Social media and mobile phones are major disruptors of face-to-face conversations. Recent research has conclusively demonstrated that the indiscriminate (and…
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In artificial intelligence, 2025 marked a decisive shift. Systems once confined to research labs and prototypes began to appear as…
Online adverts are sometimes so personal that they feel eerie. Even as a researcher in this area, I’m slightly startled…
Over the course of 2025, deepfakes improved dramatically. AI-generated faces, voices and full-body performances that mimic real people increased in…
Meta’s decision to end its professional fact-checking program sparked a wave of criticism in the tech and media world. Critics warned that…
Over the past three years, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has had a profound impact on society. AI’s impact on human writing,…
People and institutions are grappling with the consequences of AI-written text. Teachers want to know whether students’ work reflects their own…
India and South Africa are both navigating one of the toughest challenges of the 21st century: shifting their electricity systems…
There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting the Earth. Most of them, like the International Space Station and the Hubble Telescope, reside in low Earth…
For us linguists, the flurry of “word of the year” announcements from dictionaries and publishers is a holiday tradition as…