Asathletes, coaches and trainers head to Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics, major airlines have reported serious slumps in flight bookings to the host city during the games. Despite TSA hitting all-timerecord hightraveler screen...
When Goldman Sachs entered the credit card space in 2019 with a partnership with Apple, many consumer banks were concerned that a new competitor had emerged. But just four years later, the firm is pulling back. The banking giant’s move from Wal...
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US and Chinese officials have exchanged sharp rebukes in the first high-level talks between the Biden administration and China, taking place in Alaska. Chinese officials accused the US of inciting countries "to attack China&...
Elyse Isopo, a nurse practitioner in the intensive care unit at North Shore University Hospital in New York, takes us through a day in her life as she treats coronavirus patients. She starts and ends each day by taking her temperature before caring f...
Police have urged everyone to download a smartphone app they say has already saved several lives. What is it and how does it work? Kicked. Converged. Soccer. These three randomly chosen words saved Jess Tinsley and her friends after they go...
A newly-released tool that exploits a vulnerability in Facebook’s WhatsApp allows you to "put words in people’s mouths", researchers say. A team from cybersecurity firm Checkpoint has demonstrated how the tool can be us...
Osaka's metro network has shut down its foreign language sites after users noticed some odd translations. Among the errors on its English page was the literal translation of Sakaisuji line as "Sakai muscle". Many Japanese business...
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Translation apps are getting better, but they're still not perfect, particularly for minority languages. Can artificial intelligence and deep neural networks help iron out the glitches? During the World Cup in Russia this summer there was a dramati...
An analysis of nearly one billion Tweets maps the emergence of new words across the USA in unprecedented detail. Feelingscutewith youron fleekeyebrows or with your newbalayage? Or are yourektandbaele...
Li Wenxing was starting a new life. In May, the young university graduate left his home in rural China on the offer of work with a software company in the city of Tianjin. But the job was a scam and Mr Li was swept into the web of a gang run...
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For New Yorkers, it's \\\"beautiful.\\\" For Pennsylvanians, it's \\\"sauerkraut.\\\" And for Wisconsinites, it's, well, \\\"Wisconsin.\\\" Just in time for the 90th Scripps National Spelling Bee — which started on May 28...
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We as a nation have embraced all kinds of dumb slang, from “swag” to “hepcat.” (Never mind, hepcat is awesome.) But some words never get out of specific pockets of America, where they easily weed out the locals from th...
Merriam-Webster added more than 1,700 words to its dictionary, but many of them probably should've already been included....
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, California — Microsoft's new CEO, Satya Nadella, just steered the company into exciting and relatively uncharted territory: near real-time speech-to-speech translation. \\\"It’s been a dream of humanity ever since ...