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From gait analysis to fingerprint theft, how worried should we be about the latest advances in biometric technology?
You can wear a mask, pull up a hood, avoid looking at a camera – but you cannot easily change how you walk.
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Should AIs be required to report a human user contemplating violence?
Human therapists have a legal duty to warn authorities and potential targets when patients say they plan to harm someone. The same can – in theory – be required of AI chatbots .
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Pope Leo XIV compares AI to the Industrial Revolution – as new alternatives to big AI firms take shape
Leo XIV released his first encyclical on the 135th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, the 1891 papal document on the upheavals of the Industrial Revolution.
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How natural selection helps design antennas, cancer treatments and adhesives
When people harness the logic of natural selection, they can often find efficient and effective ways to solve complex problems.
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Black detainees twice as likely as white detainees to be strip-searched in police custody – new study
Even after accounting for other factors, black detainees remained more than twice as likely to be strip-searched as their white counterparts.
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Pope Leo warns of AI’s risks to humanity in his first encyclical
The pope has warned that AI is never truly neutral: it reflects the society that made it. He has called for ethical oversight – and protecting workers.
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This election year budget is a political tightrope walk for Willis and National
National hasn’t achieved two of its three big fiscal policy promises from the previous election. Thursday’s budget will be a hard sell.
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In a tight NZ budget, will money go where it’s needed most – or to political priorities?
Higher inflation, tighter operating allowances and rising geopolitical uncertainty are turning this year’s budget into a test of national priorities.
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How community groups, activists and local media turned Camden into a model of police reform
Camden, New Jersey’s homicide rate in 2025 was four times the national average – still high, but a marked change from when it was 18 times the national average in 2012.
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Three ways to avoid being fooled by AI slop
Fact-checking can take hours or days while fakes can be created in seconds. So, what do we do?
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Chambers backs Pacific police leaders confronting corruption challenges amid drug trade concerns
By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist New Zealand Police Commissioner Richard Chambers says Pacific Island nations are addressing corruption among their police and customs officials. Chambers has concluded a trip to Suva, Fiji, for the inaugural Pacific Transnational Crime Summit, which brought together Pacific police chiefs, ministers and prime ministers to discuss what is now
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Search operation underway for yachtie near Baring Head, Wellington
Source: Radio New Zealand Flightradar24 shows a Philip Rescue Helicopter left Palmerston North shortly before 7pm, circling the area before landing in Wellington at 8.30pm. Screenshot / Flightradar24 A search and rescue operation is underway for a man missing on a yacht in the Cook Strait. The Air Force, Navy and Police were searching for…