AI systems are increasingly being used to detect human emotions in workplaces, call centers, and companion apps, but current models often fail to capture nuanced, contextual emotional states. Research…
The field of artificial intelligence marks its 70th anniversary since being formally established at the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project. AI has evolved from early neural network concepts by McC…
IEEE launched a five-course online program, Large Language Models Demystified, to help technical professionals master LLMs for engineering tasks. The program covers APIs, retrieval-augmented generatio…
Amazon's lead UX Sound Designer for the Astro home robot reveals how the team chose to give the robot its own character rather than treating it as Alexa on wheels, shaping its emotional range and non-…
Researchers at the University of Arizona have developed an acoustic synapse using sound waves that enables neuromorphic chips to better mimic biological neurons, operating faster and with greater ener…
A software engineer with a decade of interview experience reveals that many technical interviews are poorly prepared, biased, and influenced by office politics, often leading to unfair hiring decision…
Warner Music Group acquired startup Sureel, which partners with Swedish copyright agency STIM to track AI training data usage and pay musicians. SoundVerse advocates for ongoing artist royalties from …
On April 19, 2026, the Honor Lightning humanoid robot ran a half-marathon in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating the human world record by 7 minutes and the best robot time from 2025 by almost two hour…
General Motors is cutting its vehicle development cycles in half by using AI and simulation, aiming to match the two-year pace of Chinese automakers like BYD. The effort is led by Sterling Anderson, a…
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology developed an AI charging algorithm that, in simulation, extended lithium-ion battery life by 23% compared to standard methods, though it has only been …
Startup Tensordyne claims its new Napier AI chip, using logarithmic math to replace multipliers with adders, can run large language models four times faster using one-fifth the power of a comparable N…
Researchers trained a collaborative robot to read human emotions using a vision language model that considers contextual factors beyond facial expressions. In experiments with 40 volunteers, the VLM o…
Space-based data centers face significant economic and physical hurdles that Silicon Valley proponents often overlook, according to an aerospace analyst at ABI Research. A total-cost-of-ownership comp…
Isomorphic Labs, a Google DeepMind spinoff, has developed a new AI system called the Isomorphic Drug Design Engine (IsoDDE) to identify hidden binding sites on proteins that standard models like Alpha…
A research group at the University of Twente in the Netherlands has demonstrated a method to reduce energy consumption during large language model training by up to 14 percent without sacrificing spee…
The unemployment rate for recent computer science graduates in the U.S. stands at 6.1 percent, compared to 3.2 percent for philosophy majors, but engineering graduates rank among the top fields when f…
A new deep learning model can accurately track glacier calving fronts with minimal manual input, reducing error margins from over a kilometer to under 70 meters per glacier. Researchers at Friedrich-A…
IEEE held its annual Honors Ceremony in New York City on 24 April, celebrating engineers behind innovations including text-to-donate technology, AI-powered diagnostic tools, and the graphics processin…
At Computex 2026 in Taipei, Nvidia announced RTX Spark, a version of its Blackwell GB10 superchip for Windows PCs, with Microsoft, Asus, Dell, Lenovo, HP, and MSI unveiling new devices powered by the …
A new DNA synthesis method called Sidewinder can assemble dozens of genetic sequences simultaneously in a single test tube with just one error per 10 million assembly events, far surpassing convention…