A look at Buenos Aires' legal battle to turn back on a facial recognition system that activists criticized for its misuse and the city shut down in March 2020
A scandal unfolding in Argentina shows the dangers of implementing facial recognition—even with laws and limits in place. X: @nunobsoares , @annacat_brigida , @larrondomanuel , @mxsfrt , and @marinawa...
Buenos Aires-based payments infrastructure startup Geopagos raised $35M led by Riverwood Capital, its first outside investment since being founded in 2013
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People from countries like Argentina, Venezuela, and Nigeria invested in Terra as they saw it as more stable than local currency, but lost thousands in savings
“I have nothing left, not even a penny.” — Valeria makes around $300 a month selling prepared food from her home in Buenos Aires.
Profile of Ksenia Coffman, who has made 97K edits and created 3,200 pages on Wikipedia, and her efforts to remove glorified Nazi history from the site
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iPhone 12 series sales crossed 100M globally in April 2021, seven months after launch, two months faster than iPhone 11; iPhone 12 Pro Max had a 29% sales share
Beijing, San Diego, Buenos Aires, London, New Delhi, Seoul - June 30, 2021 — Exactly 14 years ago, Apple disrupted …
Google is building a subsea cable called Firmina, after a Brazilian abolitionist, to handle data surge between US, Brazil, and Argentina, due to launch by 2023
Google is building a new subsea cable to get your megabits from Boston to Buenos Aires and back.
Buenos Aires-based Digital House, which offers online coding courses for students across Latin America, raises $50M, bringing its total raised to $80M+
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238M units of true wireless stereo hearables were shipped in 2020, up 83% YoY, with Apple devices comprising 29% market share, Xiaomi 13%, and Samsung 5%
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Buenos Aires has had live facial recognition in its subway systems for about a year, which has caused wrongful detentions, even as politicians praise the system
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