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ICE Turned To DMV Driver's License Databases For Help With Facial Recognition

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Now we're going to look more broadly at what's been revealed today about ICE turning to DMV offices for help with facial recognition - that is, using driver's license photographs and algorithms to identify people suspected of being in the country illegally. Now, this collaboration was unearthed by a team at Georgetown University, and here to brief us is NPR's Aarti Shahani. CORNISH: I understand that in the past, ICE has gone to DMV offices and just asked for records on immigrants. We just heard about the case in Vermont that alleges that much. What exactly is new here?


This Seattle Startup Uses AI And Machine Learning To Personalize Customer Experience, Marketing

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With all the tools and channels available to help brands reach customers, it still seems like most brands out there are floundering in their efforts do so effectively. This is obvious to any customer who has purchased a product and then had ads for that already-purchased product follow them around the Web. Or has received identical copies of a promotional email at their work email address, personal email address, and former email address that forwards to that current account. Or any credit card owner who's been urged to apply for a credit card they already have, every time they visit an eCommerce site. It's a bit of a mess out there, with men being shown women's products; teens being marketed bespoke business attire; and on and on and on.


News Brief: Health Care Bill Is Dead, Russian Compound Discussions

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STEVE INSKEEP: Republicans promised for years to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. In fact, they said they'd replace it with something better. President Trump says he would now rather just repeal. Trump said that last night after a Senate bill to replace Obamacare collapsed. Two more Republican senators objected to it. And since they were trying to pass it with GOP votes alone, it was assured of failure.


Elon Musk: Artificial Intelligence Poses 'Existential Risk'

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Governors are trying to make sense of an urgent message they got over the weekend. Elon Musk, the billionaire scientist behind Tesla Motors and SpaceX, swung by a gathering of state leaders and warned them artificial intelligence is an existential threat to human civilization. Colorado's Governor John Hickenlooper, who was there, described that moment to NPR. JOHN HICKENLOOPER: You could have heard a pin drop. A couple times he paused and it was totally silent.


Uber has quietly started to end surge pricing as we know it

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By this point, frequent Uber users are probably familiar with Pool, the company's pseudo-carpooling service. UberPool works by finding riders who are heading along similar routes and grouping their trips together. A driver might pick up you, and then another passenger, and maybe even a third, before dropping you off at your destination. For this inconvenience and added human interaction, Uber promises Pool riders fixed fares, often at steep discounts to what it charges for private cars. But there's an even more important detail about Pool that's often overlooked: It doesn't show riders surge pricing.