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The audiobook section of a public library, back in the “good old days”This piece first appeared on my newsletter, Future Proof. Please subscribe to help support my writing and general...

While typing is certainly the most common way to create and edit documents in Microsoft Word, you're not limited to using a keyboard. Word supports speech-to-text, which lets you dictate your...

For the past six months, Alou Dembele, a 27-year-old engineer and teacher, has spent his afternoons reading storybooks with children in the courtyard of a community school in Mali’s capital...

Mark Dawidziak's fresh new biography of Edgar Allan Poe, A Mystery of Mysteries, is cleverly framed as an investigation into the writer’s puzzling demise: Poe died in Baltimore in 1849...

In 2005, Curtis Sittenfeld published her first novel, Prep, a snarky Midwesterner’s foray into boarding school, a world quite apart from her own. The book was praised for its incisiveness;...

The opening story of Allegra Hyde’s sophomore short story collection, The Last Catastrophe, is called “Mobilization.” In just a few short pages and narrated in the collective we, it follows...

If you’ve listened to an audiobook or a narrated news article in the past year or so, there’s a chance it was created not by a human, but by AI...

A little over a month after launching in the U.K. and Australia, Spotify has announced that its streaming audiobook service is now available the U.S., giving tens of millions of...

Spring is typically known as the season of change, renewal, and growth. As you gear up for it, I offer you five books, among others, by a world-renowned AI visionary,...