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It can be too easy to write villains— people stunted and incapable of love or compassion—when we write about opponents of our politics, especially in short stories, which have so...

Twenty-six-year-old Sanjana Thakur is the newest winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Her story “Aishwarya Rai” was chosen by the jury from a pool of 7,359 entries. In her...

Your Samsung Galaxy tablet has the amazing capability to interpret your utterances as text. It works almost as well as computer dictation in science fiction movies, though you won’t find...

Artificial intelligence is a hot topic in every business and household today. While AI was first developed in the 1950s, it has taken on a new life in recent years...

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the <audio> element.VOICE TECHNOLOGY has come a long way. Just a few years...

It starts with a woman whose mother isn’t enough. The protagonist of 26-year-old Sanjana Thakur’s short story, ‘Aishwarya Rai’, that recently won one of the most prestigious awards for the punishing literary...

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has rolled out new guidelines on its Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) platform in a preemptive measure against the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) generated books.In its recent update,...

Alice Munro, a Canadian author who was a master of short stories and won a Nobel Prize for literature, died Monday. She was 93.A spokesperson for her publisher, Penguin Random...

I wanted to start 2024 by completing something I had put off for over 20 years to share that this year, anything is possible with focus, drive, determination, and AI...

"You Like it Darker" by Stephen King.Scribner via APStephen King is out with a new collection of short stories.As you might expect from the reigning King of Horror, some are...