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The People Who Created Our Dictionary Have Been Largely Forgotten—Until Now
Town & Country via Yahoo News· 8 months agoAn excerpt from Dictionary People investigates the story of amateurs collaborating alongside the...
Pieter Abbeel and Ken Goldberg on generative AI applications
TechCrunch via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoTake last week’s video of Agility using generative AI to tell Digit what to do with a simple verbal...
Google turns 25: Key moments in search giant's history - including that iconic J-Lo dress
Sky News via Yahoo Canada News· 10 months agoGoogle celebrated the 25th anniversary of its launch this week - and it's hard to envisage what life...
10 surprising facts about The Simpsons you didn’t know
Digital Trends via Yahoo Canada News· 2 months ago20th Century Studios Few things in life are certain beyond death, taxes … and that The Simpsons may...
I spent a year living in Sydney and these are the Australian slang words I've permanently added to...
INSIDER via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoI picked up quite a few slang words during my time in Australia.Brook Attakorn/Getty Images I spent...
UNESCO World Book Day: The books that made us
Euronews via Yahoo Canada News· 2 months agoToday is UNESCO World Book Day, a celebration to promote the enjoyment of books and reading. Each year, events take place all over the world to recognize...
From romps to smacks: The funniest animal group names and where they came from
Euronews via Yahoo Canada News· 6 months agoIf you’ve ever stumbled across a ‘charm of goldfinches’ or a ‘crash of rhinos’, you’ll know that the...
Aitch or haitch: the linguisitic debate that 'matters a lot'
The Week via Yahoo News· 3 months agoPhoto collage of a man with one hand over his heart, the other holding the Oxford Dictionary of...
A new campaign wants to redefine the word ‘nature’ to include humans – here’s why this linguistic...
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 2 months agoDudarev Mikhail/Shutterstock What does the word nature mean to you? Does it conjure visions of wild...
Wait, who said that? Your favorite quote probably isn't from the person you think
USA TODAY via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoOn today's episode of the 5 Things podcast: Most likely that favorite quote you've been throwing...