The US Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) plans to gather and analyze pictures of the faces of migrant youngsters on the border in a bid to enhance facial recognition know-how, MIT Know-how Evaluate can reveal.
The know-how has historically not been utilized to youngsters, largely as a result of coaching information units of actual youngsters’s faces are few and much between, and include both low-quality pictures drawn from the web or small pattern sizes with little variety. Such limitations mirror the numerous sensitivities concerning privateness and consent in the case of minors.
In observe, the brand new DHS plan may successfully clear up that downside. However, past considerations about privateness, transparency, and accountability, some consultants additionally fear about testing and growing new applied sciences utilizing information from a inhabitants that has little recourse to supply—or withhold—consent. Learn the total story.
—Eileen Guo
What Japan’s “megaquake” warning actually tells us
On August 8, at 16:42 native time, a magnitude-7.1 earthquake shook southern Japan. The temblor, originating off the shores of mainland island of Kyūshū, was felt by practically 1,000,000 individuals throughout the area, and initially, the specter of a tsunami emerged. However solely a diminutive wave swept ashore, buildings remained upright, and no one died. The disaster was over as shortly because it started.
However then, one thing new occurred. The Japan Meteorological Company, a authorities group, issued a ‘megaquake advisory’ for the primary time. It was partly issued as a result of it’s attainable that the magnitude-7.1 quake is a foreshock – a precursory quake – to a far bigger one, a tsunami-making monster that might kill 1 / 4 of 1,000,000 individuals.
The excellent news, for now, is that scientists assume it is extremely unlikely that that magnitude-7.1 quake is a prelude to a cataclysm. However the slim chance stays that it was a foreshock to one thing significantly worse. Learn the total story.
