DOJ funding pipeline subsidizes questionable big data surveillance technologies
Predictive policing aimed to identify crime hot spots and 'chronic' offenders but missed the mark. Patrick T. Fallon for The...
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Newly identified prehistoric pterosaur will help us understand evolution of flying reptiles
An artist's impression of the new pterosaur species, Cheoptera Mark Witton/Natural History Museum, Author providedWhen dinosaurs roamed the land, the...
How bats ‘leapfrog’ their way home at night – new research
The greater horseshoe bat is one of the UK's 18 bat species. Rudmer Zwerver/ShutterstockA silent ballet takes place above our...
Fascination, persistence and optimism: how Fei-Fei Li helped shape the AI revolution in a field dominated by alpha males
Peshkova/ShutterstockPublic debate on Artifical Intelligence has escalated in the past six months, with an outpouring of opinion pieces on the...
Orbital resonance − the striking gravitational dance done by planets with aligning orbits
Planets can gravitationally affect each other when their orbits line up. NASA/JPL-CaltechPlanets orbit their parent stars while separated by enormous...
Are social media apps ‘dangerous products’? 2 scholars explain how the companies rely on young users but fail to protect them
The CEOs of Discord, Snap, TikTok, X and Meta prepare to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Jan. 31,...
The first Neuralink brain implant signals a new phase for human-computer interaction
Neuralink is developing devices that enable direct communication between the human brain and computers. (Shutterstock)The first human has received a...
Halo effect: do attractive people really look less guilty? How the evidence is changing
Witness for the Prosecution was a 1957 film about a supposedly conscientious woman testifying against her husband. Allstar Picture Library...
Parking apps are sweeping Australia’s cities. Here’s what you may not know about them
How much land does a car need? pisaphotography/ShutterstockParking, and the enormous amount of space we cede to it, is undergoing...
Cybercrime victims who aren’t proficient in English are undercounted – and poorly protected
People in the U.S. with limited English proficiency are particularly vulnerable to cybercrime. LPETTET/E+ via Getty ImagesIn the United States,...
