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- TECHNOLOGY
- February 5, 2019
In brief Cops in Detroit have admitted using facial-recognition technology that fails to accurately identify potential suspects a whopping 96 per cent of the time. The revelation was made by the American police force’s chief James Craig during a public hearing, this week. Craig was grilled over the wrongful arrest of Robert Williams, who was
READ MOREPolice in India have shot dead four men who were being held as suspects over the rape and murder of a vet in Hyderabad last week. The charred remains of the victim, 27, were found a day after she disappeared and the case caused widespread anger in India over the police’s handling of rape and
READ MORECanada’s armed forces have been drafted in to provide air support as police go door to door in the search for two teenagers suspected in three killings in the country’s remote wilderness. Authorities have urged “all Canadians” to be on the lookout for 19-year-old Kam McLeod and 18-year-old Bryer Schmegelsky, after the fatal shooting of
READ MOREScotland Yard has confirmed that detectives are investigating five people living in the UK after a referral from Rwanda over allegations relating to the genocide 25 years ago. An estimated 800,000 Rwandans, mostly Tutsis but including some moderate Hutus, died in 100 days of slaughter and ethnic cleansing between April 7 and July 1994. A
READ MOREA 24-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man arrested on suspicion of manslaughter by gross negligence following a fire that killed four children in Stafford have been released on bail, Staffordshire Police said. The pair were arrested at around 1.30pm on Friday. Riley Holt, eight, Keegan Unitt, six, Olly Unitt, three, and Tilly Rose Unitt, four,
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