Human-centred technology—from everyday life to deep engineering.
Four concise developments: Congo’s Ebola outbreak reaches a grim threshold, SafePal exposes customer order data, a heart model makes uncertainty visible, and PJM proposes priority rules for large power users.
Decision-support tools should show caseworkers evidence, provenance, gaps, uncertainty and lawful options—not compress a person into a recommendation score.
Five concise developments on quick-commerce food safety, drought-stressed nuclear power, private cyber operations, stablecoin supervision and mental-health access.
AI can assist judicial preparation, but a judge must still verify the record and law, resist anchoring, protect confidentiality and own every material reason.
Five concise developments on consumer rights, youth online safeguards, public-data security, Alzheimer’s imaging and ecological warning signals.
Remote hearings can widen access, but cases involving liberty, family life, confidential advice, coercion or vulnerable participation may still require a physical courtroom.
Four decisions expose the conditions beneath access: evidence after approval, power after a strike, platform responsibility, and the real cost of low-value imports.
Automated court transcripts can improve speed and access, but only certification, traceable corrections and human responsibility can turn probabilistic text into an authoritative record.
Physics predicts how states vary with time with extraordinary precision. But does it explain what makes change actually happen—and can that question be turned into an experimental programme rather than…
Four developments worth attention: enforceable gig-work standards, a livestreaming suspension, AI-assisted storm forecasts and a changing Mediterranean ecosystem.