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So will this gun detection AI only detect white tech guys? And movies being filming on location.

Research indicates self driving car AI may have trouble seeing people of color. Not sure how much is the whiteness of the data set and how much is detection issues with reflection of light and detection of darker skin tones.

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How common is this problem?

Novel idea to use light poles in cities to host all sorts of services for the public. One of the proposed use cases is searching for buried bodies. First thought was how often will killers be burying bodies by the light poles unless they didn’t bring a flashlight.

With a reread after the spit take, I realize the intent was after disasters, but in that case won’t the poles near the incident also be affected and unable to be used to search for bodies.

SLaaP—Street Lamps as a Platform

I wish the research team well and hope they “Don’t Stop Believing”

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Have your people call my people.

Google is adding the ability for pixel phones to handle being on hold and give you a notification when someone comes on the line.

Google Hold For Me

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Won’t someone think of the children

China has returned fire for the Tik Tok sanction talk by blocking access to MIT’s Scratch learning language. The claim is “humiliation” for the appearance of these items in country drop down boxes.

  • Hong Kong
  • Taiwan
  • Macau

And of course there is a Chinese clone of Scratch (kitten) available.