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“If you live in New York City, pay the New York City price. It sucks, I get it. Insurance is expensive here, but that’s the deal.” Even a “slow’ August week in New York City is stuffed with stories about who pays and who benefits, and about who’s watching who.  Co-hosts Katie Honan and Harry Siegel […]

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Flock Safety is happy it’s the go-to choice for tons of law enforcement agencies. While it does suffer some occasional bleeding, its supercharged automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) — ones that not only capture plates, but pictures of drivers/passengers and full vehicle images to capture any other distinctive features — are so widely deployed they’re […]

When the image is the bottleneck: Machine learning changed what a container image looks like. A typical application ships in

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“I guess all crime could be eliminated if you put cameras everywhere, surveillance everywhere, and had drones patrolling the skies [...] but what life are we living then?”

“Senator Jon Ossoff delivered a blistering attack on Donald Trump from a Black pulpit near Atlanta, casting his gaze beyond his Senate opponent to the U.S. president as the Georgia Democrat campaigns for a second term this November,” Bloomberg reports. “He made no mention of his Republican Senate opponent, Representative Mike Collins, instead telling the […]

“President Donald Trump won court permission to revise his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corp. by excluding his earlier claim that a 12-second clip in a documentary caused massive financial damage to his business,” Bloomberg reports. “The ruling by U.S. District Judge Roy K. Altman in Miami could spare Trump’s sprawling real […]

This afternoon, Emine Yücel, Josh Kovensky and John Light will join me on our YouTube channel to discuss their investigation...

Immigration officials are rapidly increasing their collection of genetic material.

RFK Jr ignores a question on cyclospora and salmonella

Mark Zuckerberg has a long essay today, basically an expansion of the op-ed he wrote recently. On personal agents:

It will have strong privacy and security options so you can trust it to handle all of your personal content knowing that no one else can access your information, similar to how encryption works on WhatsApp. You’ll be able to interact with your agent through any device, including your glasses to keep you present in the moment with the people you care about.

Practically in the same breath: privacy and AI glasses! People just don’t trust Meta with this.

Fox's Maria Bartiromo took her turn trying to polish that giant turd that is the Trump economy. Never mind how average working Americans are feeling, her CEO buddies are telling her the economy is wonderful and the stock market is booming, so that means everything is going ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Reading scores sank in New York City last school year, with a nearly 14 percentage point decline among third graders, according to preliminary data released Friday. Among students in grades 3-8, about half were proficient in reading, a decline of 6 percentage points. That […]

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Back-to-school season often means shopping for backpacks, notebooks, and maybe even a new ride. For a growing number of families, that ride is an electric bike.

And I’m all for it. Giving teenagers the freedom to get themselves to school, sports practice, or a friend’s house without needing a car is one of the best things e-bikes can offer. But just like we’d encourage a new driver to wear a seatbelt, young e-bike riders should be equipped with the right protective gear too.