About half of U.S. adults (51%) say it is extremely or very important for the U.S. to make English its official language.

Today, humans speak over 7,000 languages, yet all of them might share a common origin that dates back at least 135,000 years.

New genetic research suggests that humans first developed language around 135,000 years ago when populations began ...

Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.

The White House does not have a list of banned words that are restricted from use in official documents and instead gives ...

One of the most profound questions about human history is when language, as we know it, first emerged. A new analysis of ...

An AI model trained on dozens of hours of real-world conversation accurately predicts human brain activity and shows that ...

The SpellRing was developed by Cornell researchers and uses AI plus micro-sonar tech to track real-time fingerspelling. Right ...

Another Democratic legislator from San Francisco, Assemblywoman Catherine Stefani, has introduced Assembly Bill 699, which ...

The SpellRing can track the shape of hands, movement, and palm orientation to enable word spelling in American Sign Language (ASL) with impressive accuracy.

The artist’s seemingly simple pen strokes were capable of capturing both the gravity and the absurdity of peacetime and war.

The emergence of vision language models (VLMs) offers a promising new approach. VLMs integrate computer vision (CV) and natural language processing (NLP), enabling AVs to interpret multimodal data by ...