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UK police are using AI to spot spikes in Brexit-related hate crimes

The UK police are monitoring hundreds of thousands of Twitter posts every day to try to predict spikes in hate crime in the run up to the UK's exit from the European Union

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Technology

Countries are turning off the internet to stop violence. Does it work?

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Environment

Climate change is an emergency we can solve

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Life

From the archives: When Soviet tanks crushed Czech science

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Health

Half-hearted cannabis legalisation move leaves patients in limbo

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We challenged MI5’s mass surveillance. Then they spied on us

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Technology

UK civil servants use Slack to chat about games, drinking and romance

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Environment

Send in the lawyers to win the fight against climate change

Leader

Mary Robinson and Maeve Higgins

Environment

How women are rallying round the cause of climate injustice

Culture

Meet the 'climate kids' suing the US government over global warming

Environment

Meet the 'climate kids' suing the US government over global warming

They claim inaction on climate change has blighted their future – just one of many challenges now hitting the courts. And they might just succeed

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Technology

Books chart social media’s fall from global village to villain

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