Dozens of people across California have been wrongly convicted of crimes largely because of law enforcement officers’ flawed handling of eyewitness evidence. Courts have found instances of eyewitnesses feeling pressured to make an identification from a lineup even when the true culprit wasn’t present; making shaky identifications that were ultimately presented at trial as smoking-gun evidence; and choosing from lineups of photos in which some bore no resemblance to their description of the...
Engineers spent months working to repair link with Earth’s most distant spacecraft, says space agencyEarth’s most distant spacecraft, Voyager 1, has started communicating properly again with Nasa after engineers worked for months to remotely fix the 46-year-old probe.Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which makes and operates the agency’s robotic spacecraft, said in December that the probe – more than 15bn miles (24bn kilometres) away – was sending gibberish code back to Earth. Continue...
Netflix Co-CEO Greg Peters says internal viewership data from before and after the implementation of paid password sharing shows the new policy has not turned off viewers, as some had initially predicted it would. The company on Thursday reported a year-over-year jump of 9.3 million subscribers in the first quarter, in part due to the […]
Mark Zuckerberg has gone from T-shirts to glam with gold chains, fur coats, and an AI-generated image of himself with a beard. His change comes as Facebook faces a myriad of concerns.
Hammersmith Bridge has been closed for five years as politicians have repeatedly passed the buck. It’s just one example of how the British state repeatedly fails to take big decisions and see them through, says Adam Hawksbee How many politicians does it take to rebuild a bridge? In Pennsylvania, the answer is one. Last summer []
Emily Kistner, director of new business and identity solutions, Adstra The landscape of data-driven advertising is evolving at a breakneck pace, with connected TV and programmatic advertising leading the charge. Scalable identity, coupled with the adoption of machine learning, has unlocked marketers’ ability to reach increasingly specific audiences. These improvements, along with the massive COVID-era […]
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The service’s new policy empowers “mission area data officers” for warfighting, intelligence, business operations, and enterprise IT, as well as institutionalizing what have been “ad hoc” data duties across the service, David Markowitz told Breaking Defense.
Others contend that loosening things up could have dangerous consequences, and the administration should go the opposite direction.
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Machine learning is cutting through the fog in aerial dispersion of chemical threats. Understanding and predicting the dispersion and concentration of chemical warfare agents is a central factor in protecting the Joint Force. Currently, military commanders and staff plan large-scale combat operations using a best-guess method of where the enemy would place their chemical weapons on the battlefield. Reconnaissance teams in protective gear would confirm these estimates.
Although it’s been quite some time since I’ve written about Voyager, our two interstellar craft (and this is indeed what they are at present, the first to return data from beyond the heliosphere) are never far from my mind. That has been the case since 1989, when I stayed up all night for the Neptune encounter and was haunted by the idea that we were saying goodbye to these doughty travelers. Talk about naivete! Now that I know as many people in this business as I do, I should have realized...