Voice-operated technology can’t cope with non-mainstream varieties of English.

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine: Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim

Twenty years after the first face transplant, patients are dying, data is missing, and the experimental procedure’s future hangs in the balance

Moving the capital is an old idea and a perennial nonstarter.

In an essay from Amanda Hess's memoir 'Second Life,' she explores her parasocial relationship with the freebirther subculture amid her medicalized pregnancy.

A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors

Since I first read Kristen Roupenian’s viral story, I’ve wondered: How did she know about me?

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The complicated story of James Watson, whose landmark DNA discovery with Francis Crick was later overshadowed by his deeply offensive remarks

It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

Light-hearted note, penned on 15 August 1916, was found on Wharton beach, after severe winter storms washed away sand dunes

Dr. Richard Harris, aka ‘Dr. Harry,’ and the Wetmules made the first reported hydrogen (H2) rebreather dive to a depth of 230m/751 ft, in The Pearse Resurgence, New Zealand.

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Laudable! Let's take a look at some of the changes that arise from this, through a simple case study: making an international phone call to a relative.

Before abolishing time zones I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. What time is it there? Google tells me it is currently...

He’s one of the loudest voices of the AI haters—even as he does PR for AI companies. Either way, Ed Zitron has your attention.

Some thoughts about how to schedule online meetings for a global organisation in an equitable way.

An armed man at a gathering of the website’s volunteers is just the latest reminder: Editing the internet’s encyclopedia has never been riskier.