Personal recommendations continue to drive book discovery more than algorithms, social media, and other digital tools, according to the 2026 State of Reading Report released today by Everand and Fable ...

Music is blending into an algorithm-generated playlist, cinema is dominated by blockbuster movies from decades-old franchises, and the rest of the cultural scene is as flat and bland as a pancake.

Facebook's vice president of product, Jagjit Chawla, talks about how the platform treats AI-generated content and how you can see less of it. Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial ...

Marvel Comics releases its Age of Revelation tie-in Binary #1 on Wednesday, and you can get yourself a sneak peek with the official preview of the issue below… THIS IS BINARY… AND THE UNIVERSE BURNS ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

Sometimes a term is so apt, its meaning so clear and so relevant to our circumstances, that it becomes more than just a useful buzzword and grows to define an entire moment. “Enshittification,” coined ...

The Argentine writer Samanta Schweblin explores the ambiguities and ironies of domestic life in a new collection. Credit...Magali Cazo Supported by By Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates’s most recent ...

Editor’s Note (10/8/25): This podcast was edited after posting to remove some incorrect descriptions of research on crickets in Hawaii. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m ...

Gabfest Reads is a monthly series from the hosts of Slate’s Political Gabfest podcast. Recently, host Emily Bazelon spoke with author Jonathan Mahler about his new book, The Gods of New York. This ...

Words like "rizz" and "skibidi" didn’t exist just a few years ago, but now they’re used and understood by millions of people. In his new book, Algospeak, linguist and content creator Adam Aleksic ...

Adam Aleksic has somehow managed to make linguistics cool. His rapid-fire videos have attracted an audience of millions across the social media universe. A Harvard graduate with a linguistics degree, ...