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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Following major expansions to Spotify’s podcast branch, the audio streamer is turning its attention to its ...

Spotify's next bet on books isn’t digital — it's physical. At a press event on Wednesday, Feb. 4, at Spotify's New York City headquarters, the streaming giant unveiled a slate of new book-focused ...

Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. On Tuesday, researchers at Stanford and Yale revealed something that AI companies ...

Thirty years ago today, Netscape Communications and Sun Microsystems issued a joint press release announcing JavaScript, an object scripting language designed for creating interactive web applications ...

For something that happens mostly alone and in silence, reading can be surprisingly intimate. Our favorite books reveal our interests, inspire the way we think, and offer storylines and fantasies we ...

When I was six, my maiden aunt Eva gave me a first edition of “The World Is Round,” by Gertrude Stein. Eva, who worked in a used bookstore, was the only bohemian in our family, and she revered Stein.

Language is one of the few faculties that still seems to be uniquely human. Other animals, like chimpanzees and songbirds, have developed elaborate communication systems, but none appears to convey ...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then what of emoji, that ever-increasingly important part of our lexicon? Face with Tears of Joy: A natural history of emoji by Keith Houston has some insights, ...

Rich Oxenham was working at Action on Hearing Loss to assist deaf and hard of hearing people in the United Kingdom while spending his spare time running a Dungeons & Dragons group for local teens.

June 15 marks Uyghur Language Day, which Uyghurs celebrate not only as a cultural event, but as a call to action, to ensure our language is not wiped out from the face of the earth. In light of ...