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At the start of “What We Can Know,” Ian McEwan’s eighteenth novel, the year is 2119 and the humanities are still in crisis. Thomas Metcalfe, a scholar of the literature of 1990 to 2030, props up his ...

With dystopian fiction a firm fixture in our literary landscape, it’s easy to imagine future English syllabi that include, from this decade alone, works by Ali Smith, Paul Lynch, and Stephen Markley.

Max Bard of Pray.com details an audience-driven approach to AI-generated videos of the Bible, styled like a video game and heavy on thrills. When generative artificial intelligence programs like ...

Microsoft is betting big on this class of laptops with built-in AI processing. Here's what sets these systems apart right now. I've been testing PC and mobile software for more than 20 years, focusing ...

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My partner and I are in a bit of a pickle. Day to day, everything is good. We both earn a fair bit more than we did just a few years ago — combined, it’s about $150,000 a year. We avoid frivolous ...