Powered by iSpeech Emily Birnbaum | The Hill | Source URL A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that internet giants like Google and Facebook can censor content on their platforms, rebuking arguments from conservatives who claim the tech companies violate users’ First Amendment rights by removing certain messages or videos. With its unanimous […]
Text to Speech Michael Peck | The National Interest | Source URL As militaries around the world race to develop powerful combat lasers, the Pentagon has something else in mind. It wants to destroy those lasers. The U.S. military worries that high energy lasers (appropriately known as HEL) weapons can […]
https://www.ispeech.org Ciara McGrath | The Daily Express | Source URL Tempest, a sixth-generation fighter jet, will fly into battle accompanied by a swarm of wingmen similar to drones, and will be equipped with hypersonic and laser weapons. Over the last five years Rolls-Royce has been pioneering world-first technology that will […]
iSpeech Garfield Benjamin | Solent University | The Conversation | Source URL The UK is currently witnessing a tug of war over facial recognition. On the streets of London and in South Wales, live systems have been deployed by the police, supported by the UK government. But in the Scottish […]
iSpeech.org Drew Harwell, Erin Cox | The Washington Post | Source URL U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have been permitted to run facial-recognition searches on millions of Maryland driver’s license photos without first seeking state or court approval, state officials said – access that goes far beyond what other […]
Text to Speech Voices Joe Pinkstone | The Daily Mail | Source URL Chinese companies specialising in facial recognition have upgraded the technology to identify people wearing masks in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. Chinese company SenseTime, described as ‘the most valuable AI startup in the world’ and worth […]
british text to speech Martin Robinson | The Daily Mail | Source URL US spies hatched a plot to kidnap or even poison Julian Assange using shady Spanish private detectives after he leaked 250,000 top secret documents online, his extradition hearing was told yesterday. The WikiLeaks founder’s human rights barrister Edward Fitzgerald, […]
text to speech Jordain Carney | The Hill | Source URL Momentum is growing in Congress to reject the Trump administration’s request to reauthorize a controversial surveillance program. Lawmakers have until March 15 to reauthorize expiring provisions under the USA Freedom Act, including a controversial phone records program known as […]
iSpeech.org Zack Budryk | The Hill | Source URL A National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program that accessed American citizens’ domestic phone calls and text messages resulted in only one investigation between 2015 and 2019 despite costing $100 million, a newly declassified study found. The report, which was produced by […]
Text to Speech Voices Alfred Ng | cNet | Source URL A technology used in a number of prisons is tracking students now too. Teachers often lament that phones can be a distraction in classrooms. Some governments have even banned phones outright in schools. But a few school administrations see phones […]
Powered by iSpeech James Pero | The Daily Mail | Source URL A new software solution may put an end to obscuring your laptop’s built-in camera with tape. A YouTube video posted by Jason Mayes, a Google Web Engineer, shows off an algorithm that eliminates humans from a webcam feed […]
iSpeech.org Rapporteur warns against trivialising psychological torture as states exploit internet to target individuals Owen Bowcott | The Guardian | Source URL Psychological torture is being exploited by states to circumvent the more widely understood ban on physically inflicting pain and may open the way to a future of “cybertorture”, […]
