Em dashes have become what many believe to be a telltale sign of AI-generated text over the past few years. The punctuation mark appears frequently in outputs from ChatGPT and other AI chatbots, ...

One of the main reasons I've always insisted on having a keyboard with a full number pad—apart from being able to bash out numbers quickly—is that it lets me type out the Windows shortcut codes for an ...

I’ve been teaching English for more than twenty years, long enough to watch punctuation trends come and go like fashion. The Oxford comma had its civil war. The semicolon had its fall from grace. But ...

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 ...

Let’s talk about the em dash. Not the little innocent hyphen, not its slightly more confident cousin, the en dash. No, I’m talking about the 'EM dash,' that long, dramatic line that AI looooooves to ...

For nearly 20 years, Grammar Girl Mignon Fogarty has been tackling grammar myths with the grace and patience this columnist can only aspire to. On her wildly popular podcast and blog, “Grammar Girl’s ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

Gwen Egan is a digital producer at Globe Opinion. AI writing is everywhere — emails, college essays, even wedding vows — and it’s becoming increasingly important to be able to detect when a piece of ...

You might have heard that algorithms are in control of everything you hear, read, and see. They control the next song on your Spotify playlist, or what YouTube suggests you watch after you finish a ...

Dowdle has completely taken over as Dallas’ workhorse, seeing 66-of-76 RB touches over the last three games. He gets a Panthers’ defense allowing 5.0 YPC and the most average rush attempts (27.8), ...

Wil Lutz (left) is a start this week while Micah Parsons (right) and the Cowboys' defense is a sit. / Wil Lutz: Dustin Bradford/Getty ImagesMicah Parsons: Andrew Dieb-Imagn Images It’s Week 12, folks!

The Atlanta duo Earthgang released their latest album, Perfect Fantasy, on Oct. 29. A Tuesday. Ever since Beyoncé’s self-titled album surprise-dropped in 2013, the music industry had designated Friday ...