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Are there any pictures of you online?

Then you could already be in a massive police database without even knowing it.

Clearview scrapes together images from Facebook, from LinkedIn, from Venmo accounts.

I'm Dexter Thomas, host a Kill Switch, a podcast about how living in the future is affecting us right now.

Police, they are trusting the software with this magical ability to lead them to the right suspect.

In this episode, we dive into how cops are using AI and facial recognition,

and sometimes getting it wrong and putting innocent people behind bars.

So if your accuser is this algorithm, but you're not even being told

that it was used, let alone given any of the details about how it works. Listen to KillSwitch

on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

Welcome to Brain Stuff, a production of IHeartRadio.

Hey, Brainstuff, Lauren Vogelbaum here with another classic episode from the archives.

This one gets into astronomy research that has let us learn more about the shape of our Milky Way galaxy,

and why it's bent like a damaged vinyl record.

Hey, Rainstuff, Lauren Vogelbaum here. Imagine standing in a dense woodland. How would you know the size and shape of that forest from your limited viewpoint?

Not seeing the woods for the trees is a good analogy for what astronomers experience when trying to assess the shape and size of our Milky Way galaxy.

We occupy a small star system embedded inside the Milky Way's disk.

It's not like we can fly above the galactic plane to peek at our galaxy's overall shape,

although how cool would that be?

Researchers, however, were determined to figure out the true shape of the Milky Way

while staying

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