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Recognition at last: Face recognition computers can see through your disguise
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 07, 2009 |
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A rapid but superior method for computerized face recognition could revolutionize security systems especially if it can see through disguises, according to research published in this month's issue of the International Jo ...
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Trial beginning over New Orleans' crime cameras
Sep 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Jury selection is under way in the civil trial over New Orleans' problem-plagued crime camera system.
Reports of Internet crime jump 33 percent
Mar 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Reports of Internet-based crime jumped 33 percent in 2008, according to a group that monitors web-based fraud.
Researchers rest their case: TV consumption predicts opinions about criminal justice system
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 28, 2009 |
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People who watch forensic and crime dramas on TV are more likely than non-viewers to have a distorted perception of America's criminal justice system, according to new research from Purdue University.
'Crime Scene Investigation' methods could help in the battle against hospital infections
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Inspired by the popular television drama CSI, investigators in the Netherlands have trialed methods used by forensic scientists at crime scenes to highlight infection risks in their hospital. Researchers at Deventer Hospital ...
CSI in a virtual world: New grant furthers NC State's work in forensic science
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Imagine using the same process that goes into building video games to help investigators solve real-world crimes. Through a new grant, that's what researchers at North Carolina State University plan to do. ...
Witness for the prosecution? The effect of confessions on eyewitness testimony
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 28, 2009 |
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What is it with false confession? It seems crazy on the face of it, to take the blame for a crime you didn't commit. Yet experts have found that while some innocent confessors are mentally disturbed attention seekers, or ...
Swedish Internet firm to delete user data
Apr 27, 2009 |
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Swedish telecom supplier Tele2 said Monday it will delete information allowing their customers to be identified, a move police argue could make the hunt for Internet pirates "impossible."
Morbid thoughts whet the appetite
Jun 25, 2008 |
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Can watching TV news or crime shows trigger overeating? According to new research in the Journal of Consumer Research, people who are thinking about their own deaths want to consume more.
NYPD looking at futuristic weapons technology
Jun 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The New York Police Department is looking into adapting futuristic technology that would allow officers' guns to recognize one another in an effort to avoid the type of friendly fire incident that left a cop dead ...
FBI smashes US-Egypt cyber 'phishing' ring
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Investigators in the United States and Egypt have smashed a computer "phishing" identity theft scam described as the biggest cyber-crime investigation in US history, officials said Wednesday.
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