Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ShotPrime Studio via Shutterstock Some people find it difficult to say that someone has died, so they may turn to metaphors for ...

There was a time when metaphor was considered primarily an advanced language skill, a tool mainly used by poets and speakers well-trained in rhetoric. Modern linguistic science has overthrown that ...

Star Trek, the Next Generation star Patrick Stewart in his role as Captain Picard. Sci-fi setting aside, the show's themes often revolve around communications — centering on issues that are similar to ...

I’m writing this article after a week of “slumping” stocks, “rattled” investors, and “bumpy roads” for the U.S. economy. Business reporters and their guests like to reach for metaphors that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I explore a vital topic concerning the ...

From a series of tubes to the information superhighway. From a series of tubes to the information superhighway. is an investigations editor and feature writer covering technology and the people who ...

The digitization of the planet has brought about profound changes. Now, people of different origins can exchange information thousands of kilometers apart, without moving an inch, at breakneck speed.

What is programming? How would you visualize it? Probably a bit like in the Wachowski sisters' film The Matrix (2000): lines of different codes forming a world, or simply a program. But that's not the ...

My first thought, as I looked at the drawing of the flaming bicycle below the text, was “please don't wear that in front of your patients.” I am myself a patient with cancer, diagnosed with follicular ...