By Human Rights Watch
Play Video Read a text description of this video TEXT ON SCREENOctober 28, 2025Rio de Janeiro, BrazilNARRATIONOn the morning of October 28th, 2025, hundreds of police officers surrounded two low-income neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro.By nightfall, the operation would become the deadliest in Brazil's history.TEXT ON SCREENWARNING. This video contains graphic content, including blurred images of dead bodies. Viewer discretion advised.NARRATION122 people were killed, including two children and five police officers. According to the autopsy records, over eighty five percent of non-police victims…
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By Dana McKay, Associate Dean, Interaction, Technology and Information, RMIT University
One of the earliest uses of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT and Claude was producing source code – computer language instructions that make up software such as word processors, your internet browser, and everything else.
Code is structured, which makes it easier for AI tools to generate.
So could they help to make fancy…
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By Milad Haghani, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in Urban Risk and Resilience, The University of Melbourne
Abbas Rajabifard, Professor in Geomatics and SDI, The University of Melbourne
Iman Taheri Sarteshnizi, Research Fellow, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne
Neema Nassir, Associate Professor in Transport Engineering, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne
In the absence of evidence, authorities channel public opinion to manage e-bikes and e-scooters. Here’s what the public really thinks.
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By John Kerr, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Public Health, University of Otago
Karaitiana Taiuru, Māori AI and digital governance expert, Indigenous Knowledge
As experts propose a new public institute to guide AI policy, national survey findings show high concern among Māori and Asian people about how their data is used.
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By John Thomas III, Assistant Professor of Political Science, College of Charleston
Religion has become an important factor in Brazilian politics. But to see the whole picture, you need to analyze diversity within churches, a political scientist writes.
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By ProBox
A report by the Australian think tank ASPI warns that Venezuela could integrate Chinese artificial intelligence into its surveillance system and expand its digital control capabilities.
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By James Deaville, Professor of Music, Carleton University
Sara Beth Lyons, Graduate Research Assistant, Carleton University
As Halloween approaches and screen audiences are saturated with the sights and sounds of screaming women in horror films and TV shows, it’s a great time to look at the women whose vocal artistry created genuinely effective screams on screen.
Behind every memorable cinematic scream lies a vocal performance that is often reduced to a natural, unreflective outburst. But that assessment obscures the women behind…
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By David Hu, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biology, Adjunct Professor of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology
Earwax’s unusual physical properties help it repel insects in the lab. Is this a job it evolved to do in animal ears?
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By Ava Kalinauskas, Senior Research Associate, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
Sitting presidents are almost always punished in the midterm elections – and 2026 is looking like it will be no exception.
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By Nathan Howard Gray, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Trade, Adelaide University
Peter Draper, Professor, and Executive Director: Institute for International Trade, and Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Trade and Environment, Adelaide University
Australia and the European Union agreed on a comprehensive free-trade agreement (FTA) in March, after nearly eight years negotiating and much political rancour.
The agreement abolishes almost all bilateral…
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