If you’re a Wordle junkie, you probably spend some time searching for ways to better your word choice. The popular online game forces users to guess a common, five-letter word in up to six tries. A ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...

Word lists are the basis of so much research in so many fields. Researchers have now developed an algorithm that can be applied to different languages and can expand word lists significantly better ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Microsoft has ...

"My hope is that ‘Oppenheimer’ and similar projects are not considered anomalies, that we stop translating creative experience into diagrams." Emily Blunt doesn’t want any mathematical equation to ...

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." This opening verse from the Gospel of John alludes to the unique power of language and communication. As we enter the ...

An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was shaped by a bunch of ordinary, twentysomething curators—including a guy named ...