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A Silicon Valley county has become the first in the United States to vote in a new law that requires "continued oversight and regular evaluation" for law enforcement agencies starting prior to the acquisition of surveillance technology.
The ordinance, which was unanimously approved by the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday,...
Enlarge / New Caledonian crow uses a tool to grab insects deep inside a piece of wood.
Though we've long known that crows use tools to get food (and occasionally to amuse themselves), scientists have lacked definitive evidence. Which is why two intrepid researchers invented the crow tailcam, to record the inventiveness of these...
If you keep tabs on the Internet's largest depositories for pirated music, films, and TV series, you're used to an annual deluge of major films appearing in illicit fashion a month or so before the Academy Awards—typically sourced from DVD screeners sent to longtime Academy voters. Thanks to a major leak of award-season screeners, however, 2015 marks the first year that a massive dump of DVD screeners...
