A glob and a stellar nursery

Massimo Di Fusco, taken via Chilescope NGC 6727 is a reflection nebula and star-forming region in Corona Australis, part of the larger Corona Australis Molecular Cloud. It is accompanied in this image bygGlobular cluster NGC 6723, sometimes called the Chandelier Cluster. This wide-field portrait combines 54 minutes of RGB exposure […]

Why do South Koreans love AI so much?

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. When I landed in Seoul after a grueling 12-hour flight from San Francisco, I walked through an unmanned immigration checkpoint, where a machine scanned my face and […]

Taxi-hailing app Go’s shares grew 21% in its Tokyo debut, after raising $553M in Japan’s largest IPO this year, giving the company a market value of ~$1.16B (Yasutaka Tamura/Bloomberg)

Yasutaka Tamura / Bloomberg: Taxi-hailing app Go’s shares grew 21% in its Tokyo debut, after raising $553M in Japan’s largest IPO this year, giving the company a market value of ~$1.16B  —  Taxi-hailing app provider Go Inc.’s shares surged 21% in its trading debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on […]