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Move over Blue Steel! Former NRL star Luke Burgess is now pursuing a modelling career… and reveals his ‘signature move’ for the cameras By Alisha Buaya For Daily Mail Australia Published: 00:07 GMT, 7 March 2020 | Updated: 00:07 GMT, 7 March 2020 He was a star player who scored big for the South Sydney … Read more
British scientists have launched a ‘Fireball Network’ of cameras to track meteorites striking the UK and triangulate the position of the fallen space rocks. The camera network — which will ultimately span ten different sites — will allow scientists to send out search teams to recover meteorites for analysis. Studying meteorite samples allows researchers to gain … Read more
The European Union is accused of seeking to create a network of national police facial recognition databases that could lead to ‘politically motivated surveillance’. Leaked internal documents obtained by The Intercept allegedly indicate that police forces from 10 EU member-states led by Austria had called for laws introducing and interconnecting facial recognition databases in every … Read more
Moscow will use facial recognition cameras to make sure 2,500 people in coronavirus quaratine do not leave their homes 2,500 people evacuated from China to Moscow amid coronavirus outbreak They will be quarantined in their homes and hotels for two weeks to stop spread Moscow mayor says facial recognition cameras will help keep them in … Read more
The Metropolitan Police is beginning operational use of facial recognition technology across London. It follows a number of trials of the cameras, which have been criticised by human rights campaigners as a risk to privacy. Here’s how the technology works, and why it has proved so controversial. – How does it work? Live facial recognition … Read more
US senators demand answers from airlines over why cameras have been embedded in some seat-back TV screens Jeff Merkley and John Kennedy have sent a joint letter to eight major US airlines They want to know whether the cameras could be used to monitor passengers The pair have put forward a bill to ban the … Read more