A Latin word for “cleverness” or “skillfulness,” facetiae came to be used to refer to a collection of witty sayings in 16th-century English. But things took a turn for the worse in Victorian slang, ...

Don't be a zob. | photovideostock/E+/Getty Images (Letter Z), Justin Dodd (speech bubble) Borrowed into English from Yiddish (and descended from a German word meaning “juicy”), zaftig refers to a ...

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CMS has outlined the activities that will and won’t continue during the federal government shutdown. The federal government shut down at 12:01 a.m. Oct. 1 after lawmakers failed to reach a spending ...

Normal activities resumed at the University of Delaware after students were evacuated from three buildings on campus on Tuesday, due to police activity. Before noon on Tuesday, campus officials sent ...

Over the weekend, some people noticed that GPT-4o is routing requests to an unknown model out of nowhere. It turns out to be a "safety" feature. ChatGPT routes some conversations to different models ...

SAINT PAUL, Minn. – The National Hockey League’s (NHL) Minnesota Wild today announced fan events and activations that will take place prior to the club’s season-opening game on Saturday, October 11, ...

Eric Law is a Game Rant contributor from Pennsylvania, USA. An MMORPG-focused video game writer for Game Rant for two years and counting, Eric cut his teeth on gaming since he was a wee lad watching ...

The Taliban administration on Wednesday announced an internet ban across a swathe of northern Afghanistan, “to prevent immoral activities,” provincial government statements said. It is the first such ...

Two children were killed and 21 people injured in last month's mass shooting. The Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis will resume some limited activities this week, nearly three weeks after a ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - An entire landmass lockdown has been lifted on Southern University’s campus after potential threats were made to multiple HBCUs across the country. According to the ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. After several years of plundering Lost Sectors to kill pumpkin-headed bosses, Destiny 2 players will have some new spooky activities to complete when ...