Andrew Robinson is the author of Lost Languages (2002) and other books on scripts and decipherment. He is based in London. How the world’s largest language family spread — and why others go extinct ...

Databricks Inc. today announced the general availability of Zerobus Ingest, a new serverless service within its Lakeflow Connect suite that simplifies and accelerates real-time data ingestion into the ...

Of the databases on Databricks' platform, 80% are now being built by AI agents, not people. And these aren't all tech companies.

A paper written by University of Florida Computer & Information Science & Engineering, or CISE, Professor Sumit Kumar Jha, Ph ...

A little more than a year ago, on a trip to Nairobi, Kenya, some colleagues and I met a 12-year-old Masai boy named Richard Turere, who told us a fascinating story. His family raises livestock on the ...

For those who believe in the conspiracy theory that the NFL is "scripted"—i.e., that league execs decide which teams will see success before the season even starts—Monday was a big day on the internet ...

Miss Friends? Don’t settle for yet another rerun of the classic ‘90s sitcom. Given the text of every Friends episode ever, a recurrent neural network can generate new scripts that are funnier than the ...

A colon is used to give emphasis, present dialogue, introduce lists or text, and clarify composition titles. Emphasis—Capitalize the first word after the colon only if it is a proper noun or the start ...