Human language is structured to minimize mental effort by using familiar, predictive patterns grounded in lived experience.

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. You probably send dozens of text messages a week. But do any of them truly deepen your friendships? For ...

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With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. Artificial intelligence has become almost ...

Java 26, due in March with structured concurrency, lazy constants, AOT object caching, and primitive types in patterns, instanceof, and switch, has entered a second rampdown phase for bug fixes. Java ...

Does ChatGPT harm critical thinking abilities? A new study from researchers at MIT’s Media Lab has returned some concerning results. The study divided 54 subjects—18 to 39 year-olds from the Boston ...