Unbound - Deep Tech & Space Insights | No 218
The Great Tech Wake-Up Call: VCs Discover Billions in Inefficient Engineering Teams
by Josipa Majic | 5-minute read
Venture capitalists are uncovering inefficiencies in engineering teams, costing companies billions annually. This article highlights how modern tech management tools and AI-driven analytics are being adopted to improve productivity. It also discusses the growing trend of investor intervention in operational workflows to safeguard returns.
When AI Reinvents the Polar Regions
by Polar Journal Team | 6-minute read
Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing research and environmental monitoring in polar regions. With the aid of AI, scientists are now capable of mapping ice flow, studying wildlife migration, and predicting climate impacts with unparalleled accuracy. This article dives into how machine learning is bridging the gap between remote sensing technologies and actionable environmental policies.
AI Enhancing Ridesharing Security
by Dark Reading Staff | 4-minute read
Ridesharing companies are leveraging AI to detect threats and improve passenger safety. From real-time behavior analysis to predictive risk scoring, these advancements are creating safer experiences for users. This piece also explores the challenges of balancing security innovations with user privacy and regulatory compliance.
🌙 NASA - Best Photo from Last Week
Hubble Captures a Galaxy with Many Lights
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Dorado. This galaxy is a multi-talented light show, showing off an impressive array of different celestial lights. Like any spiral galaxy, shining stars fill its disk, giving the galaxy a beautiful glow. Along its two large arms, bubbles of hydrogen gas shine in a striking red light fueled by radiation from infant stars shrouded within. Near the galaxy’s center are some particularly spectacular stars embedded within a ring of hot gas. These newly formed and extremely hot stars emit powerful X-rays. Closer in, at the galaxy’s very center, sits an even brighter source of X-rays, an active galactic nucleus. This X-ray powerhouse makes NGC 1672 a Seyfert galaxy. It forms as a result of heated matter swirling in the accretion disk around NGC 1672’s supermassive black hole.
Along with its bright young stars and X-ray core, a highlight of this image is the most fleeting and temporary of lights: a supernova, visible in just one of the six Hubble images that make up this composite. Supernova SN 2017GAX was a Type I supernova caused by the core-collapse and subsequent explosion of a giant star that went from invisible to a new light in the sky in just a matter of days. In the image above, the supernova is already fading and is visible as a small green dot just below the crook of the spiral arm on the right side. Astronomers wanted to look for any companion star that the supernova progenitor may have had — something impossible to spot beside a live supernova — so they purposefully captured this image of the fading supernova.
Text credit: European Space Agency
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, O. Fox, L. Jenkins, S. Van Dyk, A. Filippenko, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team, D. de Martin (ESA/Hubble), M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble)
For more information: science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-captures-a-galaxy...
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