January 28, 2026 • "Football" is a word used to refer to different games: American football, the game played at the Super Bowl, where a foot is rarely used to direct the ball. And elsewhere in the ...

AI is the world's most efficient plagiarism machine, and it is coming for music. But, the recording industry isn't trying to ...

With 2025 drawing to a close, the Top 2 names in the Kia Rookie Ladder keep chugging along. Steve Aschburner The Association's experts chime in on Cooper Flagg's continual growth this season. Half of ...

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...

After a full year of hectic news, original trends and nonstop content, Merriam-Webster has summed it all perfectly in one word: “slop.” On Dec. 15, Merriam-Webster announced “slop” as the 2025 Word of ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called "slop." The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it the ...

Runners up included "gerrymander," "touch grass," "performative" and "tariff." It's messy, it's meaningless and it's everywhere: "slop" has been crowned as Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year. The ...

Nikola Jokić, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Luka Dončić lead the way, but the rest of the Ladder remains up for grabs. Shaun Powell Jaylen Brown scores 42 points in a win over the New York Knicks. The ...

For the first time, Instagram will start letting you control the topics its algorithm recommends, much as you now can on TikTok. The new feature is starting with the Reels tab but will eventually come ...

Threads is testing a new way for users to manipulate their own recommendation algorithm. The feature, aptly called "Dear algo," allows users to post a message to the algorithm with the note "dear algo ...

The method has maintained its position as the gold standard for water determination due to its specificity, precision, dependability, and speed. Water, iodine, sulfur dioxide, and a base are reacted ...

DEFINITION: A process or set of mathematical instructions to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer. ETYMOLOGY: Comes from French algorithme, ...