Month: May 2020
Facebook won’t take any action on Trump’s post about shootings in Minnesota
Facebook will not remove or take any other action on a President Trump post that Twitter removed for “glorifying violence,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Friday. “I know many people are upset that we’ve left the President’s posts up, but our position is that we should enable as much expression as…
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Another SpaceX Starship prototype explodes after an engine test
While the next launch attempt for Crew Dragon is still set for tomorrow afternoon in Florida, in Texas SpaceX is busy working on its Starship project. This afternoon the company appeared to successfully complete a static fire test on the SN4 prototyp… Source
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We’re Keeping A Running List Of Hoax And Misleading Posts About The Minneapolis Protests
The death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who said he couldn’t breathe as his neck was knelt on by a Minneapolis police officer, has sparked protests all over the country. As they gained traction, so did online hoaxes and disinformation about them. BuzzFeed News is keeping a running…
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Facial Recognition, License Readers And Camera Scanners: Here Are The Surveillance Tools Used By The Minneapolis Police Department
The Minneapolis Police Department has a wide breadth of surveillance technologies which could be used to monitor and target protestors — including controversial facial recognition software Clearview AI, license plate readers, body cameras, and video analysis tools. The department and law enforcement in neighboring cities have a history of surveilling…
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As wildfire season approaches, AI could pinpoint risky regions using satellite imagery
The U.S. has suffered from devastating wildfires over the last few years as global temperatures rise and weather patterns change, making the otherwise natural phenomenon especially unpredictable and severe. To help out, Stanford researchers have found a way to track and predict dry, at-risk areas using machine learning and satellite…
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PS4 YouTube error code NP-37602-8 is causing sign-in issues – but a fix is coming
If you’ve tried to use the YouTube app on PS4 recently, you’ve probably noticed that you’re being signed out, and that signing in again prompts an error code: NP-37602-8. Searching PlayStation Support when you get the error prompt yields no results, which is annoying, but now the issue is known…
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