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A child killer was put to death with no apparent complications Wednesday in Ohio's first execution since a problem-plagued one 3½ years ago triggered an uproar over the reliability of the lethal injection drugs used by the state.
7.27.2017
1:07pm
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The racial biases of whites in a community predict how many African-Americans are killed by police in a given area, according to results of a paper published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science.
7.27.2017
12:30pm
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Machine learning expert Hyrum Anderson, technical director for data science at Endgame, explains in new research presented today at Black Hat USA 2017 that artificially intelligent defense systems could be vulnerable to an “evil twin” type threat—machine...
7.27.2017
12:09pm
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Police in New York state may soon have a high-tech way of catching texting drivers: a device known as a textalyzer that allows an officer to quickly check if a cellphone has been in use before a crash.
7.27.2017
8:55am
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Authorities from Delaware’s Department of Health and Social Services are urging heroin users and other opioid addicts, and their loved ones, to seek immediate treatment—or begin carrying the overdose reversal medication naloxone—after a string of six...
7.26.2017
12:41pm
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On Tuesday, Penn State’s College of Nursing celebrated the open house for a new project that will utilize technology to help increase access to sexual assault forensic exams in underserved and rural areas in Pennsylvania.
7.26.2017
11:41am
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An Ohio appeals court ruling has cleared the way for a Cleveland man to seek financial compensation for his time behind bars after the court found he was wrongfully imprisoned for 18 years following a murder conviction. The ruling said authorities...
7.26.2017
11:25am
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On Tuesday, police and federal agents warned that so-called virtual kidnappings are on the rise, and dozens of people already have found themselves terrorized into giving money to con artists. In the fake kidnappings, the callers demand that the victims...
7.26.2017
11:06am
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In a newly published article, Northwestern University economist Charles F. Manski and his co-author, Carnegie Mellon University criminologist Daniel S. Nagin, outline a "formal model of optimal policing" that can be used to resolve tensions between...
7.26.2017
10:54am
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A New York woman and one of her sons were found guilty Tuesday of killing her estranged husband and pouring acid on his face to make identifying him more difficult before the body was dumped in the woods.
7.26.2017
10:06am
