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06/13/2018 / By JD Heyes

Police surveillance on steroids: Drones and AI systems MERGING to create flying spy robots

We’re fans of local police and we know how difficult it is getting for the thin blue line in cities and towns all across America to maintain order in an increasingly chaotic society. But sometimes technology can turn good things — and good people — into things that aren’t so good. As they’ve gotten cheaper, […]

10/11/2016 / By resistnews

Machine logic: our lives are ruled by big tech’s ‘decisions by data’

In the early 1970s, Hannah Arendt wrote a devastating critique of the Pentagon’s Vietnam-era penchant for policy by counting. “The problem-solvers did not judge,” she wrote. “They calculated.” Article by Julia Powles Exuding the spirit of gamblers rather than statesmen, the decision-makers played “the percentage game”, counting whatever could be counted and ignoring the rest, […]

08/15/2016 / By roboticsnews

Big data and robotics: A long history together

Big data is a big deal today. Even small companies are seeing the benefits of gathering and analyzing the staggering amounts of information that are streaming in from all kinds of online sources. (Article by Bob Violino) While the term “big data” is relatively new, the concept has long been a part of the world […]

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