Year: 2020

“Despite this, the Met calls the technology “tried and tested,” and says the algorithms it uses from biometric firm NEC identify 70 percent of wanted suspects and only generate false alerts for one in every 1,000 cases.”

2020 is really shaping up as the beginning of the end > London’s Met Police switches on live facial recognition, flying in face of human rights concerns https://t.co/dRqwL0dNeU

@Joshisforreal I don’t think I can 🙂

Believe or not, this is directly connected to one of the biggest failures I’ve ever witnessed during my career in IT. Sometimes, you simply don’t have the skills to recognize a duck (even without a deepfake). https://t.co/r82rp79MwR

25 million public datasets. This is exceptional, @google > Google’s Dataset Search comes out of beta https://t.co/xWbiCOEPPR

Congrats @Snyksec. I’ve been a fan for a long time > Snyk raises $150 million at $1 billion valuation for AI that protects open source code https://t.co/hw7aR8rZlx

By far, @podsframework is the most powerful plugin for WordPress I’ve ever used. I wish I had it 15 years ago.

Another must-read article from @nytimes: https://t.co/wig1R2gjsz

We might need to start getting used to the idea that facial recognition is here to stay. It would take an international law, total ban, and criminal charges to discourage individuals.

I have to say it: @masterclass is one of the best consumer products I have ever seen.

Looking back at the things I’ve seen and learned in these 20y of career, and adding the things I’m learning these days, I’m starting to develop the belief that *corporate marketing* should be in charge of the *UI* for all products in a vendor portfolio. Outlandish, I know, but…