For centuries, whale calls echoed through the oceans as mysterious, haunting sounds. Now, scientists believe sperm whales may hold the closest thing to human language in the animal kingdom. By ...

WhatsApp’s new in-app message translation feature lets you instantly translate chats without leaving the app. Just long-press a message, tap the three-dot menu, and choose “Translate.” Select your ...

Despite the rapid adoption of LLM chatbots, little is known about how they are used. We document the growth of ChatGPT’s consumer product from its launch in November 2022 through July 2025, when it ...

For centuries, humans have wondered what animals are really trying to say. Now, thanks to artificial intelligence, scientists are getting closer to answering that question. From decoding whale songs ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Jonathan Reichental covers technology in business and society. While Dimitris Fotis Sakellariou and Kris Pahuja both shared a ...

Chinese Astronomers Use Insight-HXMT to Decode X-ray Outburst of Binary Star System Astronomers at Wuhan University used the Insight-HXMT satellite to study the dramatic 2022–23 X-ray outburst from RX ...

Inspired by naturally occurring air bubbles in glaciers, researchers have developed a method to encode messages in ice. Publishing June 18 in the Cell Press journal Cell Reports Physical Science, the ...

Method references are a shorthand way to write lambda expressions that call a single method. Rather than implementing a method in a functional interface, a method reference simply points to an ...