Biased policing is made worse by errors in pre-crime algorithms
4 October 2017
Crime-predicting algorithms such as PredPol appear to create biases through "feedback loops" that cause officers to repeatedly be sent to certain neighbourhoods
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4 October 2017
Secure email, electric cars go free, Vitamin D and asthma, and more
Buyer beware: Should genomic firms resell your data?
4 October 2017
Think carefully before you get your DNA tested: you’re selling as well as buying
We urgently need to broaden the conversation on AI
4 October 2017
It’s time to get past the scare stories and start discussing the real uses and abuses of machine learning
The real roots of early city states may rip up the textbooks
4 October 2017
Settled agriculture didn't spawn the first states. Two new books help expose the real drivers, the pressures on marginalised people – and what they can teach us
Pale rider
4 October 2017
Driverless cars are already in existence. Would riderless motorbikes be a possibility?
Dead of night
4 October 2017
How do green plants cope with 24 hours of darkness for long periods? Does this affect oxygen production, and in turn cause any problems for local wildlife?
Ever decreasing circles
4 October 2017
Solar systems orbit the centre of their galaxies. Planets orbit stars. Moons orbit planets. Does anything orbit moons? If not, why not?
Getting sucked in
4 October 2017
How close would one have to be to the coalescing black holes recently detected by LIGO to actually feel the gravitational waves without the aid of instruments? (Continued)
Old Scientist: Tanks on the moon and other wolves we’ve cried
4 October 2017
If you’re looking for scare stories, you’re in the wrong place. Except sometimes, as New Scientists of October past show
