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Recent Examples of surveillantThe consequences of that world for the surveillant as well as the surveilled is a lesson for this day and age for sure.—Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2022
Some observers may question whether employing AI to scrutinize podcasts might edge into surveillance or the policing of content creators.
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Esat Dedezade,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
As both participant and observer, like its protagonist, the film contends with many shades of anguish, in a story about an extended Zambian family mourning the death of a man known to all as Uncle Fred, writes Tribune film critic Michael Phillips.
Intimidating sentries patrol the streets; snipers are merciless death machines.
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IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
14 Nov. 2014
Sitting in front of him was the angry sentry known as Devlin’s Billabong, named when Bruce Devlin needed six shots to get out of the pond in the final round of the 1975 Andy Williams Open.
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Bryce Miller,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Jan. 2025
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