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Research puts police gun detectors a step closer

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The new technology - being designed by Newcastle, Manchester Metropolitan and Queen Mary universities - uses electro magnetic waves in order to pick up 'reflections' from concealed guns, gun barrels or knives without the ...





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A Google Street View car with its camera in Amsterdam

Angry British villagers stop Google maps car: report

Technology / Other

created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Angry residents of an English village blocked the driver of a Google Street View car who was filming the neighbourhood, saying they feared he would encourage burglaries, a report said Friday.


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British police probe tabloid phone-hacking claims

Technology / Other

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

British police probed allegations Thursday that a top-selling newspaper paid private investigators to hack into the mobile phones of thousands of high-profile figures.


Australian charged with infecting 3,000 computers

Technology / Internet

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(AP) -- A 20-year-old Australian man has been charged with infecting more than 3,000 computers around the world with a virus designed to capture banking and credit card data, police said Thursday.


No-nose bicycle saddles improve penile sensation and erectile function in bicycling police officers

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 08, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (25) | comments 7

An innovative study appearing in the August issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine examined, for the first time, if noseless bicycle saddles would be an effective intervention for alleviating deleterious health effects, erecti ...


More 20 mph zones in London would prevent 100 killed or seriously injured casualties each year

Medicine & Health / Health

created 9 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

20 mph traffic speed zones reduce casualties by 41.9% with the greatest reduction in child casualties, according to research published today in the British Medical Journal.


High-speed chase ends when OnStar halts stolen SUV

Technology / Hi Tech

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 10

(AP) -- When two Visalia, Calif., police officers swung their cruisers behind a sport utility vehicle that had been carjacked at gunpoint early Sunday, they prepared for a dangerous high-speed chase.


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Greek pilots see red from laser pen pranks

Technology / Other

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Greece's civil aviation pilots on Wednesday called for a crackdown on laser pen pranksters who have endangered a growing number of plane landings around the country.


Global police agency Interpol is putting its database of stolen art online to stem the illicit traffic of such items

Global stolen art database to trump traffickers

Technology / Internet

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Global police agency Interpol said on Monday it is putting its database of stolen art online in a bid to stem the illicit traffic of artwork and cultural goods.


UK police make 2 Trojan computer virus arrests

Technology / Internet

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 14

(AP) -- A couple suspected of helping spread some of the Internet's most aggressive computer viruses has been arrested in the English city of Manchester, police said Wednesday.


Text-a-Tip programs allow tipsters to help police (AP)

Text-a-Tip programs allow tipsters to help police

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created Nov 28, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- A mother in Boston tells police her 8-year-old boy was shot to death in their apartment by gunmen in hooded sweat shirts during a home invasion.



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