Lea Artz, Head of Newsroom and Central Operations for Citizen, explains how the new app works. Citizen pushes an alert to your phone when there's an emergency in your area.
Artz says Citizen could've helped the situation in Hawaii when a ballistic missile alert was accidentally triggered to anyone with a smartphone. Artz says Citizen "cuts through the noise."
Citizen first launched as "Vigilante," but was quickly taken off the App Store after Apple believed it encouraged people to intervene in crimes being committed. Artz says Citizen has learned its lesson.
Citizen is credited with keeping people safe and informed during the New York Tribeca terror attack in October. An elementary school principal says the app helped her make decisions and keep her students out of harm's way.
If you wanted to previously find an image that perfectly matched what you saw in your head online, you had to type in a wordy search inquiry and would get countless results back. Now, that mental snapshot can be crafted in seconds by artificial intelligence and sometimes it’s even better than you could imagine.
Google on Wednesday disclosed plans to infuse its dominant search engine with more advanced artificial-intelligence technology, a drive that's in response to one of the biggest threats to its long-established position as the internet's main gateway.
