Border IT system fixed after 10-day outage
The outage of a border IT system set up after Brexit to improve waiting times has created further delays for hauliers and traders already facing long…
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SmartLink Smartphone App Helps Deportation Agents Monitor Immigrants at US-Mexico Border
US authorities have broadly expanded the use of a smartphone app during the coronavirus pandemic to ensure immigrants released from detention will attend…
Extending the battery life of small drones to strengthen security on U.S. Border
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To address the problem of…
A tiny DJI drone smuggled its own weight in drugs over the US border wall
If you’ve ever wondered whether drug dealers might just fly packets of powder over the border wall with inexpensive consumer drones, wonder no more — the…
Japan working on an app solution for paperless border entry
Japan's Digital Agency has said that it will initiate an application software enabling visitors and returnees to go through simpler customs, immigration and…
Crossing the border, refugees scramble for a working SIM card
Ana* and her three-year-old son arrived at the shelter for migrant and refugee women in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey in early October. Every…
How Fake News on Facebook Helped Fuel a Border Crisis in Europe
BRUZGI, Belarus — After more than a week sleeping in a frigid encampment on the border between Belarus and Poland, and an abortive foray across the frontier…
IT systems failure blights UK Border Force electronic passport gates
An IT system failure that blighted the functionality of the UK Border Force’s electronic passport gates at airports across the UK has now been…
Nanoleaf’s Shapes, Elements will soon work as Thread border routers
Toronto-based smart lighting company Nanoleaf announced that its Shapes and Elements panels would…