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Clearview AI Wants To Sell Its Facial Recognition Software To Authoritarian Regimes Around The World
tech A map obtained via public record request shows that the controversial facial recognition startup has expanded, or plans to expand, to 22 countries. Posted on February 5, 2020, at 6:09 p.m. ET Obtained by BuzzFeed News As legal pressures and US lawmaker scrutiny mounts, Clearview AI, the facial recognition…
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Romney’s Vote To Remove Trump From Office Sparked Rumors About The “White Horse Prophecy”
Handout / Senate Television via Getty Imag Minutes after Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney announced Wednesday that he would vote to convict President Donald Trump in the impeachment trial, Twitter users began wondering if this was Romney’s “white horse” moment. It wasn’t — and it’s far from clear whether the…
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iPhones could soon unlock and start your car, thanks to Apple’s CarKey
The number of everyday items that a smartphone is able to replace continues to grow, with cameras, media players, computers, and wallets amongst them, and soon we could be adding ‘car key’ to that list. As discovered by 9to5Mac, the recently-released beta version of iOS 13.4 for developers contains mention…
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Harley Quinn smashes her way into Fortnite in time for Birds of Prey
Following on from its Batman Day celebration in September last year, DC and Epic Games are teaming up once again to bring the ‘fantabulous’ Harley Quinn to Fortnite for a special Birds of Prey crossover event. Teased by Warner Bros. and Epic on Twitter last month, Harley Quinn’s Fortnite skin…
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OB-GYNs Are Using Reddit To Help People Who Desperately Need Advice
Isabel Seliger I spoke to a woman I’ll call “Lily” for about 12 minutes one afternoon in October. It was all the time she had. The 35-year-old mother of two is a public health official who works long hours at a women’s health clinic in central Missouri and had to…
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Unpublished writer decided to cybersquat on a famous author’s website, and it backfired
An enterprising cybersquatter who is not Patrick deWitt has commandeered patrickdewitt.net in an attempt to attract attention for their own novel (via Willamette Week). And while the squatter has backed off some of his more audacious demands by scrubbing them from the website, screenshots and archived versions of the site…
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