Pâkosêthimowin, a Cree word that translates to hopes and dreams, is inscribed on this sculpture outside University College of the North in Thompson. UCN will offer a bachelor of Indigenous languages ...

Language-learning app Duolingo has cast Duo — its adorable and plucky owl mascot — as the star of the company’s first-ever anime series, “最後の決戦 (The Final Test).” The company produced the five-episode ...

Priya Parker, author of The Art of Gathering, reveals why so many of our meetings, events, and social moments feel unfulfilling — and how we can make them truly meaningful. In this powerful TED Talk, ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday announced the launch of AgentKit, a toolkit for building and deploying AI agents, at the firm’s Dev Day event. “AgentKit is a complete set of building blocks available ...

Fu and his colleagues have built the first artificial neurons that can interface directly with living one. Credit: Jun Yao Built from low-powered protein nanowires made by bacteria, these neurons ...

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages? When Kenneth Wehr started ...

A coalition of Texas business and advocacy groups that teamed up a year ago made progress in this year’s legislative session in their push for new state policies focused on making early childhood care ...

The hair Scotty King has left is white. At 68 years old, having come out as gay in the 1970s, King is something of a unicorn: a gay man entering elderdom, a queer senior citizen. At last year’s cozy ...

Google has introduced Mangle, a new open-source programming language that extends the classic logic-based language Datalog for modern deductive database programming. Implemented as a Go library, ...

MyMichigan Health will host a Community Health Fair from 2 to 7 p.m., on Saturday, Aug. 23, on Main Street in Downtown Midland. The free event, held rain or shine, aims to enhance residents’ ...