👨 Clearview AI's facial-recognition technology is being used by a special US Army unit that investigates serious crimes
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Clearview AI's facial-recognition technology is being used by a special US Army unit that investigates serious crimes. Clearview AI signed a contract with the Army's CID unit, according to documents Insider obtained. The controversial facial-recognition company gave the Army a discount price of $1,000 per license. (Caroline Haskins via Business Insider)
Can this sun-reflecting fabric help fight climate change?. In 2020, a graduate student from Zhejiang University in China donned a seemingly plain white vest and sat in the direct sunlight for one hour. A few feet away, researchers monitored his body temperature with infrared cameras and sensors on his… (Jess Craig via WIRED)
A new NSO zero-click attack evades Apple's iPhone security protections, says Citizen Lab. A Bahraini human rights activist’s iPhone was silently hacked earlier this year by a powerful spyware sold to nation-states, defeating new security protections that Apple designed to withstand covert compromises, say researchers at Citizen Lab. (Zack Whittaker via TechCrunch)
FDA grants full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid shot, clearing path to more vaccine mandates. The Food and Drug Administration on Monday granted full approval to Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine – becoming the first in the U.S. to win the coveted designation and giving even more businesses, schools and universities greater confidence to adopt vaccine mandates. (Berkeley Lovelace Jr. via CNBC)
South African Unemployment Rate Rises to Highest in the World. Official unemployment at 34.4% versus 32.6% in first quarter Finance industry lost 278,000 jobs in three months to June 30 South Africa's unemployment rate surged to the highest on a global list of 82 countries monitored by Bloomberg. (Prinesha Naidoo via Bloomberg)
Instagram is retiring the swipe up. The swipe-up will be no more. Instagram is seemingly planning to retire the feature, which allows people to visit external webpages by swiping up, starting August 30th, according to a notification viewed by The Verge. (Ashley Carman via The Verge)
Escape From Afghanistan. For the past 10 days, thousands of private citizens have been working around the clock, through informal networks of friends and colleagues, to organize evacuation flights from Afghanistan to countries like Albania and Kyrgyzstan, and to help… (George Packer via The Atlantic)
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