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CEO of Firm Tapped for AI Metal Detectors in NYC Subways Says Subways Are Not a ‘Good Use-Case’

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Photo: Barry Williams for NY Daily News (Getty Images) Citing a supposed spike in crime, New York State and New York City officials have launched a heavy-handed, police-state-flavored push to increase safety in the city’s subway systems. This has included the controversial deployment of National Guard and State Police units into the city’s tunnels and, … Read more

NYC Is Adding AI Metal Detectors to the Subway

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Photo: NYC Mayor’s Office NYC Mayor Eric Adams has a new plan to make the city’s subways safe: metal detectors. But these are not just any metal detectors because these detectors come with AI. As for how well they work, it’s not looking so good. Randall Park | First Fandoms “This is a Sputnik moment,” … Read more

Woman Struck by N.Y.C. Subway Train After Being Pushed onto Tracks by Her Boyfriend, Loses Both Feet: Reports

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The NYPD said the 29-year-old woman was found “conscious” and “responsive” on the tracks and was transported to a local hospital in stable condition Getty A New York City subway train A woman has been hospitalized after she was struck by a train in lower Manhattan on Saturday morning, according to the New York City … Read more

Rats Run Out From Under Homeless Person’s Blanket on NYC Subway Platform

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Play video content TikTok / @six4bk718 Move over Pizza Rat — there’s a new video of New York City rodents running the streets … and this time it all has to do with a fellow subway bedfellow … of the human variety. Check out this wild video from a Big Apple subway station that was … Read more

Gunman who shot and wounded 10 riders on New York City subway to be sentenced

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NEW YORK (AP) — A man who sprayed the inside of a New York City subway train with gunfire and then slipped away in a stunned crowd is set to be sentenced Thursday in the morning rush-hour attack, which wounded 10 people and set off a citywide manhunt. Frank James, 64, pleaded guilty to terrorism … Read more

Court orders Subway franchise owners to pay workers nearly $1M

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal court ordered the owners of 14 Subway locations north of San Francisco to pay employees nearly $1 million in damages and back pay — and also to sell or shut their businesses, with any sale proceeds going to the Department of Labor. Federal investigators said franchise owners John and … Read more

Subway bought to Roark Capital, non-public fairness agency and Dunkin’ proprietor

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On this picture illustration, a Subway meal is seen on a desk at a Subway restaurant on January 12, 2023 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Pictures Roark Capital is shopping for Subway, ending the sandwich chain’s greater than 5 many years of household possession and marking a brand new period for the struggling … Read more

NYC is Utilizing AI To Scan Subway Fare Dodgers

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New York Metropolis’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority has admitted it makes use of cameras geared up with AI software program to scan riders believed to have jumped subway turnstiles with out paying fares. The MTA, which says it collects the scans “as a counting device” plans to broaden the system to greater than two dozen extra … Read more

Subway faces backlash over ‘distasteful’ signal referencing Titan implosion

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An indication on a franchise of America’s hottest sandwich chain is elevating eyebrows. On July 1, Brooklet, Georgia resident Timothy Mauck posted a photograph that has since gone viral. Within the picture, the signal exterior a Subway sandwich store in close by Rincon, Georgia reads, “Our subs don’t implode.” The check in query. (Courtesy Timothy … Read more