Space.com Friday November 8, 2024
Scientists with the Event Horizon Telescope( EHT) stunned the world in 2022 when they successfully captured he first-ever image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. In the image, the black hole, named Sgr A* (short for Sagittarius A*) appeared as a a fuzzy orange doughnut. But now, notes Space.com, an independent analysis of the EHT data suggests the doughnut-like appearance may be misleading. The black hole may in fact be more elongated than appears, the researchers argue.
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The New York Times Friday November 8, 2024
Suchir Balaji spent nearly four years as an artificial intelligence researcher at OpenAI, helping to gather the enormous amounts of internet data the company used to build its online chatbot, ChatGPT. He later came to the conclusion that OpenAI’s use of copyrighted data violated the law and that technologies like ChatGPT were bringing society more harm than benefit, and in August he left OpenAI. “If you believe what I believe, you have to just leave the company,” he tells The New York Times.
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npr Friday November 8, 2024
A decade ago, while researching a documentary project about activism within LGBTQ communities in South Africa, photographer Julia Gunther shot portraits of participants in a pageant called Miss Lesbian, organized by Free Gender, a lesbian rights organization. As part of her project, called “Rainbow Girls,” notes NPR, Gunther has revisited her original subjects “to know what, if anything, had changed for these South African lesbian women over a decade that, on paper, promised big gains for LGBTQ rights.”
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DIYPhotography Friday November 8, 2024
A year after announcing plans to enter the drone market in 2020, Sony released the $9,000 Airpeak S1 drone, designed to work with Sony’s mirrorless cameras. The AirPeak S1 promised capabilities including a top speed of 55.9mph, flight times up to 12 minutes with a camera and gimbal attached, but, notes The Verge, the drone struggled to compete with offerings from companies like DJI. Now Sony is discontinuing the expensive model. No new product has been announced to replace it, notes DIY Photography.
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