A professor at Hunter College has built one of the largest special collections of contraband Russian literature in the world.

Script and plot are only two ways to tell a story; film is a visual medium. And, love her or hate her style, Fennell knows how to create a visual. But even if you believe, as I’ve seen repeated over ...

A 2024 blog post, now remoted, pointed to a pirated collection of all seven Harry Potter novels and showed users how to use it to make a generative AI system.

In preparation for the U.S. Semiquincentennial this summer, we’re featuring two key texts in American history. First, Professor Nora Slonimsky joins NPR’s Sarah McCammon to discuss the legacy and ...

The blog recommended that users learn to train their own AI models by downloading the Harry Potter dataset and then uploading text files to Azure Blob Storage. It included example models based on a ...

To be human is, fundamentally, to be a forecaster. Occasionally a pretty good one. Trying to see the future, whether through the lens of past experience or the logic of cause and effect, has helped us ...

To his credit, Kasy is a realist here. He doesn’t presume that any of these proposals will be easy to implement. Or that it will happen overnight, or even in the near future. The troubling question at ...

The tech platform will allow readers to move between physical and audiobooks and offer the sale of books from independent bookstores. By Caitlin Huston Business Writer About two years after the launch ...

AMC Networks runs the shingle that previously had scripted TV offerings. By Mia Galuppo Senior Entertainment Reporter As the Sundance Film Festival gets started with plenty of independently produced ...

As movies have morphed from a vibrant public event into a product we watch on our personal screens, film criticism has also been disrupted thanks to apps like Letterboxd. Fortunately, film critic A. S ...

What is it about quantum computers that makes them more powerful than conventional machines? A new experiment shows that the property of “quantum contextuality” may be a key ingredient. Quantum ...

If you're looking to get into reading more books but aren't just yet ready to shell out the big bucks on getting physical or eBooks, you'll be happy to know that there are legitimate, legal ways to ...