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Texas airport to get a 420-pound security robot | Tech Reader
San Antonio international airport in Texas is deploying a 420-pound autonomous robot to bolster its security operations.
The 5-feet-4-inch K5 robot, built by California-based Knightscope, will be rolled out...
Eric Schmidt Is Building the Perfect AI War-Fighting Machine
Schmidt became CEO of Google in 2001, when the search engine had a few hundred employees and was barely making money. He stepped away from Alphabet in 2017 after building...
China Is the World’s Biggest Face Recognition Dealer
Early last year, the government of Bangladesh began weighing an offer from an unnamed Chinese company to build a smart city on the Bay of Bengal with infrastructure enhanced by artificial...
Cyber Warefare Is Getting Real
In 2022, an American dressed in his pajamas took down North Korea’s internet from his living room. Fortunately, there was no reprisal against the United States. But Kim Jong...
The ‘Surveillance Solutionism’ of Putting Cameras in NYC Subways
“You think Big Brother’s watching you on the subways?” New York Governor Kathy Hochul said at a news conference at a Queens subway yard on September 20. “You’re...
The Russian Spy in My Econ Class
Earlier this summer, the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) said it had intercepted a Russian military intelligence officer who was posing as Viktor (sometimes Victor) Muller...
