New Yorkers are outraged after the NYPD and mayor announced a new fleet of'Big Brother' robocops that will patrol the city's streets and subways. The Tuesday announcement was held in Times Square, where three robots debuted - one discontinued by the previous administration after it was deemed'racist.' The reintroduced robotic police dog will help officers navigate dangerous situations, and the city is trialing two for $750,000. And the K5 Autonomous Security Robot and StarChase GPS system will monitor people and vehicles - these costs are unclear. Mayor Eric Adams ran his campaign on a promise to drive down crime in New York City and believes the robotic recruits will be used to save lives and deter atrocities in the Big Apple.

Zimbabwe's commonest crimes include robbery, petty theft, vehicle burglary, home invasion, and smash-and-grab vehicle break-ins. The Zimbabwe security services have made a lot of efforts to make society as safe as possible but the nation's crime remains prevalent. Zimbabwe's answer to these kinds of crimes is technology; our hidden weapon. Universities in Zimbabwe have students who are getting educated in Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) with the Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) leading the way. These kinds of developments in AI and ML mean that technology has a growing role to play in upholding the law.

Police chief says mannequins will have facial recognition cameras to fight crime, spot traffic offenders, fine drunk drivers; American and French police show interest in the new tech Disruptive technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) will soon empower mannequins to fight crime, spot traffic offenders, fine drunk drivers and rein in criminals across the city, a top official said. "We will soon have artificial eyes fixed in mannequins as cameras with a small AI-linked computing device inside them for facial recognition through a well-connected central server," City Police Commissioner Bhaskar Rao said. The mannequins, however, will not be permanent fixtures at a given place but operate in a hide-and-seek mode. "The AI software will locate the culprits, tip off the police about the number of violations one has committed, count the traffic slips registered against the same vehicle, estimate the penalty amount and alert the police," said Rao. On how futuristic dummies and connected police officers work, Rao said a drunk driver caught on MG Road will be identified by the mannequin even at a far-away junction to relay information to the control room through facial recognition.

Most major railway stations in India will use facial recognition to fight crime by the end of 2020, a senior official said, in a move that digital rights campaigners on Tuesday warned could breach people's privacy in the absence of stringent laws. The system is being trialled in the tech hub of Bengaluru where about half a million faces are scanned every day and - using artificial intelligence (AI) - matched against faces stored in a police database of criminals. "The railways will become like a virtual fortress," a senior railways official told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "Without a physical, brick and mortar boundary wall, we will be able to make the whole system more secure," said the official who declined to be named as he was not authorised to speak to the media. Stretching from the foothills of the Himalayas to sandy southern beaches, India's railway network is one of the biggest in the world, carrying about 23 million people - or the population of Taiwan - every day.

British police officers are among those concerned that the use of artificial intelligence in fighting crime is raising the risk of profiling bias, according to a report commissioned by government officials. The paper warned that algorithms might judge people from disadvantaged backgrounds as "a greater risk" since they were more likely to have contact with public services, thus generating more data that in turn could be used to train the AI. "Police officers themselves are concerned about the lack of safeguards and oversight regarding the use of algorithms in fighting crime," researchers from the defence think-tank the Royal United Services Institute said. The report acknowledged that emerging technology including facial recognition had "many potential benefits". But it warned that assessment of long-term risks was "often missing".

Damien Patton likes to fly under the radar. Paradoxically, the founder and CEO of Banjo, a Park City-based artificial intelligence firm, takes leaps in his personal life as an offroading and skiing enthusiast. Unlike the visibility Skullcandy's hilltop perch near S.R. 224 affords the consumer headphone brand, it's not readily apparent to the vacationers, athletes and commuters passing through that Kimball Junction is the nerve center of a global data operation that just raised more than $100 million in its most recent round of funding. "You're always excited to see the fact that you're being successful with it, but actually, I don't dwell on it," Patton said in an interview, indicating he prefers instead to think about solving the problems of today and the future -- like homelessness, gun violence and the opioid crisis -- with big data. Petabytes of data pass through the unassuming Basin office park that houses Banjo's global headquarters and around 100 of its employees.

"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." In early September, the media went abuzz with news of Amazon becoming the second US company to surpass the $1 trillion market cap. However, the news of Amazon's success has eclipsed certain interesting facts: Abercrombie & Fitch, American Apparel, Bebe, J.C. Penney, Macy's, Sears, and RadioShack are just a few of the high profile traditional retailers that had to shut down stores due to internet companies like Amazon cutting into their revenue. Experts believe that 2018 will end up being as difficult as 2017 was for traditional brick-and-mortar stores. All indications point to the fact that traditional brick and mortar stores will continue to go into obscurity for as long as the internet continue to thrive.

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - No longer a novelty, drones are becoming an everyday tool for more police and fire departments, new research has found. The number of public safety agencies with drones has more than doubled since the end of 2016, according to data collected by the Center for the Study of the Drone at New York's Bard College. The center estimated that just over 900 police, sheriff, fire and emergency agencies now have drones, with Texas, California, and Wisconsin leading the way, the study showed. While many law enforcement drone units are just getting started and are in place in just a fraction of the public safety agencies around the country, police and fire departments are continuing to find new uses for the remote-controlled aircraft. They're being deployed to take photos of car accidents, guide firefighters through burning buildings and search for missing people and murder suspects.

Israel is among those countries everyone would want to watch her steps in matters security. No debate, the country has it all when it comes to criminology and everything weaponry related. But, in its current move to use artificial intelligence as a tool to fight crime, that's a serious move that requires deep thinking especially with the current fears associated with the technology. Since the release of the report that revealed how AI is vulnerable for use against human security, to date, experts have been arguing fiercely over whether this technology should be declared illegal or wiped from the earth, but that seems too late now. Like a month ago, the government of Spain made it official that they'll be employing AI to help stop corruption by predicting where it likely occurs most.

Facial recognition technology will change the world. Still emerging into the mainstream, facial recognition technology has the potential to reshape that way you interact with the fringes of both the digital and real world. For the uninitiated, facial recognition is a biometric technology that scans people's face, photographs and recognizes them as an individual. Impressively, the technology can identify facial features like the space between the eyes, the depth of the eyes sockets, the width of the nose, cheekbones and the jawline. This technology has been recently entered the mainstream with Apple's iPhone X facial recognition feature, but the appeal of facial recognition goes beyond just consumer goods, and will eventually be an integral part of security.