Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...

Abstract: This letter introduces a novel probabilistic mapping algorithm, LatentBKI, which enables open-vocabulary mapping with quantifiable uncertainty. Traditionally, semantic mapping algorithms ...

Here's some news for the word nerds out there. Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher, is releasing a hefty, new Collegiate edition for the first time in 22 years. “So, the ...

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For a drone service provider (DSP) today, it’s clear that simply being able to fly a drone is no longer enough to separate oneself from the competition and build a business. The best DSPs know ...

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Dictionary.com has announced its 2025 Word of the Year, and if you're not up to speed on this year's slang, you may be puzzled by the outcome. The online dictionary announced on Oct. 29 that its Word ...

In “Unabridged,” Stefan Fatsis explores what words make the official grade. By Dan Piepenbring Dan Piepenbring is the co-author of “Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the ...

Krekel’s Custard & Hamburgers in Grandview, Illinois, is exactly that kind of culinary unicorn—a humble roadside ...

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...

LONDON (AP) — What the skibidi is happening to the English language? "Skibidi," pronounced SKIH-bih-dee, is one of the slang terms popularized by social media that are among more than 6,000 additions ...

Popular internet slang terms like "skibidi," "delulu" and "tradwife" are now recognized as words in the Cambridge Dictionary. The dictionary, which is published by Cambridge University Press and ...