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One of the few astronomical objects named after a woman
Welcome to the Daily Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light, a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We'll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we're going to take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a universe that is filled with stars and wonder.
Good morning. It's December 12, and today's photo comes to us from Michal Mlynarczyk in the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland. The subject of Michal's image is the lovely Jones 1 nebula.
This faint nebula was found in 1941 by an American astronomer named Rebecca "Becky" Jones using photographic plates. Its name, Jones 1, is notable because relatively few astronomical objects are named after women, and this is one of the first. Jones made her career as an assistant to other more "notable" astronomers of the day, including Harlow Shapley and Wallace Eckert.
New York Plans to Invest $1 Billion to Expand Chip Research
The state of New York is planning to invest $1 billion to expand chip research in an effort to draw $9 billion in corporate investment. The move is aimed at hosting a new national semiconductor technology center.
Goodbye to all that harassment
I've had a really good time on here. I've also had a really bad time on here lol. The first tweet was already unsettling. It was a composite image of things I'd said — largely dug up from five years earlier — screencaps of posts with tiny archive links appended to each one. Out of context, some of my old posts looked bad. The bulk were obviously jokes. Most of them were about white people.
AI is "going to lift the world up"
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, believes that AI is "going to lift the world up" and companies cannot build AI "safely in a vacuum". Speaking in his first public appearance since returning to OpenAI, Altman emphasized the need to push exploration and deploy AI in order to make a positive impact on society.
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