Researchers are developing a real-time drone survelliance system to identify violence in crowds before it occurs.
Imagine your every move being watched and analysed by drones designed to predict – and stop – violent behaviour.
It sounds like a scene from Black Mirror, but researchers are trialling a drone surveillance system that does just that – and it could come to a festival near you.
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There seems to be bad news everywhere you look these days. Sometimes it seems like the world is falling apart. Between Ebola, climate change, Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine, and the ongoing war in Iraq and Syria.
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So far in 2013, Chicago homicides outnumbered slayings in the larger cities of New York and Los Angeles last year.
Chicago has drawn a lot of attention for the soaring gun violence and gang bloodshed, creating a political test for Mayor Rahm Emanuel in President Obama’s hometown. But a year later, Chicago has Chicago has witnessed a drop in shootings and crime. Killings this year have dipped to a level not seen since the early 1960s.
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3D printers allow people to print guns, but just because we have the ability to do so doesn’t mean that we have to. But, of course, there will be someone who is going to do it. And that somebody isn’t just going to print their own guns, but they’re going to make it their cause, and devote their time and energy to making sure other people can too. That person, in America today, is 25-year-old Cody R. Wilson.
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Following the death of the 23 year old paramedical student in the capital city of Delhi in India who was brutally gang raped and assaulted on December 16th has put the spotlight on crimes against women in that country.
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The study is the first to show accelerated biological aging in childhood as a result of stress.
Children age faster on a cellular level when exposed to multiple instances of violence than children without violent experiences, a new study has found.
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Male sex drive is at the root of most conflict in the world.
From football players clashing on the field to soldiers killing each other on the front line, most conflict can be blamed on the male sex drive, according to a new study.
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Around 12,000 people died in Mexico’s spiraling drug violence in 2011.
Some 12,000 people were killed last year in Mexico’s surging drug violence, according to grim tallies reported Monday by the country’s leading media outlets. Annual indexes of torture, beheadings and the killing of women all showed increases.
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Witnessing violence can have a traumatic effect on the brain.
Scientists at the University College of London (UCL) and the Anna Freud Center liken the impact of family violence on the brains of children to the brains of soldiers exposed to combat. Both kinds of combat result in hypersensitivity to danger and put subjects at risk for developing anxiety disorders.
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Do carbonated soft drinks make teens more violent?
Just one can of soda a day is linked to more aggressive behavior by teenagers, claim researchers.
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Rather than violent crime rates soaring when new violent video games are released, they actually drop as gamers are too busy at home playing the games.
Video games such as Manhunt and Grand Theft Auto – where gamers rack up points or cash for killing or savagely attacking victims – are routinely blamed for a rise in violent crime. But experts claim violent video games may actually reduce crime as aggressive players are “too busy” shooting virtual enemies to cause trouble in the real world.
TV violence linked to sleep problems in children.
A new study shows that letting young children watch violent TV programs may interfere with sleep. And it doesn’t matter if the violent tv program is animated or live action.
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