linguistics
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Artefact’s AI Will Rewrite Clickbaity Headlines, Though Don’t You Dare Rework Mine
Tired of search engine optimisation run amok? After allowing users to flag some articles as clickbait, the Artefact news app now says it wants users to mark clickbait headlines they come across so it can rewrite the title text using AI. Hell, if enough users also report the same headline, Artefact will then display that…
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14 Internet-Adjacent Slang Words Newly Added to Dictionary.com
Every so often, dictionaries spruce up their database of lexicography in order to get with the times. Dictionary.com is no different, and announced this week the new additions to the website’s catalogue of words.
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Quecto, Ronna: Meet the Newest Metric Prefixes
You know kilo, centi, and milli, but how about ronto? Four new metric prefixes got the official stamp of approval last week at the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures held at Versailles, the extravagant palace outside of Paris. The scientists who gathered there agreed on the need for new prefixes to account for…
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Ukraine’s Postal Service Gets DDOS’d After Printing Stamps of Sunken Russian Battleship
Just a few days after Ukraine’s national post office issued some cheeky stamps honouring the defiant Ukranian border guard who flipped off a Russian warship, Ukraine’s National Post Office, Ukrposhta, reported a massive cyberattack, meaning that — at least for now — you probably won’t be able to buy those stamps online.