Technology
to help you break the law.
Google Maps
wants to help you avoid that speeding ticket
… Google’s navigation app, Google Maps, is
starting to roll out speed
limit and speed
trap features, according to AndroidPolice.com.
With the speed limit feature, drivers using Google
Maps will be shown the post speed limit of the road they’re driving
on in the lower left side of the app. Speed traps are designated
with a small camera icon and shown on the visible area of the map.
AndroidPolice’s source also reports that Google Maps provides an
audio warning for drivers when they are approaching a speed trap.
(Related) He could have used it three years ago…
Hitman
convicted thanks to fitness watch location data
An alleged hitman has learned hard lessons about
the the value
of GPS data on fitness watches. A Liverpool jury has
found Mark Fellows guilty of the 2015 murder of mob boss Paul
Massey in part thanks to location info from the accused's Garmin
Forerunner. An expert inspecting the watch's info discovered
that Fellows had recorded a 35-minute trip that took him to a field
just outside Massey's home ahead of the murder. He appeared to be
scouting the route he would take later to perform the hit, a claim
supported by cell site and CCTV evidence showing Fellows driving his
car past Massey's house numerous times in the week before the
slaying.
Massey's murder had gone unsolved until the 2018
killing of his associate John Kinsella, where surveillance footage
showed Fellows biking a similar scouting route before pulling the
trigger. That led law enforcement to see if there were any
connections to the Massey case. Fellows
had a GPS jammer in his car when police investigated in
2018, suggesting that he knew enough to avoid location data at some
point – just not while he was scouting Massey three years earlier.
I know lots of smart people. Maybe I should start
an Institute? Do you think this one is there to provide Facebook
with an “academic” justification?
Facebook
backs Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence with $7.5
million
Facebook will donate $7.5 million for the creation
of The Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence, a research
center being made to explore topics such as transparency and
accountability in medical treatment and human rights in human-AI
interaction.
… Like initiatives undertaken by other AI
research think tanks, the Institute for Ethics in Artificial
Intelligence will work to share its research through conferences and
symposiums with the wider community of AI practitioners.
Perspective.
The future
of voice assistants like Alexa and Siri isn’t just in homes —
it’s in cars
As smart
speakers take off in the home, it’s important to note that cars
are an even bigger market for voice assistants. Some 77 million US
adults use voice assistants in their cars at least monthly, compared
with 45.7 million using them on smart speakers, according to a new
survey from voice tech publication Voicebot.ai.
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