Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing daily life and how to make the most of it. This includes writing about consumer AI products and their real-world impact, from ...

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 ...

"Gerrymander," "performative" and "touch grass" were also popular words users of the dictionary looked up in the past year. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief In a world of digital noise and clutter ...

A Christmas word search is a simple way to keep kids busy during the holidays. It’s low-prep, easy to print, and helpful when you need a festive activity that doesn’t require much set-up. I like ...

The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This way of perceiving social reality—and particularly a person’s reading life—may seem inane, even deranged. But performative reading ...

Learning the alphabet in sign language is a fun and useful skill. While finger spelling out words can take longer than if you know the ASL common words, it enables you to communicate with someone. The ...

Google announced on Tuesday that it’s launching a new experimental app for Windows that’s designed to help people find what they need faster. The app will allow people to use an Alt + Space shortcut ...

Speakers at Los Angeles City Council meetings will be banned from using the N-word and the C-word, the council decided Wednesday. The ban comes after years of tirades by a few speakers who attack ...

One tech expert said disabling the feature isn’t ‘straightforward’ (Picture: Getty Images) Google can now read your WhatsApp messages by default, a move experts told Metro raises ‘concerns about user ...

Click here for the original audio and to read a book excerpt. Host Lisa Mullins speaks with Elizabeth Barks Cox, author of "Reading Van Gogh: An Amateur's Search for God." The book explores Cox's ...

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In 1936, Edward William Dolch published his list of what he called “Sight Words.” Dolch, an advocate of the ‘whole word reading’ approach, argued that his list of 220 words was used in up to 75% of ...