Researchers at Google have developed a new AI paradigm aimed at solving one of the biggest limitations in today’s large language models: their inability to learn or update their knowledge after ...

After a 2024 breakthrough album about her father’s death, the audacious Vermont singer-songwriter squares up to her mother’s living absence—and, without her, finds her own way forward. Frances’ ...

Not long after my arrival, though, everything changed. Pageviews were declining for Merriam-Webster.com, the company’s free, ad-driven revenue engine: Tweaks to Google’s algorithms had punished ...

Mr. Tersigni is a cultural critic. Have you ever obeyed the suggestions of a digital writing assistant to replace a word or restructure a sentence without knowing how, why or even if it made your ...

A nested table is one table placed inside of another, where the larger table functions as a container for the smaller one. Nested tables are a way for you to organize objects, such as images or text, ...

A dictionary search for biweekly likely won't clear up confusion about how often a biweekly meeting is being held. Merriam-Webster, Dictionary.com, and the Cambridge Dictionary each offer two ...

May 16 (Reuters) - A company that sells weighted sleep sacks for babies was hit with a proposed class action in Massachusetts federal court, amid controversy over whether the products are safe. Los ...

Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang (1970), The Queen's Vernacular: A Gay Lexicon, San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books (1972), and Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler with Ann Russo, A ...

The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary, by Sarah Ogilvie (Knopf, 370 pp., $30) Recently, I had a friend to lunch in New York and when I showed him my study, ...

One school district in Florida is looking to extend the state's book ban to an unexpected genre: dictionaries. According to a list obtained and published by the nonprofit PEN America, the Escambia ...

A Florida school district last month pulled the Merriam-Webster dictionary from library shelves to comply with a state law banning books with descriptions of "sexual conduct." The common dictionary ...