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Boffin behind NASA Mission Control signs off for final time • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- July 23, 2019
Obit Chris Kraft, who created the concept of NASA’s Mission Control, died yesterday aged 95. Born in Phoebus, Virginia, on 28 February 1924, Christopher Columbus Kraft joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1945 following his graduation. Armed with a degree in Aeronautical Engineering, Kraft was a good fit for the organisation. Describing
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Oakland bans it, activists track it, and pics taken from dating-site OkCupid feed it • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- July 22, 2019
Roundup Hello, welcome to this week’s roundup of news in the ever encroaching world of AI and machine learning. We’ll be talking about everyone’s favorite topic at the moment: facial recognition. First San Francisco, Somerville … now Oakland: California’s Oakland has become the third US city to ban its local government using facial recognition technology,
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Hacker of iCloud accounts used by athletes and rappers • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- July 20, 2019
A man from the US state of Georgia who pleaded guilty in March to breaking into the Apple iCloud accounts of sports and entertainment figures was sentenced on Thursday to three years and one month in federal prison – and ordered to pay almost $700,000 in restitution. Kwamaine Jerell Ford was indicted in April, 2018,
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Those facial recognition trials in the UK? They should be banned, warns Parliamentary committee • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- July 18, 2019
The government should slap a “moratorium on the current use of facial recognition technology, with “no further trials” until there is legal framework in place, a Parliamentary committee has warned today. In an excoriating report (PDF), the Science and Technology Committee expressed a series of concerns over the government’s approach to biometrics and forensics. Norman
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No support for CloudEvents standard as AWS does its own thing with EventBridge • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- July 16, 2019
We’d love to support the standard, says XML inventor Tim Bray – but why not adopt ours instead? Ten launch buddies for AWS EventBridge Amazon Web Services has gone live with an upgrade of its CloudWatch Events service, EventBridge, which has integration with third-party SaaS applications built in. EventBridge is not really a new service,
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Robo-marines, and fisticuffs over facial recognition in Detroit • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- July 15, 2019
Roundup Hello, here’s a few announcements from the world of machine learning beyond what we’ve already covered this week. AlphaStar is coming out to play: AlphaStar, the StarCraft II-playing bot built by DeepMind researchers, will be facing human players in a series of 1v1 games online. StarCraft II players can enter the open competition league
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