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That evidence was from Shotspotter, an “acoustic gunfire-detection" system supplied by SoundThinking, a firm based in California. Shotspotter automatically recognises and analyses the sound of gunshots from a network of microphones spread across cities—Chicago has by far the largest network in America. By triangulating the recordings it can, in theory, pinpoint where a gun has been fired. The idea is that this will help police officers respond more quickly to shootings, and find out about shootings that go…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The proliferation of technology for everyday living can be seen through ChatGPT writing term papers or robots serving meals at a restaurant. Technology can also be used towards less utilitarian ends. Unfortunately, deepfakes—digitally altered images of people—can be used to spread misinformation. A new edited volume,…

Meta and TikTok owner ByteDance are not keen on the idea of paying the European Union to regulate them. The companies have challenged a supervisory fee set forth by EU moderators, who are now required to monitor Meta, TikTok, and other major platforms under the Digital Services Act (DSA), Politico reports. Meta first announced its action, with ByteDance following suit a day later.Under the current arrangement, all designated companies must split the €45.2 million ($48.7 million) that EU's regulators argue is necessary to…

Power, documentarian Yance Ford’s clinical inquiry into US policing, isn’t trafficking in new information. The 86-minute project billed as an “essay-film”, which premiered at Sundance and will stream on Netflix later this year, has clear eyes on the past, synthesizing the work of several academics with a robust archival record to examine the origins, structure and impact of police power in the United States.That doesn’t mean it’s unnecessary; the film makes cogent, sweeping sense of the record for perhaps the most…

There are many fun ways to get into the holiday spirit, the Secret Santa gift exchange being one of them. That’s why it’s usually a cheerful thing to take part in, but for this redditor, it wasn’t, because of her “gift-policing” brother-in-law.The OP shared with her fellow netizens that her BIL wasn’t happy with her wishlist, which is why she decided to maliciously comply and fix it according to his requests. Scroll down to find the full story below.Family activities can make the holiday season even more specialImage…

On Tuesday, the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology testified at a congressional hearing on “Holding Campus Leaders Accountable and Confronting Antisemitism.” At the hearing, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) asked University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill: “Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Penn’s rules or code of conduct, yes or no?” Stefanik was referring, among other things, to phrases such as “There’s only one solution: Intifada…

Credit: Scott Webb from Pexels Big businesses like to tell us that, as consumers, we all pay for food theft. We've been sold a narrative that as consumers who don't steal, we pay for the theft of food by others on our grocery receipts. Reported increases in food theft in Canada are linked to pressures from rising inflation along…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new research report has raised concerns that policing efforts targeting "county lines" drug operations in the U.K. rely on discriminatory assumptions about minority groups and contribute to the criminalization of minoritized communities. This study was carried out by the Sociology department in collaboration with University…

Credit: Oxford University Press The culture and tactics of U.S. and U.K. policing are often referred to as militarized, but how such excessive use of force developed isn't fully understood. But research from sociology Prof. Julian Go offers a global, historical viewpoint of policing to explore the racialized, aggressive approach. His new book, "Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Year-end debates about 2024 budgets have already begun across Canada, with cities like Waterloo and Ottawa proposing spikes in police budgets. Despite public calls to "defund the police" in 2020, the budgets of Canadian police departments have continued to rise. In fact, when it comes to public…