How can we train natural language models to be accurate when human bilinguals can't even agree on what's wrong?

By now, your designer friends are likely to have told you — or better yet, begged you — never to use Comic Sans. But what is it about this and other typefaces that causes such intense reactions on designers and readers alike?

As humans, we’re able to tell if a sentence is funny or not, what constitutes a great pun, and which Friend cracks the best jokes. But can computers learn the same skill?

If you ask two people whether a translation is good or bad, in all likelihood you’ll get back two very different answers. How can we objectively measure translation quality when it seems so inherently subjective?

We’ve all been there: heart racing, palms sweaty, voice quavering. But what makes speaking another language so nerve-wracking? Kiko Peres dives deep into Foreign Language Anxiety today on UwU.

English has been ruling the internet for long but the data show it’s losing ground fast. Learn which languages you should be supporting in the new decade.

​​Your parents taught you not to talk to strangers. They were wrong. Here's how talking to strangers could save your life.

Out of the blue, their voices changed. The streets are quiet, there’s hardly a soul in sight, and yet I can’t quite hear what they’re saying. The tone is incriminating enough — someone’s ears are likely on fire — and it grabs my attention away from the book I’m reading. They huddle around a table …

Ever since its appearance, the internet has had an enormous impact on our lives, including on the way we communicate both online and offline. From memes to exaggerated punctuation, learn how internet speak is reshaping language.

Some believe the Voynich manuscript is nothing but a hoax. But even the world’s greatest cryptologists couldn’t break this centuries-old mysterious book.