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The article reports on a new research on the formula used by courts and parole boards in the U.S. to forecast future criminal behavior. The research found that a racial bias in the formula arises inevitably from the test's design. The algorithms used were found to be written in a way that guarantees African American defendants will be inaccurately identified as future criminals more often than their white counterparts.

The article lists several prescribed drugs in the U.S. including lisinopril, gabapentin and omeprazole.

The article reflects on error in artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled machines by making reference to AI Twitter bot called Tay developed by the technology firm Microsoft that was claimed to be racist and forced to kill by the company. It illustrate sensitivity of AI systems to their information diet by using an algorithm word2vec created by the technology firm Google.

The article presents a technical response by the journal on the comment by software developer Northpointe on a journal article criticizing the reliability of the firm's software program that forecasts whether a person will likely commit a crime in the future. Also cited are the claim by Northpointe of the journal's use of reverse logistic regression models, the recidivism rate study by the journal, and the study on African American defendants and white defendants.

The article presents the response by the journal on the comment by software developer Northpointe on a journal article criticizing the reliability of the firm's software program that forecasts whether a person will likely commit a crime in the future. In its article, the journal studied defendants in Broward County, Florida, which showed that there is a significant racial disparity in the program's predictions. Also cited is the claim by Northpointe that the accuracy of its software is at 60%.

The article discusses how "Pro Publica" analyzed the recidivism algorithm of the Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions (COMPAS) tool. Topics covered include how Pro Publica compared the recidivism risk categories predicted by COMPAS to the actual recidivism rates of defendants in the two years after they were scored and the analysis showing that black defendants were often predicted to be at a higher risk of recidivism than they actually were.

The article examines the emergence of risk assessment software used across the U.S. to predict future criminals that is biased against blacks. Topics covered include how risk assessment are being used to inform decisions about prisoners who can be set free at every stage of the criminal justice system and the National Institute of Corrections encouraging the use of combined assessments at every stage of the criminal justice process.

The article discusses the vulnerability of Houston, Texas due to the likelihood of a hurricane. Topics discussed include impact of the 2008 hurricane Ike on the country's people and economy; damage forecast to the Houston Ship Channel of Texas by the upcoming hurricane which will lead to gasoline price hike affecting the American economy; no action to protect the state after the hurricane Ike; potential implications of the hurricane outlined by the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The article offers information on making of interactive story, "Hell and High Water" by the journal. Topics discussed include the story includes a map with seven animated simulations depicting a large hurricane hitting the Houston, Texas-Galveston, Texas region, the scenarios depict a hurricane hitting with existing storm protection infrastructure in place, and simulations were developed by teams at the University of Texas at Austin, and the Severe Storm Prediction.

The article presents questions and answers related to the use of encrypted messages by terrorist to plot attacks.

The article reports the failure by telecommunications carriers and manufacturers to immediately resolve critical software issues in cellphones used by military officials and officers in the U.S. as of November 2015. Among the companies are Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile. Also cited are the "Stagefright" malware that are used by hackers to attack phones, and the comment from Lieutenant Colonel Alana Casanova of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) on the issue.

The article reports on the move by wireless company Verizon to merge its cellular telephone tracking supercookie with the ad tracking network of mass media company AOL. The merger will allow the ad network to match millions of Internet users to their real-world details collected by Verizon. Privacy advocates claim that the use of an identifier that tracks mobile device users by Verizon and AOL is problematic because it allows invasive tracking and sends the information unencrypted.

The article reports on issues concerning price differences for educational services offered by the Princeton Review. Topics discussed include preparation for SAT educational test by preparation services of Princeton, higher prices charged by Asian students for the services, and unintentional discrimination categorized as illegal the disparate impact legal doctrine.

The article discusses about the partnership of National Security Agency with AT&T to spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic. The article discusses a document, which lists the activities that AT&T has given access to NSA, through several methods under different legal rules from the period of 2003 to 2013 which includes surveillance technologies, emails and Internet metadata records, and customer's cellphone call records.

The article focuses on the reveal of a document which confirms the partnership of National Security Agency (NSA) with AT&T, for NSA's controversial method of tapping the Internet backbone on U.S. soil, which will filters the Internet traffic. The article discusses the claims of a digital civil liberties group, Electronic Frontier Foundation, shows a technical sketch of AT&T's spy agency to access to traffic and how they access to vast amounts of data from other telecoms.

The article discusses the special relationship between the National Security Agency (NSA) and American multinational telecommunications corporation AT&T. Topics include how the data collection was restored after the Japanese earthquake of 2011, jargon that was found in the NSA glossary that had a dictionary of terms, and the cable landing stations on the East and West coasts of the U.S owned by AT&T.