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Facial Recognition Error Sees Woman Wrongly Accused of Theft
A chain of stores called Home Bargains installed facial recognition software to spot returning shoplifters. Unfortunately, "Facewatch" made a mistake.
"We acknowledge and understand how distressing this experience must have been," an anonymous Facewatch spokesperson tells the BBC, adding that the s...
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Do People Actually Want Smart Glasses Now?
It's the technology "Google tried (and failed at) more than a decade ago," writes CNN. (And Meta and Amazon have also previously tried releasing glasses with cameras, speakers and voice assistants.)
Yet this week Snap announced that "it's building AI-equipped eyewear to be released in 2026."
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Space is the Perfect Place to Study Cancer and Someday Even Treat It
Space may be the perfect place to study cancer — and someday even treat it," writes Space.com:
On Earth, gravity slows the development of cancer because cells normally need to be attached to a surface in order to function and grow. But in space, cancer cell clusters can expand in all direc...
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Executives from Meta, OpenAI, and Palantir Commissioned Into The US Army Reserve
Meta's CTO, Palantir's CTO, and OpenAI's chief product officer are being appointed as lieutenant colonels in America's Army Reserve, reports The Register. (Along with OpenAI's former chief revenue officer).
They've all signed up for Detachment 201: Executive Innovation Corps, "an effort to recruit...
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'Ghost' Students are Enrolling in US Colleges Just to Steal Financial Aid
Here's a lesson for today's colleges from the Associated Press. Online classes + AI = financial aid fraud.
"In some cases, professors discover almost no one in their class is real..."
Fake college enrollments have been surging as crime rings deploy "ghost students" — chatbots that join onlin...
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