As Americans increasingly buy and install smart devices in their homes, all those cheap interconnected devices create new security problems for individuals and society as a whole. The problem is compounded by businesses radically ...
Security
Jan 11, 2019
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Police officers and firefighters are leveraging big data to do their jobs more efficiently and more accurately.
Business
Oct 6, 2015
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Italian police on Friday arrested six people in an operation to combat the penetration of mafia families in the renewable energy sector in Sicily.
Energy & Green Tech
Dec 7, 2012
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Juan Del Toro, doctoral candidate in NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development finds that Black and Latino adolescent boys who are stopped by police report more frequent engagement in delinquent ...
Social Sciences
Apr 9, 2019
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Federal police arrested a Canadian woman Wednesday accused of remotely taking over people's computers and spying on them using their own webcams.
Security
Apr 29, 2015
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Fake news is a threat to American democratic institutions and false information can have far-reaching effects. A new study provides a roadmap for dealing with fake news.
Social Sciences
May 8, 2019
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(AP)—A British police force is hoping to save time and money by giving a few dementia patients GPS tracking devices, a technique already used by health and welfare agencies but condemned by some campaigners as "barbaric."
Other
May 1, 2013
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Police in northern England thought they'd made a major discovery, but they may have jumped the gun.
Other
Oct 25, 2013
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Google's newly acquired Waze application poses a danger to police because of its ability to track their locations, the Los Angeles police chief said in a letter to the tech company's CEO.
Software
Jan 28, 2015
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A team of researchers from Vanderbilt University is suggesting in a Policy Forum piece published in the journal Science that it might be time to start building a universal genetic database. They suggest doing so would help ...
