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Clearview AI Lured Rich Investors by Letting Them Rummage Around in Its Creepy Face Recognition App Clearview

Clearview AI Lured Rich Investors by Letting Them Rummage Around in Its Creepy Face Recognition App

Clearview AI founder Hoan Ton-That.Screenshot: PBSCreepy facial recognition firm Clearview AI—which claims to have built an extensive database from billions of photos scraped from the public web—allowed the rich and powerful to use its app as a personal plaything and spy tool, according to reporting from the New York Times…
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March 5, 2020
What Their Ever-Changing ‘Consultations’ Tell Us About China-Russia Relations Korean Peace Talks

What Their Ever-Changing ‘Consultations’ Tell Us About China-Russia Relations

China Power | Diplomacy | East Asia The vice-ministerial talks touch on THAAD, the Korean Peninsula, and (implicitly) soft balancing. Russian, left, and Chinese flags sit on a table before a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, June 8, 2018. Credit: AP Photo/Mark SchiefelbeinThat China and Russia have been…
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March 5, 2020
The Democratic Party Destroyed Its Own Chances in 1972. Today’s Democrats Could Learn From That Year’s Mistakes Cold War

The Democratic Party Destroyed Its Own Chances in 1972. Today’s Democrats Could Learn From That Year’s Mistakes

In retrospect, Richard Nixon was certain to win re-election in 1972. The economy was recovering from a recession during his first two years in office, he had wound down the Vietnam War, and his trips to Beijing and Moscow, transforming and defusing the Cold War, were enormously popular. Yet he…
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March 5, 2020
Moravec‘s Paradox

One view is that in the world of abundance we would all act as the British upper class acted, as portrayed in the books off Jane Austen. But even there the fear of descending in the class hierarchy—of failing to marry well, or marrying a husband whose gambling and debauchery…
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March 5, 2020
5 European nations condemn latest North Korea missile tests Korean Peace Talks

5 European nations condemn latest North Korea missile tests

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council discussed North Korea’s latest ballistic missile tests Thursday and didn’t issue any statement but its five European members condemned the “provocative actions,” saying the test undermine regional and international peace, security and stability.Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, who called…
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March 5, 2020