Countries must do more to combat racial profiling, UN rights experts said, warning that artificial intelligence (AI) programs like facial recognition and predictive policing risked reinforcing the harmful practice.

Eighty-two black public figures wrote to airlines who have worked on deportation charter flights urging them not to carry up to 50 Jamaicans the UK Home Office wants to deport next week.

The biggest computer chip in the world is so fast and powerful it can predict future actions “faster than the laws of physics produce the same result.”

Days after grabbing headlines with its COVID-19 “vaccine for the world”, AstraZeneca is facing tricky questions about its success rate that some experts say could hinder its chances of getting speedy US and EU regulatory approval.

By Mohamed El-Erian

In research published in the journal Nature, scientists reported that they’ve made the first detection of almost-ethereal particles called neutrinos that can be traced to carbon-nitrogen-oxygen fusion, known as the CNO cycle, inside the Sun.

Microsoft has been criticized for enabling “workplace surveillance” after privacy campaigners warned that the company’s “productivity score” feature allows managers to use Microsoft 365 to track their employees’ activity at an individual level.

It’s a no-brainer that babies learn language from their caregivers, but how we respond to them rather than simply how much we talk could have the greater impact, according to a new study in the journal PLOS ONE.

Efforts to protect the European Union seas are failing to slow biodiversity loss or prevent overfishing, with the Mediterranean under particular threat, a report by auditors said.

A woman who disagreed with her sister’s choice of baby name was left with the difficult choice of whether to speak out against it or keep quiet.