The 10 craziest surveillance technologies being rolled out for the Paris Olympics
The 2024 Paris Olympics open today as hundreds of U.S. Olympians begin battling for gold medals. For many of them, thousands of hours of practice will pay off. But this year’s Olympics won’t just be about the efforts and athleticism of its athletes. Over the past year, France has been hard at work preparing a […]
Detroit Police Department updates its policies around facial recognition technologies
Detroit police are scaling back their use of facial recognition technology to track criminal suspects as part of a legal settlement. TechCrunchThe development comes after a man was wrongly convicted in 2020 for using the technology. of Updated Policy The law would prohibit police from arresting people based solely on the results of a facial […]
Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Yelp, Sweetgreen, Novavax, Akamai Technologies and more – CNBC
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Akamai Technologies — Shares of this cloud company fell more than 10% after announcing a weak outlook for the second quarter. Akamai expects adjusted earnings to be between $1.51 and $1.56 per share and revenue between $967 million and $986 million. Analysts polled by LSEG had […]
Why SoFi Technologies Stock Dropped 10% on Earnings Monday – Yahoo Finance
shares of SoFi technology (NASDAQ:SOFI) Shares plunged 9.9% by 12:15pm on Monday, even though the company reported beat results this morning. Looking ahead to the first quarter of 2024, analysts expect SoFi to post earnings of just $0.01 per share on quarterly revenue of $556 million. In fact, earnings were double expectations at $0.02 per […]
NATO plans to ‘leverage human enhancement technologies’
Western militaries intend to “leverage” opportunities to “enable individuals to operate beyond normal human limits or abilities,” according to a new NATO strategy document. “Biotechnology and human enhancement technologies (BHE) will transform our economies, societies, security and defense in unprecedented and unforeseeable ways,” the allies state. “Against this context, NATO will provide the transatlantic forum […]
New carbon capture technologies could help ‘Big Oil’ scale emissions cuts
Alex Epstein, author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, discusses what’s behind the recent oil price hike in Kabuto: Coast to Coast. The results of four government-funded pilot projects are crucial for Big Oil to develop technology to reduce carbon emissions and support the Biden administration’s goal of achieving a net-zero emissions economy by […]
Why Palantir Technologies Stock Skyrocketed as Much as 47% This Week – The Motley Fool
shares of Palantir Technologies (PLTR -0.53%) According to data provided by , rates rose significantly this week, jumping as much as 47.5%. S&P Global Market Intelligence. Shares were up 43.2% as of Friday’s market close. The data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) systems pioneer’s initial boost was a result of better-than-expected results. But the stock […]