According to some teachers and college professors, children aren’t reading as many whole books anymore. But just how widespread is this purported trend, and what does it mean for students’ literacy ...

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Your iPhone can read text from websites and iMessages (and even words in photos). Here's how to make it happen. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac You can have your iPhone read out loud any text on ...

Microsoft’s AI Manager Mustafa Suleyman recently unveiled in a social media post a new feature called “Scripted Mode” in Copilot Labs for turning written scripts into text-to-speech. Copilot Labs is ...

Google has debuted a new feature called "Read Aloud" for Pixel smartphones, which will be available for all screenshots featuring articles, texts, and more. The latest feature will read aloud the text ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an ...

Chinese researchers say they have discovered a way to observe tiny text and other fine details at a higher resolution from almost a mile away using a laser-based method. Newsweek contacted the ...

Text messages between defendant Karen Read and ATF agent Brian Higgins are essential to understanding the theories behind both the prosecution and defense’s case. The texts were read in Norfolk ...

The Karen Read trial continued Friday with a key investigator reading text messages between Brian Higgins and the defendant in the high-profile murder case. Massachusetts State Police Sgt. Yuri ...

A Massachusetts state trooper returned to the witness stand in the murder trial of Karen Read after cross-examination turned tense in his first day of testimony. During questioning by the prosecution, ...