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One month after Epic Games and Google seemingly stopped fighting over the future of Android app distribution, they were back in a San Francisco courtroom today - where Judge James Donato just ordered Google to make it easier to install rival app stores on Android. It's been nearly three years since a jury unanimously decided that Google had an illegal monopoly over Android apps, and almost two years since Judge Donato decided the best way of undoing that monopoly would be to crack open Android app distribution. Donato ordered Google to carry rival Android app stores inside its own Google Play Store, and to provide rivals with complecte acc … Read the full story at The Verge.
There are over 120,000 of Flock’s automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras installed all over the US. Flock’s cameras, and others like them, use AI to identify and track vehicles based on their license plate number, make, model, color, and other info, networked together to track vehicles and people’s movements throughout the day and across the country. Dozens of communities have canceled contracts for the cameras or turned them off, including Los Angeles, as officials have pushed for more limits on the data they collect, who has access to it, and how it can be used in the future. Earlier this year, Amazon-owned Ring canceled a partnership with Flock after online backlash. Flock CEO: ‘We got this one wrong’ Flock cameras? Target practice. Another grim portent for our AI policing future. The LAPD has suspended its use of Flock’s license plate readers, for now. No, Flock isn’t threatening people for debating surveillance The all-too-predictable Flock stalking problem. Let’s talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state Ring’s Flock breakup doesn’t fix its real problem Flock is “pausing further exploration of a potential partnership with Ring.” Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash Dozens of Flock AI camera feeds were just out there AI annotators overseas may be reviewing Flock license plate camera footage from the US. Amazon’s Ring now works with video surveillance company Flock Unprotected license plate surveillance cameras let anyone with a web browser tune in
Mico is headed to Learn Live. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft Copilot will no longer show its emotive yellow blob, Mico, when you use the chatbot's voice mode. In a support page, Microsoft says it's going to move Mico to its Learn Live platform, where the avatar will have "more to react to," as reported earlier by GeekWire. Mico launched in Copilot's voice mode last October, with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman pitching the avatar as a way to give the chatbot an "identity." The blob would react to what you say in real-time, complete with facial expressions and animations. Mico joins the long list of virtual helpers that Microsoft has retired over the years, like Clippy, Cortana, and Rover … Read the full story at The Verge.
