Wildlife photographers sometimes set up camera traps to capture images of elusive animals. Former NASA engineer Mark Rober recently spent months creating
Source: petapixel.com/2018/12/18/ex-nasa-engineer-builds-glitter-fart-camera-trap-for-package-thieves/
As technology transforms the nature of work in California, how do people most at risk find their way to new jobs?
Source: www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-next-california-work/
China, India, Singapore, Japan, and other nations have seen substantial increases in venture-capital investment in their startup companies.
Source: www.citylab.com/life/2018/10/america-losing-its-edge-startups/572323/
What are some things that only someone who has been programming 20-50 years would know? This question was originally answered on Quora by John Byrd.
Source: www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/09/20/what-do-older-programmers-know-that-younger-ones-dont/amp/
The EU has a new data protection law, the so-called GDPR, the General Data Protection Regulation, or as we Germans like to call it: “Datenschutzgrundverordnung” (Gesundheit!). The rules took effect on May 25th and so far it’s pretty chaotic: in the EU we cannot reach some newspapers in the outside world because they
Source: petapixel.com/2018/05/30/how-bad-is-gdpr-for-photographers/
American police have been reluctant to use systems that can scan live video for the faces of “persons of interest.” Amazon wants to change that with a cheaper, cloud-based version of the technology.
Source: www.npr.org/2018/05/22/613115969/orlando-police-testing-amazons-real-time-facial-recognition
One citizen demands: “Do you know why Oakland is spying on me and my wife?”
It can be done but it’s not easy.
Photographer David Slater has won his legal battle over that monkey selfie. A US appeals court ruled Monday that US copyright law doesn’t allow animals to file copyright infringement lawsuits. The decision, made by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, upheld a lower-court ruling that previously
Source: petapixel.com/2018/04/24/photographer-wins-monkey-selfie-copyright-case-court-slams-peta/
Consumer Reports explains how Facebook tracks consumers across many websites, gathering data even if you who don’t have a Facebook or Instagram account.
Source: www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-facebook-tracks-you-even-when-youre-not-on-facebook/