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ICE Plans to Develop Own Smart Glasses to ‘Supplement’ Its Facial Recognition App
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ICE Plans to Develop Own Smart Glasses to ‘Supplement’ Its Facial Recognition App

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is exploring developing a pair of smart glasses that would “supplement” the agency’s facial recognition Mobile Fortify application, which lets officers scan someone’s face to verify their citizenship, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official. Another person who attended a conference where a senior ICE official spoke about…

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Scientists Gave ‘Aggressive’ Fish Psychedelic Drugs. A Breakthrough Came Next

Move over, coked-up salmon. Fish dosed with psilocybin, the psychoactive component found in magic mushrooms, showed less aggression toward peers compared to their normal behavior in laboratory experiments, according to a study published on Thursday in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Scientists have studied the effects of psilocybin on humans and a variety of other mammals,…

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Podcast: Flock Used Cameras at a Children’s Gymnastics Center for a Sales Pitch

This week we start with Jason’s story about Flock accessing cameras in a children’s gymnastics room as a sale pitch demo. After the break, Emanuel tells us why Nature retracted a paper about the alleged benefits of ChatGPT in education. In the subscibers-only section, we talk all about the cancellation of RightsCon after pressure from the Chinese…

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The AI Hard Drive Shortage Is Making It More Expensive and Harder to Archive the Internet

Skyrocketing hard drive and storage costs caused by the AI data center boom are making it more expensive and more difficult for digital archivists, academics, Wikipedia, and hobby data hoarders to save data and archive the internet. Specific drives favored by some high profile organizations like the Internet Archive have become far more expensive or…

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