Trump contracts Peter Thiel-backed startup to build his (virtual) border wall - The Fact Factory

Post Top Ad

Friday 3 July 2020

Trump contracts Peter Thiel-backed startup to build his (virtual) border wall


Trump’s xenophobic dream of building a “big, beautiful wall” along the Mexico–US border has moved a step closer to (virtual) reality. The White House just struck a deal with Palmer Luckey’s Anduril Industrial to erect an AI-powered partition along the frontier. Anduril will install hundreds of surveillance towers across the rugged terrain, The Washinton Post reports. The pillars will use cameras and thermal imaging to detect anyone trying to enter “the land of the free” and send their location to the cellphones of US Border Patrol agents. US Customers and Border Protection confirmed that 200 of the towers would be installed by 2022,…

This story continues at The Next Web


No comments:

Post a Comment