Driverless cars as life savers, pigeons as pedestrians, lip readers as crime stoppers, and alcoholic

Driverless cars as life savers, pigeons as pedestrians, lip readers as crime stoppers, and alcoholics as city employees. These are just a few of the urban reads on our radar this week.

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An Army of the Deaf Watches Surveillance Cameras in Mexico

An Army of the Deaf Watches Surveillance Cameras in Mexico

Security camera footage makes some pretty boring TV. There’s no sound, so you don’t know what people are saying, and it’s tough to read body language out of context. But that’s exactly what makes deaf people the perfect workforce for interpreting the footage.

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