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While the Australian book market was down 3% last year, genre fiction—popular on BookTok—was among the rare categories that grew.This post was originally published on this site

At a shopping mall in Beijing, Zhang Yachun murmurs quietly to her closest confidant, a fluffy AI-powered robot whose soothing chirps remind her that she is not alone.This post was originally published on this site

Studies have long shown that men are more likely to interrupt, particularly when speaking with women. New research by Johns Hopkins engineers reveals that this behavior also extends to AI-powered voice assistants like Alexa and […]

Social media is widely viewed as dynamic, innovative and driven by the ethos to “move fast and break things.”This post was originally published on this site

Apple lost its status as the best selling smartphone brand in the crucial Chinese market last year, new data showed Thursday, with a pair of local rivals surpassing it with surging shipments.This post was originally […]

Nintendo is betting on the 2025 release of a bigger, better version of its blockbuster Switch console to keep up the success of the third best-selling games machine of all time.This post was originally published […]

The behavior of a cat rubbing its head against a person, known as bunting, is an expression of affection and is believed to have a healing effect on humans.This post was originally published on this […]

A recent study involving Central European University (CEU) is paving the way for a new field of research that merges artificial intelligence and complexity science to understand how ongoing interaction between humans and algorithms can […]

The mobile game advertisements that pop up all over social media platforms may promise better, more complete games than they actually deliver. Researchers at Penn State studying these “fake games”—or those that promote inaccurate depictions […]

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and other services has announced it will discontinue its third-party factchecking programs, starting in the US. Journalists and anti-hate speech activists have criticized the decision as an […]