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New York Times: UK convenience stores are increasingly using facial recognition to combat shoplifting, something critics say is a disproportionate solution for minor crimes — British merchants are increasingly using the technology to combat shoplifting, raising questions about its spread as artificial intelligence rapidly improves it. New York Times: UK convenience stores are increasingly using facial recognition to combat shoplifting, something critics say is a disproportionate solution for minor…

by Bolormaa Purevjav, Adiya Baratova Tudiyarova and Elena Gordillo Fuertes, The Conversation On average, women spend more time than men collecting and transporting water. Credit: Shutterstock The demand for water resources is higher than ever before. The growing global population, expanding industrial development and the impacts of climate change are exacerbating the global…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, there has been a heightened awareness of ethnic inequality in the UK. Despite some recent studies on housing conditions in the context of the pandemic, little attention has been paid to how racial inequality and homelessness intersect. Even before the…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study by University at Albany researchers found that female educators experienced the COVID-19 pandemic more negatively than their male counterparts. …

A federal judge on Friday grilled Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook over whether the iPhone maker's App Store profits from developers such as Fortnite maker Epic Games are justified and whether Apple faces any real competitive pressure to change its ways.Cook testified for more than two hours in Oakland, California, as the closing witness in Apple's defense against Epic's charges that the iPhone maker's App Store controls and commissions have created a monopoly that Apple illegally abuses.App makers including music service…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research from the Monash University Center for Youth Policy and Education Practice has found that queer young people in Australia face disproportionate challenges in contrast to their heterosexual peers in key areas such as education, health and employment. …