No one else will do: What a pair of figure skaters can teach us about familiarity in Japanese
An Olympic duo illustrates how honorifics and in-group dynamics can signal closeness across different contexts.
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An Olympic duo illustrates how honorifics and in-group dynamics can signal closeness across different contexts.
Read summary →A Canadian man accused of helping 14 people in the province of Ontario kill themselves by selling a legal but deadly substance online wi…
Read summary →Iwao Hakamata's elder sister called for public prosecutors to be barred from appealing court decisions granting retrials.
Read summary →{"#text":"Dairy Queen is becoming the latest fast food chain to get in on AI, as it's bringing a chatbot to dozens of its drive-thrus acros…
Read summary →Scores of Chinese women were brought to Germany without valid residency permits for sex work across the country, prosecutors in Frankfurt a…
Read summary →Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekl…
Read summary →Ellie’s Pi Day post: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/pi-day-2026-food-institute/ How Ellie orchestrated the baking of 30 pies: https:…
Read summary →Claire chatted to Rich Walker from Shadow Robot Company about their advanced robotic hands for research and industry. Rich Walker has been…
Read summary →This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of t…
Read summary →Roboticists used to dream big but build small. They’d hope to match or exceed the extraordinary complexity of the human body, and then they…
Read summary →The handsome new book Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One, by the tech industry legend Stewart Brand, promises to be the first in a series…
Read summary →We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with…
Read summary →There’s a fault line running through enterprise AI, and it’s not the one getting the most attention. The public conversation still tracks f…
Read summary →The AI boom has hit across industries, and public sector organizations are facing pressure to accelerate adoption. At the same time, govern…
Read summary →This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of t…
Read summary →The availability of artificial intelligence for use in warfare is at the center of a legal battle between Anthropic and the Pentagon. This…
Read summary →As a movement, environmentalism has been pretty misanthropic. Understandably so—we humans have done some destructive things to the ecosyste…
Read summary →When the covid-19 pandemic started, Jennifer Phillips thought about the songs of the sparrows. They were easier to hear, because the world…
Read summary →Russia unleashed its deadliest attack so far this year on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and other cities overnight, killing 17 people, includi…
Read summary →A Ukrainian unit said on Wednesday that it has carried out more than 100 attacks on the front using ground robots, after President Volodymy…
Read summary →MD&M South strengthens innovation across various sectors with key association partnerships.
Read summary →The amazing and frustrating thing about robots is that they can do almost anything you want them to do, as long as you know how to ask prop…
Read summary →We’re excited to launch our new series, where we’ll be speaking with leading researchers to explore the breakthroughs driving AI and the re…
Read summary →Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekl…
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