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Man sues police over a facial recognition-related wrongful arrest
A New Jersey man is suing the town of Woodbridge and its police department after he was falsely arrested following an incorrect facial recognition match. Nijeer Parks spent 10 days in jail last year, including a week in "functional solitary confinement," following a shoplifting incident that January. After officers were called to a Hampton Inn in Woodbridge, the alleged shoplifter presented them with a Tennessee driver's license, which they determined was fake. When they attempted to arrest him after spotting what appeared to be a bag of marijuana in his pocket, the man fled in his rental car. One officer said he had to leap out of the way or he would have been hit.
Sutton Hoo ship found in Suffolk 80 years ago will be rebuilt from 3D computer models
The Anglo-Saxon vessel found in the Sutton Hoo burial mound in Suffolk 80 years ago will sail again as experts look to rebuild the ship from digital 3D models. Dated back to the early 7th century, the 90 foot (27 metre) -long vessel is oft dubbed a'ghost ship' thanks to its manner of preservation. In the mound -- thought the resting place of King Rรฆdwald -- only the impression of the ship and its iron rivets remained, the timber having long rotted away. Nevertheless, a team of archaeologists and shipbuilders have succeeded in creating a three-dimensional digital mock-up of the vessel to allow it to be reconstructed. Expert hope that recreating a full-size, fully-operational version of the ship will help shine light on how the Anglo-Saxons began England's tradition of seafaring.
ECM By Any Other Name
About a year ago, the idea began creeping into executive discussions and podcast interviews that "enterprise content management" just doesn't cut it for describing what is possible and happening with today's technologies and approaches. Indeed, just as old-school handles like "document management, "imaging" or "the paperless office" eventually gave way to newer concepts and designations, is it possible our old friend ECM is on the way out of industry favor? In January of this year, Gartner posted a blog post titled, "Death of ECM and the Birth of Content Services" from Research Director Michael Woodbridge. The assertion caused quite a stirโฆ and for good reason. "I have been working with my team to kill off a market definition I have spent the most significant portion of my career serving," said Woodbridge in the post. "ECM is now dead (kaput, finite, an ex-market name), at least in how Gartner defines the market." Gartner is instead advocating for "Content Services" as a replacement construct that includes content, platforms and components. Forrester also chimed in to support the idea, splitting the market into two parts, Transactional Content Services and Business Content Services. But Woodbridge is quick to point out that the change in perspective is what's important, not the terminology. "It is only a definition; however, it articulates a different way of thinking about the problem that can be liberating for organizations paralyzed by the apparent need for consolidation." AIIM International stepped forward recently to propose the term "Intelligent Information Management" (IIM) as a suitable replacement. In his e-book "The Next Wave: Moving from ECM to Intelligent Information Management," John Mancini, Chief Evangelist at AIIM, puts it this way: "The role we expect content and information management to play in our organizations is clearly more than traditional data-centric ECM, and it is clearly more than Content Services.
This is how inaccessible tech was for blind people 20 years ago
He plays on an Xbox, navigates his way using a GPS and knows when to turn the lights off -- but life wasn't always this easy for David Woodbridge. Woodbridge, who lost his sight when he was 8 years old, says things were very different 20 years ago. SEE ALSO: Apple's cheap iPad is tailor-made for education "I had to do a lot more work and running around to get the same level of access I do today," he tells Mashable. "I was very reliant on my laptop and [had to have] multiple standalone devices: a talking calculator, watch, GPS, diary." The task of reading a printed document, for instance, had to be scanned in to the computer and analysed with OCR (optical character recognition) software -- a tedious process.