ZTE's Axon 7 flagship is getting a smaller companion, the Axon 7 mini.
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There was no Axon 8, and the Axon 9 was only available overseas.
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ZTE is today announcing the Axon 7, the successor to last year's Axon flagship.
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Axon Enterprise – Axon said its financial reports are under review by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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Cameras from Axon, the largest manufacturer in the US, weren't examined for vulnerabilities, but Vievu was recently acquired by Axon.
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Like the Axon 7 (ZTE never made an Axon 8), the Axon 9 Pro sports stereo speakers and an AMOLED screen, except this time the size of its display has jumped up from 5.5-inches to 6.21-inches.
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The Axon Signal Sidearm Holster is a device that will "alert all Axon cameras within a 30-foot radius" to start recording.
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The Axon 7 mini has a smaller, 5.2-inch screen, and otherwise looks like a smaller version of the larger Axon 7.
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After using the Axon 7 for a week, it's apparent ZTE took the lessons learned from the Axon Pro and applied them here.
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ZTE first made a splash with the Axon name last year by sending out mysterious press invites teasing what eventually became the Axon Pro.
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The Axon Signal purchase is part of a five-year contract between Axon and Minneapolis PD that includes both body camera equipment and Taser weapons.
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DJI is partnering with Axon (the company formerly known as Taser) to sell DJI's video-capable drones directly to police officers through a new Axon Air program.
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An Axon representative confirmed that law enforcement officials could potentially download Axon body cam footage and then transfer it to a third-party service, like Amazon's Rekognition.
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Axon provides dashcams under a brand of products called Axon Fleet, and the company told the board that the next generation of its cameras will include the readers.
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Here's the spec rundown: This device is more of an update to the Axon 7 from 2016 as opposed to last year's Axon M, which folded in half.
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There's no word on what Axon and DJI are charging for the drone purchases through the Axon Air program, but interested parties can apply for information on Axon's website.
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China's ZTE has a similar product with its Axon M. However, because it lacks a flexible screen, the Axon M has a border in the middle of its display when unfolded.
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But if the Axon 7's advantage was being a relatively cheap phone that still felt high-end, the Axon 7 mini would ideally feel like a quality mid-range phone.
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But now, with the Axon 10, ZTE is hoping to make a comeback, and based on what I've seen so far, the Axon 10 is trying to win people over with value.
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The Axon 7 is a refined version of last year's Axon (it is the direct successor to the Axon, but since ZTE released so many variants of last year's phone, it has decided to name the new model after its place in the line, which is seventh), with the most notable improvements found in its design and display.
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Just last month, American body camera maker Axon announced Axon Citizen, which lets officers create a public portal for the public to upload cell phone footage that may be relevant to pending cases.
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Axon said it will patch the vulnerabilities in Vievu tech.
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Perhaps the Axon 10s Pro will be one of them.
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The Axon M doesn't look like a phone from 2017.
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The ethics board applauds Axon for acting consistently with this.
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Expectations, ultimately, are what make the Axon M so disappointing.
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Mr. Smith predicted that sales of Axon cameras and Evidence.
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Taser this year changed its name to Axon Enterprise Inc .
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The new Axon looks very similar to ZTE's last flagship.
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The Axon 26.0's display punches far above its price class ZTE will be offering two versions of the Axon 21 — a 27GB model with 4GB of RAM and a 128GB version with 6GB.
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"Axon is more interesting now than ever, given the growth potential and overall prospects for profitability," says Keith Housum, an equity research analyst with Northcoast Research who holds a buy rating on Axon stock.
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The board seems satisfied with its relationship with Axon: "So far, Axon has been extremely receptive to the board's input and has followed it carefully," says Friedman, who receives a stipend for board meetings.
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A shot of the device's display (which is reportedly an OLED panel) suggests that the Axon S will be a 5G handset — the company's second after the Axon 10 Pro 5G it announced last month.
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In order to increase the speed at which these electrical signals travel, the axon is insulated by myelin.... Myelin twists around the axon like a jelly-roll cake and prevents the loss of electrical signals.
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Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)And as a nod back to the fantastic stereo speakers the Axon 7, the Axon 10 comes with dual speakers, along with DTS:X Ultra 3D sound when you're using wired audio.
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And that was in the Axon M's traditional single screen mode.
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The Axon M's low-light photography is embarrassing for the price.
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Axon has made offers like this on a smaller scale before.
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The Axon M's dual screens potentially offer a much better solution.
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Digital Ally has also already been successful fighting Axon in court.
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Samuel Axon is a digital content producer in New York City.
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Where the Axon M really seems to shine is multi-tasking.
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Axon spokesman Steve Tuttle did not respond to emails seeking comment.
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" Axon Enterprise: "This was the old Taser, and we like it.
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Axon occupies two floors of an office tower near Amazon's headquarters.
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Here's an image captured by the Axon 10's main camera.
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" Axon calls Tasers the "safest force option available to law enforcement.
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" In 2009, Axon identified pregnant women as a "higher risk population.
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Above, an assembly line for Tasers at Axon in Scottsdale, Ariz.
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Axon provides detailed warnings on the risks associated with Tasers, Tuttle added.
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The corrections industry is "hard to break into," said Axon spokesman Tuttle.
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Brackeen claims Axon requested the startup's face recognition software, but Kairos declined.
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At this point in time, Axon is not developing facial recognition technology.
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In June, Axon partnered with DJI to offer drones integrated with Evidence.
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But the real embarrassment comes from the Axon M's low-light photos.
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At face value, ZTE's Axon M doesn't look like a $725 smartphone.
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By contrast, the Axon M is chunky, heavy, and kind of slow.
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Additionally, it lacks the Google Daydream compatibility that the Axon 7 offers.
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System performance is where Axon thrives relative to its competitors, Smith said.
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ZTE has outfitted the Axon 10S Pro with a triple-camera system.
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However, the Axon 7 mini's $299.98 price point comes in at $100 cheaper than the $399.98 full size Axon 7, meaning that while you're getting less phone for your money, you're also spending less money for your phone.
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Alongside the announcement of its new Axon 7 smartphone today, ZTE also unveiled the creatively named ZTE VR. It's basically ZTE's version of the Gear VR: it's a mostly empty headset that you slide the Axon 7 into.
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Thankfully, ZTE realized this and did away with it for the Axon 7.
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Axon is the leading supplier of varying police technologies in the United States.
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While flawed, ZTE's dual-screen Axon M is an exciting, future-thinking device.
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Even when using just one screen, the Axon M's battery life is underwhelming.
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DJI furnishes the drones, while Axon integrates the data they collect with Evidence.
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ZTE's Axon 7 Mini is due out here in the States next month.
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Leading the startup's Series A round are Axon Partners Group, and Grupo Pegasus.
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It's also strange how much ZTE pushes video on the Axon M, too.
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Update October 21st 2018, 4:02 PM ET: Updated with statement from Axon.
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Over the last decade, Axon has shifted heavily to selling police body cameras.
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But the Axon M's dual-screen technology isn't the result of industry breakthroughs.
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The mini is the smaller and cheaper version of ZTE's flagship Axon 399.983.
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The Axon 10S Pro is 5G-ready and also supports Wi-Fi 6.
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Axon is currently receiving guidance from its ethics group about license plate readers.
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" Axon Enterprise: "I think the stock went up and it was heavily shorted.
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Unlike the recently issued OnePlus 2100T, however, the new Axon 27 2200+128 won't be replacing its namesake, instead it will just slot in alongside the handset (and the not-mini Axon 7 Mini) at, naturally, a higher price point.
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A neuron receives these signals through its branch-like dendrites, sends it across a long projection called an axon and shoots it out the axon terminal, across a gap called the synaptic cleft, and into the dendrites of the next neuron.
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Speaking of the screen, the AMOLED display on the Axon 7 is a looker.
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That said, there are also plenty of limitations to the Axon M's dual screens.
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Before arriving at TPG-Axon roughly a decade ago, Arisawa worked at Goldman Sachs.
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You can also use the Axon M's dual displays to show two different apps.
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Last year, Axon established an ethics board focused on artificial intelligence and policing technology.
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Axon, creator of the Taser, did something unusual for a technology company last year.
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And even police bodycam maker Axon has declined to incorporate it into its products.
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ZTE just announced preorders for the Axon 7 mini and named a price: $299.98.
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In 2009, shortly after Taser began selling its cameras through its Axon division, Sgt.
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Additional reporting by Karolos Grohmann, Iain Axon and Peter Rutherford; Editing by Mark Bendeich
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AADvac1 was shown to be safe and well-tolerated in the trial, Axon added.
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At the time, Axon claimed it only planned to use computer vision for automated redaction.
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I really wanted to like the ZTE Axon M the first time I tried it.
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The officer was not injured, however officer safety is of the utmost importance to Axon.
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On the surface, the Axon M is a fairly run-of-the-mill Android smartphone.
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It seems Axon wants to preemptively block competition by acclimating officers to their cameras specifically.
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Axon (then Taser International) went after him both times with every legal tool it could.
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Lastly, you are on a couple of company boards — Twitter and Axon (formerly Taser International).
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This, however, is not the world that ZTE's dual-screen Axon M was born into.
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When reached by Motherboard for comment, Axon restated the language from its official press release.
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One of the features that ZTE is highlighting is the Axon 7's sound system.
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Following the trials, Axon won nearly every major deal that was proposed, Smith told Cramer.
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A live feed was visible on a large screen at his back: announcing Axon Air!
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If you stretch an axon slowly and gradually, it will expand while maintaining its continuity.
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According to the contract with Axon, each camera would cost St. Louis $1,000 a year.
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"We expect this trend to accelerate in 22018," the Axon CFO said on the call.
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Racial sensitivity training may come in the future as Axon builds out its training catalog.
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After the bell, Etsy, Square, Express Scripts, Axon, Workday, Hertz Global and Weight Watchers report.
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The Axon 7 mini has the same all-metal body as the original Axon 7, a design that reminded us favorably of the HTC One M8, although it's a slightly lighter 153 grams (instead of 3333 grams) and imperceptibly thinner — 7.8mm compared to 7.9mm.
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Overall, ZTE's approach to software on the Axon 27.0 is to get out of Android's way.
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"The thing we saw with Axon is that it's a less polarizing brand," Smith told Reuters.
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The Axon M allows me to do just that; the experience is like having two phones.
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The Axon M's dual-screen mode really shines when you turn the phone on its side.
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I asked him: does Digital Ally have any chance of challenging Axon in the taser market?
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The handset runs $100 more than the standard Axon 7 and $200 more than the Mini.
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Ten years ago, Axon started using robots to assemble cartridges for its flagship product, the Taser.
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Still, more RAM probably can't hurt, and even the cheapest ZTE Axon 2518 variant has plenty.
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The Axon 10 Pro 5G includes three cameras and also runs on the Qualcomm 855 processor.
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Electronic Arts, News Corp, Axon, Blue Buffalo, TripAdvisor and Hostess Brands report after the market close.
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The CEO added that the name change from Taser to Axon supports the network-oriented shift.
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ZTE has announced pricing and availability for the Axon 7 smartphone that it revealed last month.
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One evening, Axon held an open house, inviting potential recruits to its newly decorated upper floor.
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Axon has left open the possibility that it could pursue facial recognition technology in the future.
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Axon reported earnings of 41 cents per share excluding some items on $171.9 million in revenue.
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In September Jeff Kunins joined Axon from Amazon, where he was vice president of Alexa Entertainment.
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Companies distributing and managing services include FlyMotion and Axon (which was formerly known as Taser International).
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Zdilla's presentation also touched on Blink and Arlo security cameras and a platform called Axon Citizen.
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Even Cramer was taken aback by the blowout quarterly earnings report from Taser maker Axon Enterprise.
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The largest provider of police body cameras, Axon (formerly Taser), wants to give the body cameras away for free, presumably to collect all the data they record and sell access to the data and services like facial recognition capabilities—a capability Axon is actively working on.
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Between February and September, 22 state troopers successfully piloted the Axon Body 2 cameras, the department said.
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But when the Axon 7 doesn't recognize your finger there's a short vibration and nothing else happens.
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Last week, news broke that bodycam maker Axon requested a partnership with Kairos to explore face recognition.
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This is pretty embarrassing, especially since the Axon M costs almost $20.48 more than a Galaxy S28.11.
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Similarly, Motorola and Axon (formerly Taser) have invested in real-time object recognition in their body cameras.
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Of course, for Axon, it's also just about selling cameras and the tech required to run them.
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These are things police departments will have to pay Axon for year after year to maintain service.
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The Axon Signal Unit is an automatic recording product designed to be installed in a police cruiser.
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The Aerospace & Defense ETF (ITA) touched an all-time high, led by gains in Boeing and Axon.
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ZTE is updating the Axon 7 to Android Nougat today, and with it comes Google Daydream compatibility.
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Since Axon announced the deal today, one department in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina has already signed on.
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And a big maker of police body cameras, Axon, just banned the technology from its products, too.
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He also read Smith's book after an Axon board member first put the company on his radar.
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Additional reporting by Steve Keating, Gene Cherry, Iain Axon and Abdel Hadi Rahami; Editing by Toby Davis
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But Axon, which changed its name from Taser International 11 months ago, hasn't exactly been sitting still.
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Axon is also in a unique and beneficial position when it comes to law enforcement, Cramer said.
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Taser will be providing 1,556 of its Axon Body 2 cameras, two for each member of the force.
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It indicated where the cell bodies of every neuron sat and where they sent their long axon branches.
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"If we can prevent incidents from escalating to deadly force, that's a win," said Axon spokesman Steve Tuttle.
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Last week, ZTE's Axon 10 Pro 5G went up for pre-sale in its native China, as well.
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Body cam maker Axon (formerly known as Taser) has been working on similar object recognition tech since 2017.
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And that makes it pretty clear why Axon wants to get cameras into their hands to try out.
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Fortunately it appears to be the former: Axon is growing and the next year may be even bigger.
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The board's first report was published today, with a focus on advising Axon against using facial recognition technology.
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But the Axon M has a trick up its sleeve, something that no other phone is equipped with.
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In February, Axon acquired an AI startup, Dextro, prompting concerns about body cameras being used as surveillance tools.
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Digital Ally sued Axon in 2016 for infringement over its auto-activation body camera patent, among other things.
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Taser says 3,500 police agencies in the United States have purchased its Axon cameras as of March 2016.
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ZTE's Axon M was released in the US through AT&T, and it features two, non-flexible displays.
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The Axon 27 is available in two versions: The Basic edition goes for 2,899 RMB (yuan) or $442.
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Cheng and the company will head back to Cleveland to pitch that city's basketball fans on the Axon.
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In 2017, Axon announced that it would provide free body cameras to every police department in the country.
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The one-year trial offer includes one Axon Body 2 camera per officer, unlimited data storage on Evidence.
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The Axon 7 has a 20-megapixel camera with optical stabilization, f/1.8 lens, and 4K video capability.
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Stay tuned for more on the Axon 7 once we have spent some time with a review unit.
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But it slightly scales down the Axon 7's specs across the board, dropping the price to match.
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They are Aberdeen Standard Investments, Axon Partners Group, Isomer Capital, LGT, Lombard Odier Asset Management and Schroder Adveq.
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The hope is that the new board will help Axon navigate the more troubling possibilities of facial recognition.
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Facebook stopped short of forming a board focused on AI ethics, as Axon (formerly Taser) did last week.
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When a VieVu employee asked if Axon had made inroads with the Department of Defense, Smith sighed heavily.
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The two companies that filed the complaint against IREO include the Children's Investment Fund Foundation and Axon Partners.
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At the time of the Axon 7's introduction, ZTE didn't commit to releasing the higher-end model.
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Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) sent a letter to Axon, makers of the digital evidence storage product Evidence.
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Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)The ZTE Axon 7 was one of the most underappreciated phones of its generation.
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Axon (AAXN) – Axon's already-completed acquisition of rival Vievu is being challenged by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
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Even CNBC's Jim Cramer was taken aback by the blowout quarterly earnings report from Taser maker Axon Enterprise.
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I founded and run a company called Axon, which manufactures less-lethal weaponry, including the TASER stun gun.
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Axon, the biggest vendor of police body cameras, said in June that it won't sell facial recognition technology.
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Furthermore, the Axon M's fingerprint sensor is pretty hit or miss, often forcing me to enter my PIN instead.
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Will the footage still be retained by Axon, even if citizens are never formally suspected of anything or charged?
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Commercial dronemaker DJI has made this a priority after announcing a partnership with body camera manufacturer Axon, formerly Taser.
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"These drones are going to get more popular," Steve Tuttle, Vice President of Strategic Communications for Axon, told Gizmodo.
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Axon, the company formerly known as Taser, is entering another controversial surveillance business: the automatic license plate reader industry.
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That's the cutoff price point for the Blade line, with the more premium Axon tier running $400 and up.
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Or how about NEC's Medias W foldable phone that looks uncannily like the phone that inspired the Axon M?
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Here's what's in the package: One Axon Body 2 camera per sworn officerDigital evidence data storage with an Evidence.
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ZTE is getting ready to take the wraps off its next flagship phone, the Axon 7, on May 26th.
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Any other Axon body cameras that enter the 30-foot radius within those 30 seconds will also be activated.
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Axon will begin trading at the Nasdaq under its new ticker, AAXN, at market open on Thursday, April 6.
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Axon, formerly known as Taser, has launched a new "AI ethics board" to guide its use of artificial intelligence.
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A year ago, Smith changed Taser's name to Axon Enterprise, referring to the conductive fibre of a nerve cell.
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Before taking Axon's bait, departments and city councils should be clear-eyed about why Axon is making this offer.
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Since 2003, Axon has warned that pregnant women are at particular risk of injury from falls after being shocked.
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Last year, the company unveiled the "Axon Citizen" product, which lets the public securely send video footage to police agencies.
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Overall, Axon revenues were up 51 percent year-over-year, while the Taser weapons segment revenues grew almost 20 percent.
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Oh yeah, and there's a hinge that connects the two displays, making the Axon M a flip phone of sorts.
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Taser International, which acquired the stun-gun technology in the 1990s, changed its name in April to Axon Enterprise Inc.
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Since Axon began automating manufacturing in 2009, it has bought $18 million worth of automated equipment, the company tells Axios.
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The Axon M looks like something between a throwback to the T-Mobile Sidekick and two full smartphones bolted together.
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Taser, which now does business as Axon Enterprise Inc, no longer sells the X26 in the United States and Canada.
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The Axon M also has stereo speakers and a USB-C port down bottom, and a headphone jack up top.
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Taser, which recently changed its name to Axon Enterprise Inc, said there was no reason to recall the stun gun.
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At its heart, the Axon M is an average phone with one (admittedly compelling) gimmick to justify its flagship price.
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Rather, Axon claims that they will not be using facial recognition, for now, due to "ethical concerns" about the technology.
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If you've only got $400 to spend, your best options are the Idol 4S, OnePlus 3 and the Axon 7.
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Given that the Axon 7 is already a sub-$500 phone, that puts the mini squarely in budget smartphone territory.
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The company had solicited input from an external committee of researchers, who made recommendations that Axon agreed to this week.
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On the roof, two muscular men, Axon Taser trainers, dragged a pair of blue gymnastics mats to an open area.
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Axon is a major manufacturer of body cameras used by the police, one of many products compatible with the site.
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Kunins now oversees Axon's software road map, the list of technologies Axon thinks will be big over the next decade.
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The company now known as Axon created its body camera division a few years ago, but ramped up efforts in 2017.
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ZTE shrunk the Axon 7 just a tad, making it shorter and a bit thinner when compared to last year's model.
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Among the contracts he says his company has refused was a request for a face-recognition system by Axon Enterprise Inc.
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In 2017, Axon began acquiring computer vision start-ups, hugely enhancing police agencies' ability to sort through enormous amounts of footage.
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Its new flagship device, the Axon M, is a dual-screened smartphone that the company imagines as the ultimate multitasking machine.
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In a statement, Axon, Vievu's parent company, says it will do whatever is necessary to quickly and safely resolve the situation.
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In a year of great smartphones, ZTE's new Axon M would seem to stand out, but not in a good way.
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Should you keep the second screen folded back against the phone, you can use the Axon M like any other smartphone.
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Those dual-screen capabilities come at an obvious cost, however, as the Axon M is 12.1mm thick and weighs 230 grams.
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Stock Android Flagship Phone: The next generation of Axon to include stock Android as well as improvement in performance and camera.
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Whittaker gives the example of Axon (formerly Taser), which bought several AI companies to help build video analytics into its products.
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If a police department is given a full year of Axon body cameras, why would they ever switch to another manufacturer?
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That's an enormous hassle and clearly Axon is trying to get departments to sign up for more expensive, multi-year contracts.
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It's unclear if ZTE plans to return to the Axon M, or if that was just a random one-off experiment.
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The same goes for companies like Microsoft and Amazon, who also have an independent obligation to act, as Axon did today.
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On paper, its new flagship Axon 7 passes the specs test with flying colors — even surpassing most rivals in certain areas.
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These, in turn, trigger a process which releases protein-breaking enzymes that destroy the axon, further disrupting the brain's internal communications.
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Axon, a manufacturer of tasers and body cameras for police officers, said that it could not "ethically justify" commercializing facial recognition.
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They record 30 seconds of video without sound before an officer actively turns on the camera, according to the manufacturer Axon.
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The Axon 7 continues on with the original Axon's goal of high-end specs and materials at a wallet-friendly price.
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Axon agreed to a host of the board's recommendations, including halting plans to implement face-matching technology in police body cameras.
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For instance, DJI recently teamed up with Axon, the Taser and body cam manufacturer, to sell drone technology to police departments.
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Even though Axon assures prospective customers that they will own their data, switching vendors and platforms will be cumbersome and expensive.
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JMP said the company's "strong" brand and "solid" reputation in the law enforcement community give Axon a "dominant platform" for growth.
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"We do not condone torture of any kind," Axon spokesman Steve Tuttle said in response to Melzer's call for an investigation.
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As of the end of the quarter, 36 of 68 major cities' law enforcement agencies had bought either Axon cameras or Evidence.
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Law enforcement tech outfitter Axon has announced that it will include automated license plate recognition in its next generation of dash cams.
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Axon founded its AI and Policing Technology Ethics Board last April to help advise the company on how to ethically develop products.
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"Signal guarantees that all footage goes recorded and saved," according to online sales materials from Axon Enterprise, Minneapolis PD's body camera provider.
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You can activate a dual-screen mode on the phone by pressing a button at the bottom of the Axon M's display.
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Axon uses face recognition and tracking to process the many, many hours of video that police departments full of body cams produce.
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The prices are for China; there's no word on when the ZTE Axon 7 or its VR counterpart might reach U.S. shores.
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"For the first time ever, our Axon bookings of $52 million surpassed our TASER Weapons segment revenue of $46 million," he said.
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Axon said that officials only just became aware of three letters from the SEC asking for information about the company's financial disclosures.
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At the very least, ZTE's new Axon M has one key advantage over many of its predecessors: it's actually going on sale.
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It also keeps the dual front-facing speakers that we liked on the Axon 7, although it's using a different audio chipset.
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Axon, a company which manufactures police body cameras, has said that it wouldn't use the technology in its products, citing ethical concerns.
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Axon said it offers police departments "the latest public-safety best practices and training" for Taser use, including warnings about vulnerable populations.
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Axon bought Vievu in May, after losing contract bids to its former rival in major cities like New York, Miami and Phoenix.
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Axon (formerly known as Taser International) has sold more than 19983,000 police cameras worldwide and cites the Rialto study on its website.
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Axon (formerly known as Taser International) has sold more than 300,000 police cameras worldwide and cites the Rialto study on its website.
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According to data from Axon, 20163 of the 22016 biggest cities in the U.S. use or have decided to use the technology.
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According to data from Axon, 41 of the 69 biggest cities in the U.S. use or have decided to use the technology.
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Because the majority of police calls for service involving someone in crisis entails a person with schizophrenia, Axon introduced that module first.
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Axon said in July that it was issuing a moratorium on facial recognition in its products, citing concerns about the software's accuracy.
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Through a chemical and electrical transmission, the single-stemmed axon of one neuron talks to the branched root-like dendrite of another.
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Axon established an AI Ethics Board in May, though it's unclear if board members were aware of the company's reported talks with Kairos.
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But for $725 (or even $525 after Best Buy's recent $200 off deal), the Axon M isn't something any sane person should buy.
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BERLIN — This summer, ZTE launched the Axon 73, the company's new flagship phone — which in ZTE's case pretty much means affordable but solid.
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ZTE updated the Axon 7 to support it, and Huawei included the feature on the Mate 9 Pro and Porsche Design Mate 9.
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It makes a number of recommendations to Axon, and it should come as no surprise that transparency is at the head of them.
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Axon, for its part, isn't making any particularly specific promises, partly because the board's recommendations reach beyond what it is capable of promising.
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China's ZTE, which recently announced the world's first Snapdragon 865 phone, the ZTE Axon 10s Pro, also had a scheduled appearance at MWC.
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The Axon M also manages audio, so that you'll only hear the screen you're actively interacting with if both are trying to play.
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The Axon M's blocky design is similar to that of the Razer Phone, but even that phone is sleeker than ZTE's new gadget.
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The drawback of this capability is that the Axon M doesn't always seem up to the task of displaying two apps at once.
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Taser, which recently changed its name to Axon Enterprise Inc, said its weapons are the "the most thoroughly studied" law enforcement force option.
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When the Axon M was first revealed, however, a co-worker implored me to get this "magnificent monster" in for a closer look.
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Others have closed foreign offices, including TPG-Axon Capital and Hutchin Hill Capital, or shut down altogether, including Perry Capital and Nevsky Capital.
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We do know that some older phones will work with Daydream, too, because ZTE said its Axon 7 is compatible with the platform.
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The company, which in April changed its name to Axon Enterprise Inc, has an obvious stake in establishing the safety of its weapons.
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Its Axon body cameras are worn by officers in dozens of big cities including Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Washington and, yes, Dallas.
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When Smith got up to speak, he framed Axon not as a supplier of tactical paramilitary gear but as an agent of reform.
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Axon makes most of its money by charging departments for the ongoing storage of petabytes of video footage—not by selling camera hardware.
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Presenters will include officials from Axon, the county sheriff's office, the American Civil Liberties Union and Dr. Zian Tseng, a cardiologist, Pine said.
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Shares of 2U are up 34.8 percent for the year, while shares of Axon are up 63 percent for the year to date.
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Axon has warned since 211 that people agitated or intoxicated by drugs may face higher risks of medical consequences from Tasers' electrical current.
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Several cities, including San Francisco and Somerville, Massachusetts, as well as the largest manufacturer of police body cameras, Axon, have also followed suit.
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In April, CEO Rick Smith told Cramer that Axon would give away free body cameras to every police force in the United States.
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ZTE is releasing the higher end version of this year's Axon 7 phone today, marking the first time an Android phone with a pressure-sensitive screen has been released in the US. ZTE introduced two versions of its Axon 7 earlier this year: one 64GB model with 4GB of RAM and one with 128GB of storage and 6GB of RAM.
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Axon was not named, though we've asked the company to clarify if its talks with Kairos included the use of face recognition in drones.
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But all of these things are just distractions that take away from the Axon M's highlight feature: Its dual 5.2-inch full HD screens.
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Pricing is still be worked out, but the company expects that it will be under $300, versus the Axon 7's $400 price point.
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Verana has also built up the Axon Registry, which tracks the impact of treatments over time for conditions like multiple sclerosis, migraines, and epilepsy.
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The program will be costly to Axon at first, but I can't picture it playing out any way but positive in the long run.
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Alcatel's making fools of the OnePlus 3 and ZTE Axon 216, both of which retail for $22.0 and don't include any of the extras.
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Chinese electronics maker ZTE unveiled the 5.2-inch AXON 7 Mini at IFA with a focus on the sound quality from the phone's speaker.
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ZTE just announced the Axon 103 Pro 5G, which is due out in the first half of 2019 — in China and Europe, at least.
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Conversely, Axon, the largest maker of police body-cameras, recently decided to at least temporarily ban the use of facial recognition in its products.
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The Axon M should be available later this fall for around $600, although we're still waiting for official pricing to be announced later today.
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The Axon 7 is a 5.5-inch Android smartphone that will be compatible with Google's Daydream VR system when the latter launches this fall.
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The board will meet twice a year to discuss the ethical implications of upcoming Axon products, particularly how their use might affect community policing.
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An even more dangerous future lies ahead: Axon and other camera vendors are already beginning to incorporate face recognition technologies into their camera systems.
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"What's unique about Axon is not only do we get to work on interesting technology, we're working on really impactful social problems," Smith said.
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When public safety technologies company Axon wanted to change the performance incentives for its CEO, Rick Smith, the company took it one step further.
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For a $399 unlocked phone, the Axon 7 punches way above its weight class and easily competes with phones that cost almost twice as much.
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According to documents obtained by The Verge through Minnesota's Freedom of Information Act, the department arranged to purchase 200 Axon Signal Units in March 2016.
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Axon, which, along with the Taser, has produced surveillance tools like body cams, will likely have its ALPR tool closely monitored by civil rights groups.
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But flip the phone over and there's an identical 5.2-inch display on the back, making the Axon M anything but run-of-the-mill.
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To start, DJI and Axon will be selling the professional-level Matrice 210 model as well as the more consumer-friendly Phantom 4 Pro model.
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Digital Ally has so far been successful in court regarding auto-activation and is scheduled for a pre-trial hearing with Axon in the spring.
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The Axon M can be used normally, flipped open to both screens, or even in tent mode, kind of like a mini 2-in-1.
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While self-driving cars dominate headlines when it comes to automated vehicles, start-up Ctrlworks developed Axon, a robotic vehicle designed mostly for indoor use.
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Axon CEO Rick Smith has said in the past that real-time recognition might be useful for extreme cases like child abductions or terrorist manhunts.
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The company began selling video recorders that worked with Taser weapons in 2006, and it introduced its first body camera, the Axon Pro, in 2009.
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The ZTE Axon M is not a true flexible phone — the second screen slides out from the back and is attached with a bulky hinge.
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Sydney Siegmeth, the vice president of global communications for Axon, Vievu's parent company, said the company was working with the police to investigate the issue.
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Rick Smith, the chief executive of Axon, followed Mr. Musk's lead and proposed a nearly identical plan, albeit with smaller targets for the market valuation.
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As police across the country have scrambled to meet calls for greater public accountability, that has meant a wave of cash for companies like Axon.
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Even before you hit 20x, you can see how the Axon 210's 23x hybrid zoom starts to have a major impact on image quality.
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Axon also wants to establish the necessary privacy and accountability safeguards to prevent police misuse when it comes to surveilling people, says a company spokesperson.
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The plan's goal is to take a typical stock grant, a restricted stock unit, and "supercharge" that, according to Axon Chief Financial Officer Jawad Ahsan.
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Axon, he added, does not explicitly bar using the weapon on people under the influence of drugs or alcohol, but instead warns of the risks.
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In Scottsdale, Axon, the maker of the Taser, is hungrily snatching talent from Silicon Valley as it embraces automation to keep up with growing demand.
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"Taser weapons are the most thoroughly studied and safest force option available to law enforcement," Steve Tuttle, spokesman for Taser maker Axon International, told Reuters.
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Inside the Axon 27 is Qualcomm's Snapdragon 23 processor, 23GB of memory, 2400GB of storage, with microSD support up to 27GB and a 73,27 mAh battery.
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Via the "Axon Signal" device Minnesota police purchased, body cameras can be configured to turn on automatically in conjunction with dashboard cameras or opening car doors.
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While Axon is pitching this offer as "free body cameras for every police officer in the US," what it's really offering is a one-year trial.
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Renders claiming to show an unannounced phone from ZTE called the Axon S have appeared online, showing a slider that moves horizontally to conceal its cameras.
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Vendors, including Axon, should design ALPRs to facilitate transparency about their use, including by incorporating easy ways for agencies to share aggregate and de-identified data.
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Meanwhile, Axon is embroiled in a long-standing court battle with a competitor, Digital Ally, over whether its auto-activation products violate a Digital Ally patent.
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It's worth pointing out that the Axon M isn't the first Android smartphone to try to make the dual-screen concept work in this form factor.
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Axon (formerly Taser) grows like a weed as it refocuses on body cams The advice they give is unequivocal: don't use it — now or perhaps ever.
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CMT is caused by mutations in genes that produce proteins involved in the structure and function of either the peripheral nerve axon or the myelin sheath.
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Although, you could spend another $100 and get something like the OnePlus 3 or the ZTE Axon 7, both of which blow the latest BlackBerry away.
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But the worst thing about the Axon M is that due to ZTE's partnership with DirecTV, this phone is going to be an AT&T exclusive.
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Axon, formerly known as Taser International, plans to release new body cameras in late September that start recording automatically the moment a gun leaves its holster.
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The Axon M's overall execution leaves something to be desired, but there are still compelling glimmers that point to some potential usefulness for the form factor.
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In its attempt to keep the Axon M reasonably affordable, ZTE has cut too many corners and a (literal) hole at the center of the device.
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The design sounds more like a classic clamshell handset than the novel — though not particularly practical — dual-screen ZTE Axon M that arrived late last year.
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It comes in the same gold model as the Axon 7, but its alternate color is "platinum grey" instead of "quartz grey," for whatever that's worth.
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" Axon employees, like those at other companies trying to craft a responsible approach to A.I., talk about the importance of having a "human in the loop.
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Once Axon hooks departments with free cameras, it can then entice departments into expensive, long-term contracts with storage costing cities millions of dollars each year.
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Why it matters: Wyden is a privacy hawk and the letter's queries don't betray much in the way of an actual suspected security problem at Axon.
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Despite the potential hurdles, there are big potential profits here for Axon, which aims to offer free trials to all major police departments across the country.
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In pages of warnings, Axon Enterprise Inc advises police to beware that some people are at higher risk of death or serious injury from the weapons.
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Read the original Reuters investigation here here The weapon's manufacturer, Axon Enterprise Inc, said stun guns can help jailers and inmates avoid injuries when used properly.
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Advocates voiced similar concerns last year when Axon, formerly Taser, launched an AI division to develop machine-learning technology that can pinpoint faces in body camera footage.
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" And body camera manufacturer Axon has said its "ultimate goal in developing AI technology is to remove the need for police officers to do manual paperwork entirely.
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Axon, makers of the infamous Taser, uses AI to enhance the usefulness of its body cameras, offering an automated redaction and archival service for body camera footage.
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The spokesperson wrote in an email:As a technology company, Axon is constantly evaluating all different technologies in order to be current in our understanding of their capabilities.
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Mirror mode (which copies whatever is on the main display onto the second screen) is the only special mode that works when Axon M isn't fully open.
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Update: 9/22/17 4pm ET: Gizmodo spoke with Steve Tuttle, Axon Spokesperson and VP of Strategic Communication, to clarify the nature of the Public Evidence Product.
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The Axon name comes from Taser's unit that sells police body cameras, patrol car cameras and the software for managing the hours of digital footage they generate.
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The Axon brand will let the company market its cameras and records management software to police departments without the controversy the Taser brand can generate, Smith said.
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There are already a handful of Android phones, including Huawei's Mate S and ZTE's Axon Mini, that have the pressure-sensitive screens needed for such a feature.
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One recent product from the company, the ZTE Axon mini, was quite interesting as it was one of the first Androids to incorporate a pressure-sensitive screen.
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And even then it's subtle and totally not a dealbreaker, unlike, say, the massive gap that made the ZTE Axon M look like two phones pasted together.
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Without an intact axon and myelin sheath, peripheral nerve cells are unable to activate target muscles or relay sensory information from the limbs back to the brain.
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This led to body cam companies like Axon and Watchguard selling hundreds of thousands of body cameras across the country — Watchguard even filed for an IPO yesterday.
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That price puts the Idol 4S against much stiffer competition in the unlocked Android world, such as the impressive OnePlus 3 and the promising ZTE Axon 7.
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Rick Smith, Axon's co-founder and CEO, told CNBC on Friday that Axon fought hard for the Vievu deal and other acquisitions it's made in recent months.
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Taser, which changed its name to Axon Enterprise Inc this year, says its warnings are designed to protect both the company and its police clients from liability.
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ZTE's Axon M, introduced in October, got the market a little closer with its two 5.2-inch LCD screens that form a 53-inch tablet when opened.
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Axon, who makes police worn body-cameras worn by Los Angeles police, also announced this year that facial-recognition systems will not be added to those devices.
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But accounting for the company's growth rate, it's only trading at 29 times 2020 earnings — and could get cheaper if Axon keeps beating earnings estimates, Cramer said.
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A render of the new Axon Fleet 3 camera A render of the new Axon Fleet 3 camera "The unregulated use of ALPRs has exposed millions of people subject to surveillance by law enforcement, and the danger to our basic civil rights is only increasing as the technology is becoming more common," said Barry Friedman, NYU law professor and member of the ethics board, in a press release.
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Screenshot: CNBCRick Smith, the founder and CEO of Axon (formerly Taser), offered a bold new strategy for preventing school shootings on Thursday: approach the problem like a hackathon.
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And to top it off, the Axon M's battery life was the worst we saw all year, and its thick, heavy design makes it feel like a brick.
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At the end of the day, you can't go wrong with the Axon 7 or the OnePlus 3 if you're shopping for an unlocked device on a budget.
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And for its part, Axon pushed back on the University of Chicago's findings, telling CNBC that the Taser is one of the safer options available to law enforcement.
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Other high-flying stocks in the defense sector these past two years have are Axon Enterprise — which is up nearly 100 percent in that time — and Heico Corp.
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Combined with the company's name change, the offer shows Axon shifting its focus from stun guns to cameras and, perhaps more importantly, the technology that backs them up.
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There's currently no word on what the ZTE Axon S might cost, when it could be released, or what countries we should expect it to be available in.
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At the recommendation of its AI ethics board, "Axon will not be commercializing face matching products on our body camera," the company announced in a blog post today.
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The company's blog post makes it clear that Axon will continue to research and pursue face matching technology, including an effort to de-bias algorithms in the future.
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The Axon M is actually a compelling device, in part because a unique feature: it's built around two fully functional screens that are joined together on a hinge.
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Though the company stresses that it is not designed to be a replacement for the single-screen Axon 7, it will be priced similarly to other premium smartphones.
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Through the program, Axon will serve as an easy place for police and law enforcement agencies to buy drones, providing access to Axon's connected data network and Evidence.
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When a shooter pulls the trigger of an Axon taser, compressed nitrogen shoots two-pronged darts from the weapon's barrel, which are attached to electrically charged copper wires.
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Shares of Taser International rose 4 percent in late-session trade after the firm announced the Atlanta Police Department will purchase 1,015 body cameras from Taser's subsidiary Axon.
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Axon Ventures, as the new venture capital fund will be named, will take minority stakes in companies with the aim of having one Eurofarma seat on corporate boards.
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Until last year, Axon was known as Taser International, but took its new name from its cloud platform, which stores videos and photos taken from police body cameras.
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After Axon announced in 2017 that it would give free body cameras to every U.S. police officer, enforcement agencies signed up for field trials to test its equipment.
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Taser was founded in Scottsdale, Arizona, where Smith lives; to transform into Axon, he opened an office in Seattle , hiring designers and engineers from Uber, Google, and Apple.
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The Axon 10's 8-MP 3x optical zoom cam is a bit of a surprise, as most phones with telephoto lenses tend to stop at just 2x.
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The RNA editing in the squid axon demonstrated in Rosenthal's paper is analogous to the RNA editing that would need to occur in the cytoplasm for human therapies.
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The publicly-traded company changed its name to Axon in 2017, adopting the title of its police body camera segment as a part of its shift into software services.
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Body cameras have been available to police since at least 2007 when Steve Ward, a salesman for Taser International, broke off from the company, now known as Axon Enterprise.
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You probably aren't thinking of a device like ZTE's new Axon M, which is a full-featured smartphone that happens to have not one, but two full-size displays.
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ZTE's U.S. chief, Lixin Cheng, was at Game 2 on Sunday, handing out an Axon to one lucky fan while talking up the device to reporters and league officials.
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ZTE ranked sixth in global smartphone shipments last quarter ZTE's newest smartphone, the flagship Axon 7, was announced this week, and it's coming to the US later next month.
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In 2014, a Taser Axon camera worn by an officer in Albuquerque captured the fatal shooting of a homeless man by officers who did not appear to be threatened.
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Axon Enterprise may be the smallest competitor in its space — developing evidence-capture technology for law enforcement — but based on its deal flow, it might be the most refined.
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In June, Axon, the largest supplier of body cameras to law enforcement, said it wouldn't include facial recognition in its product, on the recommendation of its external ethics board.
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For his part, Gillula says he plans to keep arguing against the use of facial recognition by law enforcement, if and when the state, or Axon, decides it's ready.
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Just days before Samsung is set to announce the Galaxy S25 series of phones, ZTE has jumped out ahead of the company and formally unveiled the Axon 26S Pro.
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Axon — The taser maker's stock dipped 4% in extended trading after the company announced that it expects a significantly lower run-rate of body camera unit sales going forward.
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"We're very successfully building a high-margin SaaS business on top of our existing hardware business," said Axon CFO Jawad Ahsan on the company's most recent earnings conference call.
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While an FTC decision can then be appealed to federal appeals court, no new facts or evidence can be introduced, making it harder to overturn the case, Axon argued.
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But, as we've asked before, as tech companies like DJI and Taser maker Axon continue to make more tools and weapons for law enforcement, who will police the police drones?
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Tasers can "make correctional environments significantly safer for all parties," said Steve Tuttle, vice president of communications for Axon Enterprise Inc, which changed its name this year from Taser International.
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Axon Enterprise, formerly Taser International and the maker of Taser, offers a wide range of law enforcement technologies in additional to its flagship product, including cameras and law enforcement software.
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Nothing in the promotional materials suggests DJI drones have face recognition integrated, but Axon recently confirmed it has begun weighing the impact of embedding face recognition into its body cameras.
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In May, California public defender Rick Horowitz raised concerns of ownership after being asked to sign a licensing agreement with Axon to access footage of his own client before trial.
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Axon (formally known as Taser) has been shifting its business toward body cameras for police officers for the past few years, but today, the company is making a big change.
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The fact that Axon — a major supplier of police cameras in the US — is shying away from the technology is still significant, though, given the contentious nature of the technology.
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O, maker of the eponymous device used by police to stun and incapacitate a person temporarily, is changing its name to Axon as it pushes further into the software business.
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When a new ship, the Tangled Axon, arrives in port looking for her sister Nova, she stows away, hoping that her skills will prevent the crew from booting her off.
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And as for dual screens, Chinese company ZTE is set to release the Axon M, a phone with two displays that's reminiscent of another aughties standby: the T-Mobile Sidekick.
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When Axon, the United States' leading police body camera producer, agreed to stop selling face recognition technology yesterday, the decision came at the urging of the company's independent ethics board.
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While the Axon M is a bit thick thanks to its dual screens, those screens also let ZTE simplify its design by equipping it with just one 20-megapixel camera.
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When private entities like Axon are left to the task of regulating themselves, they can simply leave themselves open to the possibility of using facial recognition technology in the future.
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If Taser successfully sells Axon body cameras to the New York Police Department as CNBC reported it's trying to do, the City of New York could be liable for damages.
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One of the more recent attempts was ZTE's Axon M, which had similar pros and cons, albeit at a price tag that was less than half of the Galaxy Fold.
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In its third year, Accelerate had grown to thirteen hundred client cops, including a few international agencies; London Metropolitan, which owns twenty-two thousand Axon body cameras, sent a team.
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In the story, Lieutenant Dan Zehnder of the Las Vegas Police Department imagined himself patrolling the Las Vegas Strip with his Axon model Taser body camera streaming back to headquarters.
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The demand for the body cameras has ballooned into a multibillion-dollar market dominated by the stun-gun giant Taser, which renamed itself after its Axon body camera in 2017.
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ZTE has become the first phone manufacturer to release a 216G handset in China with the launch of the Axon 73 Pro 27G today, reports state-run news agency Xinhau.
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For Axon Enterprise, having its new chief software executive accompany police officers on midnight ride-alongs and sit inside a 23 dispatch center isn't just part of his job initiation.
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But as Axon looks to expand its hardware streams by pushing into the state corrections market and further into federal agencies, dominance of public safety software might be more elusive.
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From a product description included in The Intercept's report:At Axon, we are developing a product that allows the public to submit photos and video of a crime, suspicious activity, or event.
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While Axon itself can't regulate all police drones, Brundage said, they can develop internal best practices, which would influence self-regulation throughout the industry and perhaps stymie the most alarming uses.
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ZTE's bragging rights of having the first Snapdragon 865 phone are only on paper, though, because neither the price nor the release date for the Axon 10s Pro have been announced.
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Though Axon Signal can engage body cameras when a cruiser's lights are turned on, a report from the Star Tribune indicates the officers approaching Damond's home had their lights turned off.
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ZTE hasn't fully announced the specs for the Axon 10 Pro 5G, but we do know that it will feature a Snapdragon 103 processor as well as Qualcomm's X50 5G modem.
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ZTE will initially be selling the Axon M with AT&T in the US and Docomo in Japan and it is expected to be available before the end of the year.
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If you've ever seen a police officer carrying a taser, that taser was almost certainly manufactured by the publicly traded company formerly known as Taser International, now named Axon Enterprise, Inc.
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Teaming up with Safariland, Digital Ally was added last year as part of a major contract to provide body cameras to the New York Police Department, beating out Axon and others.
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You can have a video running on one screen with social media on the, which could turn the Axon M into an excellent phone for live tweeting while on the go.
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ZTE has no plans to open a retail store in the US just yet, but the Axon 7 is its most recent answer to Apple's iPhone 6S and Samsung's Galaxy S7.
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" Tuttle said there would be a "flow of communication" between the board and Axon, which would include not only its biannual reports, but also "phone calls, emails, all types of exchanges.
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In the video, made by Axon body cameras, officers respond to a 911 call about a prowler in South Los Angeles who is wandering around with a brick in his hand.
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In June, Axon hosted its annual conference, Accelerate, at a golf resort in Scottsdale: a lot of scalp, very little body fat, and never a long line for the ladies' room.
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While this has been touted as a feature by the leading body camera manufacturer Axon, the livestream was only supposed to be available to the officers, not anyone with an antenna.
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In the complaint filed on Friday in U.S. district court in Arizona, Axon said it complied with regulators' requests for 18 months at a cost of $1.5 million in legal fees.
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According to documents obtained by Motherboard, Ring is pursuing a partnership with Axon, a company known not just for making TASER shock devices, but for providing body cameras to police officers.
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Shares of Axon roared 28 percent the day after the report and another 14 percent in the next week, making Cramer wonder how Wall Street managed to underestimate it so dramatically.
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Infrastructure startups are emerging around head/positional tracking (Eonite Perception), haptic feedback (Axon VR), and offloading of device compute to the cloud, enabling more impressive overall VR experiences (Cloudgine, Improbable Labs).
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Next-gen network aside, the Axon 10 Pro 5G looks like a fairly nice upgrade to last year's Axon 9 Pro: the iPhone X-sized notch is getting shrunk down to a smaller teardrop one, the fingerprint sensor has been moved from the back to an in-display sensor, and the dual cameras have been upgraded to a triple-camera system (featuring both wide-angle and ultra-wide angle lenses in addition to the main shooter).
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The OnePlus 3 and Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge will be getting beta versions in the near future, and ZTE recently announced an update for the Axon 7 arriving in January.
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Arisawa ran Asian operations for Dinakar Singh's TPG-Axon from Hong Kong and left last year when Singh pulled back operations to New York, closing both his Tokyo and Hong Kong offices.
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Last October, when it lost a bid to provide New York City police officers with cameras, Axon said it would give 1,000 cameras to the NYPD to test out for a year.
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"We believe the data is owned by public safety agencies and the communities they serve, and should not be resold," said Axon founder and CEO Rick Smith in the same press release.
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Axon body cameras also record a 30-second buffer, so that the camera captures whatever occurred a half-minute prior to when the recording starts, saving it if the camera is activated.
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Under "ideal conditions" — based on lighting, distance, and vehicle speed — Axon says its camera "approaches" 100 percent accuracy, but will register a scan if it is 90 percent confident in its accuracy.
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And while the specs aren't the latest and greatest, the Axon M still holds up well, even for more demanding tasks like watching Netflix and playing a game at the same time.
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ZTE is opening preorders of the Axon 7, which sells for $399.98, through Amazon, Best Buy, B&H, Newegg, and its own online store today, with delivery to start on July 27th.
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So has an aggressive marketing push by companies that produce the body-worn cameras, particularly Taser International, whose Axon brand cameras have, according to Taser, been bought by 3,500 police agencies nationwide.
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Axon would now look to sign a collaboration agreement with a global pharma company to fund larger trials in the third phase of testing, which is typically the most costly, it said.
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The fruit fly, for example, with its rapid reproduction, helped scientists understand genetics; the squid, with its peculiarly gigantic axon fibers, allowed scientists to examine the workings of a single nerve cell.
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The dendrite has little knobby spines that stick out and receive chemical messages passed from another neuron's axon across the synapse, or gap between them, via the tiny white sacs called vesicles.
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But for Cramer, the biggest positive driver for Axon wasn't the stock's 82 percent run since Smith's "Mad Money" interview or its burgeoning software business or its management's wildly positive future guidance.
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Gizmodo spoke with representatives from both DJI and Axon, including members of its' newly formed Artificial Intelligence Ethics Board, and to understand a simple question: What problem does police drone surveillance actually solve?
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Taser's decision to relaunch itself as Axon and give away thousands of body cameras could have been interpreted either as a growing company looking to expand or a desperate one scrambling for purchase.
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It's good that this technology is being deployed amidst a discussion of these issues, but the ethics board isn't The Board, and Axon (let alone its subordinate ethics team) can't dictate public policy.
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ZTE's recently announced Axon M, which'll be sold exclusively on AT&T (my guess is they're the only carrier who would be stupid enough to sell this thing), looks like a bigger joke.
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The city's Board of Estimate and Apportionment voted 3-0 to have Axon Enterprise Inc, a police body camera company, supply its 1,200 officers with free software, hardware and training for a year.
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The company introduced its newest flagship phone — the Axon 9 Pro — at IFA in Berlin today, and, of course, it features a notch along with a bezel at the bottom of the display.
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Those specs put it up against phones that have much higher price tags, so it will be interesting to see how the Axon 7 holds up once we've spent some time with it.
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This means developers will be able to use the feature to create experiences for pressure sensitive handsets like the Huawei Mate S and ZTE Axon mini that can also work on other devices.
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Instead of Qualcomm's top-of-the-line Snapdragon 820, as found in the OnePlus 33, ZTE Axon 7, and many other Android phones this year, the 4S has the midrange Snapdragon 652 chip.
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ZTE tells me its higher-end Axon line will eventually see a complete reduction of bezels and maybe even a notch, which will probably trickle down to the Blade line at some point.
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Its lawyers have filed a letter protesting the contract, including testing reports from the Los Angeles Police Department and three other law enforcement agencies that selected Taser's Axon cameras over Vievu's LE models.
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The embattled city agreed last week to accept 1,300 free police body cameras — enough for the whole force — from Axon, the company that makes Tasers, as part of a one-year trial program.
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The embattled city agreed last week to accept 285,22015 free police body cameras — enough for the whole force — from Axon, the company that makes Tasers, as part of a one-year trial program.
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However, following the ambitious but flawed Axon M and a short-lived ban on buying U.S. components after the company was found to have violated sanctions in Iran, ZTE's U.S. presence largely disappeared.
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The Axon 10 will be available for pre-order starting to today direct from ZTE and on third-party retailers such as B&H, with shipments expected to arrive sometime in mid-September.
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Axon, a leading supplier of police body cameras and dash cams, announced last fall that it would offer license-plate reading as an add-on to its in-car video system in 2020.
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Researchers at Harvard Medical School showed that in genetically engineered mice with A.L.S., a substance called necrostatin-1 not only restored the myelin sheath and stopped axon damage but also prevented limb weakness.
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In a statement, the company said that it did not have "any recommendations or guidelines in place for law enforcement" officers who analyze Axon footage using facial recognition tools from third-party vendors.
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Since its rebranding, Axon became the leading vendor of body cameras, acquiring its leading competitor, Vievu, earlier this year and offering a controversial free year-long trial of the cameras to any police department.
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An Axon spokesman, Steve Tuttle, said it's up to each agency to determine which kind of event — a light bar, for example, or a dashcam turning on — would then turn on surrounding body cameras.
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ZTE is apparently working on a new flagship smartphone called the Axon M, with the unique headline feature of dual screens that can unfold into a combined 6.8-inch display, according to Android Authority.
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With that said, I have yet to fully test and review the Axon M. But its design alone will likely give many consumers pause, because it isn't the most svelte or sleek of devices.
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Amazon Web Services led with 227 clients, including travel company Expedia and industrials giant Siemens AG. Microsoft's Azure cloud had 69 firms, among them weapons maker Axon Enterprise and business data firm Dun & Bradstreet.
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The phone also has a 1080p screen, 3GB of RAM, and a Snapdragon 617 processor, making it a decidedly budget phone, especially compared with the higher-end specs of the more powerful Axon 7.
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The city's Board of Estimate and Apportionment voted 3-0 to hire Axon Enterprise Inc, a police body camera company, to supply its 1,200 officers with free software, hardware and training for a year.
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The ethics board that advised Axon, which was selected by the New York University School of Law's Policing Project, released a 42-page report laying out the ethical and logistical concerns around the technology.
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Taser, which changed its name this year to Axon Enterprise Inc, says its product safety warnings are "strong and unambiguous" and that its advisories protect both the company and its police clients from liability.
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Axon Enterprise Inc , the Taser's manufacturer, says most deaths involving the weapons are a result of drug use, underlying physiological conditions, such as heart problems, or other police force used along with the Taser.
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But there's no indication that ZTE will actually ship the Axon 10S Pro before the S20 lineup hits shelves, so which company really deserves the useless designation of "first" is really up to you.
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The evolving business model at Axon is very Amazon- and Apple-esque: Having customers already locked into its subscription-based ecosystem will make it much easier to sell them new products down the road.
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In its first report, which came out over the summer, the board urged Axon to forgo selling facial recognition technology on its body cameras, arguing it's not yet reliable enough to be deployed ethically.
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The latter appears to refer to Axon Capture, an app — developed by a company that sells body cameras and Tasers — that allows users to submit photos, audio, or video directly to local police appears.
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Shares of Axon roared 28 percent the day after the report and another 14 percent in the next week, making the "Mad Money " host wonder how Wall Street managed to underestimate it so dramatically.
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A law enforcement technology company, Axon has broadened its specialty from non-lethal weapons like tasers to evidence capture technology, specifically audio recorders and body cameras complete with evidence management and computer-vision software.
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"The company is in the process of providing the SEC with information responsive to their comments and intends to respond to the SEC within the next seven days," Axon said in an SEC informational filing.
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That right there is a serious obstacle for ZTE, which has used Qualcomm chips or Intel modems in a number of its major phones, such as the ambitious ZTE Axon M that debuted last fall.
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This morning, the company announced it would be renamed after its line of police-worn body cameras, Axon, and that it would offer any interested law enforcement agency a one-year trial of its equipment.
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ZTE also announced plans to bring its Blade V8 Pro phone to the US. The company's Axon 7 is still the company's flagship device, but this mid-range phone has decent specs, including dual cameras.
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And while products like Axon Signal are designed to ensure that body camera footage is captured — for the courts, if not necessarily for the public — incidents like this one show that it's not foolproof solution.
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Some other specs: The Axon 10 Pro 5G doesn't have many tricks, like a folding display, but it does come with a triple-camera system and what appears to be an in-display fingerprint reader.
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The deal is pretty simple: ask and ye shall receive an Axon Body 2 camera for every officer, the software and infrastructure to handle all the footage, and online training in how to use it.
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But Axon, which makes many of those cameras, solicited advice on the topic from and independent research board, and in accordance with its findings has opted not to use facial recognition for the time being.
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The New Statesman reported in 2017 that a number of deaths have been linked to "Taser-initiated combustion," with Axon Enterprises (formerly known as Taser International) saying that nine deaths had been counted since 1993.
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Samsung recently submitted sketches of a foldable smartphone (the rumored Galaxy X) to the Korean Intellectual Property Office that would, if produced, probably blow dual-display competitors like ZTE's Axon M out of the water.
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Featuring 5.2-inch full HD screens on both its front and back, in a way, the Axon M brings a bit of the 2-in-153 spirit from the laptop market into the smartphone world.
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The law enforcement technology giant, now known as Axon, said in a press release that the program will also provide police departments with supporting hardware, software, data storage and training, all free for one year.
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Aside from the Daydream compatibility, the Axon 7 has a quad HD AMOLED display, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 processor, 4GB of RAM, a hi-fi audio system, a 20-megapixel camera, and a full metal design.
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The new phone isn't really miniature by any reasonable standard: it's got a 2993-inch screen, compared to the 5.5-inch Axon 7, and looks almost exactly the same as its predecessor in press photos.
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Its base model has 27GB of storage instead of 64GB, and the Axon 7's 20-megapixel rear camera with an f/1.8 lens is now a 16-megapixel one with an f/1.9 lens.
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At the moment, A.I. is used for redaction, and Axon technicians at a special facility in Scottsdale are using data from police departments to train the software to detect and blur license plates and faces.
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He tells Axios he has been approached by multiple police departments, Axon (the body-camera company formerly known as Taser) and the CIA's VC arm, but that Kairos declined to partner with any of them.
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Between its specs and price, the only thing that comes close to the Axon 10's value is the Asus Zenfone 6, which still isn't widely available despite being launched a couple of months back.
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Sales were gangbusters, but Axon — then Taser International — became mired down by product liability litigation stemming from its weapon use in high-risk situations, antipolice and anticorporation sentiment, and lots of shortselling of its stock.
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While that may have seemed like a publicity stunt, it was actually a network-building move; once Axon got police to use its hardware, they had to get the matching software to make it functional.
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Axon has repeatedly denied all claims that it is researching face recognition technology, but it's important to emphasize what a gamechanger such a development would be, were it or another company to move in that direction.
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As Levine told the judge during a pre-trial hearing, he thinks the officers accidentally filmed themselves planting cocaine, unaware that Axon body cameras save 30 seconds of footage before police actually press the record button.
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Not only can you flip open the phone and multitask across the Axon M's dual 5.2-inch displays, but with just a couple taps, you can combine the two screens into a giant 10.4-inch display.
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It's very clear why Axon would want this, and why they want police departments to want this, but not why communities, desperate for any indication of progress in the ongoing police reform conversation, would want this.
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As a reminder, this update will give Axon 7 users the ability to run apps side by side; type with the new, more inclusive emoji; and it includes all the other features that shipped with Nougat.
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Huawei's Mate 9 Pro, Asus' yet-to-be-released Zenfone AR, Motorola's Moto Z, ZTE's Axon 7 and Google's Pixel are the only devices that previously had announced their support of the Daydream mobile VR platform.
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And in other software such as ZTE's default apps or Google apps like Docs and Sheets, the Axon M uses the tablet version of the app so you can have more powerful, desktop-like working environment.
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Both Vievu and Axon offered bundles that paired their cameras with editing programs that ran in the cloud, processing them on computers maintained by Amazon Web Services or Microsoft's Azure, which are also Seattle-area companies.
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Accompanied by an Axon employee who scanned her irises at each doorway ("Thank you—you have been identified"), Smith and I headed for the "library," a windowless sanctuary with green-shaded banker's lamps and leather armchairs.
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That said, if you're on a CDMA carrier like Verizon or Sprint, you're sort of out of luck, as the Axon 10 is only really designed to support GSM networks like AT&T and T-Mobile.
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With little regulation guiding things like facial recognition technology, having a product that's been vetted by prominent civil rights experts might also give Axon a leg up as bigger competitors like Amazon move into the space.
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Photo: APBody camera manufacturer Axon requested a contract for face recognition software from an artificial intelligence startup, the Wall Street Journal reports, which stands to further fears from privacy advocates about the state of surveillance in America.
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Yup, well at least in Europe, because sadly this handset isn't slated to hit the U.S. And even after taking a year off between its last flagship device, the new Axon 9 Pro doesn't look half bad.
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IEEE Spectrum's Evan Ackerman checked out the Axon VR device at CES a few weeks ago and it looks like the sleeper hit of the show given how little it was covered and how amazing it looks.
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On an earnings call Tuesday, Rick Smith, CEO of Axon, one of the largest body camera manufacturers in the U.S., said the reason was simple: In addition to privacy and policy concerns, face recognition isn't accurate enough.
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The Axon M didn't fit the description for a number of reason, not the least of which was the gap between the two displays, which, quite frankly, made for a pretty crappy movie viewing experience, among others.
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That kind of data digging can get really creepy real fast, and Smith was quick to downplay the idea that Axon would be poring through millions of hours of footage assembling a kind of meta-surveillance database.
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Click here to view original GIFGif: YouTubeOn Wednesday, Axon (formerly "Taser") announced its offer to outfit every cop in the US with a free body camera, with rollout beginning as soon as the end of the month.
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The Axon Signal Sidearm Systems like these could make law enforcement's use of body cameras a more seamless process, rather than tasking officers with the responsibility of pressing a button or instituting an "always on" recording policy.
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Axon, the company that supplies 47 out of the 69 largest police agencies in the United States with body cameras and software, announced Thursday that it would ban the use of facial recognition systems on its devices.
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On top of that, the Axon 10's range extends all the way to 20x through a combination of optical and digital zooms, though as you'd expect, image quality starts to fall away fast after about 5503x.
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I applaud ZTE's ambition for actually trying to sell this thing, but after a week of using it every day I'm sure that the $725 Axon M is a device that should have never left the concept lab.
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For example, there's only a single 20-megapixel camera on the Axon M. Hitting a button to switch between the front- and rear-facing camera on this phone actually flips the entire screen around to the other display.
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Axon, you may remember, was the division Taser created a few years ago to focus on the wearable camera space; the tech was getting there, and Taser was in the right position to bring it to law enforcement.
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ZTE announced today a brand new, foldable, dual-screen mutant phone otherwise known as the Axon M. The smartphone is sold exclusively through AT&T in the U.S. and will eventually roll out to China, Europe, and Japan.
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At the time, large shareholders included a powerful triumvirate of investors - New York-based hedge fund TPG Axon Capital, led by Dinakar Singh, Leon Cooperman's hedge fund Omega Advisors, and Prem Watsa's Canadian investment group Fairfax Financial Holdings.
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Like that project, the Axon M is an interesting idea that is ultimately less than the sum of its parts — though at least here, the company was able to cross the finish line and bring it to market.
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" The ultimate goal of the ethics board goes a step further: forcing the company to see that the customer for Axon products is not law enforcement but "the community that those law enforcement and public safety organizations serve.
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Announced back at MWC in February, the Axon 25 25G comes equipped with a 6.47-inch 1080p AMOLED display, and will use one of Qualcomm's first generation X50 5G modems to connect to China's upcoming 5G wireless network.
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AI applications Axon has already developed include technology that automatically populates an officer's police report after it captures driver's license info with a body cam, and software that knows to instantly blur civilian faces on dash-cam video.
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The Russell 2000 (RUT), an index of small US firms that includes companies like Ugg maker Deckers (DECK), Kentucky Derby racetrack owner Churchill Downs (CHDN) and Taser manufacturer Axon (AAXN), is up 10% in the past twelve months.
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Unfortunately, ZTE has axed the headphone jack, while in front there's a love-it-or-hate-it notch, and at least to start, it seems the Axon 9 Pro will be saddled with Android 8.1 out of the box.
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A phone with two 5.2-inch screensLikeAmbitious designDon't LikeThe price, the gap between displays, weak camera, mediocre battery life Out of the box, the first thing you notice about the Axon M is just how hefty this thing is.
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Make no mistake, this is not just a smaller version of the Axon 7; this device will not perform as good as its older, bigger brother, but it should still deliver solid performance for the not-too-demanding consumer.
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The Star Tribune reported that dashcam video was turned on in the officers' squad car, which might have engaged Axon Signal and turned on other cameras within a 30-foot radius, depending on how the Signal Unit was configured.
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If you rotate the Axon M 90 degrees while watching YouTube in dual-screen mode, you'll be able to watch a video on the top screen while seeing the information and comments about the video on the bottom screen.
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But the pictures at least reassure us that the company has the ball rolling on practical designs, and that the Galaxy X may not face some of the pitfalls that plague dual-display competitors like the ZTE's Axon M.
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The Axon 10 features a 103-inch 2340 x 1080 AMOLED screen with minimal bezels, an in-screen fingerprint sensor, and for the first time on a ZTE phone, triple rear cameras with one offering a 3x optical zoom.
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With the Axon 10 Pro, it seems ZTE is finally done licking its wounds and is ready to try again here in the States, even as trade tensions continue to loom large in dealings between the two super powers.
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Rosenthal and colleagues from Tel Aviv University and the University of Colorado at Denver found that RNA editing takes place in the squid's axon, the stretched-out region of the brain cell that transmits electrical signals to nearby neurons.
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Axon issues guidance on proper use and warns of the risks associated with its weapons, but the company said it is up to local jail administrators to set their own policies on how and when the weapons are deployed.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Blackstone Group has written the first check from its latest seeding fund, sources familiar with the matter said this week, committing $100 million in start-up capital to a new hedge fund run by a former TPG-Axon executive.
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Axon is now offering law enforcement agencies two surveillance drones: the Phantom 683 Pro, eggshell white and equipped with image recognition software; and the more expensive Matrice 200 series, metallic grey and tested for resilience to harsh winds and rain.
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Going whole hog on the new generation of police gear seems to be paying off for Axon, and the tech may prove to be transformative for the law enforcement process as it becomes the standard rather than the weird new exception.
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For a few years, Axon attempted to market something called the XREP — a shotgun that fired an electrically charged projectile as far as 100 feet and then doled out a 20-second shock when it made contact with a target.
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If it's a high-end phone, that wouldn't be anything new for ZTE; the company's flagship is the unlocked Axon, a device we found to have impressive performance, strong battery life, but a design that fell short of its bigger rivals.
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A role player ran through the crowd, impersonating a perp; the cops were encouraged to snap a photo on their iPhones and upload it to Axon Citizen, a new offering designed to make bystander video accessible to the nervous system.
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And really, for ZTE, it's just a way of differentiating its new handset from its flagship, which, for the record is only just slightly larger at 5.5-inches, which was announced about a month or so before the Axon 7 Mini.
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Axon, one of the largest suppliers of police body cameras, announced last week that it would forbid the use of facial recognition on its devices, although it had previously made the technology a part of its road map for future business.
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Smith, with Kunins' help, is ready for Axon's next big thing: Scaling its new software-as-a-service offerings so Axon can compete with legacy rivals and dominate every conduit connecting law-enforcement agents and their hardware to the back office.
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The board nudging Axon to think about how its products impact the customers of its customers — the general public — will likely help position the company to better weather the broader fights it's up against regarding how society today views policing.
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Instead, it's two connected displays, more akin to the ZTE Axon M. That means there's a bit of a gap between the two devices, meaning, there's a limitation on all of the "flow" the company discussed at this morning's event.
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The Good Budget-friendly • Flagship caliber • Solid battery life • Sharp screen The Bad Lockscreen navigation needs refining • Camera speed suffers in low-light The Bottom Line ZTEs Axon 7 offers top-of-the line features for a lot less than Samsung's best offering.
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When Gizmodo reached out for comment, an Axon spokesperson asserted that the company "is not developing facial recognition technology" but added that "we do see the value in this future capability" while recognizing the privacy and rights issues involved in such a use.
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Taxpayers might not have to pay directly for the cameras, now manufactured under the name Axon, but the devices will still come with significant costs, both to police and the communities they serve, as long as rules governing the cameras' use don't exist.
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Photo: GettyOn Thursday, The Intercept published a leaked survey in which body camera manufacturer Axon (the company formerly known as Taser) discussed a new software platform permitting citizens to submit their own photo and video evidence to its private cloud storage property, Evidence.com.
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While some police departments already use readers mounted to their cars, Axon believes that a camera sitting on a dashboard "will enable agencies to deploy ALPRs more broadly than before, potentially across an agency's entire fleet of cars," according to the board's report.
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Also rumored to be part of Android P is better support for different form factors of Android devices, with features like multiple screens (like the ZTE Axon M) and foldable displays (which Samsung is rumored to be working on for later this year).
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The Department of Justice has spent $40 million on grants for body camera programs across the country and Axon, the largest US body camera manufacturer, is offering a full year of free service to police departments who want to try them out.
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Not clamshell devices like the classic Motorola Razr, or a hinged, two-screen curiosity like the instantly forgotten ZTE Axon M. These new phones—the unnamed concept Samsung showed off, and China's Royole FlexPai—have screens that bend like a sheet of paper.
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" They look like little frying pans with extra handles and "when placed onto the microplate, a neuron's cell body settles onto the circle, while the axon and dendrites – the branches that let neurons communicate with each other – grow lengthwise along the rectangles.
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"We are changing our name from TASER to Axon to reflect the evolution of our company from a weapons manufacturing company to a full solutions provider of cloud and mobile software, connected devices, wearable cameras, and now artificial intelligence," the release said.
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ZTE is the fourth largest smartphone manufacturer in the US, and is obviously keen to stand out from the crowd, launching flashy (if somewhat derivative) devices like the Axon 7, a cheap-but-powerful smartphone that's compatible with Google's Daydream VR system.
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ZTE also notes that the Axon 7 will support Android's Daydream VR. It's not clear if the ZTE VR is a Daydream-compatible headset or if ZTE simply means that its phone will be capable of using Daydream — my reading is the latter.
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As far as other specs go, you've got two solid front facing speakers with Dolby Atmos technology, a 16-megapixel rear-facing camera, dual-SIM/microSD slots and the same all-metal body you'll find in the slightly larger, $400 Axon 7.
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While the Axon 103's design is somewhat bland, it starts at just $550 (which is even less than the 600 euros it costs in Europe) for a flagship-class Snapdragon 855 processor, 8GB of RAM, and a base 256GB of storage.
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" At least one maker of body cameras — Axon, whose cameras are used by the Los Angeles Police Department — already determined it wouldn't install facial-recognition software on its cameras, saying in a company report that the technology is "not currently reliable enough.
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Shares in Axon, the company formerly known as Taser and the largest provider of body cameras and service contracts in the U.S., dropped 7 percent in Friday trading on news its financial reports are under review by the U.S. Securities and Exchanges Commission.
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