At least 45 companies now advertise real-time facial recognition. From a report: More than a decade before Spotify, and years before iTunes, there was RealPlayer, the first mainstream solution to playing and streaming media to a PC. Launched in 1995, within five years RealPlayer claimed a staggering 95 million users. […] RealPlayer is still very much alive. Now called RealNetworks, a…
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Turkey is getting military drones armed with machine guns
Many countries and groups already use military drones, but Turkey is about to be the first to have a military drone armed with a machine gun Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2227168-turkey-is-getting-military-drones-armed-with-machine-guns/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Ex-Google Engineer Says That Robot Weapons May Cause Accidental Mass Killings
“A former Google engineer who worked on the company’s infamous military drone project has sounded a warning against the building of killer robots,” reports Business Insider. Long-time Slashdot reader sandbagger quotes their report: Laura Nolan had been working at Google four years when she was recruited to its collaboration with the US Department of Defense, known as Project Maven, in 2017,…