Freelance peer-review jobs through third-party companies raise practical and ethical questions.

Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert A six-month trial of live facial recognition (LFR) technology in London’s railway stations that cost more than £320,000 and almost 100 hours of police officers’ time ended in one false match against a watchlist of suspects and no arrests. More than half a million faces were scanned between February and July this year in some of the capital’s busiest transport hubs during the British Transport Police (BTP) trial of the surveillance technology, which aimed to help catch offenders and people breaching court orders. Continue reading...

Files could have seismic consequences for online casinos, including those accused of illegally targeting consumers

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Meta tells theatre that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism

After ten years, founding Editor-in-Chief Arfon Smith is handing over to Daniel S. Katz, effective 18 September 2026.

The Bradford Pennine Gateway Trail, launching this weekend, aims to ‘change perceptions of Bradford’ by taking in the moors and the area’s new national nature reserve

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Signatories of the Diamond Reviewer Pledge commit to reviewing at least one article in the next 12 months for a diamond open access journal.

The NABS+ ECR Steering Group have developed some helpful guides on researcher safety and wellbeing, synthesising advice from researchers in the fields, and direct researchers to existing resources and...

Most gambling websites nudge users towards accepting tracking data and harvest it before consent is given, study shows

Alinka Greasley (University of Leeds) on a novel research study…