If you’re leaving 2025 feeling detached, you’re not alone. And if you’re looking for something to blame for that emptiness, ...

Dictionaries were once bestsellers, but between the internet and artificial intelligence, its role in our culture has changed. Stefan Fatsis is out with a new book called Unabridged: The Thrill of ...

Apple, Michigan taxpayers, and one of Detroit’s wealthiest families spent roughly $30 million training hundreds of people to ...

At the core of every AI coding agent is a technology called a large language model (LLM), which is a type of neural network ...

Speaking with popular AI content creators convinces me that “slop” isn’t just the internet rotting in real time, but the ...

Merriam-Webster named slop its 2025 Word of the Year, defining it as low-quality digital content produced by artificial ...

To select its Word of the Year, Merriam-Webster’s editors review data on which words rose in search volume and usage, then ...

In the poster advertising the new film Ella McCay, a woman stands on one leg, her mid-length coat waving around her, as she ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the ...

So many productivity methods ask you to prioritize your daily tasks by considering how much time or effort they'll require, then tackling the resource-heavy ones first. For some people, that's a solid ...

The phrase is considered an inside joke with no technical definition, often used to signal being part of an in-group. Linguistics experts compare "6-7" to past slang, noting it serves more of a social ...

From a billion miles away, Earth appears as nothing more than a pale blue speck of dust, seen only through a shaft of sunlight. "Look again at that dot," Carl Sagan wrote. "That's here. That's home.