Google wants to make it easier to learn word pronunciations. Today, it introduced a new Search feature that will let users practice saying tricky words. When you look up a pronunciation, Google will provide an answer, and when you say the word into y...
The Google Super Bowl 2019 Ad titled "100 Billion Words" is online ahead of the Big Game. Google is airing two Super Bowl spots during the Super Bowl 2019 broadcast on CBS on Sunday. This commercial...
The Google Super Bowl 2019 Ad titled "100 Billion Words" is online ahead of the Big Game. Google is airing two Super Bowl spots during the Super Bowl 2019 broadcast on CBS on Sunday. This commercial...
Quirky, and extremely elongated, the Texttime clock by Cloudnola has a pleasant demeanor as it literally tells you the time. Not in numbers, but rather in the form of a sentence!
Designed with a silent flip-board mechanism on the inside, individual cards give you a reading of what the time is by literally spelling it out. The long, flipboard layout helps the clock spell out words like “It’s Eleven : Thirty Two”, an experience that would require a decent amount of horizontal space. Available in black plastic, or a more charming bamboo exterior, the Texttime clocks can either be placed on desks or mounted on walls, and run on a simple AA battery.
To say that the internet has played a massive role in the shaping of global society is a bit of an understatement, really, but one area that often gets overlooked is its influence on language. Thanks to teh interwebz (bear with me), we're all exposed...
Every year, the vocabulary druids at Merriam-Webster decide which words bubbling to the top of the cultural consensus should be immortalized forever in its dictionary. In early 2017, the list of over 1,000 additions included CRISPR and botnet, a clea...
The vocabulary experts who decide which terms get added to the Merriam-Webster's Dictionary are at it again. Today, over 1,000 new words made the cut from fields like science, tech, medicine pop culture, sports and more. Among the new additions are C...
The head honchos of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary revealed the most searched for words connected with the US elections in 2016. A great many novel things came to be known thanks to the ever-growing...
Researchers have developed a new technology that can help read brain signals directly and may also aid people with movement disabilities to better communicate their thoughts and emotions.The...
Believe it or not, dogs have the ability to distinguish words and the intonation of human speech through brain regions similar to those that humans use, according to a new study.The findings...