The Escapist

Diablo 4 fans think Season 11’s awkward release time is because we’re getting a new class shadow-dropped

Diablo 4 Season 11 is going to show up at this year’s Game Awards in some way, shape, or form, but it’s the next season’s start date that’s got fans speculating. Diablo 4 Season 11 has been on the ...
The Diplomat

Xi’s New Language on Taiwan Alters the Diplomatic Starting Point

The latest phone call between Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump did more than reaffirm Beijing’s long-standing positions. It quietly introduced a linguistic shift in how ...
Game Rant

Diablo 4 Season 11’s Best Class is Already Obvious

Drew Swanson is a Features Article Editor from the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Being a gamer all his life and enjoying everything from ARPGs like Diablo to JRPGs like Pokemon and Persona, ...
UC San Francisco

Why a Foreign Language Sounds Like a Blur to Non-Native Ears

Why is it so easy to hear individual words in your native language, but in a foreign language they run together in one long stream of sound? Researchers from UC San Francisco have begun to answer that ...
The Chronicle

The real “utility” of a useless language class

Prior to O-Week each year, orientation leaders (OLs) undergo training to better understand the role we must play in welcoming new students to Duke. This year was no different; around 200 upperclassmen ...
IEEE

CCS-SQL: Enhancing Text-to-SQL Framework for Computational Queries via Large Language Models

Abstract: The Text-to-SQL task is to convert natural language queries into Structured Query Language (SQL) to achieve a natural language interface for database queries. The current research on Text-to ...
Marin Independent Journal

Marin Voice: Pelosi’s structured work important in era of outrage

Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s announcement that she will retire from serving in the House of Representatives at the end of her current term concludes one of the most consequential careers in American political ...
Los Angeles Times

Much of ‘Predator: Badlands’ is in an alien language. We asked a Yautja expert to break it down

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. “Predator: Badlands” is the first film in the franchise where much of the dialogue is in the alien hunters’ ...
Slate

What It Feels Like to Watch 9/11 Used Against Us Again

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Over the past year, Zohran Mamdani’s ...
The Diplomat

China-India: Transactional Thaw or Structured Détente?

Bilateral relations between India and China have long followed a cyclical pattern: sporadic escalations give way to limited accommodation, only to relapse when structural disputes resurface. Indian ...
TechRepublic

Microsoft’s Mu Brings Natural Language Chats to Windows 11’s Settings Menu

Microsoft’s Mu Brings Natural Language Chats to Windows 11’s Settings Menu Your email has been sent A screenshot of Mu performing real-time question answering. Image: Windows YouTube channel Microsoft ...