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Delivery robots scan faces and collect customer biometric data, lawsuit alleges

Mashable

Safety Net Creator Playbook Trending Now Mashable Selects Look Up Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Getting Technical with Mashable Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Say More Versus In My Bag Mashable @Home All Series The class action suits claim the robots are violating state privacy laws. Chase joined Mashable's Social Good team in 2020, covering online stories about digital activism, climate justice, accessibility, and media representation. Two Chicago men are suing delivery robot companies Coco Robotics and Serve Robotics for allegedly collecting their biometric information without consent. The two separate class action lawsuits were filed earlier this month. Both claim that the robots' external cameras and internal LiDAR technology are used to scan and collect measurements of customers' faces and hands as they approach the devices.


Jensen Huang's Vision for Europe Runs on Plug-In Data Centers

WIRED

At Nvidia's GTC in Berlin, Huang unveiled their new plug-in data center--the DSX Pod--as the key to unlocking Europe's AI infrastructure lag. Jensen Huang outlined his vision of Europe's future at Nvidia's global conference in Berlin on Wednesday. It consists of robotics, AI agents, and modular data centers, with Nvidia unsurprisingly powering it all. "To be part of this AI economy, you don't want to just be consuming the AI. You want to be producing the AI," he told the 4,000-strong crowd at Nvidia's GTC.


Judge asked to toss 60-year prison sentence over use of Flock cameras

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Look Up Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Getting Technical with Mashable Mashable Selects Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Say More Versus Trending Now In My Bag Mashable @Home Top creators, ranked Creator Playbook All Series Surveillance cameras are becoming a legal defense. Chase joined Mashable's Social Good team in 2020, covering online stories about digital activism, climate justice, accessibility, and media representation. Law enforcement's use of Flock cameras may become a legal risk. A Texas man sentenced to 60 years in prison for armed robbery is seeking to overturn his conviction based on the use of Flock cameras to track his movements. The man, 37-year-old Charles Brownlee, was found guilty of five armed robberies in 2024.


How to watch 10 Things I Hate About You for free

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Getting Technical with Mashable Look Up Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable Selects Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Say More Versus Trending Now In My Bag Mashable @Home Top creators, ranked Creator Playbook All Series How to watch '10 Things I Hate About You' for free Christina Buff is a Nashville-based freelance writer for who covers shopping with a splash of entertainment. If you're ever wondering what streaming service you need to watch something (and the cheapest way to sign up for it), she's your girl. All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission. If we're talking about iconic rom-com scenes, Patrick (Heath Ledger) singing Can't Take My Eyes Off You to Kat (Julia Stiles) from the bleachers of the high school stadium has to be up in the top five.


MapQuest lets you track Flock cameras

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Say More Versus Trending Now Look Up In My Bag Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable @Home Mashable Selects Top creators, ranked Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Creator Playbook AI at School All Series Want to avoid Flock cameras on your commute? Chase joined Mashable's Social Good team in 2020, covering online stories about digital activism, climate justice, accessibility, and media representation. The new feature includes location data for a dozen surveillance companies. MapQuest will not go gentle into that good night. The navigation software -- which debuted in 1996 and was later eclipsed by competitor Google Maps -- is currying favor with new users by taking a hard line against Flock cameras.


Katie Zacharia Was Linked to an AI Rare-Earths Startup. It's Even Weirder Than It Sounds

WIRED

Katie Zacharia Was Linked to an AI Rare-Earths Startup. It's Even Weirder Than It Sounds The short-lived White House press secretary was listed as an adviser to a Kristi Noem-linked company that aims to use AI for mining. Both the company and she say she never worked there. Before being fired five days into her stint as White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia spent much of the day attempting to explain her past. Throughout her brief tenure, Zacharia's resume was the source of much intrigue.


Billionaires Are the Symptom, Not the Disease

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AI in politics: Is Albania the EU's testing ground?

Al Jazeera

AI in politics: Is Albania the EU's testing ground? AI in politics: Is Albania the EU's testing ground? Albania is experimenting with artificial intelligence in politics -- from a jailed mayor communicating through an AI-generated avatar to the appointment of the world's first "AI minister". But the country's ambitious digital push has faced criticism and technical challenges. Nafisa Latić explains whether AI can truly work in government and democracy.


The Politics of Solar Energy Are Getting Weird, Mean, and a Little MAGA

WIRED

A mysterious super PAC that doubles as a pro-solar energy outfit is funding some of the most knives-out attack ads of the midterms season. A mysteriously named political action committee has started running ads reminding voters in Colorado about that time GOP representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado and her date were caught on camera in 2023 getting handsy during a performance of the musical Beetlejuice . That same PAC is producing a spot hitting Anthony Constantino, a Trumpist congressional candidate in upstate New York, because someone used his sticker-printing company to briefly make stickers that read, " Kill the Police ." Attack ads are everywhere in the last month ahead of November's election. But these spots are a little different.


Two teens allegedly used a humanoid robot to sexually harass a 16-year-old girl

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Trending Now Say More Look Up In My Bag Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable @Home Mashable Selects Top creators, ranked Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Creator Playbook AI at School Safety Net All Series The public assault was reportedly livestreamed. Chase joined Mashable's Social Good team in 2020, covering online stories about digital activism, climate justice, accessibility, and media representation. Police are figuring out how to treat sexual harassment at the hands of a robot. Generative AI is enabling a tidal wave of nonconsensual intimate imagery and child sexual abuse material . Social media algorithms are exacerbating online harassment and the doxxing of rape survivors .