If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...

Like his previous two novels and short stories, Bryan Washington’s fourth book, “Palaver,” is set in Houston, where he’s from, and/or Japan, where he now lives. But in “Palaver,” which was nominated ...

The first, and often the hardest, task in writing a newspaper column, a school essay or even a book, is to select a topic. Or more precisely, to shed many of the numerous suitable topics demanding ...

First Wave, as the name suggests, were the original ARC that fell to the ground in the early days of ARC Raiders. Now that years have passed, you might find yourself in search of First Wave husks.

Court rulings on Friday ensured the nation’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, will continue.But the future is unknown as the U.S. Government shutdown remains in place. “It's very ...

Dalmeet Singh Chawla is a freelance science journalist based in London. Launched earlier this year for the Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers, the tool provides a weighted metric, called the ...

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...

If you were to send my family a letter, you’d have no problem writing out the envelope. My surname is Andersen, so the etiquette rules for writing a plural last name are pretty simple: Just add s! But ...

The signs are plentiful, but the buy-unobtainable, at least for many trying to break into the housing market across Southern California for the very first time. Joshua Thompson is in the market, but ...

EAGAN, Minn. -- The NFL doubles as a reality show. And the Minnesota Vikings just reintroduced a polarizing character. Just as fans and experts alike began to wonder aloud whether the team was ...

As it turns out, Micah Parsons isn't the only new Green Bay Packers player getting a historic jersey number change. Matthew Golden has one, too. Just days ahead of the 2025 NFL season, the Packers' ...

It's been a week of change for Micah Parsons. On Thursday, the Dallas Cowboys most feared defender was traded to the Green Bay Packers, which came along with a massive new contract. And on Friday, the ...