There's always that one friend who pulls out random big words in the middle of a casual sentence. To them, it feels natural, even if it leaves others standing around with a puzzled look. It's almost ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Organisations have been turning to artificial intelligence (AI) in the hope of becoming more efficient, productive and ...

Trump doubled down on his use of the derogatory insult while talking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday, Nov. 30 Pete Marovich/Getty; Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu Donald Trump said 'I think ...

Abstract: We detect out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words from spoken utterances. A straightforward cascade model, where syllable recognition and word segmentation are simply concatenated, often fails to ...

Scientist from Shanghai, China developed and trained a brain-computer interface that can decode Mandarin Chinese syllables. Neurological conditions — such as strokes and degenerative diseases — can ...

Earlier this year, two months into the second Trump administration, federal agencies in the US circulated an internal list of nearly 200 words that would be limited or avoided in the government’s ...

For centuries, humans have drawn a line between themselves and other species, initially claiming that other animals couldn’t feel pain. Science proved they could. Then the argument shifted: Animals ...

When we use words to communicate, we not only have to choose what to say, but also what not to say, and how to say it. How we decide to frame a message can influence how people think, feel, and ...

As Steve Jobs said, asking for help is “what separates, sometimes, the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.” So if you need something, asking politely is effective. (As Mark ...

Slang words are more than just a playful twist on language; they’re a reflection of cultural shifts, regional quirks, and generational divides. We all know that language evolves, but sometimes it ...