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Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office office seeks powerful facial recognition tech from controversial Clearview AI
11+ hour, 48+ min ago (1173+ words) Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza, shown in March 2025, says facial recognition technology from Clear View AI would help investigators quickly identify suspects. But commissioners have concerns." Santa Fe County commissioners have hit the brakes on a sheriff's office request…...
Spendy battles shaping up to determine House Democrats' direction
12+ hour, 3+ min ago (358+ words) Some potentially pricey Democratic primary battles are shaping up in three rural Northern New Mexico House districts. In District 40, a rural district east of Espa'ola that stretches to the Colorado border, state Rep. Joseph Sanchez closed the last reporting period…...
Sheriff's office seeks powerful facial recognition tech from controversial Clearview AI
12+ hour, 18+ min ago (455+ words) Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza, shown in March 2025, says facial recognition technology from Clear View AI would help investigators quickly identify suspects. But commissioners have concerns." Santa Fe County commissioners have hit the brakes on a sheriff's office request…...
Former Facebook exec Matthew Henick named new CEO at Meow Wolf
1+ week, 19+ hour ago (746+ words) Attendees interact with the 1920s cartoon room at Meow Wolf's House of Eternal Return in February. The Santa Fe-based art installation, which has been without a permanent CEO since April 2025, announced Matthew Henick will be taking the reins later this month....
New computer science in art degree brings worlds together at Santa Fe's IAIA
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (766+ words) Drew Trujillo, who developed IAIA's new computer science program, shows some of the results of "hijacking" commonly used programs to create new visual, sound and motion arts during a tour of the department last Wednesday. IAIA student Jacob Crazy Bull…...
Academy Awards Shortlisted Feature 'Palestine '96' Offers Lesson in History, Both Past and Present
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (460+ words) Every Palestinian knows about the year 1936, says Annemarie Jacir, the writer and director of Palestine "36, a feature-length film shortlisted for the 2026 Academy Awards in the feature foreign film category. However, not many people outside the region do, Jacir adds during…...
'The texts " will not be enough': Cornel West prescribes spiritualism at St. John's
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (843+ words) Before St. John's College students howled with laughter at former presidential candidate Cornel West's quick quips and mulled his intellectual deep dives, the wildly prolific thinker gave some praise to the City Different. "Each time I come to Santa Fe,…...
Siena Sofia Bergt to lead New Mexico School for the Arts' film and Cinematic Storytelling Department
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (446+ words) Santa Fe New Mexican Siena Sofia Bergt made good use of their 13 years away from the New Mexico School for the Arts. Bergt, a 2013 graduate of the school, attained a degree in film studies at Columbia University and since has…...
Screen Time: April 10-16
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (961+ words) Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and C'sar Botti star in the 2024 French film The Ties That Bind Us, an exploration of family opening Friday, April 10, at Center for Contemporary Arts Cinema. 3 chiles "EXIT 8 A man becomes increasingly desperate when he realizes he…...
The 10 most watched cities in America, and what that means for privacy
6+ day, 13+ min ago (530+ words) A solar powered surveillance system in a shop's parking lot in Atlanta, Georgia. In the past, when people thought about security cameras, they usually associated them with places like airports, casinos or high security government buildings. Over the last decade,…...