For 20 years, this computational linguistics competition has inspired new generations of innovators in AI and language ...

Josh Wardle, the creator of Wordle, has a new game that aims to introduce players to the joys and agonies of the cryptic crossword.

Dishing with colleagues can have some surprising benefits. But in an age of remote and hybrid work, there are fewer spaces ...

Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’ transcript Have Republicans thought this through. Because that’s what I ...

In De-Enshittify Windows 11, I make the case that anyone can fix or workaround its many problems and make it work for them ...

More lessons from the jagged frontiers of new technology Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

I wrote more about my decades-long transition from Microsoft Word to Markdown in The Shortest Path from Thoughts to Words (Premium) last year. But framing this is in the context of change vs. Big ...

A £150 fine. Plans for a cull. And volunteers checking on the birds in Central Station. What should we be doing with the pigeons in public ...

How American Children Became the Fussiest Eaters in History, by Michigan State historian and consultant for HBO’s The Gilded Age Helen Zoe Veit, offers a history lesson that parents might not know ...

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chair Rand Paul (R-Ky.) confronted Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) Wednesday about his past comments calling him a snake, saying “tell it to ...

Sen. Rand Paul confronted Sen. Markwayne Mullin during his confirmation hearing to lead Trump's Department of Homeland Security for comments appearing to justify a 2017 attack against him, and then ...

Teachers can help students build their capacity to stay on task by ensuring that they have a clear path to start working, reasons to continue, and support when they lose focus.