Like many cities, Moscow has an enormous network of CCTV cameras, but unlike many cities, thousands of those cameras are now hooked up to a powerful facial recognition system that can track criminals (and trash collectors) wherever they go. The privacy implications are serious, of course, but a large scale rollout like this will help make them part of the public discussion. The facial… Read More
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Moscow officially turns on facial recognition for its city-wide camera network
I could get lost on this page for weeks. The stereoscopic views are great, if you know how to see them with your eyes. On January 6th, 2016, The New York Public Library made over 187K digital items in the public domain available for high resolution download. This is one of many experiments by the NYPL Labs to help patrons understand and explore what was contained in that release.
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Here’s a fun way to browse the 187,000 digital items in the NY library’s public domain collection
4AM is a prolific computer historian whose practice involves cracking the copy protection on neglected Apple ][+ floppy disks, producing not just games, but voluminous logs that reveal the secret history of the cat-and-mouse between crackers and publishers. (more…)
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Breaking the DRM on the 1982 Apple ][+ port of Burger Time