Imagine: just got home from a party and it looks like you’ve been burgled. The traces left by someone trying to break in are clearly visible. Major adrenaline rush. You’re going to track down that burglar! But how do you do that? Well, with the Sherlock “citizen investigation” app developed by…
Law enforcement around the world, including the Netherlands, is currently experimenting with predictive policing: policing based on crime predictions. Big Data on past crimes and the help of sophisticated machine learning enable police to use reliable predictions about when and where the next…
Yelp is an American corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California. It develops, hosts and markets Yelp.com and the Yelp mobile app, which publish crowd-sourced reviews about local businesses, as well as the online reservation service SeatMe and online food-delivery service Eat24. The…
Smart Tools (Android): For those of you who enjoy the finer points of forensics, Android Boy’s Smart Tools is for you. It provides tools for length and angle, distance and height, sound and vibration, as well as a compass and metal detector. The app uses the camera for some of the tools (height,…
Bellingcatis an online platform for citizen investigative journalism. Eliot Higgins, known online as Brown Moses, became a frequently consulted weapons expert in the Syrian conflict in just two years and without specialist knowledge, just sitting behind his computer in Leicester. As a result of…
