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/ 1 year agoFace recognition technology follows a long analog history of surveillance and control based on identifying physical features
Face recognition technology follows earlier biometric surveillance techniques, including fingerprints, passport photos and iris scans. It’s the first that can be...
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/ 1 year agoMac at 40: User experience was the innovation that launched a technology revolution
Apple’s phenomenal success and the field of user experience design can be traced back to the launch of the Macintosh personal...
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/ 1 year agoI’m an artist using scientific data as an artistic medium − here’s how I make meaning
Sarah Nance uses geologic data and a variety of artistic media to help people think about their place in the landscapes...
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/ 1 year agoThe US is struggling to handle an immigration surge – here’s how Europe is dealing with its own influx
Germany and Italy are among the countries that are looking for ways to handle rises in undocumented migration and, in many...
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/ 1 year agoBoeing door plug blowout highlights a possible crisis of competence − an aircraft safety expert explains
Boeing is under increased public and government scrutiny in the wake of dangerous events that have people worried about the safety...
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/ 1 year agoBeijing may have brokered a fragile truce in northern Myanmar – but it can’t mask China’s inability to influence warring parties
Beijing is losing patience with Myanmar’s military, as well as its influence with resistance groups.
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/ 1 year agoOld forests are critically important for slowing climate change and merit immediate protection from logging
President Biden has called for protecting large, old trees from logging, but many of them could be cut while the regulatory...
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/ 1 year agoStudents in this course learn the art of the apology
Apologies can easily go awry if they’re not made in a certain way.
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/ 1 year agoLatin America’s colonial period was far less Catholic than it might seem − despite the Inquisition’s attempts to police religion
Conversion was often a violent affair, but that doesn’t mean it was 100% successful. Colonial Latin America was home to many...
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/ 1 year agoTrump defends himself to the Supreme Court, saying he called ‘for peace, patriotism, respect for law and order’ on Jan. 6 and is not an insurrectionist
The first shoe has dropped in the Supreme Court’s process of considering whether Donald Trump is eligible to be president.
