Algorithms will soon be able to decide who to target.
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The militarisation of AI has serious ethical and legal implications.
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Despite various exceptions, the UK’s proposed ivory ban will be among the toughest in the world.
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Regulation adds operational costs that are often inefficient to the delivery of services, or even completely unnecessary.
Antique ivory – defined as pre-1947 worked ivory – is an exception and can be traded in the UK and EU.
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The EU and UK are fuelling the illegal trade through their continuing sale of legal ivory items.
Sustainable swimwear shopping means that you don’t have to worry about the sea soaking in plastic from your bathers while you soak in the sun!
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Summer may have come to an official end, but the plastics from your bathers might still be at the beach!
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Mexican directors have won in their category four years out of the past five.
Reports of sexual misconduct by Oxfam aid workers sparked a flurry of other allegations.
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To stop sexual exploitation in the aid sector, more self-regulation by NGOs isn’t the answer.
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This podcast explores the latest sexology research – including the topics that are still too taboo to get funding. We talk to sex robot experts and find out how sex work has moved online.
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New research finds small drones on short deliveries use less carbon than the equivalent vehicles.
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Hydroponics and aquaponics are already being used by the agriculture industry – is it time urban farmers got on board?
An illustration of Japanese courtesans by Utagawa Toyokuni (1769-1825), with one courtesan showing another the
tattoo on her upper arm.
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The curse of the tattooed ex was well-known in 18th-century Japan.
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We should be worried about the development of social skills in a world where everyone can have their ‘perfect’ AI friend.
Emmeline, Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst: a family at war with itself.
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Sylvia Pankhurst’s book is the dominant narrative of the time, but was she unfair to her sister Christabel?
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Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul opened a ‘Sleepcinemahotel’ where audiences let their subconscious minds watch his movies as they fell asleep.
Standing up against Duterte’s media crackdown.
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Rodrigo Duterte’s authoritarianism has progressed from death squads and martial law to cracking down on press freedom.
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Lepidoptera insects are at least 70m years older than we previously knew.
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Prime numbers are a mathematical mystery.
Time’s nearly up: Iranian presidents Mohammad Khatami, Hasan Rouhani, and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
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With a hollowed-out agenda and a cynical attitude to corruption, Iran’s reformist forces have squandered their people’s trust.
New bobbies on the beat.
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A new breed of officers hold different views on what it means to be in the police.
Emma Stone, one of the leading names behind Time’s Up.
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A new campaign seeks to support all women affected by sexism, whether famous or not.