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Police in Minneapolis reportedly used a geofence warrant at Floyd protest last year

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Police in Minneapolis got a search warrant that ordered Google to provide account data on people who were near a protest that turned violent two days after the killing of George Floyd last year, TechCrunch reported. The man said he was filming the protest, not participating in it.

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Citizen spacefliers splash down, finishing up Inspiration4’s charity mission in orbit

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Chris Sembroski , 42, an Air Force veteran, space enthusiast and data engineer from Everett, Wash., Jude cancer patients and their families, took calls from celebrities including Tom Cruise and U2’s Bono, and spent lots of time gazing out at Earth through SpaceX’s custom-built cupola window.

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SDXL 0.9 is here to change the game

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Prompt: aesthetic aliens walk among us in Las Vegas, scratchy found film photograph Left – SDXL Beta, Right – SDXL 0.9 ( Image Credit ) Everything you need to know about SDXL 0.9 The models require more data and processing power to produce larger images, which is not always possible or practical.

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Tech Moves: Longtime Amazon HR leader joins Snap; Tableau CFO departs; and more

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Fletcher spent seven years at the Seattle data visualization company and was promoted to CFO in 2018. Crown Electrokinetics went public in January and has a patented film technology that overlays on glass, such as windows, allowing the tint to be adjusted via a smartphone. Corvallis, Ore. Stacey Kinkead. Prescryptive Photo).

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Hear from the people behind Netflix’s success

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Netflix viewing data has been released and it gives a great insight into what we enjoyed watching and the success of the popular streaming platform. Netflix What We Watched video reveals Netflix viewing data At the core of Netflix’s strategy lies the concept of engagement. How popular were they?

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Baltimore spy plane program was invasion of citizens’ privacy, court rules

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The city of Baltimore’s spy plane program was unconstitutional, violating the Fourth Amendment protection against illegal search, and law enforcement in the city cannot use any of the data it gathered, a court ruled Thursday. The city tried to argue the case was moot since the program had been canceled.

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Microsoft hid lots of secret nerdy messages to devs in its Build stream

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Hanselman’s Windows theme changed the color of the lights in his room, even switching to red when he set his Microsoft Teams status to busy. It was all powered by PresenceLight , an app that syncs the accent color from a Windows theme to Philips Hue lights. “We It really brought Build back to its developer roots. “We

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