A new gender-neutral pronoun, 'X也' (ta), is set to revolutionize Chinese language use. Approved by Unicode in September 2025, ...

Character.AI announced on Tuesday that it’s launching “Stories,” a new format that allows users to create interactive fiction that features their favorite characters. The feature comes as an ...

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The start-up, which creates A.I. companions, faces lawsuits from families who have accused Character.AI’s chatbots of leading teenagers to kill themselves. By Natallie Rocha and Kashmir Hill Natallie ...

GAS CITY, Ind. — Popular author Jodi Picoult said that one parent’s complaint about a non-binary character led to a last-minute cancellation of Mississinewa High School’s planned performance of ...

The world of anime is huge, but most fans can agree that there’s a lack of racial diversity. Characters from varying racial backgrounds are uncommon in anime, but a few franchises are becoming more ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...