not a nonstop emergency? Besides, how do you social distance in an elevator? I mean if somebody farts everyone smells it.




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Jio, Airtel और Vodafone के ये हैं लंबी अवधि वाले प्लांस, नहीं कराना पड़ेगा हर बार मोबाइल नंबर रिचार्ज

कोरोना संक्रमण के कारण पूरे देश में लॉकडाउन लगा हुआ है और यह कब खत्म होगा इसका अंदाजा लगाया जाना मुश्किल है। ऐसे में आप भी हर महीने मोबाइल नंबर रिचार्ज करा कर परेशान हो गए हैं, तो यह खबर आपके लिए है।