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An astronomer gave us tips for watching the imminent total lunar eclipse

Mashable Tech

A majestic celestial event looms large for the continental U.S. and greater Americas. Earth will pass between the sun and moon on the night of March 13 into the morning of March 14, creating a total lunar eclipse visible in large swathes of the Western Hemisphere. Aptly called a "blood moon," Earth blocks most sunlight from reaching the moon during these events, but long reddish wavelengths of sunlight still slip through our planet's atmosphere, illuminating our robust natural satellite in reddi

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How one of Brooklyn’s most expensive neighborhoods became home base for the creative class

Fast Company Tech

When international architecture firm Snhetta found its New York City lease was coming up last year, a search kicked off for a new workspace. The firm, which had been located in Manhattan for 21 years, scoured neighborhoods near and far, such as the Brooklyn Navy Yards. But in the end, the choice was one many such firms had been making recently, according to partner and managing director Elaine Molinar.

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Best tax credits for small business owners filing this year

Mashable Tech

Tax season is no walk in the park — and that’s especially so for small business owners and solopreneurs. Even if you’re already properly managing your quarterly taxes and have all of your ducks in a row, this time of year means facing your business financials head-on and making any revisions needed to keep your business books going in the right direction.

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[Free Mini Webinar] How Nonprofit Professionals Can AI-Proof Their Careers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Early adopter marketing and fundraising professionals are experimenting with generative AI, but as we speed towards achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), working with predictive and agentic AI are also must-have skills of the future. Join this free 20-minute webinar to become AI-literate in the concepts most immediately to impact your career so you can start the process of upskilling now and thrive in your career for years to come.

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The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!

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Mysterious U.S. spaceplane returns to Earth, and Space Force snaps photos

Mashable Tech

The secretive exploits of the X-37B spaceplane continue. After spending 434 days in space, the crewless Space Force craft returned to Earth on March 7, landing at California's Vandenberg Space Force Base in the middle of the night. The agency snapped pictures of its return, including the image of a hazmat suit-clad crew attending to the outer space craft.

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Novocaine review: Jack Quaid crushes as an unlikely action hero who cant feel pain

Mashable Tech

Over the last few years, Novocaine star Jack Quaid has carved himself a niche by playing the everyman archetype with a genre twist. In The Boys , he's a nobody thrust into a world of superheroes. In Star Trek: Lower Decks , he's an ambitious worker bee on a starship. And in 2025's Companion , he's a sinister (yet all too familiar) "nice guy" with a robot girlfriend.

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How machine learning can be used to identify microplastics

Fast Company Tech

Microplastics the tiny particles of plastic shed when litter breaks down are everywhere , from the deep sea to Mount Everest , and many researchers worry that they could harm human health. I am a machine learning researcher. With a team of scientists, I have developed a tool to make identification of microplastics using their unique chemical fingerprint more reliable.

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Reddit apparently flags the word Luigi as potentially violent

Mashable Tech

Reddit 's automated moderation system is apparently flagging the word "Luigi" as potentially violent , The Verge reported. On Friday, a post appeared on the r/FreeLuigi subreddit stating, "PSA: the word 'luigi' is now flagged by reddit for violence." A screenshot of a comment about the video game Luigi's Mansion 3 on the r/popculture subject shows a highlight of the word "Luigi" and a tag, "Check for Violence - [Luigi].

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Blending the worlds of hardware, games and creators in gaming PCs | Jo Tan interview

VentureBeat

The PC has always been everything to everybody. HP is very focused on selling AI PCs, as evidenced by its lineup in January at the CES 2025 tech trade show in Las Vegas. And yet the PC is also the platform of choice for content creators and gamers.

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Navigating Payroll Compliance: Future-Proofing Payroll in an Evolving Regulatory Landscape

Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

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Images Show Entire "Universe" of Circular Structure That Can Only Be Seen as Radio Signals

Futurism

The vast realm probed by radio astronomers is one invisible to the naked eye, and even most kinds of telescopes. Now, thanks to the latest advances in radio observatories, scientists are uncovering an entire "low surface brightness universe" teeming with circular curiosities, according to a team of researchers from Australia including an entirely new class of cosmic object.

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The Netflix film adaptation of Keanu Reeves’ BRZRKR now has its director

Engadget

According to The Hollywood Reporter , Netflix has tapped Fast & Furious director Justin Lin to direct its upcoming movie adaptation of BRZRKR , the popular comic by Keanu Reeves and Matt Kindt about an immortal warrior. Netflix first announced plans to create both a live-action movie and an anime based on BRZRKR back in 2021, with Reeves starring in the former and returning to voice his character in the animated show.

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If You Still Think Bodybuilding Is Healthy, This Woman Just Died at Age 20

Futurism

The bodybuilding industry has claimed another victim: an extremely young Texas woman who died of dehydration after taking unhealthy supplements. As TMZ reports , 20-year-old bodybuilding coach Jodi Vance no relation to the vice president, seemingly died suddenly this week after attending Arnold Schwarzenegger's sports festival in Columbus. Though she wasn't competing at the sporting event herself, Vance attended the festival to support some of her coaching students.

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Blood Typers is a terrifically tense, terror-filled typing tutor

Ars Technica

When you think about it, the keyboard is the most complex video game controller in common use today, with over 100 distinct inputs arranged in a vast grid. Yet even the most complex keyboard-controlled games today tend to only use a relative handful of all those available keys for actual gameplay purposes. The biggest exception to this rule is a typing game , which by definition asks players to send their fingers flying across every single letter on the keyboard (and then some) in quick successi

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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44 housing markets where inventory has spiked, and homebuyers have gained power 

Fast Company Tech

Want more housing market stories from Lance Lamberts ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. While homebuyers and home sellers still see headlines about the housing market being a sellers market and national home prices reaching all-time highs, a deeper look reveals that several regional housing markets have shifted, giving homebuyers some power.

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Freelancers Are Getting Ruined by AI

Futurism

At one time, freelancing was seen as the domain of plucky young writers and daring web designers. Now, it's a growing fact of life for billions of workers around the world, as companies break up full-time positions into contract work with less stability and protection by labor laws. That was already becoming the case back in 2009, when the fallout of the Great Recession forced thousands of out-of-work professionals to become freelancers to pay the bills.

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New research shows bigger animals get more cancer, defying decades-old belief

Ars Technica

A longstanding scientific belief about a link between cancer prevalence and animal body size has tested for the first time in our new study ranging across hundreds of animal species. If larger animals have more cells , and cancer comes from cells going rogue , then the largest animals on Earthlike elephants and whalesshould be riddled with tumours. Yet, for decades, there has been little evidence to support this idea.

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These 5 simple ideas could fix our food system

Fast Company Tech

Julian Baggini is a philosopher with a long and deep interest in food and where it comes from. His books include internationally bestselling How the World Thinks ; How to Think Like a Philosopher ; The Virtues of the Table ; and The Pig That Wants to be Eaten. He is the Academic Director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy and a member of the Food Ethics Council.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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Scientists Discover Black Hole So Gigantic That You Will Quiver in Existential Terror

Futurism

Astronomers have discovered a black hole so mind-bogglingly large, trying to get a grasp of how big it really is could induce an existential crisis. The black hole measures a whopping 36 billion times the mass of the Sun, making it if the observations are confirmed one of the biggest black holes ever spotted, as Live Science reports. To put that into perspective, Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole scientists believe is lurking at the center of the Milky Way, only has a mass of around

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This secret site lets you try DeepSeek on a trustworthy U.S. server

Fast Company Tech

We need to talk about AI. Have you noticed it often just isntwell, very intelligent? Already, weve lived through years of AI hype. Weve watched companies pitch AI as a great tool for writing boring corporate emails. Weve seen it shoehorned into all kinds of places it doesnt belong. And its often just been bad. Were all exhausted. So lets cut through the fluff: The AI we’re about to go over is actually impressive.

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Lunar Lander Trips and Dies Inside South Pole Crater

Futurism

Houston-based space company Intuitive Machines' Athena lunar lander isn't doing so hot. The lander made its attempt at a landing near the Moon's Mons Mouton, a flat-topped mountain roughly 100 miles from the south pole, around noon on Thursday. But things didn't quite go as planned. The lander touched down sideways within a crater near the Moon's south pole, causing it to tip over.

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Humanity isn’t asteroid-proof yet. But we’re getting closer.

Recode by Vox

An artist rendering of the NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) space probe approaching the asteroid Didymos and its minor-planet-moon Dimorphos. | Illustration by Nicholas Forder/Future Publishing via Getty Images In 2012, astronaut Ron Garan did an AMA on Reddit. In between questions about aliens (he didnt see any in space) and where his coffee came from (recycled urine), he responded to a question about why we should accept the risks of a future mission to Mars.

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How to Scale Recurring Giving for Sustainable Growth

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Is your organization ready to build a recurring giving program that not only sustains but also propels your mission forward? 🚀 In this new webinar with industry visionary Tim Sarrantonio, we’ll guide you through the critical steps to establishing and scaling a successful recurring giving program. Whether you’re starting fresh or enhancing an existing program, this session will provide the strategies you need to deepen donor relationships and secure long-term support!

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Teleport to the 90s with this retro gaming console, now $70 off

Mashable Tech

TL;DR: Enjoy over 70,000 retro video games with the Kinhank Super Console , now just $89.97 (reg. $159) with free shipping through March 30. If you're looking to reminisce on simpler times, what better way than to disconnect and play some classic video games. Right now, you can do just that for only $89.97 with the Kinhank Super Console, on sale through March 30.

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The Woman Accused of Running a Murderous Cult Linked to Roko's Basilisk Faked Her Own Death Before "Coming Back to Life"

Futurism

The leader of an alleged cult informed by the murderous hypothetical artificial superintelligence of" Roko's Basilisk " once faked her death in the months before the first of several killings that have been linked to her followers. As The Guardian notes , Jack "Ziz" LaSota the alleged leader of the "Zizians," a militantly vegan group of computer scientists who have now been linked to six deaths in three states was believed to be dead after her sister and friend claimed that she'd fallen from h

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The price for a MacBook Pro just dropped to $424.97 (from $1,499)

Mashable Tech

TL;DR: Get a MacBook Pro on sale for $424.97 (reg. $1,499) through March 30. Whether it's for school or for work, your computer needs to be able to take some punishment. Whether it's packed into a bag regularly or used for hours a day, every single day, it's important to have a machine you can rely on. Bonus points if it's affordable. MacBooks might not be your first instinct for affordability, but the prices drop when you know where to shop.

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What’s Driving Tesla’s Woes?

Wired

As Tesla faces a global sales slump, and with shares down for the seventh consecutive week, could Elon Musk's antics really be to blame?

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Empower Your Nonprofit With Effective Payroll & HCM Services

Managing a nonprofit involves many challenges, but payroll and HR shouldn’t be among them. Our guide, "A Buyer’s Guide to Payroll & HCM Services," helps nonprofits choose the best provider. Efficient payroll services ensure timely, accurate payments, vital for maintaining staff and volunteer morale. Compliance support helps navigate complex labor laws and avoid costly fines.