DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Edward Kane

  DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF

                                                                      

                 By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane


GOOGLE's FIRST FOLDABLE SMARTPHONE




                                            Source:  Google


  • Next week at its GOOGLE 1/0 2023 Event, Google will unveil its first, foldable smartphone
  • Google just released the first photo of the phone, that's called Pixel Fold
  • Some experts believe this phone could be an industry gamechanger
  • There's a horizontal camera bar for 3 cameras, likely wide, ultra-wide and telephoto
  • It has a 7.6" screen and is priced around $1700
  • Google hasn't provided any technical details yet but here's what we know:
  1. Pocket sized
  2. water resistant
  3. weighs 10 ounces
  4. large battery with 24 hour life and 72 hours life on low power
  5. Folds like Samsung's Z Fold devices
  6. Powered by Google's Tensor G2 chip
  • Debut comes on May 10th and there is tremendous interest.



UK's BIGGEST, LIVE FACIAL RECOGNITION EVENT



                            
                                            Source:  Stock images

  • King Charles III's Coronation will go down in history as the UK's biggest live facial recognition operation and one of the biggest live biometric operations in world history to maintain security
  • New AI facial recognition is highly controversial, can be inaccurate and is viewed by some critics as a violation of human rights as it scans faces in massive crowds, such as those in London this weekend, looking for matches against terrorist and criminal lists, unbeknownst to the unaware pedestrian
  • The Coronation is raising unique security concerns with 1.2 million partying in London for the historic event
  • To maintain peace and security, London police and the British Secret Service M15, with their Operation Golden Globe, are deploying the latest in security and surveillance technologies:
  • Live, state-of-the-art, biometric AI facial recognition camera technology
  • Aerial surveillance by highly advanced drones, Airbus helicopters and planes
  • Intelligence data bases
  • Bomb proof Nerve Center for command and control
  • On top of the technologies, 11,500 police officers, special forces, snipers, bomb sniffing police dogs are all on duty to maintain peace and security at the historic event.
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