People with highly self-centered and grandiose personalities often believe they can convince anyone to do anything. A new study shows they might actually succeed at this goal when speaking out loud.

Though he didn’t win the Democratic nomination for president in either year, Jesse Jackson’s moving speeches at the conventions called on the party to care more about the marginalized. By James C.

Munich —Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a message of reassurance in remarks at the Munich Security Conference, calming some fears that months of sharp U.S. rhetoric and policy disputes had ...

The Ted Cruz-Ted Sarandos Capitol Hill dustup illustrated how they've moved from fluff to freighted. But many screen stars are still scared. By Steven Zeitchik Senior Editor, Technology and Politics ...

Mistral AI, the Paris-based startup positioning itself as Europe's answer to OpenAI, released a pair of speech-to-text models on Wednesday that the company says can transcribe audio faster, more ...

Before the Grammys 2026 handed out a single statue, Bad Bunny had already made history at the awards show. Bad Bunny, who had three US Grammys on his shelf already, is the first Spanish-language ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. Assistive technologies in the classroom play a key role in ...

On this day 40 years ago, a generation of schoolchildren learned that the future can break your heart. That morning, television carts had been rolled into classrooms and assemblies across the country.

President Donald Trump’s winding, antagonistic speech to business moguls and government officials in the Swiss Alps on Wednesday was hardly a salve to concerns the Western Alliance is at its breaking ...

Hamnet star Jessie Buckley took home Best Female Actor (Motion Picture – Drama) at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards, giving a moving speech that thanked basically the entire cast and crew of Chloé Zhao's ...

The Association for Computing Machinery's global Technology Policy Council has published an article titled "TechBrief: Automated Speech Recognition." It is the latest in a series of short technical ...

As jazz music, which began in Black communities, spread across the nation in the 1920s, more than 60 cities adopted rules limiting or outright banning it in dancehalls. Clergy and civic reformers ...