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New Technology Being Developed to Detect ‘Criminality’ from Faces
Like a page straight out of Philip K. Dick’s Minority Report, Chinese researchers Xiaolin Wu and Xi Zhang from China’s Shanghai Jiao Tong University have published a paper on arXiv detailing how a computer program can be developed to detect a person’s criminal profile just by their facial features. In…
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China Looking at Creating “Precrime” System
When people start to think about digital surveillance and their data stored online, they think about cases such as Apple vs the FBI where modern technology is used to try track down criminals or find out more about what could have or has happened. China looks to go a step further…
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Crime Predicting Software Being Used by Police
No, this isn’t Minority Report made real, but it is close. New “predictive policing” software from developers such as PredPol helps police to determine when, where, and what kind of crime might happen. Using information from previous crimes in the area, the software calculates the chance of a crime happening. Use of…
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Real-life Minority Report: German Police Trial Software to Predict Crime Before it Happens
Steven Spielberg’s 2002 science fiction film Minority Report painted a future in which crimes can be predicted, and thus prevented, before they occur. The Pre-Crime police division used psychics called Precogs to name future criminals. Now, in yet another case of life imitating sci-fi art, German police are trialling…
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UltraHaptics Bring Minority Report Style Screens A Step Closer
Creating huge displays isn’t out of our technological reach, controlling them with a wave of our hands is also possible, it is even possible to get quite a lot of interaction with these display, project them like holograms over glass and more… but one thing we cannot do is feel…
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