First Responders

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...

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are finally giving conservationists a significant lead in the fight against poachers. Lindbergh Foundation’s Air Shepherd Initiative employs drones to...

Today critical infrastructures have to simultaneously manage complex facilities, limited resources, answer to government agencies, deal with a growing amount of disparate technologies and...

The Seismological Laboratory at the University of California Berkeley has released a new app: MyShake. The app isn’t meant for at-home Zumba hopefuls, but...

ISIS hackers have posted the personal details of U.S. officials online, encouraging the group’s supporters to carry out “lone wolf” attacks against them. Newsweek reports...

A new French law would impose penalties and fines on smartphone manufacturers who refuse to hand over encrypted information to law enforcement in terrorism...

In emergencies, people may trust robots too much for their own safety, a new study suggests. In a mock building fire, test subjects followed...

Training is supposed to prepare you for the worst. The repetition of movements, reactions, and actions codifies them as responses. But many inexperienced soldiers...

It seems that no country in the world is safe of terrorism nowadays with radical and extremist organizations popping up at every continent...

The infamous John McAfee has lambasted the US government as being so technologically “illiterate” and so incompetent at protecting the country’s digital assets that...

A new compact, lightweight weapon will stop a target in their tracks from a hundred meters away without harming them. Introducing the Pogojet. Most non-lethal...

In simpler times, policing was about maintaining presence in a community. A local cop could know everyone and everything in his neighbourhood. And that’s...

During the course of the investigation into the 13 November attacks on Paris, Belgian and French authorities discovered video footage of a top nuclear...

Earlier this month, the European Union presented Greece with a three-month ultimatum to increase border security and remedy “deficiencies” in controlling the flow of...

Some 3,000 to 5,000 jihadi fighters trained by ISIS are already living in Europe, according to EUROPOL director Rob Wainwright. He went on to...

By Arie Egozi “Big Brother” likes his information in large quantities, but neat so he won’t have any trouble seeing what is important. This is...

Members of the general public operating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are a “a real and growing threat” to civilian aircraft, warns Tony Tyler, director-general...

By now, Smart Cities seem almost an inevitability. With more and more cities implementing city projects to modernise interactions between governments, citizens, and the...

Think Big Data is some indecipherable discipline completely divorced from your everyday concerns? Or maybe you know that it does some good, but you’re...

Tyco Innovation, a branch of that global leader in fire and security solutions, has snagged up some inventive Israeli startups that could help save...

Urban living is soon to become the dominant form of human habitation. In 2014, more than half the global population resided in cities. It’s...

The Internet of Things (IoT) - the myriad of internet-connected devices such as baby monitors, smart TVs, home security systems, and even smart dolls...