Algorithms · March 2023Gaffe level: Typo
She walked five miles across Manhattan to find stores secretly scanning faces
Kashmir Hill walked five miles around Manhattan to find which businesses scan your face with facial recognition. The answer: several, and nobody has to tell you. Smile, you are on the store's camera and in its database.
Source: The New York Times
AI Cameras and New Satellites Are Spotting California Wildfires Before People Do
ALERTCalifornia's network of nearly 1,300 AI-watched cameras detected just over half of the state's wildfires before any human reported them this past summer. California has also launched the first three FireSat satellites, the start of a constellation built to catch fires while they are still the size of a schoolyard.
Source: PetaPixel