She died at the San Diego border. A surveillance camera was in plain sight

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The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die?

When José Morales Bernal crossed the border into the United States on April 8, 2024, the day before his 32nd birthday, it should have triggered a chain of technological alerts and human responses. As he walked through the desert in southern

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4 ways to address the failures we found along the US border’s “virtual wall”

MIT Technology Review today published our investigation into how many people have died near the “virtual wall” of surveillance towers that the US government has installed along the US-Mexico border. We found cases of people who walked undet

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The Download: investigating deaths at the US border’s “virtual wall”

This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die? When José Mo

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A Brooklyn bodega cat was stolen – and a community has rallied to try to find him

Two people appeared to take three-month-old Jabal the kitten in plain view of a surveillance camera Owners of a New York City bodega on Monday were holding out hope that they would be reunited with their store’s kitten after a couple passin

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