Personal recommendations continue to drive book discovery more than algorithms, social media, and other digital tools, according to the 2026 State of Reading Report released today by Everand and Fable ...

With its playlist chatbot, Spotify says you could ‘curate your next Discover Weekly, exactly the way you want it.’ With its playlist chatbot, Spotify says you could ‘curate your next Discover Weekly ...

Avery Brooks first appeared as Commander Benjamin Sisko in 1993, in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine pilot “Emissary,” immediately setting the tone for what would become one of the most beloved Trek ...

When the news broke that Oscar-winning Nomadland director Chloé Zhao would join the MCU to helm Eternals, Hollywood and film fans alike braced themselves for what could be the greatest Marvel Studios ...

A celebrated, Oscar-winning filmmaker known for some of the biggest blockbusters of all time has revealed that he once came close to directing Wicked, years before Jon M. Chu’s hit adaptations reached ...

Tennessee public libraries are launching an “immediate age-appropriateness review” of children’s and teens’ books following a state government directive, with some calling the plan ...

Eid, by Yousef Abo Madegem, believed to be the first Israeli Bedouin to direct a feature film, tracks its title character — marvelously played by Shadi Mar’i — as he suffers the whips and scorns of ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Facebook's vice president of product, Jagjit Chawla, talks about how the platform treats AI-generated content and how you can see less of it. Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial ...

Sometimes a term is so apt, its meaning so clear and so relevant to our circumstances, that it becomes more than just a useful buzzword and grows to define an entire moment. “Enshittification,” coined ...

Paramount, fresh off its merger with Skydance, has recently announced that they've secured the film rights to Activision's Call of Duty and plans to produce a live-action film. However, according ot a ...

There is a new sorting algorithm a deterministic O(m log2/3 n)-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition ...