Joshua Hammer’s “The Mesopotamian Riddle” chronicles the 19th-century contest between an archaeologist, a soldier and a clergyman to decipher an ancient text ...

At the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the artist explores the unique qualities of ASL through drawing, video and ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at ancient tool making, SpaceX’s big explosion, reducing AI’s big power draw ...

M.K. Stalin has announced a $1 million prize to decipher the enigmatic Indus Valley script. Scholars believe the script, ...

For centuries, the study of cuneiform—the world’s oldest known writing system—relied on painstaking manual transcription, ...

Deciphering some people's writing can be a major challenge—especially when that writing is cuneiform characters imprinted ...

Middle East scholars can now use artificial intelligence to identify and copy cuneiform characters from photos of tablets, letting them read complicated scripts with ease.

Google -- all its apps, smartphones, and the cloud business -- is responsible for 99% of Alphabet's total revenue. But Alphabet is toiling away on quite a few moonshot projects. What if one of ...

An Alphabet Inc. vendor, Hitachi Ltd., illegally restricted a group of Google artificial intelligence contract staff from discussing their pay and fired one of them for starting conversations ...

One thing analysts called out in their first-look notes on Alphabet's results was that the company's $75 billion capital-expense forecast came in higher than what many were modeling. The target ...

Our Writing Center in 17 Norton provides quality one-to-one support for all members of the UB community including undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff, post doctoral fellows and ...