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Privacy Advocates Lambast Virginia for Ditching Police Facial Recognition Ban

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Virginia, which approved a ban on local police use of biometric identification tools around a year ago, formally bailed on the law’s most substantive measures on Friday. A patchwork of individual state privacy laws isn’t filling the hole left by absent federal government regulation on facial recognition. Now, under an… Read more.

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Mega-Popular Muslim Prayer Apps Were Secretly Harvesting Phone Numbers

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Google recently booted over a dozen apps from its Play Store—among them Muslim prayer apps with 10 million-plus downloads, a barcode scanner, and a clock—after researchers discovered secret data-harvesting code hidden within them. Creepier still, the clandestine code was engineered by a company linked to a Virginia… Read more.

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Facial Recognition May Not Be Banned After All

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states and cities are now moving to eliminate their ban on facial recognition including Virginia, California, and New Orleans, … Read more. Following efforts to ban the use of facial recognition technology by authorities, it seems that some cities are having second thoughts amidst an increase in their crime rate.

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U.S. Army Begins Using AR to Locate Mines on the Battlefield

VRScout

Looking to help visualize threats, researchers at the Army’s Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center have begun work on an exciting new form of bomb-detection technology that can provide visual data for soldiers via a AR headset or mobile tablet device.

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Homeland Security Releasing VR School Shooting Training Simulator

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Now with FBI data showing that nearly 1/3 of all mass shootings since 2000 have taken place in schools, DHS is giving EDGE an upgrade to focus on educators and school employees. This time users will be put into the chaotic and realistic situation of an active shooter on school grounds.

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Report: Apple Using VR to Test Self-Driving System

VRScout

The computer tech professor from Virginia Tech literally wrote the book on 3D interfaces. Interestingly enough, Bowman was the recipient for one of the first $100,000 HoloLens research grants from Microsoft for a study on “collaborative analysis of large-scale mixed reality data.”

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He found a Milky Way black hole 50 years ago, and finally got to see it

Mashable VR

They were all vying for time on the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Green Bank interferometry system in the West Virginia mountains, which linked three radio dishes and an antenna 20 miles away to simulate a larger telescope. The entrance to the Green Bank, West Virginia radio astronomy site in the early 1960s.