If you own a computer you can now fight crime and potentially win a prize. A new service from Internet Eyes distributes streaming CCTV video footage from stores and streets in the UK to viewers who can tag videos with crimes in them. Viewers can win up to $1600 per month if they catch criminals […]
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Just because your area of expertise is something exotic like anthropology, doesn’t mean you can’t make a business out of it. A forensic anthropologist from North East England has started his own business to help police identify human remains: A Senior forensics and crime scene lecturer at Teesside University is launching a new digital business
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New to the scooter business, Doug Vitello and Gary Parr worked hard to meet their customers’ needs. But there was one type of customer they couldn’t serve, according to a story in The St. Petersburg Times. Again and again, they kept hearing: I got a DUI. I lost my license. Do you have something I
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You might call them the Honey Police – beekeepers and honey producers ready to comb through North Carolina to nab unscrupulous sellers of sweet-but-bogus “funny honey,” reports The Associated Press. North Carolina is the latest state to create a standard that defines “pure honey” in a bid to curb the sale of products that have
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She wasn’t robbing the place, just doing some unorthodox marketing: Westlake police now have a woman in custody they said is the “cleaning fairy” burglar. According to the Westlake Police Department, Elyria police officers stopped the 53-year-old woman Tuesday night. The so-called “cleaning fairy” burglar is currently in jail, but she has not yet been
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Most people just want to throw their old used cardboard boxes away. Not these guys. They stole 900 tons of it, which they sold for $103,000! The theft ring began as Grasso, a New York State Division of Parole parolee, was attempting to get back into the waste trade industry. In 2008, Grasso was charged
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Miami New Times: Indian River County’s Ian Sidles, age 25, and Dustin Boring, 30, incorporated Pre-Paid Auto Club in August. The company provides “speeding insurance.” Pay dues starting at $9.99 a month, and when you receive a moving violation, the club takes care of associated fines, traffic school costs, and legal fees. It’s like the
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Arstechnica reports that the campaign to rid our nation’s prisons of cell phones went to the next level, with a call from the Department of Commerce for intel on devices that can get the situation under control. The government is “seeking comment on technical approaches” to the problem, Commerce says. The illicit use of cell
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If you own a computer you can now fight crime and potentially win a prize. A new service from Internet Eyes distributes streaming CCTV video footage from stores and streets in the UK to viewers who can tag videos with crimes in them. Viewers can win up to $1600 per month if they catch criminals
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1888 – Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie). 1907 – Guglielmo Marconi’s company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland. 1919 – RCA is incorporated as the Radio Corporation of America. 1931 – Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion.
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