Although kids these days tend to hang out on so-called “Social Media”, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) was first, by decades. IRC is a real-time communication technology that allows people ...

Many aspects of the modern internet come from IRC, or at least started with IRC. Chris Messina, an early adopter of Twitter ...

Tiago Bittencourt Silva started an ambitious programming project last month: an open-source utility that lets small groups of Internet users communicate through instant messages, video links and audio ...

As we debate the negative effects of social media, consider the earliest and arguably most prevalent way that we use the internet to connect with other people: the chat. Networked chatting predates ...

Imagine trying to review a machine that, every time you pressed a button or key or tapped its screen or tried to snap a photo with it, responded in a unique way—both predictive and unpredictable, ...

Games Gabe Newell says he ditched Microsoft and made Valve and Half-Life to prove "a better approach to game design" at a time where "there were more people using Doom than using Windows" Borderlands ...

More than half a decade after Microsoft's truly monumental Taye debacle, the incident still stands as stark reminder of how quickly an AI can be corrupted after exposure to the internet's potent ...

Nick Mordowanec is a Newsweek investigative reporter based in Michigan. His focus includes U.S. and international politics and policies, immigration, crime and social issues. Other reporting has ...

Sam Altman, the chief executive of ChatGPT creators OpenAI, has suggested that there might be some truth in the “dead ...

In the story, the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, revealed that he had been added to a Signal group chat by Hegseth called "Houthi PC Small Group." The group chat included 18 other ...

An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they ...