News tagged with police officers
Mark Zuckerberg makes surprise cameo on Chinese TV
(AP) -- Social media sites and blogs have lit up after eagle-eyed viewers spotted a surprise cameo in a Chinese TV documentary about the country's police force: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his now-wife, ...
May 28, 2012 |
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Scotland Yard deploys mobile fingerprint devices
(AP) -- Scotland Yard says it's equipping its police officers with handheld fingerprint devices, something the force says will help identify suspects in a matter of seconds.
May 23, 2012 |
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High court troubled by warrantless GPS tracking (Update)
The Supreme Court invoked visions of an all-seeing Big Brother and satellites watching us from above. Then things got personal Tuesday when the justices were told police could slap GPS devices on their cars ...
Nov 08, 2011 |
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FBI launches phone app to help find missing children
The FBI joined the booming mobile phone app market on Friday with the launch of a tool to help parents find missing kids.
Aug 05, 2011 |
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Disasters unfold 'intelligently' on phone screens
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, a computer scientist has developed a method of making smart phones able to show a disaster unfolding in real-time on phone screens.
Jun 08, 2011 |
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Hackers post W.Va. police officers' personal info
(AP) -- Hackers affiliated with the Anonymous hacking group obtained more than 150 police officers' personal information from an old website for the West Virginia Chiefs of Police Association and posted it online.
Feb 08, 2012 |
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On the safe side: Contact-free analysis of chemical substances
Is it drugs, medicines or explosives? At the Analytica trade fair, German researchers are presenting a terahertz spectrometer that provides reliable, contact-free identification of substances.
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Apr 16, 2012 |
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Hacker's NYC impersonation case set to be closed
(AP) -- A computer hacker-turned-FBI informant is on track to get out of trouble after being accused of telling a police officer he was a federal agent.
Apr 12, 2012 |
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San Francisco police help search for lost iPhone
(AP) -- San Francisco police officers helped Apple Inc. investigators look for a missing iPhone prototype that was left in a city restaurant in July, the police chief said, the second time in two years the company has lost ...
Sep 05, 2011 |
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Police with higher multitasking abilities less likely to shoot unarmed persons
In the midst of life-threatening situations requiring split-second decisions, police officers with a higher ability to multitask are less likely to shoot unarmed persons when feeling threatened during video simulations, a ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 30, 2009 |
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German police force looks to Facebook to solve crimes
German police officers in the northern city of Hanover are using Facebook to catch criminals in an experiment that might be expanded to other forces in the country.
Aug 11, 2011 |
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Full ban on driver calls could be tough to enforce
(AP) -- A driver in the next lane is moving his lips. Is he on a hands-free cell phone or just talking to himself? If lawmakers follow the advice of a federal board, police officers will have to start figuring ...
Dec 15, 2011 |
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White House seeks spectrium for public safety
(AP) -- The Obama administration is throwing its support behind a plan to give a valuable chunk of radio waves to police officers, firefighters and emergency medical workers to build nationwide wireless broadband network ...
Jan 27, 2011 |
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Smart uses of mobile phone power
For the first time smart phones and tablet PCs could be used by police officers to help solve crimes faster and more cheaply.
Jan 19, 2011 |
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German high-jumper names 'cyber stalker' online
Top German high-jumper Ariane Friedrich has posted the details of an alleged cyber-stalker on her Facebook page, claiming that she wanted to name and shame the individual for sending her explicit pictures ...
Apr 23, 2012 |
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