U.S. Lawmakers Pressure DOJ Over Funding of Predictive Policing Tools

Gizmodo Ratcheting up pressure on the Justice Department to crack down on unregulated predictive policing algorithms, Democratic lawmakers on Thursday called for strict new requirements on any DOJ-funded research into police tools promising to forecast crime, saying that research into some programs already in use has revealed…Read more… Read More

UK Black Pride to return with three-day weekend of ‘love and rage’

UK Black Pride is set to return this year with a three-day weekend of “love and rage”. What started as a minibus trip to Southend-on-Sea in 2005 has blossomed into Europe’s biggest celebration for LGBT+ people of African, Asian, Caribbean, Latin American and Middle Eastern descent. But after the coronavirus pandemic turned the world on

Wasteland 3’s First Story Expansion Is The Battle Of Steeltown

Kotaku Coming June 3 to consoles and PCs, The Battle of Steeltown takes Wasteland 3 players to the towering factory complex that creates the weapons, vehicles, robots, and armor that keeps the Patriarch in power. Apparently, it’s got problems, and it’s up to you to solve them. Read more… Read More

RIP To Outriders’ Weird Cowboy NPC, A Real One

Kotaku I’m not sure I’ve ever encountered a character creator as aggressively bland as the one in Outriders. All the faces are minor variations on Beefy Woodsman. Hair colors range from black to dull brown. Every decal is an unobtrusive scar, except for a lone chrome eyebrow implant that may as well be a shiny

New Animal Crossing Seasonal Item Available Now For A Limited Time

GameSpot – Game News Another limited-time seasonal item is now available in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. In celebration of Nature Day (Animal Crossing’s name for Earth Day), Nook Shopping is selling a cool globe. The item costs 2,300 bells and will be available until April 22.To order the cool globe, access the Nook Shopping catalog

Cyberpunk 2077 Dev Posts A Massive Profit For 2020

GameSpot – Game News Thanks in part to the commercially successful launch of Cyberpunk 2077 back in December, CD Projekt Red had a massive year in 2020 when it comes to revenue and profit. Ahead of the company’s finalized earnings report on April 22, CD Projekt Red revealed how much money it made during its

London’s Ku Bar promises to cut all ties with ‘anti-trans’ Boyz magazine following searing backlash

Ku Bar, central London’s decades-old LGBT+ watering hole, apologised Thursday afternoon (15 April) to Britain’s trans community after collaborating with Boyz. The lifestyle magazine, which acts as something of a yellow pages for queer nightlife in London, was buffeted by intense backlash last year when it urged readers to “listen” to the anti-trans lobbying group