If you were planning on picking up an iPhone X in San Francisco tomorrow, we’ve got some bad news for you. On Wednesday morning, thieves broke into a UPS truck stationed outside of an Apple store in San Francisco and made off with upwards of 313 iPhone X units. According to a report from CNET, …
Comparing modern technology to the future predicted by Philip K Dick’s sci-fi short story — and eventual 2002 feature film — Minority Report is getting easier by the day. Some of Dick’s predictions, like the broad implementation of biometric scanning systems and driverless cars, are already here, but the film’s big future tech hook of …
Police have arrested a group of Romanian stunt thieves/up-and-coming Oceans scriptwriters in a hideout in the Netherlands. Dutch police found $590,000 worth of iPhones that they claim were stolen off the back of a moving truck while it was going down a highway. The iPhone robbery wasn’t a one-off, either. Stealing products from the back of a …
Baltimore news outlets have published body cam video from a supposed drug bust back in January. The video appears to show a cop planting drugs in a trash pile, before going back to the road, activating his body camera, and “finding” the drugs that supposedly belonged to a suspect. The cop was using a model …
With college students set to head back to school in about two months, a company called BASU recently announced that it will be giving away its powerful eAlarm device to students for free later this year. If you haven’t heard of BASU’s eAlarm device, the way it works is pretty straight forward. If a student …
When news broke that law enforcement officials in Arkansas had demanded that Amazon turn over Alexa user data that it claimed was associated with an alleged murder, you might have rolled your eyes. After all, how much, if anything, could the quirky little assistant know about the events that unfolded? A new piece of interactive art …
Of all the retailers in your average US mall, Apple Stores are probably near the top when it comes to the value of the goods on display, surpassed only by jewelry stores. With that kind of merchandise laying around, you’d think that having $40,000 worth of goods stolen in November 2016 would have prompted the Apple …
On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School with an elaborate plan to kill as many students as possible. Armed with knives, homemade bombs and an arsenal of high-powered guns — including a TEC-DC9 and various sawed-off shotguns — Harris and Klebold wreaked havoc at the school before they both committed …
Are those lamps on your local streets detecting when guns are fired? American cities are being upgraded to pinpoint shooters and help police fight gun violence. Like something out of the futuristic policing TV show “APB,” new tech can locate the exact position where a gun is fired and report it immediately to law enforcement.
Last week, Kim Jong Nam, better known as Kim Jong-un’s estranged half -brother, was attacked and poisoned with a mysterious substance at an airport in Malaysia. Earlier today, video of the incident obtained via security cameras was released to the public.
