Earlier this year, when a 22-year-old factory worker at a Volkswagen plant in Germany died after being crushed against a metal plate by an assembly machine that mistook him for a car part, most news ...
With many words which are commonly used in everyday vocabulary, we are certain that we have a solid grasp of what they do and do not mean, but is this really true? Take the word ‘robot’ for example, ...
Clanker, rust bucket, tinskin — slang words used to put down robots are on the rise. As AI and robots threaten to replace human work and maybe even humans, the recent popularity of anti-robot lingo ...
Erica Hsiung Wojcik and Matthew Stock open our solving weekend. By Deb Amlen Jump to: Tricky Clues FRIDAY PUZZLE — Erica Hsiung Wojcik and Matthew Stock’s first published collaboration in The New York ...
Language is ever-evolving, with new words springing up from a variety of places. Some are borrowed from other languages ("karaoke"), others are two words blended together ("doomscrolling"), and some ...