Researchers have long been able to use information from smartwatches to identify physical movement, such as sitting or walking, that wearers are performing in a controlled lab setting. Now, Washington ...

The UK's equality regulator has criticised the Metropolitan Police's use of live facial recognition technology (LFRT), saying the way it is being deployed is breaching human rights law. The tech works ...

Conventional microelectronics are scaled to the fibre level for information processing and storage in flexible, stretchable textiles. Compared to single-fibre systems, multi-fibre computational ...

Greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions from human activity have been driving the prolonged drought in the western United States through a complicated connection with the Pacific Ocean, according to a ...

A new wave of climate research is sounding a stark warning: Human activity may be driving drought more intensely—and more directly—than previously understood. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

Mexican authorities are investigating the discovery of six severed human heads between the central states of Puebla and Tlaxcala, according to the Tlaxcala Prosecutor’s Office. It said on X that the ...

A rare case of travel-related New World screwworm was identified in Maryland in a patient who traveled from El Salvador, a spokesperson from the US Department of Health and Human Services said. The US ...

The Metropolitan Police’s use of live facial-recognition (LFR) technology is unlawful, according to UK equality watchdog, citing the need for deployments of the technology to be necessary, ...

A research team from Stanford University has developed a prototype that uses solar energy to extract nutrients from human urine to create a sustainable fertilizer. They presented the system in ...

The Milwaukee Police Department has not relied on evidence-based research in their decision to use facial recognition technology. Instead, they are disregarding research that unequivocally shows that ...