Technology Quarterly

Algorithm bluesThe promise and peril of big-data justice

Can algorithms accurately predict where crime will occur?

Watching the detectivesRigorous oversight is essential to check police activity

An engaged citizenry is starting to hold law enforcement to account

I know what you’ll do next summerIncreased amounts of data and surveillance are transforming justice systems

The relationship between information and crime has changed

Home, home within rangeElectronic monitoring is a different approach to jail

You don’t have to go to prison to go to prison

Walls have eyesIt is hard now to avoid street-level surveillance

Police have many new ways of monitoring people

Read my phonePolice can bypass encryption and monitor anything

The law is not keeping up

Military applicationsMutually assured detection

Better anti-submarine warfare will mean fewer places for subs to hide

Measuring the seasGliders on the storm

From sharks to ice shelves, monsoons to volcanoes, the scope of ocean monitoring is widening

Ocean internetSailing the wired seas

An internet infrastructure is being built to span the oceans

Listening underwaterSing a song of sonar

Technology is transforming the relationship between people and the oceans, says Hal Hodson

Herding fishNet gains

Open-ocean fish farming is becoming easier

Undersea miningRace to the bottom

Mining the ocean floor is about to go mainstream

Brain scanWendy Schmidt

Wealthy individuals are now funding the push for healthier oceans

HeadacheReading the brain from the outside

Can brain activity be deciphered without opening up the skull?

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