Articles by Matt Miller

UPDATE: Ghost Claims WBC Welterweight Title

UPDATE: Ghost Claims WBC Welterweight Title

UPDATE: Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero outpointed Selcuk Aydin on Saturday at HP Pavilion to claim the WBC interim welterweight title belt by a unanimous decision.

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License Plate Scans Catch Criminals, Collect Data

License Plate Scans Catch Criminals, Collect Data

Four years of data detailing the locations of hundreds of thousands of drivers who have passed through San Jose resides in a server somewhere in Costa Mesa. The server belongs to Plate Scan LLC, a now-defunct company that sold License Plate Recognition (LPR) technology to police departments, including San Jose’s. While law enforcement officials call the ethnology a valuable tool to track criminals, privacy advocates and l;lawmakers are becoming concerned.

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Andre Bormanis to Speak at SETIcon II

Andre Bormanis to Speak at SETIcon II

For Andre Bormanis, a long-time science consultant for the Star Trek franchise and guest speaker at this weekend’s SETICon in San Jose, some things in science fiction have grounding in actual science: like binary pulses and the theory of symbiogenesis. Other things, he tells me, might not be as logical.

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