The Year 2018

VIDEO GRANDPA

Some stuff happened in 2018. We largely can’t remember it. Google helps.

Video Grandpa – Podcast 171

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The News

UT Sets Scooter Rules

Taylor Swift used facial recognition to track her stalkers at a concert

She knew you were trouble when you walked in.

QuartzDave Gershgorn

24 Amazon Workers Hospitalized After Robot Punctures Bear Spray In Warehouse

One worker was in critical condition and 30 more were sickened and treated on the scene after a robot-related accident.

ViceJordan Pearson

Lund professor freed student from Islamic State war zone

A chemistry professor at Lund University dispatched a team of mercenaries into an Islamic State (also known as IS, Isis or Daesh) war zone to free one of her doctoral students and his family.

The LocalThe Local

Amazon’s Disturbing Plan to Add Face Surveillance to Your Front Door

Recently, a patent application from Amazon became public that would pair face surveillance — like Rekognition, the product that the company is aggressively marketing to police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement — with Ring, a doorbell camera company that Amazon bought earlier this year.While th…

American Civil Liberties UnionJacob Snow

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