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

What makes this moment particularly striking is that Chinese did not originally have gendered pronouns at all. The character ...

Chinese pronouns are largely split between female and male – prompting LGBTQ activists to invent their own gender-neutral pronoun. That movement just took a big step forward.

For reference, Unicode 17.0 came out on September 9, introducing well over 160 new characters. The current stable version of ...

Google is introducing over 160 new emoji in the Android 16 QPR3 update next March. Here's all the new emoji coming to your Pixel phone!

The Rust reimplementation of classic Unix tools is making progress: version 0.5.0 now passes 87.75 percent of the GNU test ...

Stories offers a more ‘structured’ experience for teens, who can no longer hold open-ended conversations with the platform’s AI characters. Stories offers a more ‘structured’ experience for teens, who ...

You can die at any time, but you can never age. Such is the "Hotel California"-esque nightmare of life in the fictional town of Springfield, home to the Simpsons family in the eponymous and ...

Kirby Air Riders has 21 playable characters, with most of them also having alternate colors that you'll unlock as you complete goals off of the game's massive checklists. You'll need to check the ...

Matthew Rhys in "The Beast in Me." (Credit: Chris Saunders/Netflix) “The Beast in Me” watches an unusual relationship unfold between recluse author Aggie Wiggs (Claire Danes) and egotistical real ...

Last week, the embattled chatbot platform Character.AI said that it would move to ban minors from conversing with its many thousands of AI companion and roleplay bots. Site users, including ...

In response to growing public concern, Character.ai is banning users under 18 from open-ended chatbot conversations. The company will add age verification and create an AI Safety Lab as well. The move ...