Scientists have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to unlock the secrets of an ancient manuscript that has baffled experts. Discovered in the 19th century, the Voynich manuscript uses ...

The name of Jay-Z’s first book is “Decoded,” a curious title given that among the work of celebrated rappers his lyrics might need perhaps the least decoding. Unlike the Wu-Tang Clan, for instance, ...

The fact that you've probably never heard of Mai Jia says a lot about how few Chinese books are marketed in America. Mai is one of China's most famous living writers, having written several ...

Jay-Z is a great American artist — and he’d be the first to tell you so. “Decoded” is an elegantly designed, incisively written bid for cultural legitimacy by a man whose XXL ego is underscored by an ...

To call someone a conspiracy theorist is, in truth, to say something insultingly vague, because as we all know conspiracy theorists come in degrees. On the one hand are the elite squad of paranoids ...

What if the disinterested machines that surround us and encroach on every aspect of our lives were sensitive to our emotional states? Imagine fridges reprimanding us for our furtive late-night snacks.