Reviews of notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

As the world observes World Youth Skills Day, the occasion serves as a timely reminder of the critical role that skills play ...

A teary eye, a furrowed eyebrow, creases at the edge of the eye tell us what a person is feeling without them having to express it with words. New data indicate that eyes might be the window to the ...

Some Disney staffers are questioning a top AI executive's virtual assistant. Jason Cox says the chatbot has "captured" his ...

AI stock trading bots are becoming a core part of modern trading because they solve three practical problems: speed, consistency, and market coverage. A human trader can follow only a limited number ...

The good news, for me at least, is that the computer thinks I have a nice personality. According to an app called MorphCast, I was, in a recent meeting with my boss, generally “amused,” “determined,” ...

Inside the Detroit Police Department’s Real Time Crime Center in downtown Detroit. (Photo by Bryce Huffman) The Detroit Police Department has dramatically reduced its reliance on facial recognition ...

Recognizing emotions objectively and accurately remains challenging because of the limited ecological validity, informational incompleteness, and constrained model performance of conventional ...

Every Wednesday and Friday, TechNode’s Briefing newsletter delivers a roundup of the most important news in China tech, straight to your inbox. Sign up Shenzhen Bi’an Mind Technology, founded in 2021, ...

Emotions are a fundamental part of human psychology—a complex process that has long distinguished us from machines. Even advanced artificial intelligence (AI) lacks the capacity to feel. However, ...