Ring camera’s Super Bowl ad revealed a new feature that allows AI to use people’s home camera feeds to find lost dogs in the neighborhood.
Now people are terrified, asking lots of questions, and having second thoughts about using Ring cameras at all. Let’s watch and react. Here’s more from Amala Ekpunobi.
Josh Sigurdson reports from inside a quickly-developing 15-minute city in Oxfordsire, England, complete with bollards and cameras in the streets, blocking cars from entering.
Sigurdson says that under the guise of environmentalism, ambulances and every other car will drive farther to get around. He adds that roads are blocked with wooden bollards under lock and key from central Oxford to the popular Cowley Street. Others are blocked with bollards that move up and down based on codes sent from phones. “It’s just the beginning of the World Economic Forum’s end goal for 15-minute cities,” Sigurdson says. Here’s more.
An eyewitness on the set of the film Rust, when Alec Baldwin accidently shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, told The Sun that the tragedy was recorded on camera as the cast and crew did a take rehearsing the scene.
The insider claimed, “The camera was facing Alec, who was shooting in the camera’s general direction during a rehearsal scene that was being recorded. The cameras captured Alec shooting, but Halyna and Joel (Souza, director) were behind the camera, so I don’t think the cameras captured them being shot.” He said cameras, lights and props were damaged from the gunfire, with broken glass everywhere, so it is unclear if the footage would be salvable.
Contrary to the insider’s comments, H.A. Goodman is reporting the footage was saved on the Cloud. Goodman says the fact that the camera was destroyed is irrelevant in this day and age, since everything recorded is instantaneously sent to the Cloud or some other internet service. “The more you look into this, nothing makes sense,” Goodman says. “It’s either absolute incompetence or some kind of deliberate act, or something very bizarre.” Here’s more.
You have already seen the private security footage that sparked the manhunt of the two Boston terrorism suspects, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The footage shows the value of cameras in fighting terrorism.
After the images were released by the FBI, representative Peter King of New York praised surveillance cameras, calling them, “a great law enforcement method and device,” and New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said, “The more cameras the better and I think the privacy issue has really been taken off the table.”
But civil liberties advocates like Peter Bibring of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California say that there is a big difference between obtaining private security footage and government-run cameras like those praised by Rep. King and Commissioner Kelly. H/T Reason.TV
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The origins of the cameras we use today were invented in the 19th century. Or were they? A millenia before, Arab scientist Alhazen was using the camera obscura to duplicate images, with Leonardo da Vinci following suit 500 years later and major innovations beginning in the 19th century. Eva Timothy tracks the trajectory from the most rudimentary cameras to the sophisticated cameras in use today. H/T TEDEducation
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