In this guest blog, Karen McNulty Walsh of Brookhaven National Laboratory explains how Michigan Technological University ...

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Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

CEO Sam Altman called a strange graph in its GPT-5 presentation a ‘mega chart screwup.’ CEO Sam Altman called a strange graph in its GPT-5 presentation a ‘mega chart screwup.’ is a senior reporter ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Senior Technology Editor. He has a BFA in Film & TV from NYU, where he specialized in writing. Jake has been helping people with their technology professionally since ...

Google’s June 2025 Core Update just finished. What’s notable is that while some say it was a big update, it didn’t feel disruptive, indicating that the changes may have been more subtle than game ...

Astronomers use brokers to identify which signals to pursue in an endless stream of alerts. Looking up at the stars at night, it may not be obvious that the universe is constantly changing. But it is: ...