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32# About 10:30 on a Saturday morning in the north Londonborough of Islington, two men on mopeds race down theshopping corridor ...

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38 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC • FEBRUARY 2018Peter Gold returns to theNew Orleans street wherehe was shot while trying torescue a wom ...

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X4T3 79RT A356``````Face-scanning technology is evolving rapidlyand is increasingly employed in high-securityfacilities such as ...

THEY ARE WATCHING YOU 41of the billions more photographs and videos peo-ple keep to themselves. By 2020, one telecommu-nications ...

Dino Bertolino, a senior spacecraft technician at Planet,holds a camera-equipped satellite, which the San Franciscocompany calls ...

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EARTHWATCHINGThese are aselection of imagestaken by Planet’sDove satellitesthat were operatingon September 20,2017.``````21 ...