First surfacing in 2021, the “dead internet theory” is the idea that the future internet will be largely driven by autonomous bots rather than real-world humans, creating an endless content factory ...

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Knot theory, once a fringe branch of pure math, now drives breakthroughs in physics, DNA research, and quantum computing. Ukraine responds to Putin's reported demands to Trump Sophie Turner says ...

A study led by McGill University researchers challenges the theory that language change over time requires new generations to replace older generations of speakers. Rather, when words change meaning, ...

Here is another idea about how language arose. As pitch-based communication is widespread among non-human animals, could language have developed from similar-pitched Tarzan-like calls specific to a ...

Sabine Hyland receives funding from the British Academy, the British Museum, the National Endowment for the Humanities (USA), the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, and the ...

The growing ubiquity of artificial intelligence (AI) in applications is rapidly changing everyday life, underscoring the need to understand its social intelligence. A new AI study examines the social ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...