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The European Space Agency on Wednesday the world’s first astronaut with a disability. John McFall, whose right leg was amputated at age 19, is the first recruit for a new program investigating accommodations for astronauts with disabilities. The agency called for applications in March 2021, seeking people with disabilities who could pass stringent physical and psychological testing but were limited by a lack of hardware accommodations. The program will investigate the changes and costs required to send astronauts with…

Marvel Studios, like just about any film studio existing today, are no strangers to hiccups in the midst of the development process; people come and go, scripts are skewed, and if you’re Warner Bros., sometimes you just go full-on nuclear in the case of Batgirl. Luckily, we don’t anticipate that Marvel will be giving the axe to the highly-anticipated Blade, which will see the eponymous vampire hunter return to the big screen after 20 years, this time as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and we’re all but certain…

Bob Iger poses with Mickey Mouse attends Mickey's 90th Spectacular at The Shrine Auditorium on October 6, 2018 in Los Angeles.Valerie Macon | AFP | Getty ImagesBob Iger is back.Disney re-appointed Iger as CEO on Sunday night, effective immediately, after previous CEO Bob Chapek came under fire for his management of the entertainment giant."We thank Bob Chapek for his service to Disney over his long career, including navigating the company through the unprecedented challenges of the pandemic," said Susan Arnold, Disney's…

Everybody knows Kevin Feige is the single most important figure in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but who comes second? You could state a case for Robert Downey Jr., who served as the launchpad for what would soon become unprecedented global success. There’s former Disney chief Bob Iger, who disbanded the infamous Creative Committee and gave Feige full control over the creative direction, or there’s the baseball cap enthusiast’s trusted lieutenant and current President of Physical, Post Production, VFX,…

The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special writer-director James Gunn is revealing that everyone’s spacefaring team of heroes will get a brand new ship in the Marvel Special Presentation debuting next week. What’s more, the short film will also serve to set up some other things for the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Although Gunn indicated he tried to strike a balance, overall, when it comes to making Vol. 3 comprehensible even if you haven’t seen the Holiday Special, he still recommended fans view it when it…

Naomi Osaka, Tom Brady, Shaquille O'Neal, Larry David and others are named alongside FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried in suit filed in Miami federal court. Celebrities "have either invested in FTX or been brand ambassadors for the company" and hyped the exchange in ads and on social media, court papers say.…

The GloRilla accolades keep coming.On Nov. 15, Audiomack announced GloRilla as their newest #UpNow artist. The Memphis native joins previous honorees such as Black Sherif, Rod Wave, EST Gee, Blxst, Pooh Shiesty, Sheff G, Omah Lay, and Ayra Starr.“I’m honored to be an Audiomack #UpNow artist,” GloRilla said in a press release. “They’ve played an important role in helping me connect with fans in a new way. I appreciate the Audiomack team for always showing love and look forward to building with them more in the…

Utilizing your dictionary and rules to build a NER model quicklyPhoto by Pisit Heng on UnsplashNamed entity recognition (NER) is a subtask of information extraction that identify the entities in a document and classify them into pre-defined categories such as person names, organizations, locations, etc. NER is widely used in natural language processing applications such as information extraction, information retrieval, question answering, etc.With large and high-quality manually annotated datasets, this problem can be…

James Webb Space telescope. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image LabNASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Space Launch System (SLS) rocket were named 2022 TIME Inventions of the Year. <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>NASA</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>Established in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government…

There’s a surprising number of comparisons that can be made between this year’s sexiest man alive Chris Evans and The Office star John Krasinski. They’re both from Boston. They have both worked with Emily Blunt. They have both played members of the Fantastic Four. And they both auditioned for Captain America, with Evans getting the role, and Krasinski still feeling the sting of rejection a little bit. Now, following Evans being crowned sexiest man alive, his co-star and Krasinski’s wife Emily Blunt weighed in on the…