“The in-depth investigation by the Times revealed many details about how Google uses its in-house database — called Sensorvault — to cooperate with law enforcement. Using the database, Google is able to provide police with the data of phones from a specific time and location.”
“Many existing sports have their roots in hundreds (if not thousands) of years of human tradition. But what if you asked computers to create a sport? You now know how that can turn out. The design agency AKQA has introduced Speedgate, reportedly the first sport envisioned by an AI.”
“When detectives in a Phoenix suburb arrested a warehouse worker in a murder investigation last December, they credited a new technique with breaking open the case after other leads went cold.”
“With increased pressure to bend to the calls for consumer privacy, corporations and governments are doubling down on regulations to block third-party technology that targets consumers.”
“So how rich was the Dutch East India Company? If you’re wondering what paid for all those nice canals and houses in Amsterdam, Leiden and Utrecht. Well, this image might explain it all a bit.”
“My daughter, a high schooler, heard me chatting with a client last week and asked me, “Why do you keep going on and on about GSQL and something called the accumulators? What’s the big deal?” As I thought about the best way to explain accumulators, a key feature in TigerGraph’s graph query language -“
“”Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever,” said Aaron Siskand. The respected US photographer, who died in 1991, had no inkling that many of the world’s pictures would never see the light of day.”
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