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Canada on track to admit fewer permanent residents than planned for 2026 Refugees

Canada on track to admit fewer permanent residents than planned for 2026

Over the first half of the year, Canada’s permanent resident admissions amounted to only 41% of the federal government’s annual target. On August 18, 2026, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) released new data showing that from January 1 through June 30, 2026, it had admitted 155,800 new permanent residents.…
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August 19, 2026
Canada selects French speakers for permanent residence at lowest cutoff score since March 2025 Refugees

Canada selects French speakers for permanent residence at lowest cutoff score since March 2025

Published: August 19, 2026 Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has issued more invitations to apply (ITA) through the Express Entry system. The immigration department issued 5,000 ITAs in a draw for candidates with French-language abilities. To be considered in this draw, candidates needed to have: A minimum Comprehensive Ranking…
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August 19, 2026
NVIDIA Partners With SB Energy on 10-GW AI Data Center Complex in Ohio Checkpoint

NVIDIA Partners With SB Energy on 10-GW AI Data Center Complex in Ohio

NVIDIA is investing to up to $105 billion to secure land, power and shell (LPS) capacity for the massive PORTS-Pike Technology Campus planned on the site of the former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, a long-shuttered uranium enrichment facility near Columbus, Ohio. The project includes a planned 10-GW data center campus…
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August 19, 2026
Bedrock Robotics deploys fully autonomous excavators on jobsites Moravec‘s Paradox

Bedrock Robotics deploys fully autonomous excavators on jobsites

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. On a number of construction sites, the excavator cab is now empty. Bedrock Robotics, a construction technology firm, has launched fully autonomous excavators on a number of active U.S. construction sites, the San Francisco-based company announced Monday. The…
bubmag
August 19, 2026
How Ukraine’s strikes on Russian warehouses became a problem in Kyrgyzstan Ukraine

How Ukraine’s strikes on Russian warehouses became a problem in Kyrgyzstan

Ukraine’s campaign to target Russia’s e-commerce giant Wildberries has had impacts far beyond the Russian federation. For Russia, Wildberries is comparable to Amazon, accounting for about 50% of the country’s online retail market. But its market place is used by manufacturers as far afield as Central Asia. Founded in 2004…
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August 19, 2026
Telescope spies the fastest star in the Milky Way zipping around a black hole Black Hole

Telescope spies the fastest star in the Milky Way zipping around a black hole

This photo made with a long exposure and released by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on Nov. 10, 2025, shows four lasers at ESO's Paranal Observatory, each one launched from one of the four eight-meter telescopes on site in Taltal, Chile. (A. Berdeu/European Southern Observatory via AP) A. Berdeu/European Southern…
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August 19, 2026
Astronomers spot the closest, fastest star ever seen orbiting our galaxy’s monster black hole Black Hole

Astronomers spot the closest, fastest star ever seen orbiting our galaxy’s monster black hole

Astronomers have discovered the closest, fastest star ever seen orbiting Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the 4.3 million-solar-mass black hole at the heart of our galaxy. The faint star, named S301, completes a lap every 8.7 years and skims past the black hole at roughly 55 million mph (90 million km/h)…
bubmag
August 19, 2026