More than 100 schools nationwide have partnered with a software company to roll out its artificial intelligence-powered firearm detection tool in hopes of preventing active shooter incidents before or as soon as they occur.ZeroEyes‚ founded in 2018 by a team of military veterans‚ created "a proactive‚ human-verified visual gun detection and situational awareness solution that integrated into existing digital security cameras to stop mass shootings and gun-related violence‚" according to its website."Drawing from over 50 years of collective military experience‚ we provide military-grade intelligence monitoring to facilities like schools‚ commercial buildings‚ and defense sites‚" the site reads.The technology uses AI to detect "brandished firearms within view of any camera‚" often within two to three seconds‚ according to ZeroEyes. Once a gun is detected by the system‚ an image from the video feed is sent for review to the company's "human monitoring centers" to prevent false positives. After being verified by a person‚ the system then notifies local authorities."Every detection goes through our human monitoring centers so we can verify threats before triggering real-time alerts and safety protocols‚" the company's website notes. "When‚ and once an image is verified to be in the same of a firearm‚ we notify appropriate security personnel and first responders in as fast as 3–5 seconds‚ potentially reducing response time and saving lives."The alert informs school administrators that a firearm was detected and which camera identified the potential threat.Co-founder of ZeroEyes Sam Alaimo told Fox News Digital‚ "The algorithm says‚ hey‚ I think it's a gun. It sends a still-frame image to our operating center. Our analyst looks at it and says if it is a gun‚ I am going to dispatch it.""If we can tell very obviously it's not a genuine threat‚ we do not dispatch the client. We'll just give them a friendly phone call or an email saying‚ hey you want to be aware of a child with a Nerf gun that looks very much like the real thing is over here‚ you might want to take care of that‚" Alaimo added.He noted that the software has been installed in over 100 schools across 35 states.The company notes that its operations center is built with multiple redundancies to ensure its system is never interrupted by power outages or natural disasters.ZeroEyes cannot detect concealed weapons or firearms in a holster. AI technology used in security systems has raised concerns about privacy from critics. According to the software company‚ its tool does not use facial recognition or store biometric identifiers."The only time a person's face would be recorded and retained would be in the instance of an active shooter/mass shooting incident‚" it stated."If allowed by the customer‚ we record video of our technicians onsite in the process of testing detections during the installation phase‚" the company continued. "We store any detection image‚ false positive or true positive for improving our AI and providing forensic false positive reports. This data is always transmitted and stored in an encrypted format and data retention timeframes can be specified by the customer."Iberville Parish School District in Louisiana plans to install ZeroEyes by January in hopes of boosting school security measures. Superintendent Louis Voiron told Fox News Digital‚ "There's no way with us having 800 cameras in our school district that one or two people can see what's happening on every single camera in the district.""Unfortunately in our area‚ we have had a couple shootings that have occurred on school campuses and near school campuses. And we took the approach to being more proactive‚" Voiron continued.Greater Egg Harbor Regional School District‚ a New Jersey school system‚ stated that the AI-powered technology will allow its school resource officers to focus on building relationships with the students instead of monitoring cameras all day.Superintendent James Reina explained‚ "AI‚ in combination with the 24-hour ZeroEyes Operations Center‚ is always monitoring our camera feeds for possible images of weapons‚ which removes the need for someone to be solely focused on the security cameras every time there are people in the building. We consider relationship building between our security guards‚ armed SROs and students to be critical to security‚ because if the kids know and trust us‚ they'll tell us if anybody is threatening to bring a gun to school. If an SRO is locked in a room all day watching cameras‚ they're not creating relationships with the community."Earlier this year‚ Ocean City‚ another school district in New Jersey‚ installed ZeroEyes on school campuses. Ocean City Police Chief Jay Prettyman told ABC News in September that the tool could also deter other criminal activity."If we can put something in the place that we can advertise about – that can scare people from coming to Ocean City and coming to any of our schools‚ and we can push evil off to another day – that's what I think is our responsibility to do for our kids every day‚" Prettyman stated.According to ZeroEyes‚ Philadelphia's Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and the United States Air Force have also implemented its technology.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors‚ sign up for our newsletters‚ and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A suspect with a lengthy criminal history allegedly stabbed to death a Philadelphia Macy's security guard on Monday — just minutes after the guard caught him trying to steal hats and let him go. Image source: YouTube screenshotWhat are the details?Police sources told WPVI-TV store security stopped 30-year-old Tyrone Tunnell from trying to steal several hats.The security guard who stopped Tunnell — 27-year-old Eric Harrison‚ according to family members — retrieved the hats and sent Tunnell on his way‚ the station said.But WPVI said Tunnell came back about 15 minutes later and fatally stabbed Harrison. Eric HarrisonImage source: YouTube screenshotAnother guard whom police identified as a 23-year-old man intervened and suffered wounds to his face and arm‚ the station said.Tunnell soon was arrested at the Somerset train station in the Kensington section of the city‚ WPVI said‚ adding that police said witnesses positively identified him. Image source: YouTube screenshotThe Philadelphia District Attorney's Office on Tuesday approved a murder charge against the suspect‚ along with other charges‚ the station said.WPVI said authorities haven't officially named the charged individual.Court documents indicate Tunnell has been arrested more than a dozen times for retail theft‚ robbery‚ and drug offenses across the region‚ including in Philadelphia as well as suburban Bucks‚ Delaware‚ and Montgomery Counties‚ the station said.Victim's mother speaks outHarrison's mother‚ Dawn Fobbs‚ told WPVI in a separate story that her son was her best friend."Just why? Why my baby?" Fobbs wondered in an interview with the station. Image source: YouTube screenshot"It couldn't happen to a more innocent soul‚" she added to WPVI. "Just at work doing your job‚ you know‚ his second job at that."The station said Harrison first worked overnight at the post office then went to Macy's where he'd worked as a security guard for two years.Harrison's mother also works retail as a store manager‚ WPVI said‚ adding that she understands certain risks are involved — but that this crime was senseless."Over some merchandise‚ you came in and took my baby's life‚" Fobbs told the station. "He will never have children‚ he will never get married. All because of some hats."WPVI added that she described her son as a Frankford High School graduate and a Philly kid through and through who leaves behind three younger sisters."Just pray for strength for my family because that's what we need‚" Fobbs noted the station‚ adding that she appreciates her son's fellow security guard who stepped in and tried to help him. Security guard killed at Philadelphia Macy’s was an ‘innocent soul‚’ mother says youtu.be Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors‚ sign up for our newsletters‚ and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Ten years ago‚ Edward Snowden changed American history‚ but he changed the future too. We're living in it. One week before he lifted just a corner of the rug carpeting over our new regime — the one that now has all but replaced the country we knew — Americans tuning in to "Real Time with Bill Maher" heard a puzzling message from the world to come. Sitting between Obamacare architect Neera Tanden and some third person I no longer remember sat one James Poulos. Bill had steered the conversation toward the possibility of government overreach‚ and I cautioned the panel that just because the Bush administration had ostensibly shuttered its Total Information Awareness project didn't mean the military-industrial complex‚ the intelligence community‚ or the administrative state weren't still pursuing exactly that. Not for the first time on that panel‚ I drew some funny faces — and not the haha kind‚ either — but yesterday's riddle is today no laughing matter. In the wake of Snowden's disclosures and others to follow‚ some of the most vociferous criticism of our government crossing the Deep State Rubicon came not from the right‚ but the left. In the long‚ often sad 2010s‚ if you wanted to hear from people mad about malevolent government‚ angry about corporate corruption‚ wary of the globalization agenda‚ and fired up about protecting the little guy‚ chances were you had to look to the so-called dissident left. I should know. After the financial crisis blew out my hopes of landing a tenure-track job in academic political theory (I'll wait for you to finish laughing)‚ I left the Beltway swamp for the relatively noble and upright world of Hollywood‚ where as a disaffected conservative fronting an indie rock band‚ I was the perfect token right-winger for high-profile new media brands like Vice‚ the Huffington Post‚ and the Young Turks. I worked with them all and‚ yes‚ made lots of trendy friends. We were cresting a wave‚ riding the dragon‚ speaking our minds. We were the thorn in the side of the increasingly smug and aloof Obama administration — the one that began America's proud tradition of painting rainbow colors on killer robots tasked to take out those unfortunate souls listed on its so-called disposition matrix. One name that didn't appear on any lists‚ at least none leaked or otherwise made public‚ belonged to one of the rising stars in my circle of hot media friends. City of spooks His name was Michael Hastings. Michael skyrocketed to fame as a real-deal conflict journalist — the kind that made Vice's potentate Shane Smith a very wealthy man. Michael had both the access and the balls to take down Obama's top dog in Afghanistan‚ General Stanley McChrystal‚ with a single kill shot of his own — one scorching story in Rolling Stone magazine. I wasn't a part of Michael's inner circle‚ but I was close enough to see firsthand what he had helped achieve: a creative‚ confident nerve center of anti-establishment politics in the heart of Los Angeles‚ centered around Oliver Stone and expanding across time zones to include the likes of Glenn Greenwald‚ who had recommended me as an in-studio guest to the Young Turks before he became an enemy of the state. But Glenn‚ as you probably know‚ is still with us — alive and well — and the same‚ alas‚ cannot be said of Michael. A scant 12 days after Glenn first published Snowden's bombshells‚ Michael's Mercedes‚ with Michael behind the wheel‚ veered abruptly off the pavement‚ traveling south on Highland Avenue just past Melrose‚ across from Matzah Pizzeria‚ and impacted one of the tall‚ glamorous palm trees lining the median. The vehicle instantly burst into flames and charred the victim "beyond recognition." This event took place shortly before 4:30 in the morning that dark Tuesday. BuzzFeed chief Ben Smith‚ who had Michael on payroll‚ told the press he was shocked and devastated. But words like that couldn't capture the body blow that had caved in the hearts of Michael's friends and loved ones and swiftly shattered the dissident media scene that he had proven to be the heart of. So began what became the systematic roll-up of the dissident left‚ eventually sidelining even Bernie Sanders and transforming the Democrats from a party with a partisan base mobilized against corruption‚ globalization‚ and militarization into one where both the elites and the foot soldiers were slavishly devoted to all those once so terrible things. I don't know exactly what happened to Michael that terrible night‚ but I didn't tell the press when they came calling that I knew where Michael had been before he climbed into his car — agitated but very unsuicidal — and began what he had intended to be a quick trip out of town. I knew the last two people he had spoken to before he died‚ and I knew what he had said to them. I knew something was very wrong‚ and I knew nobody was ever going to find out what it was. No investigation into Michael's death was forthcoming; his coroner's report was unceremoniously sealed. He had disappeared into a hole as dark and obliviating as any of his country's secret and illegal black sites. And so‚ in a sense‚ his country had done the same. I've never spoken publicly about any of these details until now. Ten years of silence can do that to you. The list of people present at the creation of the first political media scene in the age of social media was short in 2013‚ and the list of those still kicking today is shorter still. There's never been a proper retrospective of just what happened to our government‚ our media‚ and our political institutions since Michael Hastings was so quickly removed from the national equation. Even though‚ with the benefit of hindsight‚ the strange concurrence of the death of New Media and the death of the dissident left goes beyond the realm of the uncanny and into the realm of the suspect. It stinks. Not just with the stench of death‚ but of murder most foul. You can subscribe to James Poulos’s new podcast‚ "Zero Hour‚" on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Or better yet head over to BlazeTV and subscribe to access the latest episodes.

Mark Levin has a new name for the mainstream media. He calls it “the pro-Hamas/Nazi American media‚” and it’s not without good reason. “MSNBC is the worst‚ they’re all horrific‚ but it’s the worst. It has Hamas/Nazi supporting hosts. It has racist‚ bigot‚ anti-Semites like Joy Reid. It has fundamentally stupid people like the Scarboroughs who promote the propaganda‚” Levin explains. In a segment on MSNBC‚ Andrea Mitchell spoke to Eylon Levy‚ an Israeli government spokesperson. “First of all‚ we welcome the very solid support that we’ve received from President Biden‚” Levy told Mitchell‚ adding that Biden has offered “moral clarity” and “material support.” “They have to say this‚ or they won’t get the arms‚” Levin notes. Levy went on to praise Biden for admitting that Israel “is dealing with a terror organization that is worse than ISIS” and that the “U.S. will make sure Israel has everything it needs to win this war.” He then mentioned that the Israeli government is very concerned about the humanitarian situation in the Gaza strip. “All of a sudden‚ we’re concerned about humanitarian aid‚” Levin mocks. “When Biden allowed $70 billion to flow into the Islamo-Nazi regime in Tehran‚ was he concerned about humanitarian aid? Was he concerned where that money went?” As Levy continued‚ he began justifying why humanitarian aid is required. “They are in the middle of a war for their survival‚ and they have to explain to Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC the provision of ‘humanitarian aid‚’” Levin says. Want more from Mark Levin?To enjoy more of "the Great One" — Mark Levin as you've never seen him before — subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America‚ defend the Constitution‚ and live the American dream.

Eight months ago‚ Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced he was investigating Pfizer‚ Moderna‚ and Johnson &; Johnson for potentially lying to the public concerning the success of their respective COVID-19 vaccines. Now‚ he’s filed a lawsuit. Paxton’s lawsuit alleges that Pfizer violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act‚ claiming that Pfizer “engaged in false‚ deceptive‚ and misleading acts and practices by making unsupported claims.” Three weeks after Paxton had initially announced the investigation‚ he was impeached. “The first thing I did when I came back was I told my staff‚ ‘I want to get back on this‚’ and we did‚” Paxton tells Sara Gonzales. What Paxton and his staff found was more than enough information to bring Pfizer down. “Pfizer’s widespread representation that its vaccine possessed 95% efficacy against infection was highly misleading from day one‚” the petition created by Paxton and his staff reads. That 95% number “was only ever legitimate in a solitary‚ highly technical‚ and artificial way. It represented a calculation of the so-called relative risk reduction for vaccinated individuals in their clinical trial.” Sara Gonzales is impressed. “What you do here is that you’re using ... the FDA’s own publications against them by saying‚ ‘Actually‚ the FDA is the one who says that all of these relative risk reductions are a bunch of baloney‚’” Gonzales says. “It’s the truth‚” Paxton says‚ continuing‚ “and the reality is‚ Pfizer didn’t even follow what they said‚ and it’s not even close to 95%.” “If they used the numbers that the FDA said they should use‚ it was more like the vaccine was effective 1% or less of the time. That’s not an effective vaccine‚” he adds. Want more from 'The News &; Why It Matters?'To enjoy more rundowns of the top stories of the day‚ subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America‚ defend the Constitution‚ and live the American dream.

Police said a woman admitted to strangling one of her children to death and suffocating another child in Pennsylvania. 27-year-old Quanesha Shaquella Monio Lindsey had been previously arrested in Florida for brutally beating her son in 2019 when he was 2 years old. Sunrise police arrested Lindsey for aggravated child abuse after she slammed the boy into a metal bed post. She had been angry at the boy‚ who was outside with his sister‚ for refusing her command to come inside and watch television. The boy had hit his head on the metal bed post and was crying uncontrollably. Those charges were dismissed because she was declared incompetent to stand trial. On Saturday at 8 p.m. the Harmony Township Police Department responded to a call about a 4-month-old baby not breathing at a residence in Ambridge. When they arrived at the home‚ they found the uncle of the child trying to perform CPR on the baby‚ who was in the basement of the house. Police said they took over CPR and sent the uncle upstairs.The report said the baby was wearing a winter jacket despite the room being extremely warm because of a space heater. The child was cold to the touch and was pronounced dead soon afterward. The report said that Lindsey reportedly told police she had put her baby to sleep at 2 a.m. but that he had woken up at 5 a.m. and hadn't moved or made noise since that time. When she was taken to the police department‚ Lindsey allegedly admitted to strangling the 4-month-old boy. She also allegedly admitted to suffocating her 2-year-old son six months prior. A criminal complaint said she demonstrated how she strangled her child on an infant-sized mannequin. Police said a forensic examination of her phone found texts referencing the death of her 2-year-old son in October. Lindsey was booked into the Beaver County Jail and held without bond. She faces charges that include murder‚ strangulation‚ and abuse of a corpse. Here's a local news report about the incident: Quanesha Lindsey accused of killing two young sons www.youtube.com Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors‚ sign up for our newsletters‚ and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

DNA analysis showed that the new moth discovered in Ealing‚ West London was a perfect match for an unnamed species found in Western Australia in 1886. The post This Moth Enthusiast Just Discovered A Brand-New Species Of Moth In A London Park appeared first on All That's Interesting.

Gregorian Bivolaru founded the Movement for Spiritual Integration Toward the Absolute in 1990 — and has allegedly been sexually exploiting his students ever since. The post A Romanian Yoga Guru Was Just Arrested In Paris For Allegedly Coercing His Students To Have Sex With Him appeared first on All That's Interesting.

The Oakland Unified School District’s superintendent‚ Kyla Johnson-Trammell‚ clarified to parents on Monday that the teach-in is unsanctioned.

The House speaker noted the action is being undertaken to avoid any further retaliation against January 6 defendants from ‘non-governmental actors.’