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Another Destiny 2 season is here, and that means more Exotics for Guardians to get their hands on. With Season of the Lost, players can expect the usual seasonal Exotic weapon, one Exotic armor piece per class, and more. Season of the Lost has at least one bonus Exotic quest.

However, we dont know everything about the Exotics coming this season. Bungie has officially revealed four through the in-game collection, but its hiding one more. Heres a look at the four Exotics we know about, and everything we know about the fifth. As in past seasons, players can get the new Armor Exotics by soloing Master or Legend Lost Sectors.

Lorentz Driver is a Void Linear Fusion Rifle that sits in the Energy slot, rather than the Power. Its Exotic perk is Lagrangian Sight. Lagrangian Sight marks targets nearby. Killing a marked target drops a Telemetry Pattern on the ground. Picking up a Telemetry Pattern grants bonus ability energy, and picking up three without dying grants bonus damage from the Lorentz Driver.

The Intrinsic perk, EM Anomaly, causes precision kills to create a singularity that pulls nearby enemies into it and explodes.

Lorentz Driver is the Season Pass weapon. Paid players can pick it up immediately, and free-to-play players will unlock it at level 35.

No Backup Plans are Titan arms. Their Exotic perk is Force Multiplier. While using Sentinel Titan, getting shotgun kills gives bonus melee energy. And getting shotgun kills expends your melee energy to activate the Defensive Strike shield.

Radiant Dance Machines are Hunter legs. Their Exotic perk is The Dance: Dodging near enemies allows you to dodge multiple times for a short period of time.

Nothing Manacles are Warlock arms. Their Exotic perk is Scatter Charge. The perk gives you another Scatter Grenade charge and enables tracking for Scatter Grenades.

Agers Scepter is an Exotic Trace rifle, but we know almost nothing about it. Its likely the ultimate reward for the Tracing the Stars quest. Its hidden in the collection, but you can see its Eververse ornament, the Symbol of Rule.

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MIAMI, Aug. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Miami Based start-up, Mytaverse (formerly Let's GathR), is launching version 2.0 of its technology platform. Designed to make remote-working more productive and collaborative, Mytaverse employs the photorealism of Epic's Unreal Engine 4 and PureWeb's cloud streaming technology to bring people into the metaverse without the need for goggles or other specialized equipment.

Access to three-dimensional workspaces has to be convenient, easy and practically free in order to become the go-to platform for employees working from home today.

"There are only about 26 million VR devices in the hands of consumers worldwide," said Jaime Lopez, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Mytaverse. "We made every effort to ensure that anyone from any generation can fully immerse into our world and feel like they are there."

The integration of webcams, spatial audio and detail-rich environments means interaction between users is fluid and natural. The Mytaverse world includes options for premade or custom-designed lobbies, boardrooms, lecture halls, auditoriums, concert venues, trade show floors, booths and retail settings. Mytaverse also offers the ability to showcase and sell products and goods such as planes, medical imaging devices, industrial machines and so much more.

After entering Mytaverse, colleagues, event attendees, salespeople and customers can mingle and network in realistic settings using the spatial audio system for private conversations as desired.

Entering Mytaverse is quick and easy. Access and participation is available from any PC or Mac with internet access through Google Chrome (mobile and tablet coming soon). After clicking on the event link, five quick initialization steps rapidly transport users into the lobby.

Once inside Mytaverse, users can attend business events, visit 3D stores or product showrooms and even attend lectures at their convenience. In addition, when the work day is over, Mytaverse also has events and concert halls where people can relax and socialize.

Until now Mytaverse was accessible only by invitation but on September 14, the platform will be powering the Asian Sky Group's first ever 3-D Exhibition and Conference for business aviation (ASGVEC). The exhibition will be open to the public and attendance is free. Event participants can bring friends and colleagues or sit in a plane with a company representative.

Besides being a dynamic and convenient way to explore "spatial singularity," which roughly translates as an almost unlimited number of digital space configurations, Mytaverse is also a practical tool for work, communication, learning and social interaction. Simply pick an avatar and in moments you will be slipping into an event with exhibition halls where others will see your "real-time face" thanks to your computer's camera.

MYTAVERSE guides are available to provide tours of the metaverse world of business and demonstrate this new hybrid reality that transcends the 2-D world of endless video and audio calls, making people feel that they are in the same space together.

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Founded in 2020 and based in Miami FL, GathR Virtual Studios, Inc. created Mytaverse to meet demand for hybrid and augmented reality meetings and workspaces. As a fully immersive platform using Epic Games Unreal Engine, Mytaverse offers shared and dynamic experiences for business, job simulations, education and more. Thanks to a hardware-agnostic approach, Mytaverse enables users from anywhere to enter using only their browser on their PC or Mac. Coming soon will be the mobile version which will enable Mytaverse anywhere, anytime, all the time.

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Liiga hockey is the top professional hockey league within the region of Finland. Within the entire European region, this league holds as one of the top professional hockey leagues, and in fact comes in third place, from the rankings of the IIHF. Created in 1975, it replaced the old amateur league of SM-sarja, and since then the sport has never looked back because it was onwards and upwards since then. SM Liiga is not directly looked over and managed by the Finnish Ice Hockey Association, however, there is an agreement between the corporation. While the league did have the abbreviation of SM, it was dropped in 2013 for the name of Liiga singularity.

In total, there are 15 teams that play together within the Liiga hockey league and while all teams regularly compete one another within the season, there used to be relegation and automatic promotion for the quality of play between the Mestis, but since 2000 this structure of play became obsolete and championships were introduced in its stead, as a playout series across the seasons. You can live stream Liiga games for free and stay updated on all the action, as and when it happens. Below is an elaboration on the different teams, as well as what is predicted from them for the start of the season in the coming month of September.

Over the past six CHL seasons, 10 of the best teams from Finiish Liiga have participated within the elicit hockey leagues. JYP Jyvskyl is one of the top-performing amongst others, having reached the pinnacle previously, amongst the best. Fast forward to the last two seasons, we have selected and picked who we think will be the best Finnish teams of the ice hockey future. 2021 will most certainly showcase great ice hockey sportsmanship. While JYP are not on the top consistently, many bookmakers believe they may surprise us all and come out with some victories.

Mentioning one of the most liked teams, who are also holding multiple records over the past 6-7 years, JYP have managed to come 12th place on the all-time leader boards. Crowned as the champions of the CHL back in the 2017/18 season, they are the only non-Swedish team to ever have been able to pick up the trophy for themselves. They have impressively participated within 5 of the 6 seasons in the league thus far, and have also managed to make it to the playoffs too, in every single season. Within the fourth year of their participation in CHL, the Finnish club made an 8-1-4 and even managed to make it past the Vxj Lakers within the final, by a 2-0 score, therefore crowning themselves as champions.

Bookmakers around the world are holding fixture odds of around 51.00, for the chance that JYP could hold the cup for the SM Liiga season 2021/2022.

The TPS Turku team is just ahead of JYP, with an 11th position on the all-time leaderboards. Similarly, to JYP however, this team has managed to participate across 5 of the 6 seasons in the Champions League. You will also find that of those seasons, the TPS win percentage was greater than JYP, at a solid 60%, which certainly cannot be faulted at all. It was the season of 2016/17 that happened to be of the best performing seasons for TPS, as they managed to go from 4-2-0 within the entire series, and average at around 1.33 goals per game. The overall season had a 66.67%-win percentage. However, the 2018/19 season did not see TPS manage to make it past the group stage, which is down to luck more than anything.

TPS also missed out on the Liiga CHL playoffs and qualifiers, for 2019/20, which was the first time that ever happened since 2014/15.

Bookmakers around the world are holding fixture odds of around 9.00, for the chance that TPS could hold the cup for the SM Liiga season 2021/2022.

Tappara Tampere is the fourth-ranking team within the CHL and the all-time leader board.

They are the only Finnish team that have managed to qualify for every CHL season to date. While their performances have been quite patchy here and there, they have yet another opportunity this season to really make something of themselves.

Their best performance yet is in 2017/8, where they had a 75%-win rate and a penalty kill of over 90%. The season before this they happened to have an amazing 4.38 goal average, which is actually the best record of any CHL team to date in history. The question that everyone is asking up until today is, will Tappara Tampere make the top 8 spots this year, or no?

Bookmakers around the world are holding fixture odds of around 5.50, for the chance that Tappara Tampere could hold the cup for the SM Liiga season 2021/2022.

Krpt Oulu is the top-ranking team that has managed to reel in the all-time statistics consistently year in-and year out. Oulu is the heavyweight team of Liiga. They have 8 season wins, as well as 7 CHL victories since the 2003/2004 seasons. Most of the best stars in hockey have come out of this team i.e. Jesse Puljujrvi and Sebastian Aho for example.

Oulu have never managed to achieve anything lower than 60% win statistics, and have managed to have all-time records such as 83.33% win statistics back in 2015/2016, where they were runners-up to the title. 2016/2017 was the least successful season thus far for this team, they still walked away with the best penalty percentage within the entire season altogether. While they were noticeably absent for the past season, many believe this team has what it takes to take the dominance of the 2020/2021 SM Liiga.

Bookmakers around the world are holding fixture odds of around 7.50, for the chance that Krpt Oulu could hold the cup for the SM Liiga season 2021/2022.

Other fixture odds of teams within the Liiga are noted down below:

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As the founder of Kwik Learning, brain training expert Jim Kwik has spent 25 years serving as the mental coach to students and seniors, entrepreneurs and educators, and advisor to many of the world's leading CEOs and celebrities. He is a highly sought-out trainer for top organizations such as Virgin, Nike, Zappos, SpaceX, NYU, GE, Fox Studios, Harvard, and Singularity University, and has shared the stage with renowned global leaders, including Sir Richard Branson and the Dalai Lama. His work has been featured worldwide, including in a June 2021 seven-page cover story in Entrepreneur magazine.

Kwik's online courses are used by students in over 100 countries, and his online content has reached more than 300 million views. He's the host and creator of Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik, a globally top-50 ranked podcast, and also the international bestselling author of Learn Anything Faster, Unlock Your Exceptional Life, and Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain.

Kwik's discussion at 2:30 p.m. EST on September 14 will include:

"TriNet PeopleForce is focused on developing the various aspects of entrepreneurial achievement and business success. Jim brings deep insights and unique perspectives to helping ambitious leaders unleash their full potential, and we are excited to bring this exclusive opportunityto tap into areas of our brains that many of us have not exploredto SMB leaders in attendance at our event," said TriNet Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Communications Officer Michael Mendenhall.

Occurring September 13-16, TriNet PeopleForce is a one-of-a-kind event taking place both virtually and in-person from New York City.

The conference brings together a roster of high-profile leaders to help SMBs reimagine, rebuild and move forward as they come out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Attendees will hear from renowned speakers and experts on topics such as SMB agility, calculated risk-taking, the future of work, business resiliency, DEI, healthcare, the state of the economy for SMBs and much more. TriNet PeopleForce also fosters networking opportunities for its participants with business leaders from across the country.

To register for the virtual conference, click here.

Those wishing to attend the live SMB event in New York City can request a ticket by emailing [emailprotected].

About TriNetTriNet (NYSE: TNET) provides small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) with full-service HR solutions tailored by industry. To free SMBs from HR complexities, TriNet offers access to human capital expertise, benefits, risk mitigation and compliance, payroll and real-time technology. From Main Street to Wall Street, TriNet empowers SMBs to focus on what matters most-growing their business. TriNet, incredible starts here. For more information, visit TriNet.com or follow us on Twitter.

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Tilly Lockeys life story is like no other. This young woman has had to face tough challenges after living without arms almost since the time she was born. But that did not stop her from fulfilling the ambitious dreams of a teenager. The 15 -year-old Brit has become a bionic model with thousands of followers.

And where many see difficulties, she sees opportunities. That is why Tilly assures that her arms have given her a great opportunity to inform about the things that matter most to her and, above all, to serve as an inspiration to other children with disabilities. Her mission is to help create the perfect prosthesis.

Lockey is a beauty blogger, she also travels the world giving lectures and telling her story in order to help other people who have suffered amputations. She is part of Singularity U, an academic institution in Silicon Valley, which has the purpose of bringing together, educating and inspiring leaders to harness exponential technologies and apply them as tools to solve the great challenges of humanity. This year, Lockey will be part of the Summit, where she hopes to continue to inspire others.

Metro spoke with her about the prostheses she uses now, her life and the message she seeks to spread around the world.

Tell us about your life before having bionic arms.

I have always been a woman who has been empowered by individuality and I have also been very independent. I have always had a family that has supported me through everything and three amazing sisters. They have given me space so I could become the person I am now. They have given me enough courage and strength to ask for help, because learning to be brave is something that is very rewarding at a very young age.

But I did know I was different and it was hard for me to assimilate, but not because I was ashamed or felt bad, but because I wanted to be a normal person. Especially when going out into the world and doing things differently from others.

They are also still very impressed that instead of a medical device, I see my bionic arms as a fashion accessory.

How did you get the prostheses?

I got them at the beginning of 2019 from 20th Century Fox for the movie Alita: Battle Angel. And I wear them to this day. Ive tested several prototypes since I was ten years old.

How do they work for you? Tell about the movements and everyday activities.

They have a different grip. I can operate them with various functions. I also have a menu to make them work the way I want them to. I have a function for putting on makeup, one for scratching and even one for grabbing tea in the morning.

How did bionic arms change your life?

I think the biggest change has been in having these amazing, functional arms. Its been a huge step for me physically and has allowed me to do so much more. As I say, Ive always been very independent and Ive adapted pretty well to my circumstances, which is great.

There were things that I didnt handle well yet because when you dont have arms, you have to do things that involve other body parts. But this device has helped me do things that were more difficult before, like combing my hair, drinking coffee and reading a book all at the same time. And, of course, this has helped me mentally.

What are you going to talk about at the Summit?

I will address the topics of technology and compassion: quality of life through technology. With this opportunity, I want to change the stigma of being a person with bionic arms and show the world that medical devices can also be fashion accessories.

What can you tell us about the latest developments in prosthetics?

I have been working with the same technology source and different companies in the field since I was two years old. Back then, everything was very manual and I had to pull strings for movement The change has been incredible.

Also, another great innovation is 3D printing, which has made it easier to move muscles and therefore has improved the motor part and made prosthetics much cheaper, which is quite important. And it was great to discover this technology at such a young age, because you would never imagine everything that is going on to make a small hand move. And luckily, this is accessible now for a lot of kids who have to start practicing at a young age. Having this technology makes it easier for them. And by the time they are my age or much older, it becomes easier to use and its like a second skin.

You represent how differences should not be hidden, but celebrated. What message do you want to spread?

That you should embrace that imperfection. For a long time I tried to look as realistic as possible, but I understood that this was not for me, that I could do with my body whatever I wanted and that this could give me a lot of possibilities. And I wouldnt notice it, but people like us, well, theyre not always going to have a 100% realistic device. Obviously, there will be people who prefer it that way, but its already a preference, not an imposition.

So my message is to be true to yourself. I think Ive also motivated people not to be afraid to show themselves as they are. Because I am very true to myself and my passion, its very important to express it. And if there are imperfections in the eyes of others, they dont define me.

You have become a social media celebrity. How do you handle this attention?

I think social media is wonderful. Obviously, they can be very toxic at times, and there is a lot of bullying and negativity. As a young person, Ive often seen that side. Its not all rainbows and roses, but people often forget that they can also be positive, because to a large extent, I hope that with my content and pages, we continue to build a community and be supportive to a lot of people. And the wonderful thing is that there is no pressure. Neither in my appearance, nor in the creation of content.

Ive given myself breaks from social media for mental health, because thats important, but at the end of the day, the wonderful thing is sharing what I do, being a source of support. And its great when I get messages from people who tell me they love what I do, because at the end of the day, its all about helping.

What were the main lessons youve learned in your life?

Oh, thats a tough question. I think Ive learned a lot. When I was a kid: to ask for help. And that was hard, because of my independence. Also to treat others how you want to be treated. This has also happened to me when a lot of people made comments about my appearance. I didnt know how to react before. Now what I want to teach is that we are all different and that shouldnt matter.

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Of all the far-out concepts in astronomy, black holes may be the weirdest. A region of space where matter is so tightly packed that nothing, not even light itself, can escape, these dark behemoths present a pretty terrifying prospect, too. With all the normal rules of physics breaking down inside them, it's tempting to dismiss black holes as the stuff of science fiction. Yet there's plenty of evidence both direct and indirect that they really do exist in the universe.

As a theoretical possibility, black holes were predicted in 1916 by Karl Schwarzschild, who found them to be an inevitable consequence of Einstein's theory of general relativity. In other words, if Einstein's theory is correct and all the evidence suggests it is then black holes must exist. They were subsequently put on even firmer ground by Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking, who showed that any object collapsing down to a black hole will form a singularity where the traditional laws of physics break down, according to the University of Cambridge. This has become so widely accepted that Penrose was awarded a share in the 2020 Nobel prize in physics "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity."

In the 1930s, Indian astrophysicist Subramanian Chandrasekhar looked at what happens to a star when it has used up all its nuclear fuel, according to NASA. The end result, he found, depends on the star's mass. If that star is really big, say 20 solar masses, then its dense core which may itself be three or more times the mass of the sun collapses all the way down to a black hole, according to NASA. The final core collapse happens incredibly quickly, in a matter of seconds, and it releases a tremendous amount of energy in the form of a gamma-ray burst. This burst can radiate as much energy into space as an ordinary star emits in its entire lifetime. And telescopes on Earth have detected many of these bursts, some of which come from galaxies billions of light-years away; so we can actually see black holes being born.

Black holes don't always exist in isolation sometimes they occur in pairs, orbiting around each other. When they do, the gravitational interaction between them creates ripples in space-time, which propagate outward as gravitational waves another prediction of Einstein's theory of relativity. With observatories like the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory and Virgo, we now have the ability to detect these waves, Live Science sister site Space.com reported. The first discovery, involving the merger of two black holes, was announced back in 2016, and many more have been made since then. As detector sensitivity improves, other wave-generating events besides black hole mergers are being discovered such as a crash between a black hole and a neutron star, which took place way beyond our own galaxy at a distance of 650 million to 1.5 billion light-years from Earth, Live Science reported.

The short-lived, high-energy events that produce gamma-ray bursts and gravitational waves may be visible halfway across the observable universe, but for most of their lives black holes, by their very nature, will be almost undetectable. The fact that they don't emit any light or other radiation means they could be lurking in our cosmic neighborhood without astronomers being aware of it. There's one sure-fire way to detect the dark beasts, though, and that's through their gravitational effects on other stars. When observing the ordinary-looking binary system, or pair of orbiting stars, known as HR 6819 in 2020, astronomers noticed oddities in the motion of the two visible stars that could be explained only if there was a third, totally invisible, object there. When they worked out its mass at least four times that of the sun the researchers knew there was only one possibility left. It had to be a black hole the closest yet discovered to Earth, a mere thousand light-years away inside our own galaxy, as Live Science reported.

The first observational evidence for a black hole emerged in 1971, and this too came from a binary star system within our own galaxy. Called Cygnus X-1, the system produces some of the universe's brightest X-rays. These don't emanate from the black hole itself, or from its visible companion star which is enormous, at 33 times the mass of our own sun, according to NASA. Rather, matter is constantly being stripped from the giant star and dragged into an accretion disk around the black hole, and it's from this accretion disk, NASA said, that the X-rays are emitted. As they did with HR 6819, astronomers can use observed star motion to estimate the mass of the unseen object in Cygnus X-1. The latest calculations put the dark object at 21 solar masses concentrated into such a small space that it couldn't be anything other than a black hole, Live Science reported.

In addition to black holes created through stellar collapse, evidence suggests that supermassive black holes, each millions or even billions of solar masses, have been lurking in the centers of galaxies since early in the history of the universe, Live Science reported. In the case of so-called active galaxies, the evidence for these heavyweights is spectacular. According to NASA, the central black holes in these galaxies are surrounded by accretion disks that produce intense radiation at all wavelengths of light. We also have evidence that our own galaxy has a black hole at its center. That's because we see the stars in that region whizzing around so fast up to 8% of the speed of light that they must be orbiting something extremely small and massive. Current estimates put the Milky Way's central black hole somewhere around 4 million solar masses.

Another piece of evidence for the existence of black holes is spaghettification. What, you might wonder, is spaghettification? It's what happens when you fall into a black hole, and it's pretty self-explanatory. You get stretched out into thin strands by the black hole's extreme gravitational pull. Luckily, that's not likely to happen to you or anyone you know, but it may well be the fate of a star that wanders too close to a supermassive black hole, Live Science reported. In October 2020, astronomers witnessed this shredding or at least, they saw the flash of light from a hapless star as it was ripped apart. Fortunately, the spaghettifying didn't happen anywhere near Earth, but instead in a galaxy 215 million light-years away.

So far we've had plenty of compelling indirect evidence for black holes: bursts of radiation or gravitational waves, or dynamical effects on other bodies, that couldn't have been produced by any other object known to science. But the final clincher came in April 2019, in the form of a direct image of the supermassive black hole at the center of active galaxy Messier 87. This stunning photo was taken by the Event Horizon Telescope a slightly misleading name, because it consists of a large network of telescopes scattered all over the world rather than a single instrument. According to NASA, the more telescopes that can participate, and the more widely spaced they are, the better the final image quality. The result clearly shows the dark shadow of the 6.5 billion-solar-mass black hole against the orange glow of its surrounding accretion disk, as reported by Live Science.

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In 2018, GE unveiled its Haliade-X turbine, and it has since been the largest and most powerful offshore wind turbine in the world. At 853 feet tall and with a rotor measuring 722 feet across, a single rotation of its blades can power a home for two days (thats a home in the UK, not the US; homes here tend to be bigger energy hogs). Last year, the Haliade-X prototype located in the Netherlands set a new world record by generating 312 megawatt-hours of continuous power in one day.

But the record-setting turbine is about to get dethroned by a new, even bigger and more powerful arrival. Chinas MingYang Smart Energy Group this week announced development of its MySE 16.0-242, a 16-megawatt turbine that can reportedly power 20,000 homes. Standing 866 feet tall, the turbine only has a few feet on the Haliade-Xs height, but its rotor is the differentiator at 794 feet across. Each blade is 387 feet long, and their rotation will sweep an area bigger than six soccer fields.

Lets put some more visuals to those numbers. 866 feet is taller than the 70-story GE building in New Yorks Rockefeller Center. An American football field is 360 feet long, so imagine a blade thats even longer, and a rotor taller than the Golden Gate Bridge.

Its hard to wrap your head around, especially when you consider that these gigantic pieces will be assembled into one unit in the middle of the ocean, then work together to produce clean energy. The company says the turbine can be anchored to the ocean floor or installed on a floating base (the proportions of which are equally hard to imagine).

Putting a man-made structure of these dimensions with moving parts in the ocean must have some sort of impact on the surrounding marine life. However, not a ton of research has been done in this area, and as offshore wind becomes a more popular source of power, its probably a good idea to make sure were not wrecking entire ecosystems by plopping turbines into their midst.

To that end, the UKs Natural Environment Research Council launched a study this week called ECOWind. In partnership with The Crown Estate, which manages the seabed of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, the project will collect and analyze data on offshore winds impact on marine ecosystems, and is scheduled to last four years.

China will want to heed the findings; its been the world leader in new offshore wind installations for three years running, and installed more than half the worlds offshore wind capacity last year. As demand for renewable energy sources grows, offshore wind will continue to be scaled up, both in terms of the number of turbines installed and the power generation capacity of the turbines. MingYangs new turbine can reportedly withstand typhoon-force winds.

Founded in 2006, MingYang is a public company whose stock trades on the Shanghai exchange. Earlier this year, the company secured a contract to provide 10 turbines (of an earlier model than the 16.0-242) for the Taranto offshore wind park off the Italian coast. It will be the first offshore wind farm in the Mediterranean, and is MingYangs first European deal.

A prototype of the MySE 16.0-242 will be built in 2022, with commercial production of the turbine scheduled to start in early 2024.

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Black holes, mysterious and threatening objects that catch anything that approaches them. Maybe, though It protects us from what is hiding inside Before the exclusivity. Experts who deal with the cosmic censorship hypothesis are trying to answer this question.

It follows from Einsteins equation that beyond the event horizon, the place where everything in a black hole disappears and cannot be reached by observation, there is an anomaly. A singularity is the point at which the acceleration of gravity or the density of matter is infinite. Our universe came from a single state that existed at the beginning of the Big Bang.

We know nothing about the singularity structure. In their neighborhood, strange physical laws would probably apply to us. We wont understand it until physicists can create a unified theory that combines gravitational and quantum physics.

However, we should not be afraid of the effect of singularities on the surrounding environment, precisely because they are inside black holes. Roger Penroses hypothesis of cosmic censorship was formulated in the late 1960s, that singularities cannot exist outside of black holes. For several decades, physicists took this for granted. In fact, no one has ever observed a naked singularity, that is, a singularity that exists outside a black hole.

However, in 2010, Louis Lehner and Frans Pretorius ran a computer simulation that showed that the outer surface of black holes can disintegrate, leaving behind a bare singularity. Fortunately, we can sleep well. Because simulations show that such a disintegration can only occur in universes in which there are more than three dimensions. So it is impossible in our three-dimensional universe described by general relativity.

The research by Lehner and Pretorius re-established interest in the cosmic censorship hypothesis. Experts wonder if a black hole breakup and a naked singularity can occur in our universe, and if not, why?

We now have much more powerful computers than they did a decade ago, not to mention the machines Penrose might have had at his disposal. Thus physicists can better simulate the growth and evolution of black holes and try to understand what is going on inside them. However, computing power alone is not enough. We still dont know exactly how to simulate black holes.

Mr Figueres, a physicist at Queen Mary University of London, recently showed that naked singularities can emerge not only from the collapse of black holes, but also from their collision. Such collisions also occur in our universe. However, Figueres and his team argue that collisions of black holes in our universe always result in a singularity remaining within the black hole.

The Penrose hypothesis has not yet been conclusively proven or rejected. And the specialists working on it are not about to refute or confirm it, but to devise research methods that allow us to better understand black holes and their properties. In this case, the path is important, not the goal.

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Swiss researchers at the University of Applied Sciences Graubnden this week claimed a new world record for calculating the number of digits of pia staggering 62.8 trillion figures. By my estimate, if these digits were printed out they would fill every book in the British Library ten times over. The researchers feat of arithmetic took 108 days and 9 hours to complete, and dwarfs the previous record of 50 trillion figures set in January 2020.

But why do we care?

The mathematical constant pi () is the ratio of a circles circumference to its diameter, and is approximately 3.1415926536. With only these ten decimal places, we could calculate the circumference of Earth to a precision of less than a millimeter. With 32 decimal places, we could calculate the circumference of our Milky Way galaxy to the precision of the width of a hydrogen atom. And with only 65 decimal places, we would know the size of the observable universe to within a Planck lengththe shortest possible measurable distance.

What use, then, are the other 62.79 trillion digits? While the short answer is that they are not scientifically useful at all, mathematicians and computer scientists will be eagerly awaiting the details of this gargantuan computation for a variety of reasons.

The concept of pi is simple enough for a primary school student to grasp, yet its digits are notoriously difficult to calculate. A number like 1/7 needs infinitely many decimals to write down0.1428571428571but the numbers repeat themselves every six places, making it easy to understand. Pi, on the other hand, is an example of an irrational number, in which there are no repeating patterns. Not only is pi irrational, but it is also transcendental, meaning it cannot be defined through any simple equation featuring whole numbers.

Mathematicians around the world have been computing pi since ancient times, but techniques to do so changed dramatically after the 17th century, with the development of calculus and the techniques of infinite series. For example, the Madhava series (named after the Indian-Hindu mathematician Madhava of Sangamagrama), says:

= 4(1 1/3 + 1/5 1/7 + 1/9 1/11 + )

By adding more and more terms, this computation gets closer and closer to the true value of pi. But it takes a long timeafter 500,000 terms, it produces only five correct decimal places of pi!

The search for new formulae for pi adds to our mathematical understanding of the number, while also letting mathematicians vie for bragging rights in the quest for more digits. The infinite sum used in the 2020 record-breaking effort was discovered in 1988 and can calculate 14 new digits of pi for each new term that is added to the sum.

While breaking the record may be one of the key motivators for finding new digits of pi, there are two other important benefits.

The first is the development and testing of supercomputers and new high-precision multiplication algorithms. Optimizing the computation of pi leads to computer hardware and software that benefit many other areas of our lives, from accurate weather forecasting to DNA sequencing and even COVID modeling.

The latest computation of pi was 3.5 times as fast as the previous effort, despite the extra 12 trillion decimal placesan impressive increase in supercomputing performance in just 18 months.

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The second is the exploration of the very nature of pi. Despite centuries of research, there are still fundamental unanswered questions about the way its digits behave. It is conjectured that pi is a normal number, meaning all possible sequences of digits should appear equally often.

For example, we expect the digit 3 to appear as often as the digit 8, and the digit string 12345 to appear as often as 99999. But we dont even know if each decimal digit appears infinitely often in pi, let alone whether there are more complex patterns waiting to be discovered.

The data for the new pi computation have not yet been released, as the researchers are awaiting confirmation from the Guinness Book of Records. But we hope there will be many mathematically interesting treasures within the numbers.

We will never finish computing the digits of pithere will always be more to find and new records to break. If you dont happen to own a supercomputer, but you have a thirst for computing decimal digits (and a PhD in mathematics), why not try other interesting irrational numbers like 3 (only known to 10 billion digits), the tribonacci constant (20,000 digits), or the twin prime constant (1,001 digits). You may not make the morning news, but its arguably an easier way to write yourself into the record books.

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ReGen Villages show us what the future of living in regenerative and resilient communities can look like. The founder of the Stanford University spin-off company behind the innovation, which is harnessing frontier technologies to transform the future of living, is James Ehrlich, my guest today on Inside Ideas.

Designed to provide organic food, clean water, renewable energy and circular nutritional flows at the neighbourhood level, ReGen Villages can be replicated on a global scale to build safe and secure communities that are aligned with all 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. With its patented VillageOS operating system software it will use artificial intelligence and machine learning to define, design and autonomously manage regenerative neighbourhoods that promote healthy long-term outcomes for residents and wider communities.

I have a different idea of how I want to live and what I want to do to help provide for my family.

By allowing people to reimagine what is possible, these villages can help catalyse a paradigm shifting moment in the search for truly sustainable living.

We have to rethink everything, in terms of what is work versus self-worth; what is economy versus gross domestic happiness, Ehrlich said. There are lots of different ways to re-examine this renaissance, and I really want to look at it that way. Its arenaissance, and this is what I feel that Covid has opened up for us: to really think differently about who we are, and what were doing, and where we spend our energy. And were seeing this more and more in the news, about people who are saying Im not going back to that job that I had before. I have a different idea of how I want to live and what I want to do to help provide for my family.

Ehrlich insists people inspired by ideas of living differently should not be held back by thoughts that work is a barrier to change, because this is about shifting paradigms standing in the way of societal progress.

The question then arises: why do we go to work? What are the reasons that we need to have gainful employment? It has to do with the 30-35% that goes to your living expense, your housing, and another X percentage that goes to daily nutritional needs, to energy costs, water, access to communications whether its cellphone, phone, media or whatever it may be. Ehrlich said. But if we can answer that living within a ReGen Villages neighbourhood community infrastructure will provide 85-90% of what peoples daily basic needs are, then that delta for income, or universal basic income, can be dramatically reduced and thats something that starts to get really interesting and exciting, especially when you look at how we can reduce burdens on governments, on healthcare systems, on brokering peaceful happy places.

ReGen Villages capable of making this type of impact offer policy makers a game changing solution that can help support the ambitions of the post-COVID green transition.

Our primary focus is on local, regional regenerative resilience, because reliance on globalised infrastructure is not the smartest way forward. We really have to have the skills, the capabilities, the functionality from doorstep access to hydrate ourselves, feed ourselves, empower ourselves, digest our own waste, and create the circumstances for us to be better global citizens and think big thoughts.

An Entrepreneur in Residence at the Stanford University School of Medicine Flourishing Project, Faculty at Singularity University, Senior Fellow at NASA Ames Research Center and former (Obama) White House Appointee for Regenerative Infrastructure, Ehrlich is now collaborating with established industrial partners, universities, governments and sovereign wealth and pension funds to progress the ReGen Villages vision to redefine the future of living.

COVID has been a huge shock but what comes next is being reimagined by the likes of James Ehrlich, and I am delighted to welcome him on the show to discover more about these regenerative communities and the frontier technologies that will power them.

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