Bodycams on police officers capture everything from traffic stops to welfare checks and active shootings, producing millions of hours of footage. America's largest police camera provider has around 100 petabytes of footage stored, which is the equivalent of 5,000 years of high-definition video. Some companies are offering AI as a solution. @ProPublica investigates.
#Japan SLIM moon lander achieved a significant milestone by entering #lunar orbit on #Christmas Day. The 8.8-foot-long spacecraft is set to attempt a historic lunar touchdown on January 19, aiming for precise landing technology advancements. Success could open doors for more ambitious exploration efforts and resource-scarce planetary landings in the future.
University of Sydney researchers combine photonic filter and modulator on a chip using Brillouin scattering, advancing toward replacing electronic RF chips with compact, high-resolution photonic chips for fiber optic networks.
Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau vows to pressure Meta to comply with the new Online News Act, requiring large tech firms to pay Canadian news publishers. Meta chose to block news sharing instead of paying. Google agreed to pay C$100 million annually.
Great article by the ABC's Jack Ryan talking about #generativeAI and its #copyright consequences - especially how the existing #law has failed to keep pace with #EmergingTech
My take is that we need to start thinking about #DataTrusts - where #data is kept in trust and released only for the purposes approved by data owners - and which could facilitate payment for that data ...