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As body cams continue to flourish in police departments across the nation, an ongoing debate has ensued about how much, if any, of that footage should be made public under state open-access laws.
An overlooked twist to that debate, however, has now become front and center: How much should the...
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The US-based website that publishes a daily unofficial exchange rate between American dollars and Venezuelan bolivares has recently filed a vigorous defense in a strange international lawsuit. The site, DolarToday, was sued in October 2015 by the Central Bank of Venezuela (CBV) in federal court in Delaware, where the site is based.
In its bizarre...
The BBC has announced that it's now piloting "virtual voiceover" technology, which will be used to automatically translate TV reports into Japanese. In early 2016, the broadcaster's Russian service will start using it as well.
Creating a way for news editors to produce multi-language reports almost single-handedly, the BBC's technology will take the script for a news package and translate...
