She tells people her boyfriend’s name is Spruce, but no one has ever met him. Not even her. Spruce, it turns out, is not a person but an artificial intelligence chatbot and one of the available voices ...

At least a handful of Thanksgiving shoppers were disheartened when they went to prepare the holiday staple cranberry sauce last week and found their cans of Ocean Spray did not contain the sauce but ...

Before we leap into the fray with gusto and abandon, if you are new to this series, you can quickly catch up with the rest of us by perusing and pondering our earlier columns (see Part 1, Part 2, Part ...

Tickblaze, the award-winning hybrid prop trading platform, today announced a major expansion of its B2B product line with the launch of a first-of-its-kind turnkey technology stack for proprietary ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

This essay first appeared in the NPR Music newsletter. Sign up for early access to articles like this one, listening recommendations and more. I love the word "heartthrob." It stops you whether you ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

The modern internet is ruled by algorithms. When you boot up Instagram, for example, what you see in your feed is strategically sorted by the app's AI based on your past activity to keep you engaged ...

On Sunday, the Chicago Sun-Times published an advertorial summer reading list containing at least 10 fake books attributed to real authors, according to multiple reports on social media. The newspaper ...