Trigger” wasn’t meant for everyday discomfort. Learn why its misuse matters and how better language supports healing and ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

Learning a new language before the Internet was brutal. It involved dense textbooks and a bunch of in-person classes, spending innumerable hours en route to full fluency. We've come a long way since ...

Ashwathi Menon, co-captain of UMBC's Indian fusion dance team, helps demo some of the technology in the lab. Here, she demonstrates the Katakamukha mudra as a robotic hand mimics her gesture. Parthan ...

Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) have extracted the building blocks of precise hand gestures used in the classical Indian dance form Bharatanatyam—and found a richer ...

This video features an American polyglot bargaining with only five euros while switching between six different languages. It captures fun interactions, cultural moments, and the creativity of ...

Kenya is leading efforts to test AI models for bias and improve their accuracy in linguistic diversity, particularly for low-resource languages like Swahili and indigenous dialects. Artificial ...

A few years ago, at Hamilton Southeastern High School, in Indiana, a class of multilingual students were told to brainstorm in English only for their government class. Many of them were still ...

A Los Angeles strip mall has been forced by the city’s throngs of drug-using vagrants to blast music overnight to keep them away— and some neighbors admit the obnoxious din is necessary. The classical ...

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 ...

Abstract: Most associative memory neural networks are realized by memristor, but memcapacitor which can simulate the biological behavior of neuron preferably has better characteristics than memristor ...