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Asshat Foler
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Tuco
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These tree-planting drones are firing seed missiles to restore the world’s forests
In Myanmar, a major project is under way: restore coastal mangrove forests—with a little air support.
www.fastcompany.com
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Kiroy
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very interesting when he mentioned they weren't allowed to kick them sideways to show balance anymore, I wonder if it's already an issue with emotional attachment and blow back from people watching the videos
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Tuco
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Maybe. I'm sure they test impact-response still even if they don't do it with a human in the loop.
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There's a use-case for this for sure, but I'd like to see it perform on a more realistic truck load with a higher variety of boxes, weights etc. It's also hard to see how much any of those boxes weigh.
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Facial recognition wrongly identifies public as potential criminals 96% of time in London
14-year-old black schoolboy among those wrongly fingerprinted after being misidentified
www.independent.co.uk
People are worried about face tracking, but it really is hard to perform facial identification with massive data-sets. When you're talking about a searching database with say, 10k fugitives and an input of hundreds of thousands of people a day, you're going to get so many false positives that the system won't be useful. I literally have no idea how it'd be possible in really homogeneous areas.
I think you really need a much more involved system for this where facial identification is just one part of it. The bigger part is personal-tracking where false positives can be automatically filtered. Ex: I'm walking to the local taco bell and a cam picks up a false positive off me and thinks I'm "Johnny Fat-face McCohnne", but references GPS hits on cell-phones in the area, finds me and sees enough of a match for my face that it removes the match.
Cameras, computing power, algorithms are only getting better, and people are only getting more accepting of big brother with each generation. I can definitely see a future where the govt subsidizes internet connectivity in exchange for you signing away your 4th amendment rights. Enough people do that and you get a comprehensive tracking network that can be used to filter people. Shit I'd probably do it right now and kind of already am by using Google's free services to market to me.
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Las Vegas is about to take a gamble on Musk’s Boring Company
Contract for Tesla-powered underground system reveals lofty goals for a company whose founder is known for missing deadlines
khorum
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Sounds meh. Prolly gonna be some blinged out tourist thing with LED display walls and shit then.
In other news, Ford's recent layoffs is actually related to a long-term transition to self-driving vehicles with a particular focus on leveraging Ford's advantage in fleet sales.
One of the things is with 3PL retail delivery... which now features bipedal robots from Agility Robotics. But the best part is that ford will deploy those robots like the dumb battle droids from star wars episode 1:
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