South Africa has added 21 new literary works to its cultural landscape with the official launch of the 2025 Department of Sport, Arts and Culture Publishing Hub grant recipients, held on Friday, ...

From casinos to taxi cabs, nearly every place of work has its own hidden jargon and lingo. Author Ben Schott joins "The Takeout" to discuss his new book that delves into these secret languages, ...

A prominent Bay Area author said one of his books has been quietly flagged at Yosemite National Park as part of a March 2025 federal directive aiming to remove and revise “negative” information ...

Amazon has unveiled Kindle Translate, a new AI tool that helps authors publish their eBooks in multiple languages and reach global readers effortlessly. Amazon has launched Kindle Translate, a new ...

Amazon just introduced an AI tool that will automatically translate books into other languages. The appropriately-named Kindle Translate is being advertised as a resource for authors that self publish ...

Access to e-books relies entirely on private distributors that have the power to shut them off at any moment. Nearly all publishers of newspapers, magazines, and commercial books, as well as the tens ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Language is one of the few faculties that still seems to be uniquely human. Other animals, like chimpanzees and songbirds, have developed elaborate communication systems, but none appears to convey ...

"Algospeak" by Albany native Adam Aleksic. Before he was breaking down internet language for millions of TikTok users, Adam Aleksic was just a kid growing up in Albany, fascinated by words and their ...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - The new ‘Community languages collection’ at the LE Phillips Public Library has already caught many people’s eye, specifically those who speak a native language like French, ...