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

Futurism

Tantalizingly, this is just the beginning of our exploration of the "low-surface brightness universe," according to Filopovic, because the ASKAP and MeerKAT are just the prelude to the mother of all telescopes: the Square Kilometer Array, which, once completed, will be the biggest radio observatory in history.

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Mark Zuckerberg predicted Meta's antitrust trial in a 2018 email

Engadget

I'm beginning to wonder whether spinning Instagram out is the only structure that will accomplish a number of important goals," Zuckerberg wrote in the email. "As Weve probably tried building dozens of apps over the history of the company, and the majority of them dont go anywhere."

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UK is going full Minority Report with ‘murder prediction’ research

Engadget

This latest model, which uses data from our institutionally racist police and Home Office, will reinforce and magnify the structural discrimination underpinning the criminal legal system." "Time and again, research shows that algorithmic systems for predicting crime are inherently flawed," Statewatch researcher Sofia Lyall said.

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Analyzing the history of Tableau innovation

Tableau

I am proud to announce that my History of Tableau Innovation viz is now published to Tableau Public. In this blog post, I'll describe my analysis of Tableau's history to drive analytics innovation—in particular, I've identified six key innovation vectors through reflecting on the top innovations across Tableau releases. Release v1.0

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Why OpenAI is trying to untangle its 'bespoke' corporate structure

Engadget

On the Friday after Christmas, OpenAI published a blog post titled "Why OpenAI's structure must evolve to advance our mission." Depending on who you ask, you may get a different history of PBCs, but in the dominant narrative, they came out of a certification program created by a nonprofit called B Lab.

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NASA spacecraft zooms by strange asteroid, beams back images

Mashable Tech

The potential to really open a new window into the history of our solar system when Lucy gets to the Trojan asteroids is immense." New imagery of the asteroid Donaldjohanson captured by NASA's Lucy spacecraft. Credit: NASA / Goddard / SwRI / Johns Hopkins APL / NOIRLab This Tweet is currently unavailable.

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How people secured their secrets before encyption

Fast Company Tech

. “Because you could see through modeling how these objects worked as kind of engineered structures and devices, designed to travel long distances and keep information safe.” In 2012, they established the Unlocking History Research Group, which grew to include dozens of other researchers.

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