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Severance is borrowing a brilliant idea from Terminator 2

Mashable Tech

For example, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe , Loki started out as a supervillain fighting the Avengers, but he ultimately wound up saving the entire multiverse in a spin-off show of his own. The world would never be the same. In the decades since, the trope of villain-turned-savior has become a proud tradition of the genre.

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Physicists Find That the Universe Could "Collapse Like a House of Cards"

Futurism

With that in mind, have you considered that our entire universe may actually be suspended in a "false vacuum," or in a state of faux-stability, and is merely waiting to collapse into a more stable state? The quantum realm holds terrifying implications, insinuating so much uncertainty into our mundane, ordered view of reality. The takeaway?

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The idea that university degrees don’t matter is a Silicon Valley fantasy

TechCrunch

Secrets to Gaining Admission to the World’s Topic Universities,” and is CEO of Crimson Education , a university admissions consulting company. The dropouts are no ordinary dropouts – they had won places at the most prestigious universities in the world and took high school extremely seriously. Jamie Beaton. Contributor.

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Netflix faces trademark suit over basketball team name and branding in ‘Running Point’

Fast Company Tech

Attorneys for Pepperdine University in Malibu have filed a lawsuit against the streaming service and Warner Bros. Attorneys for the University claim the fictional team’s branding is too similar to its own, and that it uses the same blue and orange team colors and mascot. And the Pepperdine Waves have a problem with it.

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SpiderBot experiments hint at “echolocation” to locate prey

Ars Technica

To simplify matters, researchers at Johns Hopkins University's Terradynamics Laboratory are building crouching spider robots and testing them on synthetic webs. And while you're building them, you get a better idea of the actual [biological] system and how certain behaviors happen." Read full article Comments

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Godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton says universal basic income needed in face of AI-related job losses

TechSpot

As such, he has advised the UK government that a universal basic income in which everyone receives a fixed amount of money is a good idea. "I Speaking to the BBC's Newsnight program, Hinton said he was "very worried about AI taking lots of mundane jobs." I was consulted by people. Read Entire Article

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Want to stay healthier and fulfilled later in life? Try volunteering

Fast Company Tech

If you arent volunteering today, here are a few ideas to help you begin. Halvorsen is an associate professor of social work at Washington University in St. Seoyoun Kim is an associate adjunct of sociology at the University of Michigan. Start small. Read the original article.

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