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  • Facial recognition technology quickly identifies Boston Marathon bombing suspect

    Researchers at Michigan State University including an Indian professor were able to quickly identify one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects from law enforcement video, using the latest in automatic facial recognition technology. In the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing laboratory, Anil Jain, MSU Distinguished Professor of computer science and engineering, and Josh Klontz, a research ...

  • Woman finds seal does more harm than good

    "Someone had delivered a seal pup effectively to our back door. Our first staff arrived, that's what they were greeted with," said Jim Chase with the Seacoast Science ...

  • 2 found dead in home person detained

    Autopsies are expected to be done on Saturday to determine the cause and manner of death. The people's identities have not been released. Tilton police said they have detained a person in connection with the deaths. Neighbors said police had been at the home since Friday morning. The neighborhood is primarily a mobile home community, but the house is one of the rental homes in the area. ...

  • Analyzing Facial Recognition Technology Using The Boston Bombing Suspects

    facial recognition systems using one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects as a test subject has helped demonstrate the value of the technology as a law enforcement tool, Michigan State University (MSU) researchers claim in a new study. Working in the East Lansing, Michigan ...

  • Boston Bomber’s Slain Affiliate ‘No Islamist’ – Widow

    Boston bomber who was himself killed by US law enforcements was an aspiring athlete who took no interests in politics or radical Islam, his widow said Friday. "We avoided talking about politics because we had nothing to do with it," Rene Manukyan, who was married to Ibragim Todashev, told Voice of Russia radio. Todashev, an Orlando resident, wanted to make a career in mixed martial ...


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Very Bad Things

After seeing Peter Berg's outrageously raunchy black comedy "Very Bad Things," I was unsure exactly what the title was referring to. Are the "things" in the title referring to the acts committed by the characters in the film, or are the "things" the characters themselves? Because, after all, once you sit through this film, I think you'll agree that not a single character can be described as "human ... ...

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  • Service planned after man dies day after wedding

    CANTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - A memorial service is planned for a newly married Detroit-area youth minister who was killed in a traffic accident as he and his wife were en route to their honeymoon in Myrtle Beach, ...

  • Conn. retreat features severed arm of saint

    MYSTIC, Conn. (AP) - There are too few opportunities in life to see the severed limb of a medieval holy man, and so when one presents itself in as unlikely a place as southeastern Connecticut, it should be grasped with ...

  • Norwich house targeted by paranormal investigators

    NORWICH, Conn. (AP) - A historic city landmark was the site of a real-life ghost story as ghost hunters surveyed the Leffingwell House Museum on Washington ...

  • Personal crisis takes doctor to new direction

    New users Please take a minute to register. After you register and pick a screen name, you can publish your comments everywhere on the ...

  • Talented New Bedford illustrator flourishes

    NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) - When Roger Andrews was a student at Gomes Elementary School in New Bedford, his math homework was as liable to have a rendition of Iron Man on the flip side as it was to have equations on the front. Decades later he’s still drawing Iron Man - only in his own style, and getting paid to do ...

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