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Facial recognition technology has been proven repeatedly to be discriminatory against communities of colour and will further entrench racism within policing (Met police to more than double use of live facial recognition, 31 July). It has been known to lead to misidentification and the risk of wrongful arrest, as we saw in the reporting this…

Tinder-owner Match Group announced on Thursday that it will eliminate the role of chief operating officer (COO), which means Hesam Hosseini will be out of a job after 18 years with the dating app giant. The move comes as the dating-app industry is facing burned-out users and losing popularity among Gen Z. Hosseini had been…

On Friday morning, X and Grok went offline for users around the world on both the websites and apps. Outage reports began spiking on DownDetector around 10:00AM ET, while Cisco’s ThousandEyes outage map noted over 600 X servers around the world that were having problems. Attempts to load the site with either the Twitter.com or…

CloverPit is one of my favorite games of the year so far. Developer Panik Arcade took the formula that helped make Balatro so successful — using various tools to bend the rules of the game to help you rack up obscenely high scores — and based it around a slot machine rather than poker. It’s…

The government’s siege of the Twin Cities is reportedly coming to an end. “I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude,” border czar Tom Homan announced Thursday. This isn’t the first time Department of Homeland Security officials have claimed that Operation Metro Surge, its massive campaign in Minnesota, was slowing…