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3-Year Cruise Passengers Seek Fraud Charges Over Cancellation

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Instead, more than a month after the cruise was abruptly canceled, one couple is stranded in an Istanbul hotel and on the verge of becoming homeless; another woman has moved to Ecuador because she can’t afford to pay her mortgage; and a man, recently diagnosed with cancer, has delayed his treatment because he doesn’t have the money to pay for it.

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A New Olympics Event: Algorithmic Video Surveillance

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And even if France stops using its video-processing algorithms in public places after the Olympics law expires, other countries may purchase it from French companies for their domestic use. When officials installed a fence around the Lake Placid Olympics Village in 1980, athletes kept leaning against the fence, setting off alarms.

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