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Police in India’s capital say they only require an 80 percent accuracy rate for matches, raising new alarm bells for civil liberty advocates.Continue Reading

A cyclist has died following a fatal road traffic collision in Clane, Co Kildare on Saturday morning. At about 8.15am, Gardaí and emergency services were alerted to the collision involving a pedal cyclist and an articulated tractor unit on the Millicent Road in Clane. The pedal cyclist, a male agedContinue Reading

Russian president Vladimir Putin has reportedly replaced the commander of his Black Sea fleet just three days after an attack on the Russian Saki airbase in Crimea, as Ukraine’s military strategy shifts towards regaining territory in the south, and especially Crimea. Meanwhile, Russian aircraft are being moved to bases deeperContinue Reading

Russian forces attacked the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in March, and now have taken it over. It's the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. American Photo Archive/Alamy Shelling has recently intensified at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, raising international safety concerns. Ukrainian staff continue to operate the massiveContinue Reading

This autumn’s Brazilian presidential election offers a glimpse of how 21st century populist leaders are using religion to enthuse their support base. The incumbent, right-wing firebrand Jair Bolsonaro, rose to power in 2018 with support from evangelical Christian voters who warmed to his social conservatism. And while some polls suggestContinue Reading

Facial recognition technology struggles to recognise darker skin tones Nazar Kantora/ Shutterstock One afternoon in our lab, my colleague and I were testing our new prototype for a facial recognition software on a laptop. The software used a video camera to scan our faces and guess our age and gender.Continue Reading

Aleksey Boyko/Shutterstock The most hated man on the internet, according to a new Netflix docuseries, is Hunter Moore. The convicted criminal and self-described “professional life ruiner” Moore enabled the non-consensual distribution of thousands of private images by founding “revenge porn” website Is Anyone Up?. The documentary captures what revenge pornContinue Reading

Updated: 8.20pm A second man has been arrested as part of an investigation into a serious assault in Co Wicklow on August 2nd. Earlier, gardaí arrested a man in connection with the assault which took place at a house in Arklow in the early hours of the Tuesday morning. AContinue Reading