A new technology that is still under development will allow your computer to actually “see” what is happening in a video feed, and describe it in text. The advantages to this are numerous as this can replace the need for having someone actually sit and monitor the video feeds. It can also help out or even replace the human aspect of searching through hours of video or analyzing it. [...]
Most of the time people see a celebrity and think autographs and pictures. But in Vince Neil’s case, a woman saw him as a target that she could extort money from. [...]
Waking up in the middle of the night hearing the sounds of his own car start, Russell Stuart, a 51-year-old UK man wasn’t sure how to react. The first thing that his instincts told him was get into the car. And that’s exactly what he did. [...]
Internet passwords: they’re easy to use, not too hard to remember, and they protect all aspects of our digital life from Facebook accounts to sensitive banking information. But the only problem with passwords is that they are still just words. Words that someone can see us typing in or use spyware to record to access aspect of our life. [...]
In hopes of stopping drug trafficking, gun running and money laundering from Mexico into Chicago, the Chicago police department wants to install 200 cameras along 1,200 miles of interstate highways to snap photos of license plates of suspected criminals. Advocates of the proposal contend there are many other benefits, such as catching other criminal activities such as speeding, and helping to locate missing children. [...]
What started out as a normal day on the job turned into a life or death experience for one Las Vegas cab driver. After driving a customer to his requested destination, the passenger acted like he was going to pay and asked the cab driver if he had change for a $50 bill. [...]
Most calls to the police about tickets are usually angry rants or complaints of some sort. But in the case of Sgt. Kacey Donnell, when he picked up the phone he didn’t hear a complaint but instead got a sincere thank you for writing out a ticket. [...]
Clicking on links from unreliable sources is like taking candy from strangers – you just don’t do it! Sure, some of these links might lead to safe and family friendly websites, but most seasoned Twitter users know that a lot of links can be very dangerous. But with Twitter’s latest security flaw, even the most security conscious users can be tricked into downloading malware. [...]
Sherin Brown, a 23-year-old woman, was walking down the street in Brooklyn, New York, where she was almost struck by a lamp post knocked over by an out-of-control truck. Having avoided injury, Brown took this opportunity to practice her acting skills in the hopes of making some extra cash. [...]
The missing painting
What started out as a routine transportation of a painting within the city of New York ended up costing someone over a million dollars. The tale begins with James Haggerty, who was hired to transport a Jean Baptiste Camille Corot painting called “Portrait of a Girl” to a buyer who wanted a closer look at the painting. Considering that the painting is valued at $1.35 million, having it delivered by hand by a single man might have not been the best idea. [...]
There are a lot of dangerous jobs out there. However, being a cartoonist is usually not considered one of these jobs, or at least that’s what satirical cartoonist, Molly Norris thought. [...]
Last week we reported an e-mail virus that was quickly spreading throughout many large U.S. companies and traced back to a cyber-jihad group called Tariq ibn Ziyad. [...]
Most Android users know that there are other means of downloading apps besides going into the app store. Some users scour the Internet for bootleg apps just to avoid paying for them in the app store. However, this can be risky business since many of the apps found online may be infected with viruses harmful to your phone. [...]
For everyone who said Twitter was useless – we’ve got news for you. Rather than the chatter you sometimes see on the social networking site, this time Twitter was used for some serious good. Twitter was used to tell the world that a missing man wasn’t dead, but was being secretly held hostage in a jail in Afghanistan. [...]
