Author: Zach_Wilson
Aurora is finally ready to show the world what it’s been up to
Aurora, the self-driving car company founded by former Waymo engineer Chris Urmson, doesn’t do dog and pony shows. It doesn’t trot out its vehicles just to prove they exist or take journalists for test drives to demonstrate that the technology actually works. In fact, in the three years since Aurora…
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Can the new Call of Duty League be the NFL of competitive gaming?
The Minneapolis Armory was home to the Lakers during the ‘50s, later became the site of iconic Prince and Aerosmith music videos, and in 1985, was designated to the US’s National Register of Historic Places. This weekend, however, it’ll be the scene for something very different: a glimpse at the…
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What is Amazon EC2?
What if you could pay by the second for all of your computing needs? That’s a question Amazon has answered by offering Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) since it launched way back in 2006. Easily one of the most well-known service offerings from Amazon (perhaps second only to Simple Storage Service…
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An adult sexting site exposed thousands of models’ passports and driver licenses
A popular sexting website has exposed thousands of photo IDs belonging to models and sex workers who earn commissions from the site. SextPanther, an Arizona-based adult site, stored more than 11,000 identity documents on an exposed Amazon Web Services (AWS) storage bucket, including passports, driver licenses and Social Security numbers,…
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Facial recognition startup fends off accuracy doubts and legal claims after NYT report
Clearview AI, an artificial intelligence firm providing facial recognition technology to US law enforcement, may be overstating how effective its services are in catching terrorist suspects and preventing attacks, according to a report from BuzzFeed News. The company, which gained widespread recognition from a New York Times report published earlier…
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The App Store is down
Midday on Friday it appeared that Apple’s App Store, a critical piece of the digital and mobile economies, struggled with uptime issues. Apple’s own status page indicated that the application vendor was having an “ongoing” issue that affected “some users.” The company said that it was investigating the issue, according…
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