Introduction: Prompt engineering is a technique used to improve language models and ChatGPT responses. It involves designing prompts that elicit more accurate and relevant information from language models. Prompt engineering is becoming increasingly important in the field of natural language ...
Read More...Introduction: On the digital frontier! As we marvel at the possibilities that the metaverse presents, let us not be blind to the lurking shadows and untold dangers that accompany this immersive realm. Beyond its shimmering veneer, the metaverse conceals a dark underbelly rife with crimes and ...
Read More...The US government was the first to use blockchain technology to investigate and bring down a dark-web marketplace called the Silk Road, which sold drugs, weapons, and everything illicit on this planet. The blockchain also helped nail two corrupt investigators investigating the black-market site. Aut...
Read More...Introduction Technology has revolutionized many aspects of our lives, including how we work, communicate, and entertain ourselves. In recent years, technology has also become increasingly important in the world of sports and performance, with the emergence of wearable devices, biofeedb...
Read More...3D printing has the potential to revolutionize policing in several ways. Several movies and books have portrayed the use of 3D printing technology by law enforcement agencies in various ways. In “Robocop" (1987): A classic sci-fi film, the main character, Alex Murphy, is a police officer wh...
Read More...A Hollywood movie that depicts a scenario related to Cybersecurity in the metaverse is "Ready Player One". The movie is set in the year 2045 when the world is on the brink of chaos and collapse. But the people have found salvation in the OASIS, an expansive virtual reality universe created by...
Read More...Voice biometrics is an emerging technology that uses the unique characteristics of a person's voice to identify them. Among the most common biometrics, such as voice, face, and fingerprint, Voice biometrics is especially promising because it is non-invasive, easy to use, and portable. Whether...
Read More...Deep-Fakes, also known as Deepfake technology, are used in the Netherlands to help solve crimes. However, their use has some limitations. This technology may be an excellent way to catch criminals, but it can also become a massive security threat. WHAT ARE DEEP FAKES? Deepfakes, or syn...
Read More...ChatGPT is the new rage of today and is set to revolutionise the education system, business and marketing. It may even be able to replace humans in the future. WHAT IS ChatGPT? Although the AI chatbot ChatGPT has only been in the public's eye since December, more than one million people ...
Read More...According to rough estimates, over 400 million firearms are in circulation globally, with India accounting for a significant percentage of this number. Police officers rely on firearms in their jobs, as they play an important role in law enforcement. Police officers use firearms for self-protection/...
Read More...Social media is a place where we share our lives with the world. We often forget that there are cyber criminals out there who are waiting for their chance to take advantage of us. While spending time on social media sites, we make ourselves easy targets for cyber crimes. Cybercriminals can us...
Read More...We've all seen the movies where a suspect is uncooperative and can't be trusted not to escape, so the interrogators call in an artificially intelligent robot for assistance. In reality, police departments around the world are using virtual and augmented reality as new methods of interrogation. I...
Read More...Every few years, we see a significant revolution in telecommunications. In the 1990s, it was all about the Internet. Nowadays, we are moving towards a 5G future, with immense implications for law enforcement. 5G is the next generation of mobile internet technology. Cellular telephone companies began...
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In the world of cryptocurrencies, one of the most popular and lucrative investment opportunities today is to invest in "non-fungible tokens". Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are digital assets with unique characteristics from traditional cryptocurrencies. They are digital representations of unique, real-...
Read More...As urbanisation expands and the percentage of the world population living in urban areas continues to increase, the demand for effective and efficient urban transportation solutions is rising. Traffic management solutions in Indian cities have failed to meet the people's expectations as it has been ...
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Policing is a profession that is constantly evolving. As the years go by and technology becomes more sophisticated, we will create new methods for keeping communities safe. The future of policing is already in sight. Technology is not just changing the way police officers do their jobs. It is changi...
Read More...When an incredible marriage proposal came from Canada for my friend’s daughter, it blew him away. His joy knew no bounds. The prospective multimillionaire bridegroom was an investment banker who recently had reaped a windfall in the bullish crypto market. He boasted of a fleet of cars, including a...
Read More...Metaverse is the virtual world where people can socialise, work and play. It is a portmanteau of meta, meaning transcendent and verse, from the universe. Author Neal Stephenson coined the word "metaverse" in the 1992 science-fiction novel "Snow Crash," to describe the virtual world in which the prot...
Read More...Several police departments worldwide use artificial intelligence (AI) technology to detect, prevent, investigate and predict crimes. AI is proving to be an incredible technology because of its pattern recognition and object categorisation abilities. As developers continue to refine the technology, t...
Read More...Valparai, with its tea estates, is a quaint and beautiful hill station. When I recently arrived at Sinna Dorai, a tea estate bungalow of Parrys perched atop the estate’s highest point, the clouds that hung in there seemed like massive cotton balls glinting under the shimmering sun. In an instant, ...
Read More...Leigh Van Bryan, a 26-year-old Brit, was embarking on his first visit to the USA, feeling excited, wanting to share his joy with his friends. He shot out this tweet` - “Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America”. In British slang, ‘destroy’ implies partying and ha...
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Face recognition technology (FRT) has long been employed in science fiction flicks to depict a futuristic world of advanced technology. In the 1960s, "Star Trek" dazzled audiences demonstrating retina scans and facial recognition scans as a part of their digital security system. "Robocop," a 1987 Ho...
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In Watertown, Massachusetts, USA, on a warm, beautiful April day in 2013, Henneberry realised that something was awry when he decided to service his boat, which was straddling in the backyard of his house. Having mounted the ladder after plopping it on the flank of the boat, he saw blood and an obje...
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Of late terror threats have surged all over the world. Public places have become the favourite terror purlieu of the terrorists. Mass shootings have become a perpetual phenomenon; we have had more than 1700 mass shootings worldwide since 2015 because of the spurt in terrorism, increased tumult and u...
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In,1918 the Spanish Flu outbreak which took away the lives of 15 million Indians devastated India. When the flu made its way into India from abroad through the Bombay port, it first infected the seven police sepoys deployed at the Bombay docks forcing them to gain admission into the police hospital ...
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RoboCop released in 1987 tells the story of a Detroit police officer Alex Murphy killed in action and resurrected as a cyborg super-cop with a built-in program to restore law and order. Today science fiction has become a reality. Police in different parts of the world is using robots for law enforce...
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The Hrithik Roshan-Kangana Ranaut episode turned cyberstalking into a widely discussed national topic. In 2016, Hrithik filed a lawsuit against his Krrish 3 co-star Kangana Ranaut, charging her of cyberstalking and harassment. Refuting the charges, Ranaut filed a countersuit against Roshan, contendi...
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A 2007 American action thriller film ”Live Free or Die Hard” penned by John Carlin and directed by Len Wiseman had Bruce Willis portraying the character of John McClane. In the movie, McClane thwarts the cyber-terrorists who conspire to hack into government and commercial computers across the Un...
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In 1998, Vacaville, California, USA, had a string of eight robberies. The robber came to be labelled as Bandanna Bandit. The police were clueless. Crime Analyst Laura Bettencourt took to Geographic Information System (GIS) to identify the likely future targets and the days of his next hits. Based on...
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In the movie “The 6th Day”, Adam Gibson played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, is deterred from entering a prohibited area when a scanner rejects his thumbprint. A security guard leans to him inquiring if he can help, Schwarzenegger grabs the guard at gunpoint and whispers, “Yeah, you can stick your...
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In an episode of Law and order aired in 2006, a husband suspects his wife of having an affair. He drugs his wife and implants an RFID (radio-frequency identification) tag under her skin and installs readers in the doorways of places she hangs out with her lover. When his suspicions of his wife get c...
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I awakened this morning to cloudy north-east monsoon skies and intermittent drizzle. My daughter was flying down from Mumbai after nearly three months. I knew the aircraft she was in would graze the dense clouds and pierce through them before touching down in the next twenty minutes. As I looked up ...
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Can a supermarket find out that a teen is pregnant even before her father gets to know it? It turns out that a father in Minneapolis discovered that his daughter was pregnant not from her but the local Target store. He made the discovery when Target began sending his daughter; coupons for baby cloth...
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Vincenzo Natali’s spine-tingling thriller, “Splice,” explores the ethical and scientific conundrums of synthetic biology where two rock-star scientists create a new synthetic life form by combining DNA from two different organisms. Just three weeks before the release of the film on 20 May 2010...
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The Quantum Computing is the use of quantum mechanical phenomena such as superposition and entanglement to perform a computation, while a Quantum Computer is one which performs such a computation, which can theoretically or physically be implemented. Thus, it is the area of study focused on developi...
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On March 18, 1977, the telephone rang at 5 pm as on earlier occasions at the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office from the same caller saying: “I’m the East Side Rapist and I have my next victim already stalked and you guys can’t catch me.” True to his word, the East Area Rapist raped his ne...
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“Is it possible for a computer to become human like?” We have seen a computer HAL 2000 speak fluent English, experience jealousy and do away with the spaceship crew to prevent its own termination in Stanley Kubrick’s movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. In “Her” a 2013 science fiction films writ...
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In the 2015 movie “Chappie”, which is set in the near future, automated robots comprise a mechanised police force. An encounter between two rival criminal gangs severely damages the law enforcing robot (Agent 22). His creator Deon recommends dismantling and recycling the damaged police droids. H...
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In 1983, police find a 15-year-old Lynda Mann raped and strangled outside Leicester, a small village in the UK. Detective Baker after three years of meticulous but fruitless investigation is still clueless. In 1986, he meets Alec Jeffreys a genetics professor at the nearby University of Leicester ...
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On November 26, 2008, at around 830 pm, 10 men in inflatable speed boats came ashore at two locations in Colaba, Mumbai. They split into small teams. Two of them who seemed like good looking college boys walked into “Leopold Cafe and Bar” at Colaba which was bustling with cheerful customers whil...
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Sharon Beshenivsky had always wanted to be a police officer. After being a community police officer, in May 2005, she became a British police constable in Bradford South, New Yorkshire. On 18 November 2005, which was her daughter's fourth birthday, she definitely would not have known she would wear ...
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20th Century Fox’s Independence Day released on July 4, 1996, was a blast – A sci-fi disaster film about an alien spacecraft that attacks Earth on Fourth of July weekend. But, the scene at the climax where Jeff Goldblum uses a Mac laptop to upload a computer virus to the alien mother ship disabl...
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George Orwell’s dystopian novel, “1984,” written in 1949, describes an eerie future where the ‘Thought Police’ of the superstate Oceania, detect and punish subjects for ‘thoughtcrimes’ which are thoughts unapproved by the state. Fast-forward to the 21st century, and we are today star...
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In Minority Report a 2002 Sci-fi film set in 2054, Tom Cruise plays a Washington DC police officer going by the name John Anderton. In a scene from the movie, billboards recognise and solicit people strolling in a mall by scanning the eyeballs. As John Anderton walks through the mall, interactive ad...
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When one browses the digital storefronts of the online markets of the dark web, one gets the feeling that with a handful of bitcoins and a few clicks of the mouse, it’s trifling to buy an AK-47 or a Bushmaster M4 deployed by the Special Forces in Afghanistan which has an intrinsic potential to fir...
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The world was thunderstruck on May 11, 1997, when the IBM computer “Deep Blue” beat the world’s greatest chess player, Garry Kasparov, in a six-game match. This was the first time a machine had beaten any human chess champion. Google’s AlphaGo AI in October 2015, once more made the case that...
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As I dug into the Internet of Things (IoT) to understand the revolution of IoT, which is sweeping the world. I noticed that it had changed the way I see everything including policing. I questioned- Would 9/11 or a 26/11 or a Pulwama have happened in a connected world, where police have access to con...
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Steven Spielberg's “Minority Report” nailed the driverless car technology way back in 2002 with its futuristic Lexus-designed auto-piloted car. In one of the scenes, Tom Cruise decides to "run" from the authorities and sets off an exciting driverless car chase. Driverless cars used to be ...
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“The Diamond Age” a science fiction novel by American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 1995 depicts a near-future world, in which nanotechnology affects all facets of existence. Nanotechnology is already influencing many features of our life today including crime investigation and law enforc...
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Michael Crichton's 2002 bestselling novel, "Prey”, is ostensibly about nanotechnology gone wrong. It’s about a swarm of Nano-particle having the capability to self-replicate, wreaking havoc, when an experiment in the Nevada desert goes horribly wrong. The little critters evolve swiftly becoming ...
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