“When British police used facial recognition cameras to monitor crowds arriving for a soccer match in Wales, some fans protested by covering their faces,” reports the Associated Press. “In a sign of the technology’s divisiveness, even the head of a neighboring police force said he opposed it.” The South Wales police deployed vans equipped with the technology outside Cardiff stadium this…
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Tony Brooker, Pioneer of Computer Programming, Dies At 94
Cade Metz from The New York Times pays tribute to Tony Brooker, the mathematician and computer scientist who designed the programming language for the world’s first commercial computer. Brooker died on Nov. 20 at the age of 94. From the report: Mr. Brooker had been immersed in early computer research at the University of Cambridge when one day, on his way…