AI-powered augmented reality devices will give human beings'superpowers' to detect lies and'read' emotions of people they are talking to, a futurist has claimed. Devin Liddell, Principal Futurist at Teague, said that computer vision systems built into headsets or glasses will pick up emotional cues that un-augmented human eyes and instincts cannot see. The technology would let people know if their date is lying or is sexually aroused, along with spotting a lying politician. Liddell said that as augmented reality'merges' with artificial intelligence, humans will gain sensory superpowers which will'transform the social landscape.' He described this as'backchannel' - a term normally used to describe discussions that are not made public and which can give people an advantage in negotiations, for example.

Travelers know there is very little privacy when it comes to air travel. Before passengers are even allowed to board an aircraft, they have to shed their jackets, take off their shoes, and walk through an X-ray contraption that scans their entire bodies. As flyers settle into their (usually rigid and uncomfortable) seats, the active surveillance seems to end there. But in a few years, Airbus's latest "connected cabin" aircraft experience might change that. The innovation, which was revealed in September, will let flight attendants survey the cabin more closely by employing sensors in the lavatory and cabin, Time reported.

The big yellow school bus, with its plastic seats, rubbery smell, and cool-kids-in-the-back social hierarchies, hasn't gotten a true update in decades. What will happen to such an old-fashioned vehicle when our streets become flooded with driverless cars? We know how service vehicles like delivery vans and city buses will be affected by autonomous tech. What about school buses, which are so vital and also so fraught with concerns over safety? Will parents ever trust an autonomous vehicle enough to allow their children to ride in one with no human supervision?

IBM's Watson may be most famous for winning at the game show "Jeopardy!" In a room at IBM offices, software developers and business customers can query the famous computer and see a demonstration of its work as a research partner in fields ranging from land use to medicine. The room itself has a display wall on one side and a touch screen in the center and near the window. In a recent demonstration of how the machine approaches search queries, Rachel Liddell, a "Watson Experience Leader," used the central touch screen to search through a series of TED talks. As she touched the screen to look up lectures on human psychology, Watson created a set of associated topics, such as "education," and touching one of those words generated more specific topics that appeared in the talk.