The Military Wants Lasers To Counter Drones
The military is still looking for ways to handle possible threats arising from the large number of small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) flying low...
Revolutionary Device Allows Swapping AR Barrel in Seconds
A technology developed by a retired Marine helicopter pilot is likely to be a game-changer for law enforcement and military personnel in the future....
Snake-Like Robot to Aid Search and Rescue Operations
Search and rescue operations in disaster-stricken areas often lack information about the terrain and the actual situation. A team of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic...
Alberta Firefighters Seek Drones To Help Battle The Wildfire
The great wildfire in northern Alberta, Canada has already burned an estimated 300,000 hectares and is not nearing an end, as Rachel Notley, the...
Drones For Search And Rescue
All around the world, search and rescue team respond to many thousands of calls annually.They search for lost travellers, hikers, and holidaymakers in mountain...
Enhanced Situational Awareness for US Coast Guard
Advanced marine electronics systems will be supplied to the US Coast Guard for enhancing situational awareness and navigation capabilities. FLIR Systems has been awarded...
The Rise of Robotics – Time to rethink Security
The rise of robotics is bringing with it many apprehensions regarding security. A book that has come out recently “Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected,...
Airbus To Release Anti-UAV System
Many defence experts are worried about the increasing prevalence of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and their potential to be used for spying or terrorist...
ISIS Terrorist Activity Mapped
Most of ISIS’ activity is centered on the expansion and maintenance of its territory in Iraq and Syria. But since the declaring its caliphate...
New Devices Will Enhance Police Operational Abilities
Point Blank Enterprises (PBE), a leader in the production of soft body armor and related protective solutions, has been recently awarded a five-year contract...
New Crime Prediction System
A new crime prediction technology has been creating controversy. Brett Goldstein, an ex-cop, founded CivicScape, a technology company that sells crime-predicting software to police...
Next-Level Safe City or Privacy Violation?
Body cameras have their advantages in the safe city setting, but their contribution to security sometimes raises privacy dilemmas. Jersey City police are giving...
Liquid Fingerprinting Technology will Aid First Responders
A new technology, Watermark Ink (W-INK), can distinguish liquids by their surface tension. The technology that can perform instant, in-field characterization of the chemical...
DARPA-Based Initiative to Bridge Language Gap on Emergency
Most of the languages in the world are “low-resource” languages for which there are a dearth of human translators and no automated translation capability....
A call to Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich
To Yitzhak Aharonovich, Minister of Internal Security
Over the past few weeks, television channels broadcast recordings of citizens calling the police’ 100 hotline and...
Could the Weather Company change emergency alerting?
In 2013 alone, The Weather Company delivered more 150,000 weather alerts to two-thirds of U.S. adults, and it now is targeting its reach to...
Military Nano-Technology
Surely we've all heard that spider webs are stronger and far more resilient than metal strings of the same diameter. The human wish to...
Safety First: The UAV Version
Due to the rise in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) being flown around other aerial vehicles, and due to the danger it poses, the American...
Near Miss: Four Drone-Related Incidents In UK This Month Alone
For the past few weeks four incidents have been recorded in which an almost-collision took place between drones and manned aircrafts, including passenger planes,...
Online Extortion And Hacker Activity Expected To Rise In 2016
Trend Micro, a global leader in security information solutions, presents its annual security information forecast report. The expected trends include a rise in online...
New UAV for Military Use and Disaster Areas Surveillance
A new UAV - the Łoś - has been designed by the Polish WB Group company to meet the needs of the Polish Armed...
Anti-Poisoning Treatment for First Responders
A first-of-its-kind treatment for the life-threatening effects of cyanide poisoning will be developed soon. The treatment is needed because cyanide could be used as...
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Drones Could Soon Navigate Collapsed Buildings Without Slowing Down
Flying autonomous drones through unpredictable environments remains one of the biggest technical challenges in robotics. In confined spaces such as collapsed buildings, industrial sites,...
