A quick look at the attainability of getting the top 10 toughest words. No reason to dillydally. By Eve Washington The reporter reviewed millions of data records, a process that doubled as an ...

After yet another year of high-profile news stories and internet trends, Merriam-Webster has chosen one word to sum up 2025: “slop.” The dictionary publisher defined it as “digital content of low ...

Connotation allows us to express not just what we mean, but how we mean it. It's the unspoken message conveyed through word choice, shaping perceptions and influencing emotions. Unlike denotation, ...

It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to dispute, silence or downplay climate change. The Department of Energy has added “climate change,” “green” and “decarbonization” to its ...

U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly said during his campaign that, if elected to a second term, he would be able to end the war between Russia and Ukraine “in 24 hours.” But since his Jan. 20 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about TV shows, movies, video games, entertainment & culture. I thought I’d try out a new word puzzle to add to my list of ...

Let’s talk about vaginas. Or, rather, let’s talk about the many different words people use for them. Why? Because some might feel that the anatomically correct term for vagina (aka—one of the most ...

It can compliment, or dismiss. It sometimes conveys strong emotions, or no emotion at all. And that's "nice" -- a tidy, sturdy word that's remarkably adaptable. Hundreds of years ago, it meant someone ...

Next to Windows, Word might just be Microsoft’s most iconic software throughout PC history. Who hasn’t used Word at least once in their life? And how many of us have to use it every week — maybe even ...

Microsoft is currently focusing significant financial and human resources on the development of its AI assistant Copilot and its integration into Windows and Microsoft 365 applications. The company ...

ABSTRACT: This paper aims to formalize a general definition of intelligence beyond human intelligence. We accomplish this by re-imagining the concept of equality as a fundamental abstraction for ...

Thus far, even AI companies have had trouble coming up with tools that can reliably detect when a piece of writing was generated using a large language model. Now, a group of researchers has ...