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Steven Soderbergh tweets a thrilling crime novella

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Director Steven Soderbergh may have finally given up filmmaking for good, but he’s still keeping busy. Just a day after his speech criticizing the gatekeepers of cinema, the director took to Twitter to release a new narrative to all his followers — but he hasn’t relapsed into filmmaking. It’s a novella, told in tweets.

Titled Glue, the novella is a crime story written in sharp, terse sentences with occasional photographs interspersed. Soderbergh is telling the story in second person, with each chapter ranging from just a couple tweets to over a dozen. He began the constant stream of tweets on Sunday and announced yesterday that he’s made it eleven chapters in.

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Four Smurfs Arrested In Australia After Mini Crime Spree

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Mini, get it? Because they’re Smurfs and Smurfs are small.

Seen here looking even dumber than they did in my mind prior to seeing a picture, three of the four teenage Smurfs that were arrested following a crime spree in Australia are seen on a 7-11′s security footage. The Smurfs was arrested after trying to hotwire a car. Oh, and beating up a guy who gave one of them a free cigarette but wouldn’t light it. Wait — so he gave you a cigarette, and then you beat him up? Those might be the worst manners I’ve ever heard of. Thankfully, the blue man group turned themselves in after the security camera footage was released and they realized they were the world’s saddest criminals and would probably benefit from a little butt-love in the clink. I hereby sentence you to…death at Gargamel’s hand, MWAHAHAHAHA! “Jesus, GW, don’t you think that’s a little steep?” *looking at picture* No, no I do not.

Hit the jump for the security camera footage of them buying energy drinks and scratching their asses.

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NEC shows 2014-era portable DNA analyzer that could outpace your favorite crime drama

NEC shows 2014era portable DNA analyzer that finishes faster than most crime dramas

NEC offered us guarantees of genuinely on-the-spot forensics when it revealed its first mobile DNA analyzer back in 2007, although the reality hasn’t been quite in line with the dream: its present system takes an hour to get a result and won’t win any type of awards for sleekness. From exactly what we’re seeing of a next-generation analyzer due in 2014, those expectations are a lot more likely to be met. The new variation places the complete DNA extraction, amplification and separation processes on a newer chip that meets NEC’s original objective of producing output in 25 moments– faster than a short deputy drama, if you feature the commercial breaks. Couple of beyond the authorities will be delicately tossing the analyzer around provided its 70.5-pound weight and $ 120,000 cost, however a much slicker design at least offers it the profile of a small, rolling suitcase. The upgrade might be important for determining suspects and victims in record time; if our only concern is that NEC takes all the mystery from our favorite TELEVISION shows, we’ll be more than satisfied.

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Connected To The Case to use Facebook for crowd-sourced crime addressing

Connected To The Case to use Facebook for crowd-sourced crime solving

Ready the spandex and choose a name for your alter ego, due to the fact that come October 16th, you’ll have the possibility to combat criminal offense from the comfort of your laptop. On that date, the “Linked To The Case” internet site goes live with the aim of crowd-sourcing tips from its individuals to help the cops fix active examinations. You’ll use your Facebook login for gain access to, as the service pulls data from your profile to prioritize cases with which you could have a hookup. Morgan Wright, CEO and Chief Crime Fighter of Crowd Sourced Investigations, told us its system looks at five key locations when digging for relevant triggers: “date, area, time, relation and demographics.” It then utilizes that information to adapt notices of unsolved criminal offenses based upon– for instance– distance to your school, or where you made use of to work. Rest assured that you control the privacy settings, and if you have actually got useful info to share, you could do so anonymously.

Law enforcement agencies can sign up to include their instances from today, with the initial roll-out targeting the US. The plan is to expand very first to additional English-speaking countries, with foreign language support in the future to develop an international network of web do-gooders. Featuring information from additional social networks is also in the pipeline, beginning with Twitter and later, Foursquare and Pinterest. A smartphone application is additionally on the agenda, so get your detective gadgets ready– we can be heroes, if just for one click.

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Facebook for crowd-sourced crime resolving originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink|| E-mail this|Remarks

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San Francisco police developing new apps to help officers fight crime in the field

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Law enforcement agent in San Francisco will definitely soon start checking a new laptop application to help them file reports faster and much simpler than in the past– and a brand-new mobile application is under development that will take things even further. 60 laptops are being provided by HP, and will definitely be placed into the hands of police officers from the SFPD’s existing recruiting class. The app will let officers compose up and file their reports when out on patrol, negating the demand to run back to the station to deal with paperwork, and could conceivably enable them to keep out on the streets from three to four additional hours a day.

The laptop computers are merely the 1st action, however, with the SFPD additionally demoing a brand-new mobile application at a conference on Monday. The brand-new app, established by San …

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Crime Story for Android

Avaliable on Android Market: market.android.com “A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.” — Don Vito Corleone. The Godfather. Crime Story is a game where you can narrate your own gangsta story. Your stairway up to the mafia boss position starts with searching of your kidnapped brother. Feel the romance of the mysterious mafia world: raise your profile from a common nasty job doer to a respected mobster, eliminate rivals, and subdue the town. Your scars and tattoos will tell everyone the story of your thorny way up. You’ll be the Godfather of your own play world. But even when appeared at the very top, you should never forget your family. Ties of blood are the most important thing in the life of every gangster. You can conquer the whole town only with the support of your family. Main game objectives: • Find your brother, • Conquer the town, • Eliminate your enemies with force or cunning, • Make tattoos to raise your profile, • Seize new locations, • Establish business relations. Distinguishing features: • Captivating global plot, • A huge number of quests united by a single exciting storyline, • Widest range of challenging tasks connected to emergence of other gangs’ representatives, • Diverse mini-games: from a break-in to card cheating, • Every Boss in the game has unrepeated character and behavior. They are created with attention to every detail and are amusingly well animated, • Interaction with local Police that influences the gameplay
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AR goggles take crime scene technology to CSI: Miami level

AR goggles take crime scene technology to CSI: Miami level

Dutch researchers are looking to catapult crime scene investigation into the 21st century through the use of augmented reality (AR). The prototype system, designed by the Delft University of Technology, employs a pair of AR goggles, two head-mounted cameras and a portable laptop rig to allow investigators to build virtual crime scenes by tagging evidence and placing objects they are viewing. After mapping an area, additional law enforcement personnel can review the investigator’s work and request additional information — asking the CSI to define or place additional objects. Researchers hope that the 3D renders will be used as court-admissible evidence in the near future; the technology is set to be tried on a real Dutch crime scene later this year. We can see it now: Lieutenant Horatio Caine whips off his shades and tosses on a pair of (equally stylish) crime-fighting goggles… YEAAAAAAAAH!

AR goggles take crime scene technology to CSI: Miami level originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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North Korea makes using a cellphone a war crime during 100 day mourning period

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Dear Leader may have blessed his subjects with the gift of 3G in 2008, but in his death he is taking it back… at least temporarily. As part of the country’s 100 days of mourning, cellphones have been banned within its borders. If you’re caught pulling out a portable to make a call, send a text or get directions to the nearest statue of the departed dictator you’ll be charged as a war criminal — that means serious time in a labor camp or death. Fun! Then again, in a nation where the average income is about $ 1 a month and cellphone ownership is a highly restricted privilege, we can’t imagine too many people have anything to worry about. Sadly, this also means there’s one less way to get information out of the already hard to crack territory.

North Korea makes using a cellphone a war crime during 100 day mourning period originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Fighting Crime AND The Cold: Ninja Turtle Beanies

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This is a custom $ 30 Ninja Turtle beanie from Etsy seller Miss Pamela. One minute you look kinda like an aviator, then you flip the mask down and BAM — you’re unmagically transformed into everyone’s least favorite ninja turtle, Donatello. “…He’s actually my favorite.” BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! F***, mine too. :/

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Thanks to Mark, who tried ordering a yellow masked ‘Botticelli’ version but Miss Pamela refused to make a non-canon character.

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Researchers develop ‘blood camera’ to spot crime scene stains in a flash

Could inspecting a crime scene for even the most minuscule blood stains one day be as simple as taking a picture? It will if some research now being conducted at the University of South Carolina in Columbia pans out. A team there led by Stephen Morgan and Michael Myrick have developed a so-called “blood camera” that uses a combination of infrared light and a transparent layer of the protein albumin — the latter of which acts as a filter and is able to highlight blood stains by filtering out wavelengths that aren’t characteristic of blood proteins (or so we’re told). That’s as opposed to current methods for detecting blood at a crime scene, which rely on the chemical luminol to make the stains appear in the dark. As New Scientist notes, however, that method can also dilute blood samples and make DNA difficult to recover, and create false positives. The researchers don’t seem to be stopping at blood, though — they say the camera could also be easily adapted to detect detect trace amounts of other materials that aren’t visible to the naked eye, like drugs or explosives.

Researchers develop ‘blood camera’ to spot crime scene stains in a flash originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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