I was at a tech conference recently, and the local city tech department was showing off the cameras all around the city. They were all tracking individual vehicles with computer vision, across town as the traffic moved from one camera to another.

I didn’t get a chance to ask them whether law enforcement used the data, but I’m pretty sure that’s a given.

Check out 404 media! I’m a big supporter of independent media, but there’s been a real lack of high quality, competent tech journalism for the last few years.

They launched in the last few months and I’ve been pretty impressed with their coverage so far.

Even their coverage though could be called at the intersection of current events <> technology. When I want pure tech news, I usually watch YouTube channels that specialize in related topics ( like Asionometry for silicon design or Dave2d for device reviews).

Silicon manufacturing is one of my obsessive interests. For anyone else interested in learning more, I’ve learned a lot from the Asianometry YouTube channels.