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Wales Police Begin Using a Facial-Recognition Phone App
"There are concerns human rights will be breached," reports the BBC, as Wales police forces launch a facial-recognition app that "will allow officers to use their phones to confirm someone's identity."
The app, known as Operator Initiated Facial Recognition (OIFR), has already been tested by 70 of...
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Was the US Telecom Breach Inevitable, Proving Backdoors Can't Be Secure?
America's 1994 "Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act" (or CALEA) created the security hole that helped enable a massive telecomm breach. But now America's FBI "is falling back on the same warmed-over, bad advice about encryption that it has trotted out for years," argues the Intercept:
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Why a Bacteria Can Withstand Radiation Which Would Kill a Human
Long-time Slashdot reader smooth wombat writes: Scientist have unlocked the secret to a bacteria dubbed 'Conan the Bacterium' which is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most radiant-resistant life-form. Deinococcus radiodurans can withstand radiation doses 28,000 times greater than...
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Waymo Robotaxis Pass Emergency Vehicle Review. But One Got Stuck in a Roundabout
An anonymous reader shared this report from The Verge:
Waymo's driverless vehicles can detect emergency vehicles, know how to respond to hand signals for traffic cops, and can be disabled manually when something goes wrong, according to an independent review of the company's first responder protoco...
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Donald Bitzer, a Pioneer of Cyberspace and Plasma Screens, Dies At 90
The Washington Post reports:
Years before the internet was created and the first smartphones buzzed to life, an educational platform called PLATO offered a glimpse of the digital world to come. Launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [UIUC], it was the first generalized, ...
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