Reviews of notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

EY receives 400,000 job applications every year. Selecting the best employees—fairly, and at scale—turned out to require both ...

Project Valhalla’s value classes are heading to JDK 28, a 197,000-line change that rewrites how Java handles object identity. Oracle software engineer Lois Foltan has confirmed that Java Enhancement ...

RENTON, Wash. — Renton police officers now have a new tool aimed at improving communication during encounters with people who do not speak English. The Renton Police Department says every police body ...

Policymakers have long understood that language affects economic behavior, but until recently, there were few tools capable of systematically analyzing its effects. AI may now help close that gap, ...

Anthropic is expanding Project Glasswing, its joint industry initiative to find and fix critical software vulnerabilities using AI, to about 150 new organizations across more than 15 countries, the ...

The carrier's AI-based service for translating a conversation during a call is now available for testing. And you don't need the latest phone to use it. Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology for ...

Researchers at the University of Rhode Island are building a map to showcase the state's linguistic diversity. Researchers document signs in languages other than English, including Spanish, Portuguese ...

Google just announced its world-exploring game, Project Genie, is getting a new feature that drops you in real-world locations, like your own street. Project Genie rolled out at the beginning of this ...

Are U.S. immigration agents sending migrants and asylum seekers to “detention centers” or “internment camps”? Are they being held in “processing centers” or “concentration camps”? It depends on who ...