Encouraging people to mistake digital companions for real friends is prima facie unethical. Encouraging people to have imaginary friends is no solution to social isolation. There is a risk that the ...

So you can imagine Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke's displeasure at supposedly reading that she "sucked" at speaking ...

Imagine waking up every morning at 5 a.m. to the sound of an engine roaring right outside your window. No alarm clock, just pure mechanical noise. Well. That was the miserable reality for one Reddit ...

Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages developers still use daily, and what they’re good for. The computer revolution has ...

A Redditor posted about an inconsiderate neighbor whose diesel truck spews exhaust fumes into their apartment. They explained in the post on the r/NeighborsFromHell subreddit that they're disabled and ...

In this video, I respond to a comment about selfishness in grief and share why offering unsolicited lessons to the grieving can do more harm than good. I reflect on my own experiences with loss and ...

If you have that one person on your list who is impossible to shop for, or you just don’t feel like doing it, you can now farm the task out to ChatGPT. On Monday, OpenAI announced its new shopping ...

AutoHotkey (AHK) is a free and simple yet powerful Windows scripting language. It doesn’t get a lot of press these days, but Windows geeks used to love writing and swapping AHK scripts. Well, that’s ...

The October Inzoi modding update is almost upon us, but its developer is making some adjustments to what will be included in an attempt to make its lifestyle sim more accessible. Recent updates such ...

Marlee Matlin has won an Oscar, and she’s appeared in countless films and television shows. Yet she, too, has faced a common Deaf dilemma: how to claim equitable access to information, when one lives ...

We did an informal poll around the Hackaday bunker and decided that, for most of us, our favorite programming language is solder. However, [Stephen Cass] over at IEEE Spectrum released their annual ...