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London cops bring live facial recognition to West End

'Permanent biometric surveillance of the public square' incompatible with policing by consent, say critics

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) will start using static live facial recognition (LFR) cameras in London's West End and Soho by the end of this year following a six-month pilot in the south London borough of Croydon.

Static LFR involves the police temporarily attaching cameras to lampposts or similar infrastructure, with the feeds monitored remotely and officers on the ground stopping people whom the technology matches to images on its watchlist. The MPS said that each of the 24 deployments in central Croydon between October 2025 and March 2026 used a bespoke watchlist created up to 24 hours in advance and deleted afterward.

Civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch, which in April lost a High Court challenge to police use of LFR, saidthe force was rushing ahead with deployment before Parliament has passed...

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Gartner Predicts AI Coding Costs Will Surpass Average Developer’s Salary by 2028 as Token Consumption Surges

By 2028, AI coding costs will overtake the average developer’s salary due to rising large language model (LLM) token consumption and the shift to consumption-based licensing models, according to Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company. AI tokens are the units of data processed by generative AI models.

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The Google Home Speaker sounds good and looks great — but it’s finicky

Right out of the box, the new Google Home Speaker passed a couple of important tests. Even with the volume at 100 percent and music blaring out of the speaker, it quickly ducked the audio and listened every time I said “Hey, Google.” In fact, in two days of testing,

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Some of our favorite Switch 2 accessories are cheaper during Prime Day

Antonio G. Di Benedetto is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. The Switch 2’s price is set to increase by $50 on September 1st, starting at $499.99,

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GTA 6 pre-orders live — all the best links and tips as pre-orders go live

Getting aGTA 6 pre-order locked down is the best thing that any gamer can do right now. After last week's announcement and cover art reveal, we now know that pre-orders start in just a few hours at midnight local time around the world on June 25 — which means

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Gartner Predicts AI Coding Costs Will Surpass Average Developer’s Salary by 2028 as Token Consumption Surges

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GTA 6 pre-orders live &mdash; all the best links and tips as pre-orders go live

GTA 6 pre-orders live — all the best links and tips as pre-orders go live